SLASHedVelvet

I don't know about while in their hometown but when the wings were on their californoia road trip in january, I went and watched them practice at Healthsouth Arena(same place kings practice) and they all came out after the game and I got many of them to sign my jerseys including Lids, Dom and Hank.

I just got home from the game and our seats were 14 rows from the ice. It was so much fun to be there in person and witness that slaughtering. Aside from the two guys next to us and like one or two guys down belowe, we were surrounded by ducks fan, so it made every goal that much better haha.

As a southern California Wings fan from the age of 8(I'm just about 21 now), I will be at this game and only 14 rows from the ice. Hopefully I will get to watch them win this time unlike when I went in January. GO WINGS! :octo:

I look at it the same as the ol' kickin' the puck in the net scenario. I think he just dropped thre stick(possibly on purpose) but I didn't see anything that made it clear that he threw his stick. There was no extension of his arm that woudl elad one to believe he thre it in a certain direction.

I had seen the duck hunt pictures and made my own version...

I'm from southern California(about 35 mins from Hollywood/L.A.) and I became a wings fan back in early '95 when I was about 8.5(I'm almost 21 now). I became a fan because my family had liked hockey and I was just starting to play so we watched games reguarly in our house, mostly kings games though. So one night I am watching the Kings game and the team they are playing comes out dressed in red and white. I thouhgt they had cool jerseys and I had never seen them play untill this point. So I watch the game and I became extremely fascinated with Sergei Fedorov who scored 4 goals that night. They tied the Kings, 4-4. I thought, wow, one guy had as many goals as the whole L.A. team. This guy and his team are awesome. From then on, I began to keep up with the wings and learn more about them which is what led me to learning about Steve Yzerman and getting to watch him play. He quickly became my favorite player and a hero of mine and from the time I was 9 years old and in my second or third season of mite or squirt hockey to when I aged out of club hockey at 18, I wore the number 19 except the one season when I got pulled up to a higher level and someone already had 19 so I wore 16 in tribute to the Vladiator. Anyhow, as a little kid, I collected their cards, watched their games, read about them in magazines and took in everyhting I possibly could which was really cool because as this team was becoming my favorite team, they made it to the stanley cup finals so it was all very exciting for me as a youngster. So basically from those early days till now, I haven't missed a beat. I've also had some amazing experiences with meeting the players over the years. In, I believe 1996 because I think it was the year before they won the cup, I went to a Wings/Kings game at the Forum and had owners seats because of connections to a relative. Well, these owners seats got us into the forum club which was basiclaly a bar/resturant after the game. That night was a dream come true for me as I met everyone from Chris Osgood, Mike Vernon, Slava Kozlov to Vladdy, Doug Brown and Sergei Fedorov. The highlight of the night and I still talk about it to this day was when, my mom wanted to leave(kep in mind I was probabal 11 years old) she came looking for me and where did she find me? Sitting at the bar with Steve Yzerman. It was really cool because, he was my idol by that time and I was wearing one of those old school starter hats with the wings logo on it and YZERMAN across the front and he was like "nice hat". It was a surreal experience for me and became even more special the year after when Vladdy was involved in the crash because I had met him and had him sign one of my cards and he had to be one of the nicest players I had met. Anyhow, the years went on and I actually got meet the guys a couple more times, once in my fresman year, so I believe 2000 when I watched them practice in L.A. during the playoffs and then again one time very recently when this season they were on the horrible concluding california roadtrip and I went to see them practice in L.A. again. I watched them practice and then got to meet and get autographs from most of them on the way out. I got my pavel datsyuk jersey signed by Lang, Hasek, Draper, Osgood, Williams and Zetterberg and the highlight of the day was getting My Lidstrom all star jersey signed by the captain himself. Getting to meet nick was really awesome because that night I described at the forum club, I had seen him talking to slava kozlov and hten walked out and I never got a chance to go up to him, so almost ten years later, I fianlly met him. Anyhow, I guess that does it really, I know I went on about storees and all but it just goes alogn with how I became a fan and have always stayed a die hard fan. Oh, and my newest addition to wings experiences will be seeing game 3 of the western conference finals in Anaheim. Peace, Ricky