Kind off a funny story I'd like to share if I could.
Five or so years ago I attended a Carolina Hurricane game with a young lady and roughly 7 or 8 thousand others [announced and not even close]. I was in a good mood having flown up from Tampa and not just for the game against Lightning either if you know what I mean. Real good seats too.
Anyway I've got the munchies and I'm pretty talkative and get into conversations before the game with several "fans" sitting near me before game time.
Apparently they were very impressed with my knowledge of the game. I explained such difficult concepts as offsides, two line passes, powerplays, etc. In their defence one young couple did say it was their first game in person or on TV.
The folks around me were congenial enough and though they seemed to enjoy the game some of their conversation still drifted to the Wolfpack.
Funniest thing though was one lady was sure the blue line was a line where if somebody scored from outside of it they got "more points".
One of the guys thought it would be good to let a shooter shoot a free shot from a designated point in front of the net instead of the team receiving a two minute powerplay.
Great fight between Chris Gratton and one of the Hurricanes early in the first resulted in ejections. Hell they did love that and were whooping and a hollerin'.
A storied franchise from true hockey country for which even the great, though by that time fossil, Gordie Howe glided around the ice throwing aged elbows and still picking up points much as he did decades earlier ended up on tobacco road. Twas a big chapter in the demise of hockey story.
