the view from the top...the very last row...

i went down to the acc tonight for leafs vs. sabres game with fayjan... what a waste of $50+! =P the leafs played absolutely horrible--just as bad as my floor hockey team!--as they lost 5-1. really, it was such a lemon that the crowd was pretty dead all night. the sabres actually played pretty good--a couple of nice goals on a 2-on-1 and a nifty breakaway. but then again, we pretty much handed it to them 'cause most of the goals came by the way of bad penalties & giveaways. the hilites of tonight's game were:

1. the intermission entertainment - after the 1st period, we watched some little kiddies play some hockey. some of them had some nice moves and scored some good goals. we probably could have used them! then after the 2nd, they had a version of roller derby with goalies. it was pretty funny watching them pummel each other around the ice.
2. the minor hockey kids in front of us - there was a team of kids a couple of rows down from us who tried to trash talk the sabres all night long. it was kinda funny 'cause they would boo them for pretty much anything. one of the parents must have been getting sick of it 'cause he asked them how come they didn't yell, "GO LEAFS GO!" but the kids just continues heckling them. =) but after a while they started getting a little annoying 'cause they wouldn't sit down. they were trying to get on t.v. with their sign / banner... and they eventually did!

anyway, as you can see there wasn't much to cheer for during the actual game. it was so hard / frustrating to watch that fayjan and i left with about 5 minutes left in the game. (i guess the honeymoon with brian leetch is already over.)

another thing about tonight... i really still can't believe i sat in the last row in the upper bowl and the tickets cost over $50. pretty ridiculous. i mean, the view is still pretty good and you can see all the players clearly. still, if you compare it to a raptors game, i can get a ticket for $13 and sit in the first couple rows of the upper bowl. that's one of the reasons why i actually follow the raptors more closely than the leafs this year. i've been able to check out about 10 games this year and it's cost less than $200. and with an nhl strike / lockout looming next year, i might eventually forget about the leafs. but i guess the leafs can do whatever they want 'cause they will always have die-hard fans who'll pay pretty much anything.

oh yeah, i finally found my security pass card on my lawn the other day. i lost it in january when i realized it came undone from my clip. i figured i must have lost it in the snow somehow when i was shoveling and i wouldn't find it until the snow melted. of course, i was proven right! =) anyway, i already replaced it, but maybe i'll keep it as a spare and see if it still works. haha.