Some notes from Wheeling vs Florida Game Four.
A few things I wish I’d gotten pictures of but didn’t:
DSP on the bench in the third period, seemingly on the knife’s edge between totally locked in and the brink of insanity, waving his arms in the air doing a little dance.
Breaz looking absolutely distraught skating in little circles before a play.
Sutter essentially giving an Everblade the up and down, then choosing to shove that man straight backwards and haul ass out of there. The Blade proceeded to just lie on the ice but the call he wanted never came.
The Everblade with his leg stuck in Goat’s pads.
Whichever Nailer got his stick stuck in Goat’s pads.
Some chants that my non-hockey friend absolutely loved:
“He shoots! He scores! Hey goalie! You suck! That’s two!” We then added, “Johnson! Johnson! Johnson! You suck!” and my friend thought it was hilarious to mock the opposing goalie.
“One minute remaining in the period. One minute.” And then the crowd yells, “Thanks Chris!”
This little kid shouted, “What’s the matter with Johnson?!” and the crowd said, “He’s a bum!”
Same little kid goes, “What’s the matter with Quercia?!” “He’s a stud!”
“Drop the puck! Drop the puck! Drop the puck! Thank you!”
Other things:
My friend mentioned that half the reason they’re willing to go to hockey games with me is because, “hockey fans are COMEDIANS.”
Goat skated out to play the puck. Half the crowd starts going, “Taylor. TAYLOR!!!” and one guy screams, “GO HOME, GOAT!” followed by this woman, in the most exasperated voice I have ever heard, saying, “we really gotta chain him to that net.”
Everblades got away with a too many men, we just rolled our eyes, nobody said much. Nailers get away with a too many men, Florida bench starts flipping out, crowd goes, “Oh, sit down and shut up, you’re fine!” Florida bench did not sit down, but they did shut up.
Blake Bennett was mad at himself after a play, came back to the bench, slammed the door, threw a little fit, then was totally fine like nothing happened. Absolutely no one else in the bench acknowledged any of this.
Zach Urdahl is an absolute golden retriever of a man. Even pissed off and upset he still looks like a sweetheart.
At one point when we were down, I looked at my friend and went, “I miss Connor Lockhart.” The guy behind me sighed and said, “We all miss Connor Lockhart.”
