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Brent Peterson Has Seen It All With The Nashville Predators

05/28/2017 at 8:39am EDT

from Allan Maki of the Globe and Mail,

With a minute to play, and the Nashville Predators joyously assured of advancing to the Stanley Cup final, Brent Peterson turned off his microphone and sobbed.

It was all too much to take in – his 13 seasons as the team’s associate coach, the diagnosis, the surgery and now his time as colour commentator on the Predators’ radio broadcasts.

All of that triggered what neurologists call the Pseudobulbar affect, the uncontrollable stirrings that can come with Parkinson’s disease. Days later, even talking about the Predators’ six-game ousting of the Anaheim Ducks is a difficult exercise. He stops and chokes back the words until they’re log-jammed in his throat.

“Don’t cry,” says his wife, Tami.

“I finally realized we were going to make it there,” her husband says of the Predators’ first trip to a Stanley Cup final and a date with the Pittsburgh Penguins. “[Radio play-by-play man] Pete Weber watched me cry, then we went downstairs for our postgame show and it was really fun to [think] of [Predators’ former head coach] Barry Trotz and all those people who worked so hard … They got there. They made it.”

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