Tonight is one of those nights: game six…FOUR of them.
We are here for you and will help you kill one hour with a fun podcast.
Kevin Allen and I are going to do a lightheartedshow for you to help you relax today at 1:30.
We’ll talk about the series and stuff like that, but we’re also going to tell some fun hockey stories. Kevin‘s been around forever, and I’ve been around for 20 years, and we have some good stories that we may have told at one point or another, but we’re going to tell a bunch of them tonight just to kind of give you something to relax with, something to laugh about for a second.
Are you superstitious?
I’m ridiculous when it comes to this. I’m incredibly superstitious. When I’m playing goalie, I kiss the posts when they help me out. When I’m playing pickleball and the ball hits the net and barely, and slowly, rolls over in my advantage, I kiss the net. The people I play with…they’re used to it. They used to laugh, but I told them, please don’t laugh anymore. It’s just a superstition. I’m not trying to be funny.
I have plenty of superstitions involving a team I want to win in the playoffs.
As a kid, I had the typical superstitions…. We would all have to wear the same jerseys and sit in the same seats every night. If the team lost, we would take that jersey and put it in a box deep in the basement and wear another jersey for the next game. We would have a purification ceremony if we ran out of jerseys to get out the evil spirit so we can wear them again.
I know a lot of people, including people who actually work for the teams and wives of the players, who will not watch the game sometimes because they think they themselves are bad luck. Have you ever done that? I am sure many of you have.
In my men’s hockey career, I had my best game ever when I was driving down with friends to the game, and they were playing Kansas music. Which personally I’m not a big fan of, but that game I got Wayward Son stuck in my head, and I played out of my mind. So after that, I would always listen to that song right before the game, and I would for some reason play better if I was singing that song in my head.
2010 was probably the most ridiculous. I never eat corn muffins. I like corn muffins, but I never eat them because I never make them. I was going to the final game of the Flyers season, and the only thing I could find that was open was at Dunkin’ Donuts, so I pulled in and I ordered a corn muffin toasted with butter.
That happened to be the game when the Flyers beat the Rangers in a shootout on the last day of the season to get into the playoffs. So before every playoff game, I would find a Dunkin’ Donuts. If it was a road game, I would pack a corn muffin or two and a couple of things of butter, and I would find a way to toast it and I would eat it before entering the arena for the game. I don’t love corn muffins, but that season the Flyers were the eighth seed, made it on the last game in the shootout, and then went on all the way to the Stanley Cup finals against Chicago.
Of course, they lost in Game 6 in overtime to the spawn of the evil ping-pong ball, we call Patrick Kane.
Let’s talk about this…
Give me some superstitions. Tomorrow I’ll post some of the best in the actual blog… Trying to find something to do for the next six hours. I know it’s gonna be hard, but at least one hour we got you covered with a podcast above starting at 1:30… Did I mention that?
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