The NHL is an often underrated sport in America with football, basketball, and baseball filling the television networks and garnering the most interest, but the postseason for professional hockey is one of the most intense and exciting events of the sports calendar.
It gets cranked up to 11 when a game goes to overtime, which is another interesting fact about hockey—of all the sports leagues in America the NHL has the best overtime format for its playoffs.
The two teams just go on until someone scores—no rule differences, no shootouts, and an intermission every 20 minutes. It doesn’t get much more intense than that, and when your team scores that overtime goal in Game 7, you remember it for the rest of your life.