On March 19 (long before we went to see the
Reading Phillies play), Billie took me to a Reading Royals hockey game for my birthday. This post also marks the end of our current backlog, which means that we can start posting about more recent events (until, of course, we get behind again!).
The Reading Royals logo - they have been playing in Reading for 10 years.
Billie always makes fun of how low hockey scores typically are. She picked the right night to go to a game!
The game had a lot of penalties that led to a lot of goals. At one point, things got pretty heated between the teams, with players and coaches yelling at each other and at the officials. A player for the visiting team nearly got into a fight with one of the referees. That player and another were ejected over the course of the game.
Between periods, they let a ton of kids out onto the ice. With that many players, scoring a goal would be nearly impossible. The fact that some of the kids could barely skate didn't help much, either.
The team's mascot, Slapshot, also made an appearance between periods, when he drove out onto the ice in this little truck before throwing t-shirts to people (sadly, not us).
The final score was 9-2. We had a good time despite Billie's claimed dislike of hockey, though I'm not sure how a 1-0 game would have gone over.
The Reading Royals logo - they have been playing in Reading for 10 years.
Billie always makes fun of how low hockey scores typically are. She picked the right night to go to a game!
The game had a lot of penalties that led to a lot of goals. At one point, things got pretty heated between the teams, with players and coaches yelling at each other and at the officials. A player for the visiting team nearly got into a fight with one of the referees. That player and another were ejected over the course of the game.
Between periods, they let a ton of kids out onto the ice. With that many players, scoring a goal would be nearly impossible. The fact that some of the kids could barely skate didn't help much, either.
The team's mascot, Slapshot, also made an appearance between periods, when he drove out onto the ice in this little truck before throwing t-shirts to people (sadly, not us).
The final score was 9-2. We had a good time despite Billie's claimed dislike of hockey, though I'm not sure how a 1-0 game would have gone over.
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