I wish I had a boyfriend that loved Hockey as much as I do. All the guys I’ve dated or liked, love football, or baseball first, or just don’t like Hockey or know anything about it at all.

Being stuck out here in the middle of Iowa where very few people care for hockey at all can be a little challenging sometimes. But my girlfriend is making the effort. It is coming up on 2 years now and I think the excitement of winning the cup last year and being so strong again this year has really helped but she is learning the game and developing educated opinions for herself. Her favorite player is Pavel because “he is fun to watch start and stop and skate around people” and when she turned to me at the bar during the Stanley Cup Finals this year and said, “Hossa is an asshole. I know he is on our team now but what a dick.” I knew this was the one. We are getting married in September and plan to be in Detroit to catch a Wings game and a Lions game in November. The Lions are a much tougher sell but I cant complain.

I was with a mother of 2 on and off for a few years. She tolerated hockey/football, her daughter didn’t like sports at all, but I got her son into the Detroit teams big-time. (I was pretty much his dad for over half of his young 6 years of life). I gave him my old Yzerman jersey, went down past his knees. He would cry like crazy on school nights when he couldn’t finish watching a Wings game with me. I’ve heard from relatives he still wears it to bed every night.
I can’t have kids without the extremely EXPENSIVE miracle of science, I miss him…

If there are any women who likes sports, sex and beer, doesn’t have kids, isn’t about money, isn’t a cheating whore, has low standards and lives in SE Michigan/NW Ohio, send me an e-mail :-)

i’m from michigan, grew up in warren. but family matters moved us south, to tennessee. i have been a life-long wings fan, so when i married a southern girl over 6 years ago she had to be indoctrinated to the ice! we go to pred games, each time the wings come down, plus a few more conference games, & gradually she has become the smack-talking, wing-loving hockey chick i’ve always dreamed of :)
go wings!!

I’m in kind on the same position as “IowaLion” My girlfriend and I have been together for 4 yrs. We live in St. Pete, Florida, and although FL has 2 hockey teams, people down here could really care less…keep on hanging to those stupid Rays. I’m originally from Saginaw, MI but moved down here at age 4 and yet still managed to play ICE hockey for 10+ years down here. Growing up going to Lightning games(and wings games when I was up visiting family), meeting players, going to their camps, etc. But my family being from Michigan, our hearts lay with the Wings. My girlfriend is from FL and lived here her whole life. She really didn’t like or respect sports at all. Although she had a slight love for hockey steming from the Mighty Ducks movies. I also loved those movies and so that was one of the things that connected us from the get-go. To make a long story, not so long…4 years later she has full blown Red Wings/hockey fever. Helping along the way I’m sure was Detroit winning the Cup in ‘08. Her first taste of getting behind such a great organization and actually have them WIN!! It is still tradition in my family for whenever the Wings are in town to play the Bolts to go see ’em(which they don’t this year, argh!). The last time the two teams met down here (last year) at the Forum, was not only her first time seeing the Red Wings live in action but also the first time meeting my whole family other than Mom and Dad, haha, what a night!!! Including my Grandfather, whom has been going to Wing’s games since the ol’ Olympia days and had season tix @ the Joe up until moving down here to stay a few yrs. ago. Her mother, still can’t believe I got her to actually like a sport and go for a team…helps alot that it’s an actual REAL sport and first-class team. Sadly the Lightning experience/games fails to compare to one at The Joe but it’s looking better, especially with the signing of Hedman and Ohlund. The only time her new love for hockey really has been a problem was the super tence days of this past years play-offs/finals. Much yelling and cursing…at EVERYTHING from us both, lol!! I’m sure we weren’t alone. Anyways… I’m glad that I was able to turn one more unsuspecting person into a true hockey/WING-NUT!! And that I have such a great girl to share such a great team and sport with…she actually gets what a legacy the Detroit Red Wings represent and is proud to be a part of it. As am I. DUH!! Who wouldn’t???