Went To A Hockey Game Last Night And...

[Ron]

My oldest who is 10 & in grade 4 had some hockey players come to School & told them that if in a certain period they read so much & did some physical activity they would get free tickets.

Well she completed the task, and while it wasn't the Canucks playing, it was the
2007 Memorial Cup Champs the Vancouver Giant's vs the Seattle Thunderbird's.

http://www.vancouvergiants.com/home.html

Now while I could care less about going, my daughter said that she worked hard to go & wanted it to be "father daughter" type outing-so I went.

Ten bucks for parking, 9 dollars & 75 cents for two Cokes & a big bag of popcorn
& 10 bucks for a souvenir big hand & we got to our seat.

It was in the rafters, the nose bleed section!
I saw Angels moving around we were so high up!

The game starts and they are singing the National Anthem & the Star Spangled Banner starts up. It looked like the singer was forgetting the lines, turns out his mike was failing, neat thing is the fans started singing it to help him

Game starts & there is immediately a bunch of fights & penalties.
I immediately thought of Timlan.

Between the periods a couple of mini blimps come out of the rafters and fly around dropping give aways (prizes) on the audience.
Never did get to us, not enough helium to get that high.
Next the Mascot comes out riding around in some jeep doing wheelies & shooting a cannon full of prizes.
Again he did not see us as a few clouds must have obscured his view.

Third period, we start moving towards the street level entrance as the other team has us 4-2 others are leaving as well.

I don't know if it is healthy or not but 30 bucks later & 12,350 screaming fans tell me I am getting old!!!!

[freeatlast]

Of all the "sports" that the articles of faith tell us to have no part of......i gotta say say hockey is one I'd agree with them on.

I've never seen a more rowdy drunk bunch of fans in the seats and such ungodly dispaly of the lack of sportmanship.

I never figured you for such a liberal Ron.




just busting your chops buddy

[A_PoMo]

You're going to hell.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

Of all the "sports" that the articles of faith tell us to have no part of......i gotta say say hockey is one I'd agree with them on.

I've never seen a more rowdy drunk bunch of fans in the seats and such ungodly dispaly of the lack of sportmanship.

I never figured you for such a liberal Ron.




just busting your chops buddy

My daughter twisted my arm. Truth is, that was the first hockey game in 33 years for me.

Thet were well behaved--half the audience were kids!

[freeatlast]

Heard a fellow say onetime, " I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out" ;-)

[Ron]

Originally Posted by A_PoMo

You're going to hell.

They play hockey there?

[Ron]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

Heard a fellow say onetime, " I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out" ;-)

That is about the truth.

Thing is before the game & in between periods & just before face off they had a warning on the big screen to watch out for flying pucks!

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Ron

My oldest who is 10 & in grade 4 had some hockey players come to School & told them that if in a certain period they read so much & did some physical activity they would get free tickets.

Well she completed the task, and while it wasn't the Canucks playing, it was the
2007 Memorial Cup Champs the Vancouver Giant's vs the Seattle Thunderbird's.

http://www.vancouvergiants.com/home.html

Now while I could care less about going, my daughter said that she worked hard to go & wanted it to be "father daughter" type outing-so I went.

Ten bucks for parking, 9 dollars & 75 cents for two Cokes & a big bag of popcorn
& 10 bucks for a souvenir big hand & we got to our seat.

It was in the rafters, the nose bleed section!
I saw Angels moving around we were so high up!

The game starts and they are singing the National Anthem & the Star Spangled Banner starts up. It looked like the singer was forgetting the lines, turns out his mike was failing, neat thing is the fans started singing it to help him

Game starts & there is immediately a bunch of fights & penalties.
I immediately thought of Timlan.

Between the periods a couple of mini blimps come out of the rafters and fly around dropping give aways (prizes) on the audience.
Never did get to us, not enough helium to get that high.
Next the Mascot comes out riding around in some jeep doing wheelies & shooting a cannon full of prizes.
Again he did not see us as a few clouds must have obscured his view.

Third period, we start moving towards the street level entrance as the other team has us 4-2 others are leaving as well.

I don't know if it is healthy or not but 30 bucks later & 12,350 screaming fans tell me I am getting old!!!!

Ron,

Nashville has a professional Hockey team, the Predators. Not long after I moved here almost nine years ago a company I did business with took me to a game. The price was right since it was free and I had a reasonably good time. They had the blimps like at your game but I don't recall any cool antics on the ice with a motorized vehicle (only the Zambonie cleaning the ice).

At the end of the day my thought was that it was way too much trouble to take the time to drive downtown, park, walk, fight the crowds, just to see a sport where a 4-2 score at the end is considered a high scoring game!

They need to figure out a way to make Hockey higher scoring and more exciting without resorting to fights between the players. LOL!!

I have not been back. Of course alll sports except football are a sin anyway. I am surprised you went.

[A_PoMo]

Originally Posted by Ron

They play hockey there?

yeah, I heard it finally froze over after all these years. haha!

[Ron]

Originally Posted by CC1

Ron,

Nashville has a professional Hockey team, the Predators. Not long after I moved here almost nine years ago a company I did business with took me to a game. The price was right since it was free and I had a reasonably good time. They had the blimps like at your game but I don't recall any cool antics on the ice with a motorized vehicle (only the Zambonie cleaning the ice).

At the end of the day my thought was that it was way too much trouble to take the time to drive downtown, park, walk, fight the crowds, just to see a sport where a 4-2 score at the end is considered a high scoring game!

They need to figure out a way to make Hockey higher scoring and more exciting without resorting to fights between the players. LOL!!

I have not been back. Of course alll sports except CFL football are a sin anyway. I am surprised you went.

I agree.

I remember some years ago we decided to meet as a Church board with ministers at a restaurant.
They had a big screen tuned to the NHL Playoffs & the Canucks were playing.
Pastor said he was going to ask the establishment to shut it off, as it was a distraction.


I went because of my daughter. I could care less for the game, though hockey is alright.
She was interested & worked for the tickets.