fromMitch Dudek of the Chicago Sun-Times,

If officials with the Tampa Bay Lightning try to make Randy Ehrsam take off his Blackhawks sweater during the first game of the Stanley Cup Finals Wednesday, they will find he has nothing on underneath.

“What are they going to do then?” asked Ehrsam, who wondered what lengths Lightning officials would go to enforce a no-Blackhawks-gear rule in certain sections of the stadium.

Ehrsam, 61, a salesman from Villa Park, walked through possible scenarios in his head Tuesday after stepping off the ice at Johnny’s Ice House, just east of the United Center, where he caught a session of rat hockey (hockey’s equivalent of pickup basketball).

“I don’t want to miss any of the game,” said Ehrsam. “But if they give me a Tampa Bay shirt to wear, I’m going to turn it inside out.”

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