Above and to the left is a shot of the architecture of the Scope Arena. Nice for a small city like Norfolk. I wanted to get some more pictures of the building and surrounding views but it was freezing and I just wanted to get inside.
An interior shot of the arena complete with score board and banners. To the right is the opening faceoff. From the beginning the Norfolk Admirals seemed to have faster skill players then the Devils.
I thought this was funny, the faceoff to the left had to be done three times because the ref kept getting hit in the face with the hockey stick of the guy in white. Finally the ref dropped the puck when the guy in white wasn't ready, so he did not get hit in the face. On the right is the beginning of the fighting. The Devils started instigating fights when they were down by 2 in the second period. They couldn't keep up with the Admirals, so they just started fights whenever they could.
And with the fights come the ejections. On the left an Admiral is being escorted off the rink and on the right a Devil. The Admiral was the first to go and he stood on the other side of the glass for 5 minutes trying to wait for the Devil to get escorted off. No fight outside the rink though, that would of been sweet.
The final score was 3-0 in a well played, well fought game. And deserving of the curtain call was the goalie. He only had half the number of shots to block then his counterpart, but he still played a shutout.
I hope everyone is enjoying themselves, don't forget to watch team USA vs. Canada in Mens Hockey this Sunday for the Gold Medal.
Peace Out,
Steve
that is awesome-o Stebe!! i am so glad that you are getting out there and doing fun stuff. sometimes it is difficult to find motivation, esspecially the cold!! talk about cold, we left high 70's for teen temperatures in chicago:( it was horrible!, Shyam's cold got worse and he was down for a couple days but then back to his helpful self. we did all that we could to help my mom and she was very, very grateful! We helped with all the preparations for the luncheon afterwards. My mom wanted it at her house where gpa had been living and she wanted in served on china not paper plates, there was lotsa prep work to say the least it felt like xmas:) we were able to hang with family (my dads side) a few nights and lived it up:) i will post a blog soon and wanted to say that i was gonna look into flights for the 3rd week of June..too late? the second weekend is fathers day and the first weekend i have to work:(..we will see:) take care, a
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more, the best thing for me to do is to go out and kinda explore the area. People at my work are nice, but they gave me alot of shit for going to the aquarium, but when they saw the pictures they were all into it. Same thing with the hockey, multiple people said the Norfolk Admirals sucked, but when I told them about the game they would say they always wanted to go. I now have a couple of days off and I am trying to plan a fun two day trip. I will keep ya posted.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine how grateful your family must be that you and Shyam are up there helping. And if they don't express it now, they will later when things settle down. Hang in there, you will be in the 70 degrees again soon.
3rd week of June? What is that, the 13th to the 19th? Let me know what specific dates and I will get a flight the same week. I'm not going all the way out to Portland and missing my friends by a week or two.
Drink and be merry,
steve