With that said, the Hawks were a bottom-feeder for several years and ended up with top draft picks, which turned out to be Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane, two top 10 players in each of the past several seasons. However, the Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angeles Kings have had enormous success without any of the aforementioned superstars. Now, it does help now and again to draft a John Tavares (Islanders) or Steven Stamkos (Lightning). In comparison, hockey teams take years to build. Now, they didn’t bring in the best player in the league, but both essentially transformed from mediocre to a top level almost overnight. They had Paul Pierce and brought in Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen (and drafted Rajon Rondo). Of course, the Miami Heat come to mind for hoarding the Big Three (LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade) but their path to success wasn’t much different than the Celtics from a few years before. After a solid hour of performing, Mac left the stage, only to return a few minutes later to the opening notes of “Loud,” and go in on another song with the hometown crowd, sending the crowd into the night happy with what they just heard. The two were seen getting close at the Steelers game earlier that afternoon, so it could’ve been possible for her to perform on stage with him, however, she didn’t, much to the dismay of the crowd. Finally, it was time for the new stuff, with Mac doing some songs off of the new album, including “Dang!” and “We.” One song off of the new album that wasn’t played however was “My Favorite Part,” which includes Ariana Grande, his girlfriend. Continuing with the throwbacks, other crowd favorites such as “Nikes on My Feet,” “Frick Park Market,” and the remix to “Best Day Ever,” as he had the whole crowd singing along and getting into it. Yes, there was one point in time where the Philadelphia Flyers had a song from a Pittsburgh rapper as their victory anthem, let that sink in. With this being the hometown show, he started the show with some old favorites from his early days, including my personal favorite song of his, “Knock Knock.” This was how I first heard of him, as the song was featured on HBO’s 24/7 Road to the Winter Classic as the official victory song of, ironically, the Philadelphia Flyers. Finally, at around 9:30, Mac Miller took the stage to the thunderous applause of the crowd. The opening acts were average at best, and while they did provide some half decent music, although they didn’t really get the crowd hyped up for when Mac Miller would make it to the stage, which is the main goal of the opening act.
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