Along with clinching second place in the playoffs, this took the sting off of losing their last regular home game to the Rockford Icehogs…badly, 5-1. It wouldn’t concern me very much if we weren’t facing the Blackhawks’ proxy next week in the first round.
As for the Lone Star Cup, this is a special prize created by State Farm Insurance to (I guess) spur on competition and interest in the three Texas-based teams: Stars, Aeros and Rampage. Obviously it’s plug for them so I apologize if your premium gets jacked up over it; I’m sure it does because part of my phone bill covers all the naming rights AT&T buys.
The positive thing I can say about the LSC is that my team won it pretty easily over Houston and San Antonio. The former team had an off year and the latter has never been very good. Count on next year’s to be fiercer.
Now to get ready for Round One.