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dragonlady7I have composed half-entries in my head for days now and like... haven't... posted them so who fucking knows what i really wrote down and what's just imaginary. LOL.
I know I Tumblr'd about my electrical woes. I figured the PSA would go over well on that platform. That was more excitement than I needed. The power's been back on and it's not so rainy today, so I have hope that it'll all be okay.
I didn't talk about Saturday night though-- we went to a hockey game. NWHL, Boston Pride @ Buffalo Beauts. They were ranked 2&3 going into it, and playing for a shot at the Cup finals. I saw their last meeting, I think, and Buffalo had won pretty convincingly.
This was a tight game at first, with just relentless action, a few great saves, and no score. I don't have the actual stats or anything to hand, but it would be worth looking up-- you can watch archived games, and this was a good one. (Ah, here it is-- the official YouTube channel, with archived games and highlights.)
The Beauts scored eventually, and then it was over, the Pride couldn't answer-- they tried, Buffalo's goalie Szabados had some fantastic saves including a really heroic one wherein literally every player on the ice had managed to stuff their bodies into the actual goal at some point, and still somehow Szabados managed to rummage around and find the puck and remove it from play, which took possibly wizardry I'm not sure-- and Buffalo put away three more goals. The third one was really something, a breakaway, with a defensewoman poorly placed and unable to intervene but making it not off-sides, so the Pride's goalie came out to meet the attacker and the Beauts player flipped the puck up and over the goalie, as she herself lost her footing and went flying over the goalie's downed body. She flew across the front of the goal, but the puck flew in, and she was celebrating before she hit the ground. I had a phenomenal view of this, and for once wasn't looking the wrong way. I did not bring my camera but even if I'd had it there'd've been no way I would have been fast enough to catch it.
After that there was one more Buffalo goal, to put the nail into the coffin. It makes it sound lopsided, but I swear it wasn't, Pride played fantastically well, and their goaltender is really good. Interestingly, the last time I saw them meet, it was a very heated game, with a lot of penalties, a lot of elbowing, a lot of high tempers. And this time?
Clean as heck. I saw a couple of penalties but there were no reprisals, there was no underhanded shoving when refs weren't looking. I guess it's a really small league with little room for grudges; I don't know. The refs called it tight, but even with that, few trips to the box.
I actually have mildly sore muscles from this game, because it was crowded coming in so instead of waiting for the elevator (the rink is on the seventh floor, how crazy is that?) I ran up the stairs, and I was too proud to slow down so I ran the whole way, and boy am I out of shape.
At the end they awarded three MVP kinda dealies, and gave each player a puck they could come out and toss to the audience. Szabados came all the way down to our end of the rink, pointed straight at a little girl pressed against the glass, and then tossed her the puck over the glass. This was extremely exciting to the Hype Squad of ten-year-old girls sitting in front of me, let me tell you, ESPECIALLY the littlest one. We were quite near the goal, and I bet Szabados had noticed them during the period she was down there-- they were mostly making noises audible only to dogs for the entire game, and had managed to get our whole section to do the Wave at one point. We were all very excited.
I actually had a family sitting next to me with two little boys-- a lot of kids come, it's much more affordable than NHL, but most people focus on bringing their daughters, but this family had no daughters. Only boys! And at one point one of the little boys complained that a player had made a mistake, and his dad gave him a very sweet earnest lecture about how nobody is perfect, even professionals make mistakes, and everyone had to do their best and that was all. It was quite cute. And then that dude nearly shanked me during the t-shirt toss, so like. LOL.
Overall, a good time, but I just looked up and the finals will be out in Minnesota so like, no. I'll watch it online though probably! And I encourage y'all to do the same, if you like hockey at all. It's fun!
I know I Tumblr'd about my electrical woes. I figured the PSA would go over well on that platform. That was more excitement than I needed. The power's been back on and it's not so rainy today, so I have hope that it'll all be okay.
I didn't talk about Saturday night though-- we went to a hockey game. NWHL, Boston Pride @ Buffalo Beauts. They were ranked 2&3 going into it, and playing for a shot at the Cup finals. I saw their last meeting, I think, and Buffalo had won pretty convincingly.
This was a tight game at first, with just relentless action, a few great saves, and no score. I don't have the actual stats or anything to hand, but it would be worth looking up-- you can watch archived games, and this was a good one. (Ah, here it is-- the official YouTube channel, with archived games and highlights.)
