Everyone has a beer and is ready to watch the game.Everyone has heard of TGI Fridays, but what about TGC Saturdays? Canadians really don't comprehend how truly lucky we are to live in such a great country, especially those of us who live in both the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones. Between the NHL on TSN, Edmonton Oilers Hockey on Sportsnet West, Hockey Night in Canada, and the occasional NHL on Versus, we are never short having a game to watch. If you can catch a double-header, you can even watch hockey from the time you get home to when you go to bed.
In France, watching an NHL game is a little more complicated. First of all, we have to deal with the time zone issue as the Paris is six hours ahead of Toronto. So an "early" 7:00 pm start time is 1:00 am in Paris. Second, hockey is a little bit of niche sport in France as football rules the sports pages (and I'm not talking about the NFL here). So if we want to watch a hockey game you have to stay up until the middle of the night and watch via an internet feed, which can make it hard to gather the group to cheer on Montreal Canadians on a Saturday night. Unless you go for a TGC Saturday!!!
The Great Canadian bar on a Saturday night is the one spot in Paris where you are guaranteed to find a hockey game on the big screen and has become a favorite with the Asnieres Hockey Club after a big Saturday night win. This past weekend, as noted in my post yesterday, we won a huge game in convincing fashion, and so the boys and their ladies decided it was time to watch another hockey game.
We headed to Place St.Michel, where the TGC is located, and took over the biggest table in the bar. The boys headed outside to sit on the patio, while the girls stayed inside to chat until the game started. At 1:00 am, we all congregated back in front of the big screen (HD TV no less) and cheered for the Montreal Canadians against the Ottawa Senators. My grand-father, Ferbie St.Cyr, would have been proud.
After a couple of beers, two periods of hockey, a Montreal lead, and lots of laughs and fun, we all headed home as the effects of the playing the game earlier started to catch up with us. As per usual, I was asleep when the game ended.
Mindy was thrilled to be able to watch TWO hockey games in one evening!
Anne-Julie, Ludevine, & Mindy eventually did what girls do while watching a hockey game; they ignore their surroundings and chat.
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Brings back some great memories when I watched dad play with the Bears. A famous line was "Did you see this play?" and the girls usual response was "of course I did" then wink, wink and smile as we chatted throughout the game but sure cheered when the "good" guys scored and won.
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