Newcomer to Vancouver: I'm a hockey fan now

Let me begin this latest column with a disclaimer: I know nothing about sports. My only experience playing sport was a brief period during secondary school back home in the UK. I had lied to my parents, telling them I had joined the after-school Netball club when really I had to stay behind for detention. To keep up the ruse and avoid raising suspicion I then actually had to join said netball club. I stuck it out for a few weeks before bowing out, citing - with complete honesty – lack of both in