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I'm sure Bubba will be posting a blog about this in the coming days, but I just wanted to blog about my experience last summer at the "Caniac Summer Fun Fest".  It's a promotion for season ticket sales to get the public out to the RBC like a Time-Share event-lol.  It's a great marketing idea and even better for Cane addicts to get some kind of hockey experience out of it even if you already have season seats.

My family and I  went last summer and had a fabulous. wonderful time.  Just being around Cane fans, going into the RBC (I already had my seats by then) and walking around, seeing the kids playing outside was pretty awesome.  Not to mention seeing Forslund, Barraso, Wesley, LaRose, Justin Williams talking on the stage and being silly---(oh no not Rosie) was cool. 

We were not Cane fans in 2002 and had never seen them play during that Stanley Cup playoffs and championship series.  We have always heard about the veteran favorites of the fans like the BBC (BBC together)  , Francis, Irbe, Weeks, O'Neill, etc. and always wished we could have actually see them play together in a game.  Well to our surprise we were sitting on the lawn waiting for the game to start on the outdoor big screen assuming it was going to be a game in the 2006 SC series that would be played and low and behold it was the "Molson game" (I think that's what they called it) against Montreal in 2002 playoffs.  At first I was so disappointed because I was really expecting a game like game 7 against Buffalo in 2006, but then saw our line-up with our old veteran players and realized OMG I'm actually going to see these guys that I have heard so much about from that season play.  Irbe and Weeks even played in that game and Cole was a rookie.   I was a little weary not knowing anything about that game when at the beginning of the 3rd period we were losing 3-0 and thought "oh crap to be sure they haven't made a mistake and are playing a game that we lost".  I leaned over to a couple beside me and asked them if they were sure we actually won that game, they assured me to stay tuned because it was getting ready to get interesting.   Well, yes it did wathing that comeback and seeing Cole win the game in overtime.   I was as excited as if I was watching our Canes play in a out-of-town playoff game live.  I was in what we say in the south "Hog Heaven" (no pun intended Stormy).

It was a great game, a great night and a great event.  I hope everyone that has hockey withdrawl like I do can go this summer fest and do it all again.  They are going to play another "classic" game outside on the lawn and I wonder which "classic game"  this one will be and from what season.  Any predictions?

C