Amazing!
That is one great story.
Thanks.

Posted by w2j2 on 06/23/08 at 03:34 PM ET

wow… I’m all choked up and teary eyed now. What a great story.

Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 06/23/08 at 03:58 PM ET

Baroque is a woman?! I’ve been reading her insightful comments for a long time and never knew that. Duh.

Posted by Jeremy from Summerland, BC on 06/23/08 at 05:13 PM ET

w2j2 and Jennifer - glad you guys enjoyed it as much as I did.

Jeremy - I’m sure you’re not alone. Besides, I have a feeling she’ll forgive you.

Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 06/23/08 at 05:32 PM ET

I was expecting some story about an unlikely celeb with a secret hockey habit - but instead you dished up an entirely unexpected, heartwarming and tear-inducing story

That’s just amazing isn’t it

I wonder how hockey even got onto her radar??  I spent a month every year down in Florida for 10 years (visiting from England) and I never once registered they had NHL teams down there - they just don’t make any noise about them - I assumed California would be much the same.

And she clearly wasn’t picking it up from her family.

What a mystery - but how wonderful that somehow it did get through to her, and she was able to communicate that to her parents and end up seeing her team win.

I’m welling up again

Posted by Flo from England on 06/23/08 at 05:43 PM ET

Got a little dirt in my eye while reading that. Or maybe a sudden onset allergy? Yup, allergies, that must be it.

Wonderful story, thanks Alanah.

Posted by JAMESinMI on 06/23/08 at 05:45 PM ET

Very cool story.

Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 06/23/08 at 05:53 PM ET

Flo -- Definitely mysterious how hockey got on her radar.  I suppose it goes to show how observant children are, that she spotted the game briefly somewhere along the way (a TV ad spot advertising a Kings game maybe?) and fell in love with it.

Take care of those allergies, James.

I’m glad everyone liked the story.

Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 06/24/08 at 08:50 AM ET

Baroque is a woman?! I’ve been reading her insightful comments for a long time and never knew that. Duh.

That’s because I don’t sound like a dizzy, airhead puck-bunny! 

You’re not the first to make that mistake - as long as no one is dim enough to think I’m a guy if they see me in person, I don’t mind having mistakes like that made on the interweb.

Very sweet story.  Glad to see the team won for her, too.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 06/24/08 at 11:29 AM ET

I think it was on Tom Benjamin’s blog that I first started reading and appreciating your comments, Baroque—and it certainly makes no difference to your appreciative readers...but I guess I thought I would have been tipped off to that tidbit at some point. Oh well.

Posted by Jeremy from Summerland, BC on 06/25/08 at 05:43 PM ET