Thanks to our son Donald and the reduced price tickets we made it to the Senators, Islanders hockey game last night. The local Scout groups were given the opportunity to purchase discounted tickets, our $47.50 seat up in the 300 gods was only $35.00, a substantial saving. I am certainly glad that the tickets were at an approximate 30% saving because that is about the effort both teams seemed to be playing at. The Sens only seemed to be putting up a good effort in the last 2 minutes of the first and second period. Even after the Islanders scored their first goal the Sens only put on a good show for a couple of minutes. The most exciting and fast paced part of the game was in the last five minutes of the third period. Neither team seemed to have the usual high speed, hard hitting aspects of this game in mind when they stepped onto the ice last night. Last nights loss of 2 - 1 extends the Senators losing streak to six in a row. While the game may have been lacklustre it was good to be out with the whole family.
As most Canadians know today is Grey Cup day, the annual Canadian Football League playoff game between the winners of the East and West divisions. The venue changes from year to year and this year it is here in Ottawa and the teams are; the Toronto Argonauts vs the Calgary Stampeders. One game I more or less remember was in 1965 while I was stationed at NRS Frobisher Bay. Our All Ranks Mess was converted into a football field with yardage lines marked with tape more or less to scale. The East and West supporters where seated on each side of the field. While we listened to the game on CBC it was an actual rebroadcast of Radio Canada International on short wave one of members acted as the ball carrier and moved the ball up and down the field. I did have to look it up to see who was playing and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 22-16.
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