Post Hockey Blues...


I got em'
I got em' something fierce
I really love to watch live hockey
Love. It.
Maybe it stems from living in Northern Minnesota for a time or just living in Minnesota in general, but there is something about it that I love.

The Final Salute to the fans after Playoff Game Six which ended the season for the Silvertips.
I won't lie, it's possible I cried a little...



I love watching the players jump in the air to bring a puck back down to the ice and land on their skates.

How do they do that?

Or that they sometimes literally run on ice with blades.

again, how do they do that?

I can barely stand on ice let alone, run jump and skate on it...

For Christmas 2011 I bought D a last minute groupon type gift that was two tickets and a hat to our local WHL Hockey Team, the Everett Silvertips.
We went to the game.
D loved it.
I loved it.
I love the skewers of dark chocolate covered strawberries lovingly called Dingleberries!

Next thing I know we bought a half season pack of tickets.

This last year we bought season tickets. (I consummed a lot of dingleberries)

I looked forward to every single game this year.

I looked forward to dinner before each game because of this family...



The family is the five people in a row four rows from the top... They literally sit directly across
the ice from us.

They are absolutely delightful... You might remember the pink and green big bad baby blanket? It was for Jennifer, the daughter in law who is expecting their little girl in June.

I'm sad the season is over, not only because of the next five months of no hockey will be long.

I'll miss seeing them each week before the games, hanging out at the Irishmen, eating pepper gravy on our fries, consumming copious amounts of Irish beers, and laughing and teasing and basically delighting in each other.

we have made some tentative plans for the summer that include a bit of horse racing... Possibly on a party bus run by the Irish Pub we favor..



p.s. that bear standing on the wall is Lincoln. Cutest mascot ever and named for the USS Lincoln who spent some time in the Port of Everett back in 2005 and in Bremerton Washington in 2006. It currently resides in Norfolk VA. (the carrier not the bear)

Anyway. I'm a little blue.

I'm going to miss watching the players (ages range from 15-20)

and

I'm going to miss our pre-hockey dinners.  

See you next Season Silvertips!