Love of the Game

hhoocckkeeyy!!

me gusta! :)



As every one knows, the way that you're raised is how you're going to act in the future, well in most cases. When I was a little thing, I watched hockey instead of Veggie Tales and cartoons. Don't get wrong, there was still a lot of the Power Rangers, but hockey was my 2nd favorite.

When I was 8 I had my first chance to see a professional game, St. Louis Blues vs. Colorado Avalanche. I couldn't wait! Avalanche are my favorite team and my sister was determined to marry Peter Forsberg, #21, forward, and one of the best in the league. Obviously, the avalanche won :P and we had three drunk St. Louis fans yelling and hollering at us as we were walking back to the car. Naturally, my sister, who has a big mouth, started yelling back and lets just say that we won that argument and the idiots shut up. Once finally at the car we realized we had a problem, we were blocked in by the Blue's team bus. DARN! While they were filing out, we managed to grab some autographs and finally we were able to leave. That was a great day and an awesome start to my obsession.

Now i've been to 2 or 3 professional games, about 3 feeding team games, and many many more of the USHL games. Our local team, the CR Roughriders are fun to watch even though Mark Carlson needs to pull his you-know-what out of his butt sometimes. Also with me growing a mouth like my sister, I've managed to school some of the players with my knowledge of the game and found a lot of humor in that :D. Now my best friend, Michaela, wants me to take her to games and teach her about hockey. That took a lot of begging and pleading but I finally agreed to it. Boy was that an adventure! She had no idea what was going on 98% of the time and had no idea who was doing what, where, when, or why. Although her ignorance and confusion was entertaining, I didn't get to watch as much of the game as I wanted to. Oh well, I'll be back :)

My room is covered in hockey posters, signs, pictures, and figurines, my closet has jerseys and t-shirts, my bed post has hats and visors from my favorite teams, and my dresser has stuffed animals with hockey jerseys on them. How cute! lol