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Hockey is made for television.
Nothing like getting out to a game on a winter's night, and a cold Friday evening a couple of weeks ago seemed the perfect time to cheer on the local heroes. After several dark and dismal years at the bottom of the pack, the St. John's Maple Leafs are in the midst of a decent season. Their record hovers around .500, hardly sending ripples of fear throughout the American Hockey League, but enough to suggest that a long-awaited return to the playoffs is finally at hand. More importantly, from a ticket buyer's point of view, they've been playing their best at home. So off we went on a Friday evening, braving black ice, kamikaze cab drivers and a biting northeasterly wind, to see the Leafs take on the Hershey Bears.