Anaheim Ducks vs. Nashville Predators

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Mid-November is when the novelty of a new season wears off and a weeknight game stops being an occasion and becomes a habit. That is the better version of being a fan, and it is almost impossible to explain to someone who has only been to a playoff game. Nashville is the opponent, and Predators supporters bring the loudest visiting tradition in the league with them — the catcalls, the chants aimed at the opposing goaltender, the whole apparatus imported from Broadway. A few hundred of them in a half-full Orange County building is more than enough to be heard, and the home crowd tends to rise to it rather than sulk. Wednesday nights also mean the concourse lines move and you can actually get a seat at the bar behind section 220. The Predators also play a heavy, grinding style that makes for an honest hockey game rather than a highlight reel, and honest is underrated in November. Faceoff is at seven on the eleventh, off Katella in Anaheim.