The Beauts scored eventually, and then it was over, the Pride couldn't answer-- they tried, Buffalo's goalie Szabados had some fantastic saves including a really heroic one wherein literally every player on the ice had managed to stuff their bodies into the actual goal at some point, and still somehow Szabados managed to rummage around and find the puck and remove it from play, which took possibly wizardry I'm not sure-- and Buffalo put away three more goals. The third one was really something, a breakaway, with a defensewoman poorly placed and unable to intervene but making it not off-sides, so the Pride's goalie came out to meet the attacker and the Beauts player flipped the puck up and over the goalie, as she herself lost her footing and went flying over the goalie's downed body. She flew across the front of the goal, but the puck flew in, and she was celebrating before she hit the ground. I had a phenomenal view of this, and for once wasn't looking the wrong way. I did not bring my camera but even if I'd had it there'd've been no way I would have been fast enough to catch it.
After that there was one more Buffalo goal, to put the nail into the coffin. It makes it sound lopsided, but I swear it wasn't, Pride played fantastically well, and their goaltender is really good. Interestingly, the last time I saw them meet, it was a very heated game, with a lot of penalties, a lot of elbowing, a lot of high tempers. And this time?
Clean as heck. I saw a couple of penalties but there were no reprisals, there was no underhanded shoving when refs weren't looking. I guess it's a really small league with little room for grudges; I don't know. The refs called it tight, but even with that, few trips to the box.
I actually have mildly sore muscles from this game, because it was crowded coming in so instead of waiting for the elevator (the rink is on the seventh floor, how crazy is that?) I ran up the stairs, and I was too proud to slow down so I ran the whole way, and boy am I out of shape.
At the end they awarded three MVP kinda dealies, and gave each player a puck they could come out and toss to the audience. Szabados came all the way down to our end of the rink, pointed straight at a little girl pressed against the glass, and then tossed her the puck over the glass. This was extremely exciting to the Hype Squad of ten-year-old girls sitting in front of me, let me tell you, ESPECIALLY the littlest one. We were quite near the goal, and I bet Szabados had noticed them during the period she was down there-- they were mostly making noises audible only to dogs for the entire game, and had managed to get our whole section to do the Wave at one point. We were all very excited.
I actually had a family sitting next to me with two little boys-- a lot of kids come, it's much more affordable than NHL, but most people focus on bringing their daughters, but this family had no daughters. Only boys! And at one point one of the little boys complained that a player had made a mistake, and his dad gave him a very sweet earnest lecture about how nobody is perfect, even professionals make mistakes, and everyone had to do their best and that was all. It was quite cute. And then that dude nearly shanked me during the t-shirt toss, so like. LOL.
Overall, a good time, but I just looked up and the finals will be out in Minnesota so like, no. I'll watch it online though probably! And I encourage y'all to do the same, if you like hockey at all. It's fun!
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Date: 2019-03-12 12:44 pm (UTC)I'm kinda sad the last two games are in Minnesota although the odds of the games being vaguely close were very small.
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Date: 2019-03-12 01:00 pm (UTC)I remember that from roller derby, though. We were four teams who all played mostly each other most of the time, and sometimes we could keep ourselves in control and sometimes we were just wild children, and it depended on a lot of things. The refs do have a lot of control of it-- if they call tight but not biased-- but it's really hard for them to do that. Our refs were poorly trained and some of them were extremely paternalistic about it, it was real gross sometimes.
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Date: 2019-03-12 01:54 pm (UTC)I think the change to Minnesota was a time and money decision. Time because they can't really push the game back any, they committed to a end of season and I think they try not to overlap with the NCAA frozen four which is the weekend after. money, because Minnesota will sell that game out fast. the riveters game that was supposed to be sunday sold out in 26 hours and I expect sundays game to go faster.
Plus, it's just easier than trying to figure out everything else and also no one really expects the riveters to win their game friday. but this league shouldn't expect anything because with a one game playoff, literally anything can happen. We've seen this happen before like the 16-17 final. Beauts were not that good and Boston had won I think all their games that season because they were super stacked with USA national team players. Beauts won the cup because they got lucky scoring and their goalie was on fire. She made like 60 saves. Literally. That was the first hockey game I ever watched and let me tell you, it was fucking wild.
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Date: 2019-03-13 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-13 11:45 am (UTC)