Dated May 10, 2011: Vancouver wins Round 2: Poor Carrie!

Every NHL team has their celebrity fans; Nashville definitely has Carrie Underwood. She was loved as an American Idol finalist and finally winner of that contest and now in her own right as a country music star. However, as the wife of the rival play-off team's Mike Fisher, she was absolutely loathed by Vancouver Canucks fans.

The superfans; The Green Men, took every available opportunity to get into the minds of the Nashville Predators...including a very nice shot at Mike Fisher when he ended up in the penalty box in Vancouver's Roger's Arena. Take your heckling like a man, Mikey.



And who could forget the iconic picture of Carrie Underwood cheering on her man while the Quackers got out-played by the self-styled SMASHVILLE Predators in the first round.



But something confuses me. If she's married to Mike Fisher, wouldn't she now be called "Carrie Fisher"...uh...I guess...that might get a bit confusing.



Obi-Wan Kenobi: (cue Jedi MInd Trick) "This is not the Carrie Fisher you are looking for..."

And who can't sympathize with poor Carrie's pain when her man's dreams of Cup glory went up in smoke last night. Poor girl. Almost makes me want to hand her a hankie.



The operative word being almost. Every Nashville game, prompted a gratuitous shot of Carrie Underwood carrying on a cheering squad consisting of all of her and Mike's relations. And as Derek Jory called the yellow shirted Pred fans: Cheetos for all the scattering of yellow "Stand With Us" t-shirts littered like an exploded Cheetos bag all over Bridgestone Arena. And then the little heisters wanted to use our "towel power against us" with the ugly puke yellow "stand with us" towels which they were frantically waving against all hope in Game 6. Newsflash: Towel Power doesn't work against the team that originated it in 1982...which was an year that "smashed-ville" didn't even exist.

Well, at least us Canucks fans can thank our lucky stars that she was at least more classy than this guy. I can only hope that this was Vince's face on the OT goal by Burrows in Game 7. After he cheaply trash-talked Lu...this would have been worth it to see.



So, Who's Next? Who's the celebrity fan from Detroit or San Jose, one of the two teams left in the Conference Semi-finals, that we'll be meeting in the Finals. Who will the Green Men latch onto next and heckle into next year? Looking forward to seeing that match up.