Hockey Town USA

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What I find most appealing is that hard work and heart can turn a game on a dime. There are these momentum shifts. That is missing from most professional sports, unless its a big playoff game. You'll get big innings in baseball. Get a bit in basketball, but sometimes it feels like the whole game is rolling along until that last clock minute that gets stretched into ten.
Emotion is such a part of hockey.- that is always apparent at college games. Emotion plus the amazing physical feat of it, the grinding 80 game schedule, the skating,speed, checking, the patience and smarts required.

The rules are fairly straight forward (think soccer) but when there is a call that I'm not clear on, I have a friendly Canadian sidekick to fill me in. Its best to see a game live, then you'll get hooked - its impossible to see everything on tv. My favorite vantage is high up on one of the ends, then you can really see the plays develop as they come down the ice. Down on the glass its cool to see the size and speed, but I like to see the whole ice and the plays. The worst part of hockey are the "fans" that come seemingly just to be loud and obnoxious, waiting to see a fight. (and miss the actual game)

Have you seen a game at the new UND arena? I admit Dean Blais is kinda freaky scary to me. Its always a big game here when the Sioux play the Gophers. Tix are scarce.