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ardaniel & Co., Alex and I rolled out to meet flaggerx and members of his church choir to go to an OSU hockey game.
It'd been about 3 years since I last went to one, and it was different because last time we'd been right up against the glass, and this time we were up in the loge area.
Observations:
A) Michigan State (the opponents) are -really- good. They beat OSU 4-0 and didn't look like they were really challenged after they got up 1-0 in the first.
B) OSU started strong, seemed to deflate a little after the first goal, but were coming back up and doing a pretty good job getting the puck in as the first period ended, then went to the locker room and came out without energy and playing extremely sloppy. I can only blame this on coaching - something was said in that locker room, and it was clearly The Wrong Thing.
C) The retro-styled jerseys with scarlet and grey stripes were really neat. Actually, all the OSU hockey jerseys I saw the team or the various people in the stands wearing looked pretty nice. I might make a gander to the team store at some point here.
D) College hockey feels like the players are at a slower pace than NHL hockey. Nobody really seemed to move with a lot of speed.
Still, we had fun, and it was a nice time out!
Then, we headed to Barley's smokehouse, got ourselves fed very well, and I drank pints of the Maclennan's Scottish ale (good), Cherry Porter (also good), and Raspberry Wheat ale (oooo, good. Went really well with the bbq sauce.) Most of the meal was excellent, but the kitchen closed before we could get dessert, and our server wasn't clueful enough to ask us "Hey, would you like me to put a dessert order in before the kitchen closes?", so that was disappointing, especially since they added some really nice sounding new desserts.
After dropping Dave off, we started on our way home before realizing we needed cat food very badly, and really wanted dessert. So, an entertaining interlude was spent at Meijer, followed by Mythbusters and the consumptuon of Bavarian Creme danish.
And all was right with the world.
ardaniel & Co., Alex and I rolled out to meet flaggerx and members of his church choir to go to an OSU hockey game. It'd been about 3 years since I last went to one, and it was different because last time we'd been right up against the glass, and this time we were up in the loge area.
Observations:
A) Michigan State (the opponents) are -really- good. They beat OSU 4-0 and didn't look like they were really challenged after they got up 1-0 in the first.
B) OSU started strong, seemed to deflate a little after the first goal, but were coming back up and doing a pretty good job getting the puck in as the first period ended, then went to the locker room and came out without energy and playing extremely sloppy. I can only blame this on coaching - something was said in that locker room, and it was clearly The Wrong Thing.
C) The retro-styled jerseys with scarlet and grey stripes were really neat. Actually, all the OSU hockey jerseys I saw the team or the various people in the stands wearing looked pretty nice. I might make a gander to the team store at some point here.
D) College hockey feels like the players are at a slower pace than NHL hockey. Nobody really seemed to move with a lot of speed.
Still, we had fun, and it was a nice time out!
Then, we headed to Barley's smokehouse, got ourselves fed very well, and I drank pints of the Maclennan's Scottish ale (good), Cherry Porter (also good), and Raspberry Wheat ale (oooo, good. Went really well with the bbq sauce.) Most of the meal was excellent, but the kitchen closed before we could get dessert, and our server wasn't clueful enough to ask us "Hey, would you like me to put a dessert order in before the kitchen closes?", so that was disappointing, especially since they added some really nice sounding new desserts.
After dropping Dave off, we started on our way home before realizing we needed cat food very badly, and really wanted dessert. So, an entertaining interlude was spent at Meijer, followed by Mythbusters and the consumptuon of Bavarian Creme danish.
And all was right with the world.
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Date: 2008-01-20 07:04 pm (UTC)And I question how much NHL talent comes from college. It's not like NFL or NBA where ALL the players come from college. There's too many other, and probably better, sources for hockey players than college hockey.
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Date: 2008-01-20 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 02:43 am (UTC)BTW, this wasn't mostly choir people. Just Greg and I sing, though Andrew's wife is our mezzo-soprano section leader. And yeah, she can really bring it.
It was fun, even if OSU sometimes looked like they were skating in molasses.
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Date: 2008-01-21 02:58 am (UTC)Sorry about the confusion on the choir suchlikes. :D
Another day, I suppose. :D It'd probably help when they aren't playing #1 with a bullet.