On November 16, 1997, I covered an American Hockey League game at the Philadelphia Spectrum. It wasn’t anything that happened in the Philadelphia Phantoms’ 6-3 win over the Kentucky Thoroughblades that made it memorable and special to me.

Rather, it was the first professional hockey game I was ever credentialed to cover in the pressbox. Of all the assorted press passes I have kept since then –

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