JANESVILLE, Wisconsin -- A line of people queued up more than an hour before puck drop outside the Janesville Ice Arena and would eventually stand three-to-four deep at the glass behind the net on one end of the ice Friday night. It was a couple hundred more people than would usually take in a Janesville Jets NAHL game, especially as the season winds down with the team is out of playoff contention. There was a palpable buzz around the team and the rink for what would have been an otherwise unremarkable game on the final home weekend for the Jets.

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