Hi again. Last
Sunday we went to see some Austrian ice hockey. As a Finn I’m a big ice hockey
fan and especially of my home town team Oulun Kärpät. I always enjoy going to
see games in different parts of the world to see what the hockey culture is
elsewhere. When I was in Nottingham few years ago, I went to see some British
ice hockey and it was blast even though the level of the game was not what it
is elsewhere. So on Sunday we went to a game with the Graz’s own team Graz
99ers playing against Red Bull Salzburg. The season is so far here in Austria
that its “playoffs” for what I can tell, or the top six teams from the season
play their own winners league and I think who gets most points is the seasons
champion.
Game was
good fun and I was super pumped because the Graz team played into the fact that
Arnold Schwarzenegger is from here. The team’s entrance music was the
Terminator theme and in all the player cards that they showed on the screen all
the players had their other eye made to look like a machine’s eye. I always
appreciate fun stuff like that. The team played also really well. Seeing that
Salzburg knocked out my home town team in the European hockey league in November,
so I knew there was quality on the enemy team, but the Graz team was a mystery
to me. Graz played the game really well and controlled the first period easily
but failed to score. In the second period they got the breakthrough and
hammered three goals in little time. In the last period Salzburg managed to
score once, but Graz went on to win the game 4-1. I attached a Youtube video of
the highlights. Don’t think you can see us in the video, but we were there.
Pity the video doesn’t have their introduction video and I didn’t manage to
find it online. Check the pics and see you next time.
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