While, like any Canadian, I feel there is something fundamentally wrong with a hockey opener being played in a region that hit triple digits this week and is in the middle of a drought, I was still pleased to see last season's Stanley Cup champions be soundly shut out.
And although I was born in Toronto, their abysmal failures and my studies in Montreal allowed me to shift my allegiance to the Habs with little difficult, and it was heartening to hear of their win against the Leafs during their opener. I say hear, since of course, living in Southern California, I am now unable to watch Hockey Night in Canada, or any games not airing on the NHL network or NBC Sports, which are both cable networks that I do not have access to. Furthermore, one cannot be assured that hockey will be airing on the television at a bar, as you would in any Canadian city.
Truly, the OC is a new circle of hell Dante could not have foreseen.