CALGARY & RED DEER TRIP

a couple more road games in the books.
on friday (the 30th) i headed to the city to credit union centre in the morning to start off the trip. we left at 10 to calgary, which it felt like a lifetime to get there. one stop in hanna on the way, then we made er to calgary at about 4pm. the one hour time dfference was sure a blessing to have on this roady. after being stuck in horrible traffic for 400 hours, we made it to our hotel. and holy frig it was gorgeous. i unpacked, and got ready for the game then we took off for the dome which was about 15 minutes away. i met my parents there (they were already in calgary for an auction sale) and then went down for warmies. the saddledome might be the worst arena to navigate, when it comes to finding your seats. seems easy enough but when there stairs to go here, and stairs to go there, you get frusterated. after getting lost in some fancy concourse/restaurant/ballroom kind of place, and a little creep smile from the commish, i finally made it down. stayed there until warmups were done, then decided to make a few rounds around the saddledome. i like away games a tiiiiiny bit more than home games, just because i love the reactions you get. not just from the players when you cheer or during warmups (kind of like "what the hell are you doing here") but also from the other fans. the stares, chrips, "blades eh" comments, and so on. they never get old, and kind of make you feel special, or like every one is watching you and hate you. great feeling, really. so the game started, and it was pretty amazing i might add. a couple nice goals righ after another sure made the hitmen fans in our section angry (duh). revel got the first, beauty goal by the way, then josh (of course) got the next. the boys came out firing in the second and got a couple more. walker with the third of the game (new favourite player?! ......) and then dietz put the dagger in the hitmen. the third was pretty quiet, except for the end when we won and went crazy... the boys skated over and saluted us and right then i swear i couldve balled. makarov was amazing. such a sick game to be at. dalton thrower sat with us (his brother plays for the hitmen) and dalton was hurt so his family who sat behind me were cheering on his brother. sutter's dad (can you guess which one?!) also came by. and can i just say that despite what you see on tv, and what you would expect, the saddledome is a complete dump of an arena. anyways. so we went back to the hotel (some went to the casino like usual) and i was beat. i watched some tv, got my stuff for the morning ready, and called it a day. the next morning was pretty slack since we got a late checkout, and for some reason i was up bright and early. we left the hotel at 12 and header to "rocky view" aka the outside of calgary, i guess. we hit up crossiron mills mall and OMG I WAS IN HEAVEN. bass pro, pink, pro hockey life, sportchek, michael kors....i mean like its a hick ladies dream. we only had an hour there, so i was speedwalking like a mad man through the mall to find the stores i wanted to go to. after just over 200$, we headed to red deer. it seemed like a 20 minute drive for some reason. we went out to eat, then waited for like 2 days until the doors opened at the arena. our crew then invaded the last rink of the trip. it was surprisingly nicer than i expected, and alot more put together than the saddledome, honestly. some of the boys (nicholls, stransky, walker, pufahl, dietz were the only ones i looked at ha) were playing sewerball (?) right beside the ladies washroom, and as i was walking in, pufahl hit me with the ball...there was the obvious "oh sorry" from a couple of the boys, then it was like an outburst of "WHY'D YOU HIT THE BLADES FAN?!?" from nicholls and a couple others. i guess i just happened to glance over at walker while he was smiling and oh damn he is the most beautiful hick ever. i did the same old road pregame rituals then had to try some of this "amazing" icecream that was the talk of the trip. this game didnt go as good as we hoped. we knew it was going to be hard but i was hoping we wouldnt be shut out, obviously. bartosak was amazing and robbed josh nicholls a ton of times. also the post was not our friend. so we ended up losing 3-0. the rebels are a top notch classy organization, from what i saw on saturday. they were so welcoming to us (the fans) and offered us tons. it was so nice to stockl for the first time since the trade, made me a little emotional haha. so after the game we went out to our bus and started the trek back to saskatoon. the trip was amazing and i cant wait until the next one. moose jaw/swift current? till next time......

#CREWLOVE on our pa northern

we winnnnnnn

packed house in calgs..........

no friends probs

SASKATOON BLADES: NOVEMBER 2012

much. better. month.

out of 11 games, we ended up winning 7, so that makes for a happy fan right there. so the boys started out the month on the road in kootenay and lethbridge. it seems like on most of our roadies (even the short ones) we can never get the sweep, so, we won 3-2 vs the ice and lost 5-4 vs the canes. the next weekend we had our last two games before heading out west. again, we won 6-3 vs the pats but then lost to seattle 6-2 on the saturday. on friday, (as you probably already know) jessey astles got his wrist cut by a skate blade during/after a fight and had to be sent to the hospital. i guess he hopes to be back in time for playoffs (IN MARCH!!!) but hey, what can you do. injuries have been a bitch to us lately, with astles, stovin and thrower,and then mccolgan being out vs kelowna (sucks he had to miss playing his old team). the bc road trip went better than i thought it would... big wins against prince george and vancouver to start it off was friggin exciting. we lost 5-2 in victoria, won 3-2 in kamloops then got our asses handed to us in kelowna. anddddd then a home game!! on the 27th lethbridge was in town. over 6000 people showed up and watched us win 5-3. then on friday we were in calgary, which youll hear about in the next post ha.

so overall the month was good, the blowout loss was obviously the downfall but we sure responded good to it. in other news, brett lernout cut his hair and now looks like a 2. earlier in the month we traded for nathan burns (his brother michael played with us last year), also it was nice that logan harland gave up his number to nathan so that he could wear the same number as his brother. bad thing about the trade, we traded basically my last standing favourite player, travis mcevoy. first stockl, then mcevoy...i guess lernout holds that title now, who knows what'll happen come trade deadline.

also, movember treated brenden walker verrrrrrrry well.

