Given the fluid situation we faced last weekend, and I'm not just talking about rain, we weren't even certain we'd be able to hound the St. Louis Blues last weekend during their one and only trip to Hockey Bay during the 2010-11 hockey-hound campaign.After spending Saturday in Orlando, using the last day of out three-day pass to Disney theme parks at Animal Kingdom, we thought we were heading south to Ellenton for Colin to kick off his rec league season Sunday afternoon. From there, we'd zip back around Tampa Bay to watch the Blues play the Lightning at the St. Pete Times Forum.
Well, that changed.
On Friday night, hours before we would take a late-night drive to Orlando, we learned that Colin's game was postponed. Something about a Super Bowl and parties, we were told. While that meant we'd be able to hound the Blues, it also meant I'd have to scramble to get ready. So there I was, sitting outside the hotel at nearly 1 a.m. Saturday, prepping an inch-high stack of cards I cobbled together.
Really, I shouldn't complain that we added only 33 autographs. Only days before, I didn't think we'd be getting any.
Signing pucks, shown at top, were:
Top row: Ben Bishop and Brad Boyes; and
Bottom row: Alex Pietrangelo and Scott Mellanby.
Signing cards, shown above, were:Top row: Patrik Berglund, Matt D'Agostini and Cam Janssen; and
Bottom row: Roman Polak, Alexander Steen and Brad Winchester
Other highlights were:
~ Colin, who had a much better day at hounding than his old man, scoring 20 autographs on a hand-drawn team sheet; and
~ putting a less-than-thrilling jersey swatch card to good use.
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