Interesting Hockey Weekend
If anyone has gotten a chance to talk to me for a bit, you may have realized I am a big hockey fan. I follow the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL, but locally here in southeastern Virginia I have been a season ticket holder for a few years now to the Norfolk Admirals. They are the minor league affiliate of the Tampa Bay Lightning currently.
This past weekend we had two games against the Worcester Sharks, friday the 15th and saturday the 16th. This is not a team we play that often so what happened during the game friday night was very unexpected.
The Admirals were beating up the Sharks pretty good through two periods. Enough that I guess the visiting team decided if they couldn't beat us, they were going to beat us up. So, as soon as the puck dropped at the start of the 3rd period, this happened:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tih8DsGrgUQ
When all was said and done, 5 players had been thrown out. A minute later another set of fights broke out and another 3 players were thrown out. The rest of the game wasn't exactly clean, but there were no more fights.
That is until saturday night's game. Here are a few highlights:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wlDjXYICw3k
Quite a bizarre weekend. And even though many of the rednecks down here in southeastern Virginia said the game was pretty boring until the fights broke out, I certainly would not agree. A fight here or there in a hockey game is to be expected. You protect your skill players, you have a big guy you basically point in the other teams direction and tell him to SMASH if things get out of hand.
The crap that happened this past weekend was not hockey. It was interesting to see once, but I hope I dont see it again.
And I guess it wouldnt be fair unless I ended this blog with a cheesecake jersey picture for the ladies. 
