Shreveport Mudbugs celebrate a thrilling championship win and community spirit

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the north american hockey league champion shreveport mudbugs general manager scott muscat where are you right now you driving back you're flying back in the private plane what's the deal where are you my friend no i'm i'm actually driving over to madison wisconsin there's a ushl camp going on there they've got their main camp and there's some players that i i want to see and my youngest boy is uh has been invited to their main camp so i'm gonna go watch him play and watch a few guys that we've got on our radar for for the mudbugs so you're a champion now tell us about the game last night tell us about how tell us about what you saw greg said that it was the mudbugs maybe playing their best game of the year i really think that that this team has boy the the leadership job that david brazile and and geo and metcalf and those guys did it was just um it's honestly beyond words they they really they did a phenomenal job with that team our coaches were amazing they just pushed all the right buttons um and and i'll tell you it goes right down to our fans were sensational uh we even got the best announcer in the game brother oh i'm sorry i was listening to your answer greg go ahead muskie this had to be one of the hardest years of hockey ever with with all of the the coveted stuff and everything that's gone on it to to finish it off with a championship like what does that mean for the players for the coaches for the organization and for you you know they're it's it's a crazy thing like you never ever ever want to get to the point in life where you just think that winning is just what you do um because it's just not and winning a championship is and it's never anything short of truthfully it's never anything sort of amazing it's so special when it all comes together like that um and this year um you know it was like we say it's the dirty south you know it's such a tough division to play in and every night is just a physical pounding and and uh you know i think that that the referees did a really good job in the in the south of letting the guys get tough um and and learning how to play big boy hockey and uh and i i honestly i really believe that when it came down to the championship i just i think that we were playing big boy hockey at a very high tempo and our coaches just had us really prepared to play well connected heavy fast hockey and and i just i think that aberdeen was a really good hockey team but i don't think they've seen a whole lot of that we brought enough to really be prepared for that um it was a great hockey game it was unbelievable and anything can happen in one game i really felt we took control of the hockey game and and it was the only way to wrap up as you suggested that greg it's the only way to wrap up a really long season you know we've been together for almost 11 months now like that's the longest season in hockey history and you did too a couple of seconds ago talked about mudbugs fans and i'm looking on social media i'm watching some of the videos from last night i i'm listening to the game how many mudbugs fans actually made the trip from shreveport or bossier or anywhere around here all the way to blaine minnesota for heaven's sake that's incredible i think it sounded like about six thousands to tell you the truth aberdeen knew that the mudbug fans were coming and and they sent another boss out to aberdeen to pick up more fans to bring them in for the final game just to try to match our fans and and i think it's fair to say they didn't uh they didn't match them they may have had more numbers in the building but they sure didn't have as much voices as our fans did and i i i know that we always say this and everybody tries to you know boost up their local community by saying that they have the best fans we have the best fans in north america and you can't like i love jason rent to that but for him to even come close to suggesting that witchdoc fans are as good as shriek live fans like he's he's drunk because there's no way there we we have the best bands in north american hockey league bar none they're unbelievable it's not just our fans it's our entire support system just there's just a lot of really really good people doing really really good things and that's the only way you end up on top when it's all said and done i want to stick on the fans for a second because shreveport kind of has a a clouded history when it comes to sports organizations and sports teams and people just feel like sports doesn't work here but you guys are here two championships in a handful of seasons the greatest fans in in the league what is it about mudbugs hockey right now that has has gripped this community in a way that sports can't otherwise every place that wants to be better than it was the day before has to find hope that inspires greatness it inspires doing more than he did yesterday and and i think that this this team this group of young men um they wanted they wanted to wear that cape they they wanted to be that that hope they wanted to go out and demonstrate that you know hey shreveport might love us but we love freeport more and and they they did that um i had more people come up to me and talk to me about what a great group of guys they are how involved like this was a tough year to be involved in your community you know because you because of covenant you couldn't go here and you couldn't go there but it didn't stop these guys from reaching out to people um not just through their plays but you know emotionally and through social media and stuff like that it was just a it was a really really special group of guys in a really really special season i think that that bonds people together and and uh i've been talking to a whole bunch of past mudbug players probably more than than ever before any of the other championships that we've won guys were reaching out and how proud they were to be a part of the organization and and i think that that has spread throughout the fans and and uh and the community it's a great place to live we just have to kind of convince shreveport sometimes that that's the case and i think this team just once again says hey here's another thing that true club can be proud of