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The Importance Of Loyalty In A Hockey Team

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"I got, I got, I got, I got Loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA" said Kendrick Lamar. Now, I know the first thing you'll ask me, why royalty, that's just part of the lyrics, so it's in there. The loyalty part is what I'm here to talk about in this blog. People have been asking how I keep watching the Giants and how do I keep going to games. I'm a loyal fan to my teams. That's 100% what it is. Growing up as a Mets, Islanders, Knicks and Giants fan, I have learned a lot about loyalty. Let's start with hockey. My two earliest memories of the Isles is the raising of the 1993 Patrick conference banner and being swept by the Rangers in the 1994 first round playoffs. From that point on, it was ALL downhill for the organization. The 94-95 season, introduced changes such as Pierre Turgeon being traded, along with a bunch of other core players. GM Don Maloney would go …show more content…

They also decided to it was time to revamp the look of the franchise with a jersey change. This of course would be the start of the “fishsticks” mocking. Not only was the team being mocked, the play of the team didn’t help going 22-50-10 that season. Did I stop going to games? Of course not, the 95-96 season is the first season I recall my dad getting a ticket plan to games and we would go to every game we had tickets too. We wouldn’t stop getting ticket plans during the Spano time frame, check out ESPN’s 30 for 30 Big Shot if you want more information on that time. From the 1994-2001 season, the team was 157-307-64-4 (over time loses came in play for the 1999-2000 season). My dad and I never gave up, we kept going, we kept renewing for tickets and it would have finally

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