I wrote a silly article called The Ballad of George McPhee a while ago, and recently published it on Capitals Outsider. Luck would have it, only a half hour or so after publishing it, my friend Mike at The Gardens Ice House pulled it up to read just as McPhee walked into the rink (presumably because his kid plays there sometimes). Mike printed it out for him and told me McPhee liked it.
I see McPhee in the press box a lot but don’t generally speak to him because he’s got more important things to deal with than me. Plus, I don’t really have anything to ask him. (I did get him to wink at me once, which he does quite a bit with people). Anyway, I didn’t have any plans to show him the ballad and didn’t think much of it. But I’m glad he saw and liked it.