Season Two of the
Great Hockey Experiement officially got underway at Philips. Its the first time I've gone to a game without taking someone more knowledgable along with me. Instead I embraced the notion that you don't need a man to watch hockey and convinced the girls to join me. This left me as the group expert on the the Thrashers and hockey in general and I think I was able to rise to the occasion.
The game itself was good but a bit of a disapointment. The arena was
only half full despite it being opening night. From my perspective
that place should be full for opening night even if it means giving
away the tickets. Our passing and puckhandling is much better than it was at the beginning of last season. I think it was after the olympic break before we started passing the puck successfully. I'm glad it isn't taking us that long to get our act togather this year. The first game went to a shoot out and left me very perplexed by our choices. Hossa wasn't one of our designated shooters. Why would one of our best offensive players not take a turn? Instead Jon Sim got a shot and we failed to score at all.
Other highlights of our outing included
- An enterprising friend getting ahold of multiple giveaway scarfs and selling them to people at the game. I know people sell their extras on Ebay all the time, but I'd never considered selling them at the game. Really, how hard was it for anyone to get an "extra" scarf?
- The amazing discovery that going to the game dateless opens up the door for any number of men to buy you beer. Unlike a bar--where men buy you beer to hit on you--these folks were just being nice. Three cheers for free beer and many thanks to the anonymous pony-tailed dude for offering to buy me Bass and then making his friend buy when he realized he had no money.
- Girls breed drama. There really isn't a good excuse for this, it just follows us around. During the course of the game we lost girls and were convinced an aspiring bf was stalking someone.