Cried during Lou's final games. I felt sick to my stomach on Saturday knowing someone I've listened to from my earliest memories on earth is now 82 and will never again do a state tourney. I do not handle that kind of thing very well. I hate that kind of change.
Listening to him, I'm back home in Wisconsin when things seemed right with the world. I miss those days.
I lived in Burnville for a few years and Eagan but never in high school.
In a way, it was right for Edina to win it in Lou's last hurrah. I recorded the end off my cellphone. Just hard to let go. Watched him as a player, he was GM of my team (Nanne's grannies) and the voice of hockey for me. Can never be another. Didn't feel much sadness when Al Shaver passed, but I wasn't with him for nearly my entire life, either. But, there were many years I didn't see any of the tourney. 45tv has been such a blessing. I was glued to this tourney.
Chanhassen was the better team. Pretty baffling how they didn't get it done, but that's HS hockey.
"It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled."17