# @playerstribune on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DIumUnUNdZA
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-22T00:05:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Players' Tribune (@PlayersTribune) — https://gondola.cc/PlayersTribune

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In 2020, Hall of Famer Mike Modano wrote a letter to his younger self: “It’s Game 6. You’re up 3–2 in the series. And you’re about to head out there for triple overtime....

You’ll get the puck in the corner, you’ll shake free of Zhitnik and try to play along the wall. The puck will sort of fumble toward the net, so stay with it. He’ll be near the crease and then it’s just going to happen.

It’ll be a blur. No matter how much detail I describe it to you in, it’s going to be a blur.

You’ll be trying to get the puck and next thing you know, Hasek will be on his stomach and Hully will be screaming.

It’s not going to take two days or two weeks for it to hit you that you won the Stanley Cup — it’s going to hit you right then and there. It’s the best feeling in the world, Mike. It really is. You’re going to cry for two hours straight that night, I promise.

You’ll skate around the ice with the Cup over your head, and it’ll feel like it weighs a pound, not 35.

When you get back to the locker room, before the press and the friends and family can come in, there will be a moment.

Everyone on the team, from the coaches to the players, will have a chance to huddle in the middle of the room and tell each other what this experience — what this night — means to them. I want you to look around at all those guys and really soak it all. Remember your own journey. From the lake in Livonia, to Saskatchewan, to Minnesota and all the way to Dallas. Think about all the people who made this possible. Know each guy in that room has a story like yours.

Appreciate those guys and what you’ve all just accomplished.

You’re going to cry for two hours straight that night, I promise.

But what will take some time to set in is that your team changed the sport of hockey in the state of Texas — forever. You’ll notice in the few years after the Cup that the atmosphere at your home games is truly the best in the league. The fans will stand all game during the playoffs and every shot, hit and goal will sound like a touchdown at Cowboy Stadium. Dallas will become a hockey destination, because of what that ’99 team did.

That to me, Mike, is legacy.” (Link in bio) • 📸: @glenn7mm

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| The Players' Tribune | @PlayersTribune | https://gondola.cc/PlayersTribune | Media Company |
| Lydia Victor | @lydiahopevictor | https://gondola.cc/lydiahopevictor | Designer |

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