BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ufffdufffd It was just past 4 a.m. on Thursday when Andrew Tokasz decided it was time to inject some energy into a hockey game that was entering its seventh consecutive day.
Shortly after Team White’s Kenny Corp scored on a backhander from the slot to cut Team Blue’s lead to 1,073-1,058, Tokasz grabbed the nob of his stick as if it were a microphone and began singing along to the chorus of Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” playing over the HarborCenter loudspeakers.
Why not belt out a couple of “sha-la-la lah-ti-das?” Anything to break the monotony when the stands are empty except for a janitor mopping the floor, and blisters are about the only things popping on the ice.