Our First NHL Game

So being in Pittsburgh for the weekend we wanted to do something fun out side of the ice skating competition. We figured out that there was both a Pirates and a Penguins game on Saturday night. Well, with Isaac getting into hockey that was a obvious choice. Trouble was the Penguins are so generous that they gave all 18,000 seats to the local kids hockey clubs for free. No tickets were sold. So.... We check the ticket exchanges, nope, none. We checked eBay, found only one pair. We checked CraigsList, found several folks trying to sell pairs of free tickets for $50 to $100 each, but couldn't find 4. We decided to try to get scalped onsite and drove down to the Consol Center telling the kids the whole way, "There is no grantee that we will get it, we will be luck if we can find some tickets." Amy did laps around the building for 20 minutes looking for anyone selling. None. We were about to give up when she texted me, "Yes". We found her talking to a group guys near one of then entrances. She only had $120 cash, but I didn't want to volunteer more to the guys. Turns out... he gave us 4 tickets for free. He was one of the coaches from the Wheeling, WV program and had handed out 180 tickets. Score for us. And, they were great seats, about 13 to 14 rows off the glass near the goal where the Pens shot twice. How lucky are we...!!!!???

Amy had the camera and took some sweet shots. This one has the Penguins star Sidney Crosby (#87) and the Blue Jackets star Rick Nash (#61). Good picture babe.
There's Isaac and I enjoying the game...Lexy had a bunch of fun, she is showing off her freebie towel that we all got. Her's went into her Zuca so she can use it to wipe off her skates.

Penguins won 3-1, great for the home team. Isaac is definitely and Penguins fan now and his favorite player is Kris Letang (#58) who spent 15:00 minutes in the penalty box for fighting.