Introduction From a Crazed Wild Hockey Fan

I was reading a post on the Wild Message Boards titled Why don't the Wild have any good fan blogs? and I thought to myself: Why don't I create one? I'm a die-hard Wild fan and have been ever since the State of Hockey was blessed with the return of an NHL franchise. I remember back in the summer of 1997 sitting out on Lake Mille Lacs with my family. fishing and listening to the radio, as it was announced that pro hockey would be returning back to Minnesota. It was a feeling of nostalgia. A feeling of excitement. The hard part though, was waiting nearly three years to finally see the team take the ice.When the fall of 2000 rolled around, I was only 14 years old. I grew up in a family where I was the oldest of five kids. Being in such a large family meant that there wasn't a lot of money to go around so my dream of being able to attend a Wild game at the X was pretty slim. Since I realized that I wasn't going to be able to go, I figured that watching them on TV was ...