WCHA Hockey Weekend

James, Pete, Kris and I got back yesterday from our guys WCHA Hockey Weekend. This was our 5th year and this year we kept it close to home driving up to St Cloud to see the Huskies play Mankato. Just to review past arenas we have gone to: Duluth, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Michigan Tech. Beer and Hockey, how can you go wrong? Our seats for the game were right behind the Huskies bench. It was a cool experience to be right behind the bench and feel the intensity of the game. Only down fall was watching the game on the far side of the rink and looking through 3 panes of glass once the puck was down on our side of the rink. I thought the National Hockey Center was pretty nice, nothing fancy but it got the job done. I don’t think anything will top Ralph Engelstad Arena in North Dakota. The game was riddled with fights! I think Mankato was getting extremely frustrate towards the end of the game being down 5 to 2. With about 5 minutes left we started to hear the student section yell out “FREE WINGS! FREE WINGS!” We then found out if the Huskies score 6 goals everyone in the arena gets 6 free wings from Buffalo Wild Wings. With about 58 seconds left the Huskies scored their 6th goal! On our way home we stopped at BW3’s and had our free wings. I'll post up some pics once I get them from James. Next year we go to Colorado in Pete's GMC Safari.

-MikeyB