Iwon't miss my pre-game activity for Ottawa Senators games at the CTC: guessing what time I have to leave home to get to the rink on time.

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For a brief time in the early 1980s, I lived in Montreal, an exciting city in general for a twentysomething-year-old, and especially so for a hockey fan who had moved there from Ottawa, where a return to the NHL was still a decade away. Article content

For $8 — the equivalent today of about 24 bucks — I could attend a game at the Forum at Atwater and Ste-Catherine, an edifice described by The Sporting News as “the most storied building in hockey history.” Going to a game there was like going to church. Article content Article content

The hockey, though, was only one part of my gameday ritual. I’d typically head downtown early and

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