Hockey Night - Canadiens 2 - Penguins 5

While not technically Canada's national sport (LaCrosse is!), Hockey seems to run in everyones blood here and are passionate about their teams. The season is about to start so there are quite a few preseason games and I manage to snag a ticket to watch 'The Habs' (Montreal Canadiens) play the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Bell Centre which is 5 minutes walk from where I am staying! The Canadiens are the most succesful franchise in North American sports and Le Ville certainy is Hockey. The match starts badly for the Habs as there Netminder has a shocker and concedes 2 sloppy goals in the first couple of minutes. There features some sloppy play from both teams as some of the more young players are getting there chance to show what they can do before the real season starts. Penguins go 3-1 up and as we enter the 3rd Period it looks bleak as the Habs are a man down due to a Penalty. A rare occurrence happens then - the Habs score a shorthanded goal to make it 3-2 and the place is rocking - such an amazing atmosphere and it gets better when a Penguins penalty means that Montreal have 2 minutes with a man extra to try and tie the score at 3. Well it didn't happen and just as the Penguins got their man back they scored on the break and after that the game fizzled out with another goal by Pittsburgh. Anyway it was a lot of fun and Hockey is a cool game to go and watch, there was even some sweet fighting as well.

Pictures (Left) - Teams warm up before the game, (Right) - Face Off, (Bottom) - The refs jump on a coupld of fighting players trying to break things up.