David Booth is face of Florida Panthers franchise
Posted by TheHockeyGuy on October 1st, 2009
Right off the kitchen inside the Booth family’s home, on a desk cluttered with several other snapshot memories, rests a framed picture of a 9-year-old boy with loose, blond curls wearing a Florida Panthers T- shirt.
Like the other kids in his suburban neighborhood about 30 miles north of Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena, David Booth had been a Red Wings fan since he was a tyke. He was so enamored with hockey that he liked to put a small laundry basket on his head, Frisbees under his feet and shuffle around on the kitchen floor as if it were a fresh sheet of ice.
But when the NHL team in South Florida unveiled its leaping Panther logo with the broken hockey stick in its paws, it was too cool for even a well-bred young Wings fan to ignore. That Christmas, Santa left a Panthers cap and T-shirt under the tree.
“It’s kind of weird having all those pictures wearing that,” Booth said, smiling as he reminisced.
Click here to read the full article – By Steve Gorten of South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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