Walking around the Coliseum...especially in those terrible years...you’d bump into former Isles all the time. Gillies, I was like a school girl, but I was like 15 or 16 at the time. The others, cool as a cucumber.
In the mid 90s, I was in an empty bar in midtown. I was in my 20s. I went downstairs and who is playing pool? John Tonelli. We were both trashed so we went to the pay phone and called my dad at 2am. I ran into him a year ago and told him we did that and he thought it was funny as heck.
Ran into Daryl Strawberry at the Coliseum about 10 years ago. He was promoting a car wash product or something. I walked by him and gave him a head nod. So, at the Coliseum, we had the best seats in the arena (to see a game). Maybe the best seats in the NHL. Section 205 - Row K - Seats 13 and 14 on the aisle. Who do they usher in next to us? Daryl Strawberry. He sat next to dad for a period and they Kibitzed a bit. Very friendly guy.
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