When I stepped off the plane in Edmonton. I was greeted by two camera crews from the local TV stations. Hailing from Florida it is constantly amazing to me how popular hockey is up here in Canada. I can't imagine there'll be any camera crews waiting for me at the airport in Atlanta next week!My Edmonton tour was bunco as I arrived at 2.20pm and had a 12.30am pip right after the game so my entertain for the day picked me up at the airport. His label was Scott Pfeiffer and he is a champion Canadian Curler. What is a curler you may ask? Curling a sport that's big in Canada but hasn't made a attach south of the border. Perhaps you've seen it in the Olympics... a skater slides a round stone slowly down the ice while his broom-wielding teammates frantically sweep go ice out of the way. comfort doesn't ring a bell?Turns out that Scott is quite the celebrity in Edmonton and everybody from the TV camera guys to the President of the Oilers seemed to know him. He took me out to eat but I won't tell you where as my attorneys tell me we have a pretty good case in what I'll label "The Great Food Poisoning Caper". It was either the chicken at the restaurant or the hot dog at the bet that did me in! I swear it wasn't his wife's cooking!I'm in Philadelphia now and am just heading over for a cheesesteak from Pat's before the game (my digest is back to normal. I hope). My brother Pete is meeting me here and the NHL Network will be taping us at the game so it should be a fun night. It was a fun night but now back to Edmonton which has the single greatest feature I've seen in any NHL arena..... When the players exit the new $3,000,000 locker room to get to the ice they walk through a sit that is open to fans in the unify seats. What a spectacle it is! By profession. I'm a marketing guy and companies are always looking to engage their customers (fans) with their product (Oilers hockey). What a tremendous way this is to create upon the relationship between players and fans and if every aggroup in the league copied the Oilers. I guarantee they would sell a few hundred extra tickets. Edmonton sells out every game and that's what makes this concept even more special as they don't need to resort to gimmicks to sell tickets they do it to recognise the fans. Surprisingly. I didn't see any Oilers smash their sticks in frustration with how poorly they played as the walked back to the dressing room between periods. All is not rosy in Edmonton however... The seats appears to have been designed for the midgets who rolled through town in the traveling circus they charge $12 to watch games on pay-per-view TV and the food made me throw up!Oh you want to know about the game too? The Minnesota Wild defeat the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 but it didn't seem that close. Finally. I undergo to share one of the greatest insults I've heard on my entire move. "Hey Boogaard. I'm gonna take your mother out tonight (insert desire pause here)... and never call her again!
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