Beating the Red Wings on Home Ice
…is such a great feeling! It was a 6-3 win for the Predators in regulation for their last game of the regular season, and it was an absolute blast! I think I screamed louder, harder, and longer at that game than I did even during the playoffs last season! But, since I got home a few minutes ago (it’s now 3:45 AM) and am running on 5 hours of sleep after being awake for nearly 21 hours, I’m just going to borrow some text written up in an e-mail to a friend (it starts a little ways into my e-mail):
“I don’t know if Pete and/or Terry mentioned it on TV, but apparently the Red Wings were missing a couple of key players and tried to blame the loss on that. We Predators fans would like to point out that we are currently without a LOT of our good players. I think that just shows that we have a better and deeper team all-around that can still dish out a good ass-whooping despite who we have missing.
The game was a lot of fun, though (if you couldn’t tell). You know how we were talking about those dual Red Wings and Predators fans? Well, there’s one couple that is like that. When the Wings are in town, the husband wears his Red Wings jersey, but the wife is always in her Preds jersey. It seems that every Wings game, I wind up sitting no more than 20 feet in any direction from them. The husband, despite the loss, was a really fun guy and really good sport. He was turning around to high-five the insanely loud 20-somethings behind him (that would be us). I’m surprised that I could still talk after the game. As we were walking to the Jack Daniels club, I could barely speak, but managed to regain my voice after a couple of Sprites.
Of course, the yelling didn’t stop at the club, either. It was a great post-game show with Pete Weber and Brent Peterson. Peterson is the one that doesn’t show any emotion when he does an interview or gives the keys to the game. Tonight, he was on fire. He was laughing, smiling, cracking jokes, and everything. He probably talked by himself for a good 10 minutes straight until there was a commercial break. He was living it up! He said he didn’t want to go back down to the locker room and team rooms because he’d have to get right to work on getting ready for the playoffs and he just loved sitting in with the fans.
Oh, and I took 211 pictures at the game. Well, I took more but deleted a few right after I took them (blurry shots). I’ll probably narrow it down to closer to 100 or so once I can see them on a computer screen. There may be a few blurry ones that I couldn’t tell from the camera screen and there are some dupes from using the burst mode (I used my mom’s camera).”
If I have the time, motivation, and energy before the next game (first playoff game versus the San Jose Sharks on Friday!), I’ll try to write up a better summary. Until then, you can read the story on the Preds’ site at: Hats rain for Kariya in season finale.
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