zomg hockey
so i scored tickets to go see haley wickenhiser play on friday.
shes on u calgarys ladies team. the dinos. shes captain. and holy crap. amazing. one of the best hockey games i have ever ever seen. like for serious. and yeah, it was so good to see real hockey again.
we got tickets because the u winnipeg team invites 2 girls league teams to each home game and one of the moms from sonnets hockey team was in charge of selling tickets to her older daughters team. so we got them for 8 instead of 15 and they came with a hotdog, pop and bag of chips.
we had great seats. just behind the announcer and penalty boxes to the side of center ice. we were 4 rows up, just above the boards.
the calgary team whupped winnipegs butt. calgary was a stronger team right off the bat. it wasn't all hayley. the coach for calgary is one of hayleys team canada team mates. winnipeg has a male coach who covers both teams i guess. at the end of the first period it was 3-1 for calgary. end of the second it was 5-1 calgary and no one scored in the third.
i got some amazing pictures. i forgot how awesome my camera is at hockey action shots. this was faster than i was accustomed to shooting, i took 226. have deleted 40 that only had like 1/3 of a person, or were great shots of the net but not the players. deleted about 40 more for blur. uploaded the best 20 and am editing the rest to post later. wickenhiser is in most of them, because i was enjoying my fangirly heart out.
the photo set on my flickr
there was some not great stuff.
they had 3 morons in the full body suits harassing the girls in the penalty box. by which i mean sexually harassing the calgary players in the penalty boxes. "do you like it hard?" "oh yeah baby i'll make you scream real good." i complained to security and they got told off, but ugh it was still horrible.
then there was the family behind us. everytime i cheered for calgary the little old lady behind us told her grandkids "thats not nice. not cheering for our team" by the second she had her grandkids telling me in chorus "thats not nice." then their mom showed up. shes the winnipeg coachs wife. she spent the entire last period bashing wickenhiser. she thinks it disgusting that wickenheiser is playing with university girls, stealing someone else chance, is shameless, is a nasty bitch, is giving calgary an unfair advantage. seriously 20 minutes of this. while also bragging about how she used her husbands job to get wickenheiser to speak to her daughters hockey team after the game. (and no her kids team wasn't either of the teams invited that night, nor did haley speak to the other two teams) she specifically said "yeah i hate her but its a great experience for the kids." it was just icky especially because she was specifically boasting about how her husband was the coach. so at a school event, you have a spouse of an important person at the school loudly bashing the competition (SO UNCANADIAN AND UNFRICKING COOL. i moved down by the boards for the last five minutes "to get more pictures" by which i meant "to get away from the loud rude lady who wouldn't shut up"
sonnet was with me and so we congratulated the teams as they left the ice. i got a lot of "oh hey were you guys our only fans?!?! thanks!" from calgary. haley said nothing nor gave fistbumps. we then got fist bumps from the entire winnipeg team. which was neat. sonnet told the backup goalie that she plays hockey too and got several high fives and invited to come see them again.
so my hubby is looking into getting season passes. the family pass for ALL THE SPORTING EVENTS is 90 bucks. so we are gonna pick that up (it'll be troys xmas present) and go watch regular hockey again. both the men and ladies home games.
shes on u calgarys ladies team. the dinos. shes captain. and holy crap. amazing. one of the best hockey games i have ever ever seen. like for serious. and yeah, it was so good to see real hockey again.
we got tickets because the u winnipeg team invites 2 girls league teams to each home game and one of the moms from sonnets hockey team was in charge of selling tickets to her older daughters team. so we got them for 8 instead of 15 and they came with a hotdog, pop and bag of chips.
we had great seats. just behind the announcer and penalty boxes to the side of center ice. we were 4 rows up, just above the boards.
the calgary team whupped winnipegs butt. calgary was a stronger team right off the bat. it wasn't all hayley. the coach for calgary is one of hayleys team canada team mates. winnipeg has a male coach who covers both teams i guess. at the end of the first period it was 3-1 for calgary. end of the second it was 5-1 calgary and no one scored in the third.
i got some amazing pictures. i forgot how awesome my camera is at hockey action shots. this was faster than i was accustomed to shooting, i took 226. have deleted 40 that only had like 1/3 of a person, or were great shots of the net but not the players. deleted about 40 more for blur. uploaded the best 20 and am editing the rest to post later. wickenhiser is in most of them, because i was enjoying my fangirly heart out.
the photo set on my flickr
there was some not great stuff.
they had 3 morons in the full body suits harassing the girls in the penalty box. by which i mean sexually harassing the calgary players in the penalty boxes. "do you like it hard?" "oh yeah baby i'll make you scream real good." i complained to security and they got told off, but ugh it was still horrible.
then there was the family behind us. everytime i cheered for calgary the little old lady behind us told her grandkids "thats not nice. not cheering for our team" by the second she had her grandkids telling me in chorus "thats not nice." then their mom showed up. shes the winnipeg coachs wife. she spent the entire last period bashing wickenhiser. she thinks it disgusting that wickenheiser is playing with university girls, stealing someone else chance, is shameless, is a nasty bitch, is giving calgary an unfair advantage. seriously 20 minutes of this. while also bragging about how she used her husbands job to get wickenheiser to speak to her daughters hockey team after the game. (and no her kids team wasn't either of the teams invited that night, nor did haley speak to the other two teams) she specifically said "yeah i hate her but its a great experience for the kids." it was just icky especially because she was specifically boasting about how her husband was the coach. so at a school event, you have a spouse of an important person at the school loudly bashing the competition (SO UNCANADIAN AND UNFRICKING COOL. i moved down by the boards for the last five minutes "to get more pictures" by which i meant "to get away from the loud rude lady who wouldn't shut up"
sonnet was with me and so we congratulated the teams as they left the ice. i got a lot of "oh hey were you guys our only fans?!?! thanks!" from calgary. haley said nothing nor gave fistbumps. we then got fist bumps from the entire winnipeg team. which was neat. sonnet told the backup goalie that she plays hockey too and got several high fives and invited to come see them again.
so my hubby is looking into getting season passes. the family pass for ALL THE SPORTING EVENTS is 90 bucks. so we are gonna pick that up (it'll be troys xmas present) and go watch regular hockey again. both the men and ladies home games.