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| My First Hockey Game; Hershey Bears 5, WBS Penguins0 | |
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| Topic Started: Sunday Nov 29 2009, 10:10 PM (216 Views) | |
| WeatherManNX01 | Sunday Nov 29 2009, 10:10 PM Post #1 |
The Yanks are coming!
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I just got back from my first hockey game. My boss is a big Caps/Bears fan, so we got tickets and went up to see the Hershey Bears play the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. First off, the GIANT Center. This place is gorgeous. It's a fairly new facility, built in 2002. But for a building that is almost eight years old, you wouldn't know it by looking at it. You'd almost think they just opened it. Everything is in pristine condition. It's clean, and everything is kept like it's brand new. From the exterior of the building to the concourse to the seating bowl, it's a place that makes you feel welcomed, loved, and wanted. The game was pretty much a blowout, but the 7800+ fans in attendance didn't mind. Most of the crowd was centered on the ice or sitting down toward the Bears' end of the ice (the end they shoot at in the first and third periods). This made for a pretty raucous crowd when the Bears scored at that end, which they did four of the five times they scored. A couple of fights - the first came three seconds into the second period when two players went at it right after the faceoff. When someone talks about "dropping their gloves" to fight, I don't think they thought of it quite this way. The Pens player that instigated the fight didn't just drop the gloves, he tossed them. Threw them. The Bears goalie needed to take only a few steps to retrieve one glove while the fight went on at the center. I'm still not that into hockey, but if I worked and lived in the Hershey area, I'd have season tickets. |
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