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A friend of mine from Vancouver arrived last week for a month-long working holiday. Despite seeming pretty happy to have the opportunity to spend some time exploring the UK at his employer's expense and catching up with British friends, from the moment he arrived I detected an underlying sadness. You see dear sports game fan, Harry loves hockey - and when he says 'hockey' he doesn't mean what posh boys play at private school, he means the furious, brutal, on ice kind - and right now his team, the Vancouver Canucks, are in the Stanley Cup semi-finals. What is more, apparently it hadn't occurred to him that the games would not air over here.

What could I do, I began wondering, to cheer up my Canadian chum? As I looked at his glum, hang-dog expression and then round the room for inspiration, my eyes came to rest on an unopened review copy of NHL 2K9 that has been sat on my 'to do' pile for some time. That copy had come through late, and by the time it arrived I had already been wowed by and raved profusely about NHL 09 and had heard from several trustworthy sources that it presented no real challenge to EA's new found dominance on the ice.
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