Hockey In West Virginia

The kids and I went to a hockey game the other night. It was the "Backyard Brawl on Ice", West Virginia University vs. Pittsburgh. The game was at our little ice arena here is South Charleston, and it sold out 2 weeks before the game. The place was packed 45 min before game time. Lots of blue and gold.

Lexy made herself a little sign to show her support of the home team.

Most of these die hard, true and blue, bleed WVU colors, folks had no idea that they had a hockey team. It is a club team, just like we are used to in Utah. We sure miss going to the Utah State vs. byu games. Or any of them for that case.

Here is a shot of the home team warming up.Great Story:

We sat next to Bo and Amber, I work with Bo. They are big WVU fans but haven't been into hockey a lot. Amber was trying to figure out how they started the game, she didn't know what to call it. So, she says, "When is Puck Off...??" Hahaha... That became the theme for the night. She has good reasoning, "Well, in football it is kick off, in basketball it is tip off, so I figured in hockey it must be puck off." They are fun.

In the end the Mountaineers won 2-0 with both goals coming in the second period. It was a hard hitting, fast game. I was trying to figure out why they seemed faster, and it dawned on me, byu plays on Olympic size ice and this is a smaller NHL size rink. The WVU goalie had a great game too, like 34 saves.

It was a ton of fun. We hope that they come back soon.