Sabres v Sharks

Had the luxury of heading to the Sabres game for that awesome game where the Sabres played the sharks and came back from a 4-1 deficit in the 3rd and won it in overtime.

Blue light Tall-boy and popcorn in hand, I readied myself for live NHL action the best I could with my buddy Chuck. The game started out great, then quickly went to shit as the Sabres let goals upon goals in. It was depressing, and the crowd was booing the Sabres off the ice at the end of the 2nd period. We went and harassed our favorite usher, and continued to drink.

Yep I wear glasses sometimes – especially to things where I’m watching stuff happening far away.

Anyways – I’m going to tell you right now that there was one person who can be held responsible for what happened next. For those who don’t know, the Sabres drew penalties like crazy and were able to capitalize on 2 powerplays – then score one more goal on top of that, to take it to overtime, where they won.

That person, was a 9 year old kid who LOST HIS SHIT.

We got back to our seats 5 minutes into the 3rd period, and the crowd was shot. A solid quarter of the seats had filtered out, chalking the game up to a loss, and the rest were sitting there lifeless, or having drunk conversations amongst themselves. The product on the ice was rubbish. Then out of nowhere, this kid started screaming at the top of his lungs, words of encouragement. Loud, kind of sad sounding words of encouragement.

“you can do it! come on guys! Don’t give up!” and stuff right along those lines. I’m positive that his words could be heard throughout the arena – prior to this kid flipping shit, someone made a comment about the crowd being dead  – so dead that ‘you could hear a mouse fart’ which caught me off guard. This kid’s voice echoed in the arena – I would love to see if it was picked up on TV – I guarantee it was.

Then they got the powerplay. The kid hyped up even more, ‘Get the puck! get it guys! c’mon!’

People were turning around with the expression of ‘who the fuck is that?! why is their parent not kicking the crap out of them!?’ on their faces.

Then all of a sudden: SCORE!!!  The crowd got excited – The kid lost his mind – ‘YEAHHH! That’s it! keep it going guys c’mon!’ One of the sharks threw their stick in rage, and drew another penalty – SCORE!!! The kid kept going.

The crowd was hyped! Now everyone around us was cheering like the kid – ‘Let’s Go Buffalo!’

Sure enough – another goal – sending it to overtime. I’m not even kidding, my ears started to hurt because this kid’s voice was ripping at my ear drum. Then, Kane scored the game-winning goal (before crashing head first into the boards). It was beautiful.

I am telling you right now, it was that kid that got those players fired up. I even watched the post game interviews to see if any players would have made a comment. The only one was Jack Eichel – who said ‘they boo’d us off the ice at the end of the 2nd period, then when we tied it up, they were all on their feet – it’s kind funny how that works’. Well Jack – there was one kid who believed in you guys… and I’m sure that kid will not forget that win.

Great game.

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