Go Canucks Go

So the Canadian experience is one step closer to completion, and I have now witnessed my first live ice hockey game. We saw Vancouver Canucks play against the Edmonton Oilers at GM Place, and while the home team lost 6-7, we had a good time.

We had nice seats on the fourth row next to the goal, and the game was a lot of fun. I can see why the game is so popular - it's very fast paced and there's always something happening. There were only couple of fights on the ice (both started by Jarkko Ruutu, if I'm not mistaken) and one amongst the audience. The first ones were exciting to the audience - and well, the second one was too but that dampened my spirits a bit. While I can kind of see the glamour in booing the visitor team ("Oilers suck!"), arguments between fans are just stupid... and in this case things got a bit too heated, and even though it was the Canucks fans who were the culprits the crowd was behind them which annoyed me. Both parties were quickly removed though so it didn't have time to get really ugly.

All in all, fun was had, and it was definitely an interesting experience. Those of you who are really interested, I put some photos I took on Flickr.

And oh, I'm on holiday!

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