50 people all clad in Leaf jerseys, hats, superstitious items draped across the bar, tables, and chairs. TML towel hung like capes over the back of bar stools.
The smell of the chicken wing platters that were scattered throughout the bar tickling the nostrils. Cold beer soothing the throat strained from cheering and howling at the screen after each near miss.
The collective intake of air when the Flyers mad a break towards the net, and the audible sigh of relief when the puck is deflected to the corner and out of the zone.
MY GAWD this is what hockey fans live for! The sheer agony of watching the clock tick down waiting feverishly for your team to pull off a victory.
Then the sheer ecstacy when Green scored in the second OT. The heart pounding, adrenilene in overload coursing through your veins. The cheers, the hugs the double high fives. The collapse into your chair, completely spent and exhausted, but with an ear to ear grin spread across your face. The sounds of cars honking out the victory as leaf fans make their way home. Getting what sleep they can to do it all again tonight.
Game 7. The rest of the series is irrelevant. I believe in my Leafs and prefer our chances will Belfour in net rather than checkie "Let me put my glove back on" manic. Round 2 here we come.
Seven: Dayum girl. Brains like yours, looks to boot and a keener hockey mind than most Canadian men.... I never believed she existed but gentleman, we have found the perfect woman!!!
Win or lose hockey fans, we are going to get some GREAT hockey tonight. Enjoy
GO LEAFS GO