Hockey Night in Bern

The Rangers on TV in France???Incroyable!!!

Hockey night in Bern = Hockey night in France!!!

We were treated to a little NHL exhibition action on TV when we arrived home this evening from practice as the New York Rangers were playing in the Victoria Cup final against Metallurg (from the KHL in Russia).

Tommi, Andronik, Anne-Julie, Mindy, and I crowded into the living room to watch real live hockey on TV (Tommi and I decided that Mika and Annika are not true hockey fans because they went to bed). It was looking a little doubtful that New York would have any success as they were down 3-0 in the middle of the second period. So we cheered a little louder in our flat here in Paris and I know the boys from NY heard us as they seemed to rally and then scored.

The Rangers made it 3-2 early in the third and then had a 5-on-3 advantage with about 10 minutes to go in the game. Mindy and I got really excited at this point as the Rangers called a timeout and we saw our family friend, Perry Pearn, explaining what he wanted from the power-play unit. Thirty seconds later, the puck is in the back of the net and the game was tied.

Mindy was really hoping that the game would go into overtime and eventually a shootout, however Ryan Callahan had other plans as he stole a puck with only 30 seconds left to play in the game and walked in all alone on a breakaway before depositing the puck neatly into the back of the goal. Final score, Rangers 4, Metallurg 3.

It should be noted that Tommi and I were having a little bit of fun with our russian coach, Dmitri, at practice tonight as we were predicting who would win. He was sure that Metallurg would win and threatened to skate Tommi and I extra for cheering for New York. We had a good laugh by responding that we expected practice to finish on time tonight so we could get home to watch the game.

Anyway it was a nice little treat to watch some hockey on TV. Bye for now!

Chips, pop, and everyone glued to the TV.