Hockey Season is here!
What does that mean at Roadrunner Florist? It means Pamela is all excited about the new season for the Detroit Red Wings and the Arizona Coyotes!
It’s going to be a great season!
Hockey is a great game…grew up with it in Detroit with Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio and Norm Ullman and Terry Sawchuk. That was in the 50’s!!
Now we have a whole new group of wonderful young players.
Who is your favorite player or team?
I not a fan of Hockey, but I am glad the season is on the way 🙂
Thanks, Letty. Pamela’s a great fan (I’m not) and she enjoys telling me all about it (of course I don’t understand much).
I don’t watch Hockey so I don’t know many teams. I guess I would have to say the LA Kings.
Sounds like you might be loyal to LA!! Thanks for your opinion!
i have only been to one hockey game and it was a fun time. my husband really likes it and follows it.
I think that’s great, Katrina. I, too, have only been to one hockey game. I liked it because I could see the entire ice. On TV you only see pieces at a time and I can never follow the puck!
My dad used to take me to see DU play hockey in Denver. Then, in the mid-60’s, he took me to see the Canadians play the Russians at the Winter Olympics. Canucks beat the Ruskies by a score of 8 to 2. It was during the Cold War era, so there was polite applause when the Reds scored, but I couldn’t hear myself scream whenever the Leafs got one in the net. A wonderful experience for a teenager.
Later, after I moved to Phoenix, I always enjoyed the Roadrunners. Too bad they aren’t still around. Somehow, I’m sure they would be your favorites, for some reason. I like the ‘Yotes, but I haven’t gotten to see much of them the past few years.
My dad never took me to DU to see hockey, but my nephew is a grand Avalanche fan (in Denver). When the Roadrunners were here, Pamela used to go watch them play, but we, too, have only been to one Coyote game.
Speaking of the Roadrunners and the Russians, I took a girlfriend to a hockey game in Phoenix to see the Roadrunners play the Russian national team in what I think was the late 80’s or early 90’s.
I had been creating a computer program for a client locally who marketed fishing trips on the Kola Peninsula in Russia to rich people all over the globe. The program had to translate the Russian alphabet into English characters and back so the software could be used to plan and track the supplies needed and used at each of several camps in both languages. I had to learn the Russian alphabet in order to code the program properly.
At the hockey game there was a fellow in front of us wearing a baseball cap with Russian characters on it. I studied it for a couple of moments and then exclaimed, “Penguins! The Russian team are the Penguins!”
“How do you know that?” my girlfriend asked. “It says so on that guy’s cap.” I explained. “You can read Russian?!” she said, incredulously. “Yep. With a little effort,” I replied smugly. That really seemed to impress her, and I was even impressed with it myself. Unfortunately, that was a skill I never maintained.
WOW, Tyger, what a great story!! I had no idea you had seen the Roadrunners play hockey. They were what we would call “AAA” hockey and they were a lot of fun. It’s wonderful that you could remember this and tell me this tale. Thanks!! You made my day!