I got to go see my first NHL game from the posh bitHeads box seats! It was superstar treatment all night – full service and fully catered. I even got the first-class parking directly outside the Scotiabank Place doors (next to the player’s family parking). Unfortunately the food and parking was about the only thing going last night – the Sens fell flat and continued their impossibly awful losing streak, despite shouting my instructions from the stands. (Why won’t they shoot when I yell?) The Rangers wiped us out 2 – 0.

It was weird seeing an NHL game for the first time so soon after watching the World Cup games – the younger kids definitely had more fire in their bellies and zeal for the game. The NHL guys are really technically competent, but they just don’t seem to have as much at stake – the effort level was really low all night, except for a bit in the second period where they were really picking up steam after a penalty call.

I got a good laugh before the game – I’m a big fan of Daniel Alfredsson and don’t fault him for accepting a probably really handsome sum of money for doing a Nike commercial, but what the Sparq guys got him to say is so pretentious it’s hilarious. I think I’m going to use “My better is better than your better.” at work on Monday.