Brian Weitz, aka Geologist, is a founding member of the band Animal Collective and an avid hockey fan. This is his second piece for SI.com.
On December 2, 2015, I attended my first game at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The home-ice Islanders won in a shootout following a 3-on-3 overtime period—a new facet of the game I enjoy so much that I almost don’t mind if the team I’m rooting for blows a late lead. I loved the game, but not because of any sincere interest in the Islanders’ success. Despite living in New York City during college in the late 1990s and spending significant time there over the last 15 years while it served as my band Animal Collective’s de facto headquarters, I am by no means a New York sports fan.