Brawl on the ICE!

So Makayla and I have discovered how much fun watching hockey can be! Last week we went to the Yale vs. Princeton game with our friends Matt, Nicole and Chloe. We had a blast and Yale ended up winning! We had a blast. It was fun watching Chloe having a good time. The great part was that we sat on the front row on the level of the ice just behind the goal! We had a good time banging on the glass and watching the players get checked into the wall right in front of us.

When we couldn't get into the sold out Yale vs. Harvard game last night, we walked down to the rink tonight to watch the Yale vs. Dartmouth game. Boy o' boy was it a thriller! We even sat in the same place! Yale was down 0-1 at the end of the first period. Then they scored two goals in the second and held off Dartmouth until the last 30 seconds of the third period. Dartmouth had been pretty feisty all night but Yale wouldn't take any of it. With 3o seconds left Dartmouth pulled their goalie so they could have 6 offensive players to try to tie it up. But in a frenzy, a Yale player broke free on the open net of Dartmouth and scored making it 3-1 with about 24 seconds left, then the ice went NUTS! Their were helmets, gloves, sticks and referees flying everywhere! One Dartmouth player got ejected then, then after the game at the "good game" line-up, a few more punches were thrown and another Dartmouth player got escorted from the ice by the refs! It was a great game and it happened all within feet of us, but luckily behind a wall and some thick glass. (Which almost fell over after the final goal because of all the excited fans banging on the glass!) Anyway, we had a great day! We love living so close to so many things. We just walked down the road to the game!