Minnesota Wild Chicago Sport reviews
Wish we would have known
My girlfriend and I bought on the glass seats to see the Wild destroy the Rangers. The seats were great, the experience was awesome, we just wish we would have known about the lounge for people in the first row. This lounge gave people with first row seats free food and free beverages, to include beer. We didnt find out about it until the 2nd intermission. We were able to each get a free beer but had we known about that in advance we wouldnt have spent money on beer and food. Its not a huge deal, i mean, if you pay $260 for a ticket and are too cheap to spend another 50 on food and drink then you are quite the tight@$$, it just would have been nice to know...
Ciabatta
If you have heard of "Ciabatta Bread", it comes from the Italian idiom: "Old Shoe."
Attended the hockey game last night, Oilers v. Wild, a 2-1 Oiler win. It was a bit more interesting than the last NHL game I attended in 2010 in Denver --- but not much. When I read the Mpls paper this morning, their assessment of the game coincided perfectly with mine: Wild were trying to finesse offensive-zone cross-ice passes, which inevitably get intercepted --- leave that stuff to the Blackhawks; The Wild did not crash the net, and what few rebounds there were found a conspicuously vacated low slot; to win, you have to sometimes forego the classic one-timer and pick up the goal-mouth garbage; and the winning goal was stoppable, even though the speed of that highly-touted Oiler rookie is extremely impressive. But he was surprised he scored, too.
Minnesota fans, like in North Star days, seem to prefer an early exit rather than see what happens in the last minutes of a close game. And with a 3-on-3 OT looming, why would you pay $100+, then try to be first out of the parking lot? Sheesh.
But what really fried my @$$ were the TV time-outs, which brought out a very mundane ice-crew of shoveling sprites in black slacks. I give them credit for not being arrayed in titillating tu-tu's or racy, suggestive leotards.
But to do what? Scrape the rink after 8 minutes into the period? And, again with 6 minutes to play? Shades of the ancient pre-Zamboni days. Only thing missing would be a hot-mop truck.
The destruction of the flow of the game, not to mention the oft-sensed hockey intangible of "The Big Mo" is now GONE from the game because of million-dollar salaries.
If they have to entertain the fans, get some Squirts or Pee Wees in a 1 on 1 with the NHL goalies. Maybe the back-ups who have nothing to do other than tossing paperclips into a dixie cup on the bench. Keep them warm for emergency duty. Now THAT would get the crowd screaming in a dull game!
Or, bring out a figure-skating duo for a 2 minute routine. Just spare me the spectacle of twenty Rink Rats pushing ice chips.
Call me a curmudgeon, but I may have seen my last NHL game in person.