standing near the ice before her team's playoff game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday, watching warmups, when Capitals winger Brett Connolly noticed her and tried to toss her a puck. A man behind her caught the puck and gave it to the boy next to Keelan instead. Disappointment immediately registered on the 6-year-old's face. Connolly, hoping to reach his intended target, retrieved another puck. He hit the glass, as if to say,
"It's for her." The same guy caught it and gave it to the boy on the other side of her. Keelan didn't know what to do. But Connolly did. He went back and got a third puck, pointed to her, and lofted it over the glass. The third time was the charm. The man finally gave the
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Before the commentary, it was a cute moment. After the family dynamic was assumed, it went viral. I know because I tweeted out the NHL's footage on Monday morning at 9:43 a.m. Since then, the video has been retweeted more than 92,000 times, and has drawn more than 305,000 likes. I've tweeted more than 130,000 times since I joined Twitter in 2009 and this is the tweet that has had the most engagement.
The tweet has been seen on Twitter more than 14 million times, according to the site's analytics, and the video itself has been watched more than 7.1 million times. But what's more telling is the fact that the tweet was interacted with more than 1.6 million times and drew more than 2,200 comments -- including this one from someone with the handle
hollyrene44: "I know I'm supposed to focus on the positive of the situation," she tweeted. "But I hate this video. So many parallels to be made here for females who love sports." "Holly Rene" has 238 followers. Her comment was liked 6,900 times.
I didn't shoot the video. I just tweeted it. But seeing how it went viral, I felt some responsibility to do a follow up. I found a woman on Twitter who said she was the mother of Keelan, who is an only child. So I reached out to her in an attempt to get the real story. As it turns out, Keelan is the daughter of Lauren and Andrew Moxley. She didn't really have a choice about becoming a Capitals fan. Andrew, who would sit in his parents' car as a youngster listening to game broadcasts, is a lifelong Caps fan. Lauren didn't know much about hockey when she married Andrew, but became a fan. And so rooting for Washington became Keelan's preordained fate.
"It was only her second NHL game," Lauren told me of Keelan, who already plays hockey herself. "We wanted to take her to a playoff game." And so, before the game, Andrew, Lauren and Keelan headed from their seats down toward the ice to get as close as they could. Andrew, who didn't want to take up space or block the kids' view, stopped a few rows up and let Lauren accompany their daughter down to the glass. After a couple of minutes, the now-famous moment happened.
"I was standing near her and I saw it all happen, but I never thought the guy who was catching the pucks had any ill intentions," Lauren said. "She's an only child. We didn't know the other people around us. I couldn't believe it when I saw on Facebook and Twitter what it had become." Lauren then spent time on social media trying to set the record straight. Some people noticed, but most people missed it.
"She said they thought Keelan is very sweet and that they are happy she finally got a puck," Lauren said. "That Brett was very determined to get it to her. They also said they want to send her a little gift once Brett returns from Columbus, to thank her for being a good sport and supporting the team." On Monday, Keelan's first-grade teacher showed the class the video. On Tuesday, Keelan brought her puck to school for show and tell.
"Brett has definitely earned a lifelong fan," Lauren said. "Keelan can't stop talking about him." And the social media world can't stop talking about Keelan. The 2017-18 rookie class was once again deep and talented, bringing optimism for ailing fan bases, filling holes on playoff-bound teams and taking on leading roles far earlier than should have been expected.
No one did that more emphatically than Barzal, who was a ray of light in an otherwise disappointing Islanders season. He will easily win the Calder Trophy after leading all rookies with 85 points as a possession-driving center who is just 20 years old. He is also one of only five rookies since 2005-06, the year Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby came into the league, to finish the
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a point per game while appearing in at least half of his team's games. Of those five, Barzal is the only one to appear in all 82 games of his rookie campaign. The company Barzal keeps in that group shows how special his accomplishment this season is. The center averaged 1.04 points per game, which puts him behind only Ovechkin (1.31), Crosby (1.26), Evgeni Malkin (1.09) and Connor McDavid (1.07), who appeared in 45 games in his injury-shortened rookie campaign. While Barzal is in a class all his own this season, he was far from alone as an impact player in Year 1. The many immediate contributions are great signs for the teams that are drafting and signing these guys, and it's great for
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