A year ago, St. Louis Blues fans were celebrating Pat Maroon being a hometown hero. The Big Rig had not yet coined that exact term for himself, that would come about a month later, but that’s what he was after he scored a double-overtime, Game 7 goal against the Dallas Stars.
However, as human beings often do, we forget the others involved in those kinds of plays. In football, we remember the big catch, but perhaps not the block that was absolutely necessary to clear the way.
In basketball, we remember the shot, but perhaps not the pass that set it up or the screen that got that player open.