As Luke Evangelista stepped out of the tunnel and under the lights of Bridgestone Arena last Tuesday, an outburst of cheers erupted from section 118.
The source of the commotion: Luke's mother Margaret, father Andrew, sisters Maria and Sophia and a surplus of family and friends.
"We're pretty intense," Andrew Evangelista said with a laugh. "We tell our family and friends that during a hockey game we're bad company if one of our kids are playing. We're focused and we're just locked in… And if you talked to our daughters, they would say we're loud."
Of course, that night there would be no need for any disclaimers of intensity.
The Evangelistas, who'd made a nearly 800-mile trip from Toronto to Nashville, had come all that way to see their 21-year-old son make his National Hockey League debut and certainly weren't going to be quiet about it.
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