Finally

April 25, 2011

We've waited a long time for this. (Photo: Aditya T)

Like the picture says – 13 years, 12 seasons, 1,018 regular-season games and six playoff series. That’s a long time to wait for a playoff series victory.

I watched the Nashville Predators’ Game 6 win agains the Anaheim Ducks in a treehouse overlooking Lake Charlie, the name I gave long ago to the little pond at my mother-in-law’s house where we had Charlie’s funeral. In the moments after the Predators’ win, my phone lit up with celebratory texts and calls from our mutual friends while I sat in that treehouse not 30 feet from the place where we had all gathered in June 2005 to send him off. It’s a shame he couldn’t be here to see it himself – nobody loved the Predators like Charlie Tuttle – but with all that positive energy converging in one spot, I was as close as I could get to sharing the moment with him.

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