The Oilers

As mentioned before, Ice Hockey is the sport of Canada. Pretty much everyone here support the sport and after you've watched a game, its obvious why!

The game is quick and exciting with plenty of goals and a few fights in there too (see photo).

So the game was between Edmonton Oilers vs Nashville Predictors.

After a bit of a late start (we missed the 1st period) we got off the tram and headed to the stadium. Whilst I remember the tram journey was a bit bizzarre as there are some slightly strange people who use it... this older gentleman (about 75) was chatting to himself about World War 2 or something, except he was having a conversation as if he were two people. One of his personalities was liberal and left wing and the other right wing, it was quite entertaining as he told each of his different sides to *uck off with its conservative or hippy ways. Anyway back to the hockey...

So the stadium holds about 20K people and its a pretty impressive site, we sat down to the second period after getting some compulsory 50/50 tickets (to win $23K). The atmosphere was amazing, different to a football game because everyone is so compacted together, every so often an organ would start and everyone would start clapping to the beat ...

Once we had sat down the game started to get going (I still believe the players were waiting for us to arrive). Before you knew it the 2nd period was over and it was 2-2...

It takes a bit of time to get into the game and see how everyone acts but when a goal is scored the noise is amazing and streamers are shot out from the ceiling over the crowd... by the end of the 3rd period the score was 4-3 with a few fights and some nail biting moments and I was starting to get into the game - another goal occured making it 5-3 and by that point I thought hockey was the best sport ever.... then the whistle went - the whole thing went so fast and it was a shame that the sport doesn't have 4 quarters!!

Anyway if you get the chance go and see a game!