A couple other noteworthy occurrences:
--At 8:59pm, the sound system played the Billy Joel song "Piano Man." ("It's nine o'clock on a Saturday....")
--After a penalty that turned a power play into a 4 on 4, the sound system played the Pearl Jam song "Even Flow." (I see what you did there.)
--Random flutterings of confetti squares kept falling down from the rafters. What was that all about?
--For the second game in a row, there was no camera man in my corner, so I never made it onto the Jumbotron. WTH? Are the Canes literally cutting corners?
The game was against the Philadelphia Flyers, yet another team I've seen countless times. It's hard to keep coming up with fresh rhymes and puns related to the same team all the time, yet I challenge myself to create at least one new sign for each game I attend. If the new sign doesn't relate to the opponent, another option is to create a sign for a Canes player.
You might think I make a sign for a player because I particularly like him, which is sometimes true, but other times, I admit, it's because he has an easily rhymable or punny name. Not much rhymes with Hainsey, though. Yet this is the third sign I've made for him. (See here and here.)
Though a defensemen, Ron Hainsey has scored two goals and 17 points already this season. As I normally sit in section 109, I see him stretching out in my corner between periods. During the second intermission, he always taps the glass near the tunnel in section 108 next to me. If anyone has the scoop on why he does that, please message me.
As he stretches, I can see him scanning the crowd, trying to be all nonchalant and secretive about it. But I am pretty sure I saw him smile after he saw this sign. So even though the Canes lost in OT and I never got on the Tron, it wasn't a total loss.
