European Trophy Game

First of all i want to say that i am safely home now and about to begin catching up on my blog . The day i am going to talk about right now was actually 1 week ago . As some of you know things got a bit crazy at the end of this trip ... i will write all about it over the next few days .

At this point of the trip i was still in Aalen , Germany waking up late after a night of drinking at the Irish Pub and i was at Rainer's place . Today we are going to watch a European Trophy http://www.europeantrophy.com/stats2012.php match between Adler Mannheim v. EV Zug . There will be a handful of NHL stars playing but the big draw is Henrik Zetterberg who is playing for Zug :)

We are picking up my good old buddy Nate Underwood to come watch the game with us , he is in Stuttgart which is a bit out of the way but Rainer knows we are good friends and he wanted to offer so i see him . We are late as usual , when with Rainer you have to tell him earlier times so we don't show up late ! I met Nate back in 2007 in Singapore at the same tournament i met Rainer ( they were on the same team travelling together ) . It was great seeing Nate again , last time i saw him was at a Bayern Munich Champions League game vs. AS Roma in 2010  .... hope to see you sooner then later Nate !

The game was not sold out , we showed up about 3 minutes late . It was my first time at a European Trophy game so i was excited about that but even better was watching Zetterberg not even trying and just doing what he wanted out there . There were a bunch of other players like Seidenberg,Goc,Holden,Wozniewski , the game itself was entertaining enough and we were lucky to see the home team win . The arena there is pretty cool but the black protective mesh was hard to see through and was quite annoying to say the least . As usual the fans were ridiculous and the more i go to sporting events in Europe the more i think we should take a lesson in how to be fans .... we need home and away sections with organized chants and singing , i hope some day fans here can get together to start doing this !

After the game we wandered around a bit but really had to get back quickly as Nate had to work early and we had to get some rest in as we were going to practise with the Memmingen Indians the next day , i wanted to have a good relaxing day with some good meals to help give me a chance at surviving their practise . So on this night at the Adler Mannheim game i only had 1 beer :) or that is the story that i am sticking with ??? your choice , you decide ! what do you think i did ?