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Season starts tonight
LGRW!!!!
LGRW!!!!
Hockey is most definitely one of the fastest moving (and most entertaining to watch) sports.Not NHL, but took my 8 yr old to our first ice hockey game on Saturday night - MK Lightning v Manchester Phoenix.
Absolute cracker of a game, with Lightning taking a 3-0 first period lead, before blowing it to be 4-3 down midway through the 3rd.
Turned it around to win 5-4!
Superb atmosphere too
Will definitely be going back.
Hockey is most definitely one of the fastest moving (and most entertaining to watch) sports.
Another cheap shot to the head gets Torres a 41 game suspension.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=781798
Being Canadian on my dad's side, I've been to a few hockey matches over the years, I feel it's such a better sport to watch when you're there, and it loses so much on the TV. The speed, the hits and sounds just don't translate as well on the box.Went to watch MK Lightning again at the weekend.
Absolutely cracking atmosphere.
We sat right above the benches, on the front row, so were privy to everything that was going on.
As it was a local derby (Peterborough Phantoms), to say it got a bit heated is an understatement.
Their keeper came out and completely body checked an MK player, which should have been a penalty, but ref said not.
At that point it all kicked off between players, coaches and so on.
We head the Phantoms coach yell at his players "take their fucking heads off", so it was a nice case of karma when 30 seconds later one of their players was hit in the head by the puck.
Being Canadian on my dad's side, I've been to a few hockey matches over the years, I feel it's such a better sport to watch when you're there, and it loses so much on the TV. The speed, the hits and sounds just don't translate as well on the box.
Oh, yeah, you need the proper apparel - hats, gloves, scarves, and hip-flask with a wee nip in.Yeah, been a couple of times now with my boy.
Last time we went, the wife and daughter also came, but the wife struggled to get into it.
However, we dragged her along again on Saturday and she absolutely loved it.
Combination of being correctly prepared for the cold, and also being sat above the player benches.
She can't wait to go again!