A night of Magic: Meeting a Rookie and crying with Mo’

My story of being in the “Jersey off a player’s back” end of the year celebration, and seeing my hero work his magic for possibly the last time:

So as I put up on my last post, I was called the other afternoon and informed that I had been one of the fans choosen to take part in the “Jersey off a player’s back” contest/ceremony at the end of the season where the players give their jerseys to a fan right at the end of the last home game and sign it and take a couple pictures with the lucky fan.

So we get to will-call last night not knowing where the tickets I won were for. Turns out they were one section over from where I was about to buy tickets. So we have seats in section 103, and get in just as the game starts. The game moves pretty quickly early on as both the Stars and Ducks keep the game moving and neither team is taking penalties. During each of the stops and TV timeouts, the fans keep getting treated to video clips of thank you messages from the Stars and then old videos of Modano, Lehtinen and Turco. Of course last night was probably Lehtinen and Modano’s last game in front of the Dallas crowd as both contemplate retirement. And it is widely known because of finances and management’s trade for Kari Lehtonen, that Turco will not be here next year. So throughout the night fans are cheering and screaming, showing tons of support for each of the three longtime Stars.