My First Ever Hockey Game!

Last Friday, I officially became a Canadian; at least that's what it felt like! In all my 22 years of life, I have never been to any kind of hockey game. Somehow, I got my hands on some tickets to the hockey game in Toronto and I had one very excited hubby! Now I had been sick the whole week and I felt like I was one step away from passing out, but this was my first hockey game EVER so I sucked it up and prepared for the night. Since we had 4 tickets, Ian picked one person to bring and I picked someone (which was a lot harder than expected because of the extreme short notice).  We sent our friends this picture to bribe them and included in the text that they were FREE:

Here's the deal: I thought these seats were going to be good but then Googled them. Absolutely no amount of sickness was going to keep me from this game because we were seventh row from the net!

That morning, Ian was showing how excited he was by wearing his jersey to work:

I was ready early for the game in my Team Canada jersey because I don't have a Leaf's jersey. Now here's the deal: I didn't know what the other team's jersey's looked like but I will most definitely be looking into that next time because my Canada jersey looked like the other team's jersey and hockey fans are HARDCORE!

 Dolly thought she was coming with us to the game:

So we meet up with our group and look for our gate to get to our seats and after lining up in the regular Gate 2, the dude tells us we are in the platinum section and don't need to line up. That's when I freaked a tiny bit from excitement! Jonny and I were super excited:

I have to say, the entrance to the arena to get to our seats was definitely overwhelming but the look on the faces of the three grown men I was with was SSSOOO funny that I really wish I had filmed it (picture three giant grown men with their mouths and eyes wide open and I may have seen some tears... just sayin')
Another thing I learned was that even though our tickets said row 7, the rows don't start until row 5 so we were really sitting in row 3.  

We were lucky to be at a Hall of Fame game and they had a whole ceremony before the game started:

This an UN-ZOOMED picture of how close we were:

Everyone was rushing to take a picture with this Hall of Famer but I had NO idea who this was until someone told me later on Facebook (he's Borias Salming):

 This was the first of not many fights that happened RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!!!!!!!

We had a blast at the game that went into overtime and shootouts (WE WON!) and the night ended with me completely loosing my voice from screaming at the game. This was definitely up there with the best of my surprises for Ian and I have no idea how to top this one...