The Spendthrift and the Miser: Ice hockey

Sunday, 2 March 2008

Ice hockey

As we were leaving the chalet on our night off last Monday one of the guests asked us if we were going to the ice hockey down at the sports centre – and so instead of $$, that became the tip from that guest! We headed down and got our 9 euro tickets (which came with a 30 euro voucher for dinner at the restaurant at the casino – score!) for the ‘friendly’ between Megève and Mt Blanc. It was a pretty low key and small crowd (only half the bleachers were open) so it took us until the end of the first third to realise that we were sitting with the Mt Blanc supporters instead of the Megève supporters!

In the beginning we weren’t sure what the deal was with the two teams (as in, were they normally playing at the same competition level etc) because Mt Blanc seemed to be a) younger and b) better than Megève. The first third score was pretty pitiful too, with Megève trailing by a couple of points. I (Amelia) decided that more support was in order so got myself an ‘Allez Megève’ (Go Megève) scarf and we also got some crazy cheap (and terrible) drinks at the bar. Here's a video of some of the action (we're is in the green/blue strip scoring the goal and Mt Blanc is in the blue).

The second third was much more like it – Megève scored a couple of goals (see the video below) and things were looking up for the home team. However, it was really the final third when things got interesting. As any sane person knows, even though it might have been a friendly, what everyone was out for was a fight, and they didn’t disappoint!

Number 86 (one of our favourites, he’d already been sin-binned a couple of times already) (Adrian = whatever! He spent more time in the sin bin than on the field!) was in the thick of it, as was the other favourite, Number 5 (see below ladies…). No idea who came out victor, but some good punches were thrown by both sides, it was a game of two halves, and ice hockey was the winner on the day.