The [NHL] thread that's taking up a collection to save Hockey Night In Canada

There is this sport.....
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...it's pretty cool; and by that I mean that I would rather watch it than pretty much any other sport ever, put together. There are heroes:
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There are villains:
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And there is comic relief:
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Discuss.