Newcomer’s guide to hockey as NHL season begins [Video]

This is for the noobs.

As in hockey noobs. Newbies. People new to hockey.

People who have either just moved here and know nothing about this game played by those who strap razor blades to their feet, don head-to-toe armour and chase a disc of hard rubber around an iced surface with curved sticks at relatively high speeds, or who didn’t really care for it in the first place and ignored it.

Until, perhaps, the hometown Edmonton Oilers went on a playoff run last spring through the National Hockey League playoffs to the championship: the Stanley Cup Final.

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Maybe then they noticed the team’s logo on several car flags adorning one in 15 vehicles across the city in an informal survey taken last spring, or people wearing all manners of blue-and-orange garb featuring that oil-drop-laden brand.

Maybe they noticed the fever, including that feeling when you go to bed …