Who is The Blade Gang?<\/p>\n
The Blade Gang consists of nine boys ages 18 to 24, all childhood friends and hockey teammates from South Buffalo.<\/p>\n
They are: Sean Maloney, Jack Ellis, Danny Maloney, Alex Pawlik, Ian Macvie, Jackson Soto, Luke Soto, Tommy Maloney, and Michael Bollenbacher.<\/p>\n
Whose idea was this?<\/p>\n
Blade Gang: \u201cAll of us. All the boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
When did this start?<\/p>\n
The boys gathered at the Maloney residence for a cookout ahead of Game 1. Jackson Soto \u2013 he\u2019s the one in the Ristolainen jersey \u2013 was caught on film blading through the South Buffalo suburbs in full uniform. (This was the first known Blade Gang sighting).<\/p>\n
From there, the rest of the boys got into uniform and piled into Maloney\u2019s vehicle. He dropped them off at a pizza place on South Park Ave.<\/p>\n
Blade Gang: \u201cEvery car that passed us was beeping their horn at us before we even got to the arena. Then by the time we got to the arena, we just knew. The whole place was going crazy when they seen us. When we hit Michigan and turned onto Perry, it was over. As soon as we hit Perry Street and got going, it was on from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Where did they get the Bruins dummy?<\/p>\n
This is a common Blade Gang misconception. The dummy actually belongs to a Sabres fan named Nick, who brought it to the Party in the Plaza ahead of Games 1 and 2.<\/p>\n
The Blade Gang did go viral for their attack on the dummy, an instinctual reaction to the sight of Boston\u2019s black-and-gold jersey.<\/p>\n
Blade Gang, on their thoughts upon seeing the dummy for the first time: \u201cWe\u2019re taking him out. He\u2019s got a Boston jersey on. He\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why did they go to Boston?<\/p>\n
Blade Gang: \u201cJust all the videos and everyone talking about us.\u00a0Tkachuk, he said it himself, he wished he could buy us tickets. We were loving that. We were like, \u2018You know what, man? He\u2019s right. We do got to go to those games. Doesn\u2019t matter if we can\u2019t get in or not. We\u2019re going to support the team.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Do they plan to rock out for Game 5?<\/p>\n
Blade Gang: \u201cThat place is going to be rocked out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is The Blade Gang? The Blade Gang consists of nine boys ages 18 to 24, all childhood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-611901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}