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ICE hockey Match
Tuesday, March 14, 2006


ICE HOCKEY --> Canada's nationl sports. Our tix costs only $10cad because it's just a small match between Kitchener Rangers and Sault St. Marie Greyhound. I heard that the popular match will cost up to $50cad. well, it's just for experience...

Sara and i research about ice hockey 1 hr before our departure from Village 1. Hopefully we'll get a crash course and will be able to understand the match better. Since it is a small match, we guessed that the crowd will be pathetic. Took a longggg way to Kitchener Memorial Hall because we hafta collect our tix from illed kristina and her house is really OUT-UF-THE-WAY. did so many transfers when the place is not far.

I wanted to upload all the clips that i took but having so much trouble to do so. sigh, forget it! so use your imagination as i described my experience to you... This is the only one that i manage to upload BUT, it doesn't mean or show anything. heehee.
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When we reached there, i'm impressed with the crowd. They had it announced that there were 6067 audience present. Cool...Canadians are so supportive of this sports and even kids were seen cheering for their favourite team. Wonder how many people will be there to watch a simple soccer match by Geylang V.S Tampines (2 areas in Singapore). Anyway, we bought our popcorns and waited for the match to start.

So inspired to learn skating by lookin at how flexible and swift the players are. Apparently, Rangers are obviously better than the Greyhounds but the banging against the plastic wall along the ring, the way the skate skidded when the players need to come to an immediate stop or change direction and the fight... yah, THE FIGHT!!! They are such violent creatures. haha. look at the pic on the left. apparently, 1 from each team started fighting. Perhaps that particular opposing-player is such a pain-in-the-ass that the whole team seize the opportunity to hit him. They even threw their hockey sticks on the floor. Poor referees. Yah, this is only one of the many times which they fought. ESPECIALLY for the 3rd(last) round when the winner is rather obvious, they spend more time punching and pushing than trying to score. In the midst of the fight, the audio system even played the song "why can't we be friends". Great timing. The referees stepped in to stop them aft leaving them to 'settle their own score' for abt 2mins. indeed an eye-opener for me.

The whole event is made evenmore interesting as they have mascot giving out free jersey, games such as giving out free fries to the section which cheer the loudest, lucky draw winners being announced and screening of clips which show faces of the hockey players who scored. :P we got none of those despite me yelling like mad for the fries. The old-uncle sitting ard us are not supportive.

During interval, they have games on the ring though it's not interesting. They even had kids forming 2teams and playing ice-hockey in the ring for 10mins. They look really amusing because they fell down like nobody's business and as one topple, the next one will b affected. The tiny ones were enjoying themselves until they were asked to leave the place for the real show to start.

A nice game and i don't regret taking the super long journey...


♧_____that's all folks_____♧~ [[ 10:48 AM ]]

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