The Hockey Magic Continues for Grandinite

I recently wrote a blog entry about how a chance encounter in the hockey stick aisle at Canadian Tire re-sparked the hockey neurons in my psyche.

Well, it gets better . . . the very next day, I won front row, centre ice tickets for an Edmonton Oilers game, to watch them play the Minnesota Wild. This is what it looks like to sit at the red line, right behind the timekeeper’s box.

What intrigued me the most was that little black lamp. There is a guy who sits in the penalty box, listening to a headset. At certain points in the game, he switches on the light and starts a stopwatch, probably to signal a commercial break.

I’ll never look at hockey the same way again.