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Wednesday, February 2, 1994
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Hockey Night in Carolina? Please! Wit
Hockey Night in Canada? Yes! The Mon- being
treal Canadians and the Toronto Maple night
Leafs and the Saturday nights of my youth it's in
spent in front of the television. After all, with a
it had been two weeks since I had arrived the dri
from Toronto for grad school, and I lotte t(
missed the pickup hockey games; the Checki
thud of an errant slapshot striking the from tl
boards; and the postgame retirement to ton Be
a local bar for heated debates on who's We
the best fighter in the NHL or who should in a re
be named MVP of the league. na anc
I Of course, all of the talk being a vicar- sion ol
ious exercise for those who fell far short lotte f
of their boyhood dreams of Stanley Cup this n
glory. Even though we are in our 20s, my cheere
friends Gareth and Frank and I can still tened
ponder over a beer the "what ifs," like They ji
Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams." eree n
By their early 20s, most Canadians have calls,
dropped their hopes of making it to the The
big leagues. For the persistent few, there's seen a
the spot farther down the professional gone a
ladder: the East Coast Hockey League, forth a
where Canadians, Americans, Russians can inc
and Europeans all converge to give it one trippec
last chance at the professional level. It's Alth<
like minor league baseball, but the scars ods, tf
are more numerous courtesy of the pucks, sportir
sticks and opponents' fists. time ti<
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see the first-year
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soon arrived and found our seats a terrible plac
mote corner of Independence Are- problem is tl
1 settled in for the Carolinian ver- ' far too shallo1
: hockey night in Canada. The Char- the field of vi;
ans have the reauisite enerev for behind him I
ew sport and applauded and dium, which
:d when one of the Checkers flat- ing affording
an opponent against the boards. action. The st
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separation anxiety from not having dence Arena
game in far too long was quickly At S3.25 a c:
s we watched the puck fly back and asleep and w
nd bodies flail, proving that man dome, which i
leed fly, at least for seconds, if he's expensive and
i while skating at high speeds. world. I hop<
Dugh tedious for the first two peri- expansion g
le game reached great heights of points if they'i
tg excitement by going into over- chise.
id at 4-4. Five minutes of overtime Charlestc
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the game was finally hockey in this sta
decided by a penalty Stingrays have a
shootout, which, ing out most of
although it doesn t exist seat arena jt can
in the NHL, is great fun ^
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id was declared the winner. are d"ve"V
ely, Independence Arena is un re c 0 ars
e to watch hockey. The chief 'arK' unt0'd r
lat the angle of the seats is 's above Canad:
tv; if only one fan stands ud, f?r on'y a $7 inv
sion is blocked for everyone mix of bodychecl
t's nothing like Chicago Sta- ries of controllec
has frighteningly steep seat- Coke and Pizza
everyone a great view of the Cy Kerrigans and
adium is pleasandy intimate, few more value
ty that about the loudest to see peop|e 0
hockey. dressed like gladi
complaint about Indepen- , .
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is the absurd price of beer. .
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in, I thought I had fallen K
aken up in Toronto's Sky- heing whose jol
undoubtedly serves the most hodv. 1 hat s hoc!
I tasteless suds in the known sport to play, w;
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meals, but when I pay
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