Hockey Game

On Thursday night we went to the Predators game against the Phoenix Coyotes.  I got tickets on Stubhub for $14 each ($66.50 after all the fees).  The seats weren't too bad - 3rd level, 8th row in the corner.  We try to take the kids to one game a season but you really never know their interest level at this age still so we don't like to spend too much.

Both boys were crazy before the game.  They were so excited.  When we were out to dinner a few weeks ago, Rylan went nuts about a hockey game being on one of the TVs at the restaurant.  But before the game, the one thing he seemed to be most excited about was getting popcorn like we got at the practice we went to awhile back (though he never asked for it once we were at the game).  Carter was most excited about the mascot head that the players skate out of before the start of the game (he remembered that from last year).

The view really wasn't too bad.  The box Brian's office has is better though :)  We never saw anyone in it all night - Brian should have requested the tickets!  They don't have a good system of distributing the tickets (nothing is posted anywhere about availability and you just have to ask) and so you never know when to try to get them.

Carter doing his "fang fingers" during a power play :)

The boys did great!  Our ONLY complaint was that they both wanted to sit in our laps rather than their own seats for most of the game.  Otherwise, they behaved great and paid a lot of attention to the game.  All the snacks I brought along helped, of course.  The game started at 7 pm (only an hour before the boys are usually in bed).  Carter did fine but Rylan fell asleep in my arms during the second intermission.  We ended up staying for the entire game though.  The score was 0-0 going into the third period but the Predators scored 3 goals in the last 20 minutes to win 3-0.   The walk back to the Pinnacle parking garage wasn't too bad (downhill, thank goodness!) and somehow we escaped without paying the $20 for parking - score!