Los Angeles Kings vs. St. Louis Blues

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Nothing is riding on a Wednesday in the middle of January and that is precisely the point. No occasion, no visiting celebrity, no reason to post about it afterwards - just a building half full of people who like hockey enough to come out on the worst night of the week for it. The sound is different in a room like that. You hear sticks, boards, the goaltender talking, the one man four rows back who has opinions about the officiating and has clearly been developing them for years. St. Louis plays a physical, unfashionable style that makes all of that louder. If you have only ever been to a big game, come to a small one, and find out which version of the sport you actually like. Midweek is also when the upper bowl is at its emptiest, which means you can usually move down a level once the second period starts without anybody caring very much. Nobody will tell you this. Everybody does it.