Before I had kids my wife and I would go to 3-4 games each month. I went to a game 2 weeks after one of my ACL reconstructions. Lower bowl, center ice, with my friend and his dad. I was still on crutches and was miserable, but Shelley got into a couple of fights and the final was 5-3. It was a great game.
I'm so happy for the team and all of us who have been around for all of the losing.
I will always have love for the organization after my friends 19 year old son, who was dying of cancer, was signed for 3 days and given the #3 for those days. The number was already taken and the player let him use it. It was the first playoff year. He got to see them make the playoffs and his after funeral meal was on the surface of the ice. Manny Malholtra and some of the other players donated money for the food. We got to thank him personally for doing it too. I hadn't thought about that in a very long time.
Anyway, I'm very excited for them. Sorry for the story.