NASHVILLE -- Ethan McClean thought he was going on a hunt for Bigfoot in the Tennessee mountains. At least, that's the destination his parents, Andy and Yvette McClean, gave him as they loaded his wheelchair into the rental car on Monday.
But instead of a Sasquatch, Ethan found himself being greeted by a saber-tooth tiger wearing a Nashville Predators jersey in front of a hockey arena in Nashville. That's where a 10-year-old fan from Ballymena, Northern Ireland, diagnosed with a terminal illness, watched his first NHL game on Monday evening in the last stop on a remarkable hockey adventure.