Jimmy Howard of the Detroit Red Wings Looks Steady, Despite Loss

Posted: 15th April 2010 by Matt Hutter in NHL
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Who says hockey doesn't belong in Phoenix? Judging by the 17,000-plus hockey fans who flooded Jobing.com Arena on Wednesday night, some paying upwards of $400 per ticket to do so, NHL hockey is very much alive in Arizona. And this just wasn't a bunch of know-nothing gawkers that came out to see playoff hockey in the desert for the first time in eight years, these fans knew what to do at a hockey game. They cheered when the penalty-killers cleared the zone, they erupted when their team laid on a big hit, they shook the walls when the home-team scored, and they made sure that Detroit's rookie goalie received a warm welcome. It's true, they chanted throughout the game - HOW-ARD! HOW-ARD! HOW-ARD! Yep, Arizonians (a few thousand of them anyway) know how to get under a goalie's skin. Or do the ...

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