The Holtonian

Gotta Love Thrashers Hockey

So I wanted to do something special for the wife before holidays, I wanted to take her on a nice fun and romantic date. Hadn't had one in a while and with baby number 2 just a few months away we want to live it up while we can before going out becomes more than just dropping one kid off at a friends house.

So I planned a romantic night at Sotto Sotto an italian place I've had some friends rave about. And then do some fun, with a trip to the Thrashers game.

I pretty much only like hockey and baseball as sports I follow, (I like football but don't have a horse in the game) and since Janelle hate's baseball I thought I should take her to see what professional hockey is all about.

So a great date right? Something for everyone? Well problem is work has been crazy busy and I just couldn't get away so we had to forgo Soto and go strait to the game. So that sort of stunk and made the whole date more about what I wanted to do... but I promised janelle a date after christmas.

I picked the game tuesday night because they were playing the Lightning, a team they could easily beat. They had the Senators lined up for thursday, which was two for one night (Two tickets were 15 bucks), but after they got shalacked by them on Saturday I went for the two tickets for 20 bucks on tuesday.

The game was great they were up 3 to nothing in the first period, and ended up winning 6 to 2. Kovalchuk had an amazing steal in the neutral zone that led to a subsequent breakaway and a subsequent goal. Kovalchuk is so amazing to watch the guy has some serious talent. So to top off all that in the last minute the gloves game off and we had a good old fasion fight.

So as far as dates go, not so great, but man as far as hockey games go picked a great one.

Though its ironic becasue they ended up beating the Senators tonight, which i think was a huge game for their confidence taking down the best team in hockey. Specially for such a young team.

It really is exciting to watch Atlanta, they're so young and got some real good talent. Wadell (GM/Coach) is doing a decent job of just letting htem play and putting the right guys on the right lines however I seriously doubt he can keep up the GM/Coach thing forever. They tried going the old school coach route, the ballbuster if you will in Bob Hartley, and that did not work with this young hot shot team. So they'll need to find a guy who I think gel with the players, be that motivator/discipliner but not in a domineering anti fun way like hartley was. It still pains me that they traded Heatley away but they sort of had to.

The fans too are great, there aren't many, but man they are probably the passionate fans in Atlanta. I say that comparing them to the Braves, Falcons, and Hawks fans. Braves fans are apathetic for the most part, Falcons fans are pretty passionate and loyal despite all the crap they've gone through, and hawks fans are pretty much non-existent. Seriously I have not found one person in this city who goes to their games. A lot of our neighbors and some of my co-workers have season tickets to the trashers, but no one has season tickets or even goes to hawks games. We'll see, maybe if they win or something. They're actually over 500, and I may go to a game some day.

OK now i'm just rambling...

Posted by holtonian at December 21, 2007 12:39 AM