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Minnesota Frost go Back to Back

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Earlier this week we attended game four of the PWHL finals and watched the Minnesota Frost win it all. It’s been a fun season, watching the highs and lows and see this team come together to win.

Every game in this finals series went to overtime, creating a tense, sudden death atmosphere. The game went to triple overtime for game three, which was so long it felt unreal.

Even in game four, when Liz Schepers batted one in and the crowd erupted, I still wasn’t sure. I was having flashbacks to last year’s game four overtime when Sophie Jaques scored, the players flooded the ice, and everyone went wild—only to have the goal called off and Boston scored a few minutes later and won, sending the game back to Boston for game five. From hearing other fans, sounds like I wasn’t the only one. But the goal was good and we won. So surreal.

We bought season tickets this year because the hockey is good, the atmosphere is fun, and it’s relatively affordable. I never thought I’d be this kind of sports guy, but here I am.

I even turned the obsession into a new venture, Frozen Friday, where I share fan updates every week.

It all brings me back to watching the Detroit Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup in 42 years in 1997.

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Teaching the Kids to Watch Hockey

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Goal!Tonight I watched the Detroit Red Wings with the kids. The Wings faced elimination against the San Jose Sharks, but they battled back and won 7-1 (the first time in 45 years the Wings have won when facing elimination in a 3-0 situation—or something, didn’t quite catch that crazy stat).

Anyway, the Wings scored five times in the first period (on only 9 shots!), so I had plenty of opportunity to teach Milo how to say, “Goal!”

I also got to show Lexi an octopus (a Red Wings playoff tradition).

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Triple Overtime Ends with No Cup for Detroit. Yet.

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The Stanley Cup was in the house tonight as the Detroit Red Wings faced the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 5. The Penguins struck first with two goals in the first period and Detroit answered with one goal in the second. Detroit came alive in the third period and dominated, scoring the tying goal and the go ahead (you should have seen me jump up and dance to the computer to Twitter the GOALL!!!—I’m such a geek).

The Detroit Red Wings were 30 seconds from Stanley, but it’s not over till it’s over.

Pittsburgh scored in the last 30 seconds to send the game into sudden death overtime. Yikes, those things are tense. We made it through two and a half OT’s before the Penguins scored on a four-minute high sticking penalty and won the game, sending it back to Pittsburgh for a game six.

Wow. I love hockey. I love playoff hockey. But I hate watching for so long and having it end in disappointment. Arg. Now we’ll do it all again on Wednesday.

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Detroit Red Wings Can’t Fill Their Arena

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How sad is this? The Detroit Red Wings—currently on a franchise-high nine-playoff-game winning streak, in their 17th consecutive playoffs  (best streak in pro sports) and one win away from their fourth trip to the Stanley Cup finals in 11 years (having won the Cup in all three previous finals trips)—is having trouble selling out the Joe Louis Arena. Last year’s playoffs saw an end to a 425-game streak of home sellouts that went back to 1996.

What’s the deal? The Detroit economy must really be tanking. Or if you get too good people stop caring.

Whatever. I had to move to Minnesota to see the Red Wings in person. I’d love to go to a home game, and I’d really love to go to a playoff game. If you live in the Detroit area, do me a favor and go see some hockey. I may live in the State of Hockey, but Detroit will always be Hockeytown. Just don’t let me down now.