Playoff hockey is about as intense, dramatic, and thrilling as sports can get. It turns people that ordinarily don’t watch much hockey into fiends who can’t get enough. Once someone gets just a little taste of the madness, that’s it, game over -- they’re hooked on one of the most powerfully addictive drugs out there.
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Matt Ufford reports on just how dangerous a phenomenon this has become. It’s destroyed lives and ruined relationships. Strolling through the streets of New York City, he interviews addicts about the struggles they’ve endured, the obsessive lengths they go to in an effort to satisfy their insatiable thirst for playoff hockey.
With the problem getting worse and worse by the day, there seems to be no end in sight as playoff hockey will only be getting more exciting, the drug more powerful, luring more victims. The worst part of all? There seems to be no shame in exposing kids to the drug. Won’t somebody please think of the children?
