I am not a day-one fan.
I don’t remember the team almost moving or any of the turbulence that built the mettle of this fanbase to withstand anything. I don’t remember Paul Kariya, or Forsberg the Elder, or Kimmo Timonen, or Jordin Tootoo. I only saw Barry Trotz coach for a bit over a year and I never saw Ryan Suter wearing anything but that awful olive green.
Nevertheless, the run the Predators are on still means so much to me, and others like me.
I’m not going to give my sports fandom life story because it’s dull and mostly jokes about being from Atlanta.