OIL KINGS VS RAIDERS 2012

so on the 2nd i drove up to prince albert to see the oil kings play the raiders. i'd say there was around 5-10 oil kings fans there...the wruck family sure reps well. i went down for warmies (...like i do for most away games) and may i just say that it might have been the most awkward 10ish

 minutes ever. like most away games,you get all the stares, but surprisingly there was a couple nice raider fans that came up and talked to me. the first period was great... goals by samuelsson and wruck made it 2-0...so awesome to see wruck score in front of his family. also seeing musil in his first oil kings game was pretty cool. so friggin pumped over seeing dysin mayo again i swear i need that kids jers. there was a tonnnnnn of great chances by both teams throughout the game COUGH COUGH KEEGAN LOWE. the raiders got one in the second and that was about it for that period. the third was the greatest period of hockey ive seen all season. so intense you have no idea. the raiders got one with about seven minutes left and then it got crazy with five mins left. the oil kings

had the greatest push ever in the dying seconds but couldnt put it in :( such an awesome game. also can i just say that the standing room behind the last row of the section is very awkward i swear the people were hovering over me reading my tweets....but the one lady patted me on the back at the end of the game and told me the game was awesome so that was pretty nice. also, cujo was there.

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SASKATOON BLADES: OCTOBER 2012

october started off quite shaky...and stayed that way. not much to say about this month, but penalties, horrible pk and pp, not getting the puck out of our end....all factors in the shitty month. there were five home games, and six away. and we won three of those. the worst loss obviously came from the october 5th game vs swift current... best part of the month was of course the trip to edmonton. ya we lost but hey i love going to road games. also, the darcy tucker/sami kapanen hit reenactment was pretty great as well vs red deer. a lot of our losses were real close, but, that also doesnt hide the blowouts. we have won one (regular season) home game so far, which was in overtime. probably wont see too many more home game wins until december since there is only three home games in november (eight away games). ALSO ANOTHER SHITTY THING, we traded stockl :( he was front running the chance (???) to be my new favourite player...

whatever. better luck in november. 

fuck you

GERRY DEE IN SASKATOON

so on the 26th, i went and seen gerry dee (comedian) preform in the city. i love his show and all his interviews he does with the score with athlete so i was super excited when i found out he was coming to saskatoon. i sat front row, where you had no room to cross your legs and was maybe a little too close for comfort. his opening act was from saskatchewan (i cant remember who) but he was super hilarious. his topics included: the riders, black people, saskatchewan, and rednecks. pretty much summed up most of the crowd. he lasted a good 30ish minutes. gerry dee is pretty friggin great live. never really expected that many fucks out of him. also, his relationship with the crowd is awesome. one of my favourite skits was defiantly (however you spell it) the points one... "hey gerry wanna go to vegas?" "i dont have enough points for vegas. i can go on a bike ride though". it was a great show and i cant wait till he is back again. also, season two of mr d airs in january!!

 

#gofacoff

 

EDMONTON TRIP 2012

soooo i took a "quick" trip to edmonton on saturday to watch the blades play the oil kings. i left early in the morning and 6ish hours later, i was there. i decided to get my shopping done early so i went before the game..first up was holt renfrew to get a new louis bag. had to go threw the ghetto part of edmonton and chinatown to get there, but hey it was worth it. 900 bucks later i was off to the mall. i didnt go to west ed which was fine by me, because the mall i wanted to go to anyways had all the stores i needed. seriously considering moving there. it was a 20 minute drive to my hotel, so once i got there, i got ready for the game right away. anddddd off to the game. i saw maybe 10 other blades fans there at the most. a few of them i "knew" (three of them went to medicine hat with us) and most of the others were family i am guessing. i know  matt revel's family was there, and i saw a guy in a lernout jersey, but he is from manitoba so who knows. thankfully i didnt get razzed too much, other than awkward stares by people and two guys clearly talking about me when i was walking infront of them. the first period was awesome. so much pressure and effort by both teams, but no goals. i guess the guys there at rexall forgot to change their penalties section on the jumbotron because it still said "raiders". the second period wasnt so good... WE SUCK ON THE PP AND PK. some goals were tough for makarov to get but hey, they still went in. the third was better... but not good enough. dietz scored and that was all the cheering i did that night. sucks cause i was reeeeally looking forward to being an asshole of a blades fan that night, in hopes that we would win by a pretty big margin. there was a guy at the bottom of my section that flattened an empty beer case and wrote "swift current 10, blades 1" on it. props to the blades fan who game him the finger. 

all in all, i had a amazing time. the outcome of the game sucked, but the game itself was great. a couple fights, a stick and puck that flew into the crowd almost knocked out a guy a few rows down from me.... next game vs edmomton is in january (kill me, its so far away), and back in edmonton in march. really wanna go. see ya in prince albert on november 2nd, oil kings.

"break records at louis. ate breakfast at gucci"