“I could have been going to 28 other cities, but I was actually going to Nashville, where I could finally be with my wife full-time,” Mike explained. “She has to be doing her thing in Nashville…so we had been going back and forth between Ottawa and Nashville. As a newlywed couple, it wasn’t easy. I knew I was incredibly blessed to be going to Nashville.”
Being traded to another team meant that Mike could have been moved anywhere in the country. Bryan looking out for his men the way he did for Mike was the biggest blessing the couple didn’t know they needed.
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And Bryan wasn’t the only one.
“When I was packing up my stuff to go to the airport, I got a call from Eugene Melnyk, the owner of the Senators,” Mike added. “He thanked me for my time in Ottawa, and then he said something I will never, never forget: He said, ‘You know, Fish, I just wanted you to be with your wife.'”
Mike and Carrie’s families were beyond excited for the beautiful way God had lined things up for them during that crucial time in their lives. Mike’s mother sensed the presence of the Lord in all of it, and even told her son, “Maybe this is the Lord’s way of having Mike traded to Nashville so he can be with Carrie.”
Six years later, Mike is now captain of the Nashville Predators.
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Carrie and the couple’s two-year-old son, Isaiah, are the Pred’s biggest fans, and Carrie even has a tendency to make regular appearances as singer of the National Anthem.
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Their testimony is proof that even when we can’t see a way for things to work, or we fear the future, God WILL move mountains for His children. It’s such a beautiful reminder of the Lord’s promises to us.
