by WildRose » Thu 05 Jun 2008, 18:00:43
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AlCzervik', 'B')ang!

I always wish the winning team could win on home ice. But Monday night's game (the marathon) was quite the fight for the cup.
I'm from Edmonton, so I'm an Oiler's fan, though I don't get as excited as I did years ago when Gretzky/Kurri/Coffey/Messier/Anderson/Fuhr were on the scene. The victory parades were exciting.
I remember back in 1981, when my husband and I drove to Cape Cod, MASS for a summer holiday (from Edmonton). We took a ferry ride across Lake Champlain, I think it was, into Vermont. The Oilers were just starting out then. As the ferry docked, there were a handful of kids on bikes waiting to see the license plates of the cars getting off the ferry. When they saw our Alberta plates, they yelled out, "Alberta! Gretzky!" At that moment, we felt pretty close to home.