Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes had a hilarious reaction when he saw his tight end Travis Kelce in Dallas for NHL playoff action.
Kelce was in town to watch the Dallas Stars take on the Edmonton Oilers in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals.
While Kelce was having fun in a suite with golfer Bryson DeChambeau, Mahomes jokingly tweeted: “Get off my course!! @tkelce (laughing and crying emoji) Let’s go @DallasStars!!!”
Kelce laughed at that tweet in response, telling Mahomes, “I love playoff hockey, baby!!! You’ve never even skated!”
The Stars Twitter account even chimed in saying, “We can all be friends” as the banter continued.
Travis Kelce made a surprise appearance in Saturday’s NHL playoff game in Dallas.
He even surprised Patrick Mahomes, who jokingly told his tight end to “get out of my arena.”
As his tweet suggests, hockey isn’t entirely unknown to Kelce.
Growing up, Kelce played football, basketball, and baseball in high school. But before all that, he was actually a hockey player in Ohio.
“I really love hockey,” read an old tweet that resurfaced after Kelce’s appearance at the Stars-Oilers game. ‘I haven’t set foot on the bonito since I quit after playing for 8 years… But that has to change! I miss him too much.’
Kelce wasn’t the only well-known athlete in the crowd Saturday in Dallas. Former Mavericks star and NBA champion Dirk Nowitzki was also spotted at the American Airlines Arena, where a statue of the German basketball legend can now be found.
Facing a 1-0 series deficit after losing Game 1 in double overtime, the Stars got on the board at the 3:39 mark in the first period when Jamie Benn scored on assists from Wyatt Johnston and Miro Heiskanen.
Edmonton’s Connor Brown scored the equalizer a minute later with assists from Cody Ceci and Warren Foegele.
But that tie was finally broken 3:41 into the third, when Mason Marchment beat Edmonton goalie Stuart Skinner after a series of missed opportunities for Dallas.
A young Kelce (center of photo) is seen holding a trophy during his urine hockey days.
Oilers center Sam Carrick talks to Dallas Stars left wing Mason Marchment (27) in the third.
Edmonton’s comeback attempt failed, and after Skinner was pulled with just over two minutes left, Dallas’ Esa Lindell put the game out of reach with an empty-net goal.
Dallas top center Roope Hintz and Oilers forward Adam Henrique missed another game in these NHL playoffs after being eliminated in Game 2.
Both players had been described by their coaches as game-time decisions.
Henrique missed his seventh straight game, and eighth of nine, since injuring his ankle in the first-round final against Los Angeles on May 1.
Hintz was out for the fourth straight game due to an upper-body injury. He hasn’t played since he exited in the first period of Game 4 of the Stars’ second-round series against Colorado on May 13.
Travis Kelce Said He Played Hockey for Eight Years in Decade-Ago Tweet
Former Mavs star and NBA champion Dirk Nowitzki was also spotted at the American Airlines Arena.
Dallas Stars left wing Mason Marchment (27) and defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) and Edmonton Oilers left wing Evander Kane (91) and left wing Dylan Holloway (55) collide
Kelce will be racking up air miles this summer as he travels back and forth across the Atlantic to support Swift.
The Kansas City Chiefs star has played the role of doting boyfriend, supporting the pop superstar on his Eras Tour, since striking up a romance nearly a year ago.
Most recently, the 34-year-old spotted the 14-time Grammy winner as she took her sold-out show to Europe.
However, with the start of the NFL season approaching, the three-time Super Bowl winner will have to do some juggling.
The tight end will reportedly travel back and forth between Europe and the United States as Swift continues her tour, which continues Friday in Lisbon, Portugal.
Game three is Monday night in Edmonton, where the Stars won 4-3 in their only trip there this season. That was Nov. 2 during the Oilers’ 3-9-1 start that led to Jay Woodcroft being fired as coach and replaced by Kris Knoblauch.
This was the seventh consecutive time the Stars reached Game 2 of a best-of-seven playoff series after a loss, including all three this postseason. Marchment scored in their 4–3 loss to Las Vegas in the playoff opener on April 22, left Game 2 with an undisclosed injury, and then missed six games before returning in Game 2 of the second round. against Colorado.
Edmonton center Leon Draisaitl did not score a goal, ending his early playoff point streak that ended at 13 games. That came within one of matching Mark Messier’s franchise record set in 1988.
The teams traded goals 44 seconds apart at the start of the first half.
Dallas Stars’ Tyler Seguin (91), Esa Lindell (23), Jamie Benn (14) and Miro Heiskanen (4) celebrate after Lindell scored an empty-net goal to seal Saturday’s victory over Edmonton.
Benn scored on Dallas’ first shot on goal of the game, with a wrist shot from the top of the right circle that flew past Skinner and into the bottom left corner of the net 3:39 into the game.
Edmonton, which outshot the Stars 17-4 in the first period, got its revenge when Brown scored on a rebound of Cody Ceci’s shot after he had initially received the puck from Brown. It was Brown’s first goal this postseason, and the only other one he scored was in 2018 for Toronto against Boston.
After going 0 for 5 on the power play in the series opener, including a double minor penalty in the opening seconds of the first overtime that gave them four minutes of a man advantage, the Stars failed to score on their only power play in the game. 2.
That extended Edmonton’s streak to 20 penalty kills in six-plus games, since giving up a power-play goal in Game 3 of their second-round series against Vancouver.
