We were at the Tesla Arena, which is Sparta's arena. I was originally rooting for Slavia, but they wound up getting crushed and I really wanted to cheer.
It was a great game to root for Sparta- they won 4-1. Poor Slavia goalie.
It turns out that "Ice Sluts" are an international phenomenon!
Henrik would have spit on them.
The advertisements are rather unfortunately placed.
"One city = One club"
Ouch, for Slavia.
Budvar!
Happy Goalie! Happy Goalie should be happy, he won the game.
So this guy named Vyborne scored two goals, which started the crowd chanting "VY-BOR-NE", which was awesome, because it means GOOD.
There were back and forth chants in the crowd, where one side would yell SPARTA! and the other would respond PRAHA! (HC Sparta Praha is the full name of the team) There was also a clapping cheer that ended in SPAR-TA! which kept making me want to yell POTVIN SUCKS!
There were definitely some penalties called- I believe there was a hooking call at one point, and a fight was definitely called. It was awesome. The first time a fight broke out my row was told to sit down, but then a full fight started and we were allowed to stand.
Punching!
More punching!
There were no fight straps on the jerseys- one person's jersey was completely off by the end.
At the very end of the game there was a handshake line, and then one of the strangest things I've ever seen- Sparta lined up at their blue line, and the crowd did a chant. After the chant, the team went to center ice and stood in a circle. Then they ran and belly flopped onto the ice!
It was really weird, but kind of cool.
It was a really fun game- my friend, who had never watched hockey (we were supposed to watch a game together so I could teach her, but alas, it never happened), came out of the game jumping and so excited to go to another game!
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