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You cannot mention number 11 without remembering Captain Marvelous "the Moose" (i have forgiven him for retiring in New Yahk) - the greatest skater i ever had the privilege to see "live".  Unfortunately it came at the expense of my beloved Bruins in game 4 of the 1988 Stanley Cup at the Gahden.  Amy and i were at the game - called in sick to work and spent all day on the phone trying to get us tickets...... finally procured some obstructed views ( a beautiful yellow beam in our sightline) as we enjoyed our first Stanley Cup game in the dense fog of death from all the cigarette smoke billowing up to our stadium top obstructed view seats..............ahhh the memories..............and than the lights went out!!!!!!!!!  Needless to say - I also had tickets to game 5 as well - but they would not return to the Gahden.........

.......With Game 4 slated for Boston Garden, it looked like the Oilers would get the chance to celebrate a Cup win away from home. However, with the score tied 3-3 in the second period, the players, coaches, officials and standing-room-only crowd were plunged into darkness. The rickety wiring and breakers at the old Garden had finally failed, and everyone was in the dark. After a short delay, NHL president John Ziegler announced that he was canceling the game and would invoke an old never-before-used rule to have game four played in Edmonton.

It was the first time since 1919—when the final between the Montréal Canadiens and Seattle Metropolitans was called due to the Influenza epidemic—that a Cup game had to be scrubbed.

 And  since it is March 1 today - it is time to briefly reflect back on the crazy year that was - it was a year ago March that this journey began for Amy, the boys and I - the first of what would eventually become 6 hospital stays that lead us to the infamous August 18, 2011 experience at Sippewissett Beach.  A lot of days we've spent in various hospitals over those many months - oh the stories we can tell (blown up IV's, abandoned in the ER, crazy nurses, crazier roomates, trying to escape district 9, 2 a.m. ambulance rides, NG tubes into the lungs (oops), amy riding the nurses, vernon riding the doctors and trying to unhook the IV etc........) ........alot of painful but also alot of funny memories and stories as well.  Here's to a better health and better memories for the next year.

Stay Healthy

Best

C-