Mid-January is the honest part of a season. The standings have stopped lying to everybody, the teams know roughly what they are, and a Thursday night in the middle of it strips away every reason to be in the building except actually wanting to be there. That makes for a better room than a marquee night, strange as that sounds - no occasion to live up to, no visitors treating it as a bucket-list stop, just a few thousand people who like this and came out on a weeknight to prove it. St. Louis plays a heavy, unglamorous, deeply effective style that rewards anybody paying attention to what happens away from the puck. Sit lower than you normally would if the price allows. The thing television cannot transmit is the sound of the collisions, and on a January weeknight, in a building that is loud without being full, you hear every single one of them land.
Mid-January is the honest part of a season. The standings have stopped lying to everybody, the teams know roughly what they are, and a Thursday night in the middle of it strips away every reason to be in the building except actually wanting to be there. That makes for a better room than a marquee night, strange as that sounds - no occasion to live up to, no visitors treating it as a bucket-list stop, just a few thousand people who like this and came out on a weeknight to prove it. St. Louis plays a heavy, unglamorous, deeply effective style that rewards anybody paying attention to what happens away from the puck. Sit lower than you normally would if the price allows. The thing television cannot transmit is the sound of the collisions, and on a January weeknight, in a building that is loud without being full, you hear every single one of them land.
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Mid-January is the honest part of a season. The standings have stopped lying to everybody, the teams know roughly what they are, and a Thursday night in the middle of it strips away every reason to be in the building except actually wanting to be there. That makes for a better room than a marquee night, strange as that sounds - no occasion to live up to, no visitors treating it as a bucket-list stop, just a few thousand people who like this and came out on a weeknight to prove it. St. Louis plays a heavy, unglamorous, deeply effective style that rewards anybody paying attention to what happens away from the puck. Sit lower than you normally would if the price allows. The thing television cannot transmit is the sound of the collisions, and on a January weeknight, in a building that is loud without being full, you hear every single one of them land.
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