Somebody asked me a few weeks ago if Donald followed rugby league or aussie rules football. Donald use to play but doesn't follow them now, not much time in the day or night to watch the games. However while Donald works he listens to podcasts of the NHL Ice Hockey. Last week he had the opportunity to go and watch some hockey games in Newcastle. It was the Ice Hockey Australia World Championships for Division II group B. Not that this means anything to me other than Canada & the USA weren't playing, they're kind of in a higher division. He saw Iceland vs Spain and Australia vs New Zealand. Donald was so excited and thrilled to actually see a game. It's the Canadian blood in him.
Australia vs New Zealand before the game, NZ doing the Haka.
Anyway so Donald stayed for the two games last Thursday and when the boys came home from school and asked where Donald was they were a tad jealous. So Saturday afternoon after soccer had finished Donald took Sam & Ethan up to Newcastle to watch China verse New Zealand. They were very excited.
This is New Zealand doing the Haka again before their game with China.
5 comments:
wow.... doing the Haka on skates must be a bit of a challenge!
The boys look a little shivery - was it cold there?
I thought the same thing as Mari - cool to go and see.
We have a minor league team in SLC that Kev would love to go and see sometimes. It is a fun sport full of hits and smashes and a little blood on the ice. Glad Donald got to go get a taste - and a little chill as well (love the picture of the boys all bundled up!)
awesome!
i bet the boys loved that!
Stacy - actually ice hockey should not be about hits and smashes and blood on the ice. I think NHL has ruined the game and made it look like free wrestling on skates more than ice hockey. We used to have pretty good fight-clean games in Finland but unfortunately the bad NHL habits seem to get stuck on the boys, so I'm pretty much done watching the sport.
But I too would like to see Haka on skates!
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