Second on the list behind footy, for me...but football has consumed most of my time since I started following Everton in '93 because I had to spend time looking for information every day, due to having little coverage in the U.S. Now it's just habit. Over about the next two years hockey slowly faded away, although I still watched quite a few games, I just wasn't paying attention to it much. If I had to guess, I lost all current player knowledge around '99. I know about Ovechkin but have never watched him.
So yeah, I've fallen off the edge of the hockey world since then. Last time I was watching intently Gretzky and Lemieux were still playing and other names like Bure, Neely, Mogilny, Yzerman, Hasek, Fedorov, Hull, Roenick, Shanahan, Roy, Lindros and Recchi were around, to name a few. I remember Jagr, Brodeur, Forsberg and Selanne's rookie years FFS.
Bit depressing that I've lost touch as they're the most down-to-earth pro's on the planet and deserving of attention compared to some of the clowns in other sports, IMO...the fact you can still get punched in the face keeps them humble. I can't even tell you who's on the current Coyotes (local team) roster, to be honest. You can only devote so much time to sport.
If football doesn't sort itself out, I may be spending more time rekindling an old flame...got more than a few jerseys in a box somewhere.
Sure the Habs have a rivalry with the leafs, but i quickly learned after my run ins with 