The long-awaited Clash of the Titans in the South Division came to fruition on Friday night, as the 1st place Wildcats travelled to suburban Fort Worth to take on the 2nd place Lone Star Brahmas.
It is a great time in sports. Baseball just started, NBA and NHL teams are competing for those last playoff spots, and locally the Wichita Falls Wildcats have made the playoffs for the first time since 2011.
Our Wichita Falls Wildcats clinched a playoff spot thanks to an epic 3-2 shootout win against the Lone Star Brahmas earlier this month, sending them to the postseason for the first time since 2011.
So the teddy bear toss is an annual event the Calgary Hitmen put on every year. What happens is when the Hitmen score their first goal everyone in attendance tosses teddy bears on the ice, they are then collected. All of the teddy bears that are collected are then given to charities to give out for the Holidays.
With the NHL lockout in place teams are having a lot of free time on their hands. Well one team decided to go support a youth hockey team in the biggest way imaginable.
With the NHL lockout in effect ESPN has been trying to find some hockey to fill that gap. This kid scores a goal and then celebrates in the weirdest way possible.
Last Thursday night, 11-year-old Nick Smith and his family were at a celebrity hockey game in Faribault, Minnesota. And Nick won a raffle that gave him one hockey shot to win a HUGE prize.