Flyers fan living in the Springfield, MA area here. Just letting you know what a good guy you have in Matt Kessel. We were at a Springfield Thunderbirds game and my daughter decided Kessel was her favorite player. She made him a sign and gave him a bracelet she made, he came over during warmups and tossed her a puck and put on the bracelet for the game. Well she was overjoyed. She hasn’t let go of that puck for over a month. I reached out to the team to get it signed and they set up a post game meeting. He spent 10 minutes with her, gave her a stick and talked. She asked me if girls could play hockey, I said absolutely they can. She had her first skating lesson today in the learn to play hockey classes and hasn’t stopped smiling. She tells me everything about the Blues roster and makes me put the games on. You may have stolen my kid. Good luck to you and I’m now a Blues as my second team fan. Take care of Kessel, he’s a helluva stand up guy! Thanks for listening.
by Skindigga
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Thanks for the love, we’ll take care of him! Cheers 💙💛
What a lovely hockey moment. You’re a good dad!
This post is awesome :))
Holy shit, man ❤️ . This is great!! And Go 🦅 Birds
She picked the correct team 👏 🙌 👌
Thanks for this! Enjoy your daddy-daughter hockey time. Great way to make forever memories!
That’s an awesome story and thanks for sharing. It’s cool to see a player, especially young, go out of their way for 10 minutes to make a life long fan and make their year. I’m pulling for the kid now too!
Her favorite player just made a nice play
That’s really really cool. Thanks for sharing. By the way, I have a couple cousins that are big Flyers fans, living in Washington state. They are probably secondary Kraken fans now. But they root for the Blues for us as well.
Atta boy, Schenner!
Everything about this makes me happy ❤️
Just a Leaf fan passing through and I’d suggest looking up the PWHL (Professional Women’s Hockey League) to get your daughter more interested in hockey and show her some pro women hockey players!
I like how Kessel has played so far. Seems like he’s going to be pretty good
That’s lovely. Thanks for sharing!