It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

If you're a hockey fan like me, it's the best time of the year, especially if the team you follow is in the playoffs. With the long regular season behind them, the teams in the playoffs play a seven game series, with the winners moving on to do it all over again in the next round. I have said it many times, that winning the Stanley Cup is the hardest championship to win in any team sport. The two teams that make it to the playoffs have to endure and win three...seven game series to get to the finals and then win another series to claim the Stanley Cup.

The playoffs have it all, the excitement of the bigger stakes, physical play and fights, the suddenness of victory or defeat in overtime, watching how the teams react to each other and the strategies employed by the coaches, all this plays out in a seven game series. It may not be the holiday season, but if you're a hockey fan, it may as well be.