Chieftains 5 Jets 6 (after penalties)

Sam and I headed into town on the bus to watch the hockey, it's been a while since we have had to do that!

We decided to kill time in Starbucks where I caught him unawares:


Hockey wasn't great. First two periods were woeful with the scoreline ending 1 - 2 at the end of the first and then 3 - 4 at the end of the second. Chieftains just didn;t look like a team that were fighting for a play off spot. It looked like things were ready to kick off when the second period ended so we were hopeful for the third.

Third period was MUCH better with the Chieftains equalising (and a wonderful chant of FOUR, SKINNS for the Jets goalie) and then taking the score to 5 - 4 before conceding one more in the last minute to take the game to overtime. Despite the Jets outshooting the Chieftains by 8 shots to 1 on goal overtime ended a 5 - 5 draw and onto the nerve wracking penalty shoot out. Unfortunately Jets came out on top but the Chieftains played well and at least they got a point.

Someone was talking to Slough player Les Millie tonight and it seems that things could get interesting in Romford next Sunday! A few of us have decided that if the Chieftains lose on Saturday (effectively putting them out of the play off race) then we might all go to Romford instead to see if things kick off. Due to timing we could still make it back for half of the Chieftains game.

Here are a couple of silly pictures:
Our usual seats:


A view of the ice:



Capitals made it a four point weekend with a 3 - 4 overtime win against Basingstoke last night and a good 1 - 3 road win against league leaders Coventry Blaze. This now takes the Capitals into 8th place in the league and in with the chance of a play off spot (as long as they can keep it together and Basingstoke don't).