Beantown Hockey

Yesterday I was off for Martin Luther King Day. Chris wanted to see a Boston Bruins hockey game for his annual day trip. We left about 10 am and stopped at the Natick rest area on the Mass turnpike for lunch. In Boston we parked under the Common and took the T from Park St. to the Boston Garden. We had to use a vending machine to convert our tokens, which had been saved from an earlier trip to Boston, to a magnetic card, like in NY. Luckily it didn’t make us late for the game. The game started at 1:00.

It was a good game that went into overtime because of a tied score and the score was still tied at 2-2 after the five minute overtime period, so there was a “shootout” where the teams take turns trying to score a goal with only two players on the ice- one from each team. The goalie from one team and an “attacker” from the other. The Bruins won 3-2, over the Buffalo Sabres

It was also the Bruins’ first win after three losses. It was a typical Boston sports crowd- really into it. It was a lot of fun- hockey is a really exciting game to watch, especially when you are close to the ice- we were only seven rows away.

Going back to the car we had to walk through the Common again and it was really pretty- a typical Boston scene with some fog around the tall buildings with their lights at dusk and people with umbrellas hurrying through the cold drizzle.

We stopped at the rest area for gas and the traffic was heavy. After a quick supper at BK we went to the bowling alley and bowled a couple games and got home around eight.