liljan98 bloggt... (über das Leben, die Welt & alles andere) : Rubrik:Mein Leben & ich

Abschied vom Blog in dieser Form...

liljan98 — 2008-04-03T10:07:00Z

Irgendwie ging das nun schneller als geplant. Geplant war es ja eigentlich auch gar nicht. Aber manchmal sind die spontanen Entscheidungen nicht die schlechtesten. Und bevor ich noch länger hin und her überlege, und mich diese Überlegungen von anderen Dingen, über die ich eigentlich nachdenken sollte, abhalten, hab iach mal Nägel mit Köpfen gemacht.

Dieses Blog hier bei twoday.net wird nach 970 Tagen stillgelegt. Es wird nicht gelöscht, nur vielleicht die Kommentar-Funktion auch bald mal deaktiviert. Wer weiß. Ich höre aber nicht auf zu bloggen, sondern mache es in Zukunft halt nur ein bisschen anders. An anderer Stelle, mit anderem Blog-Titel und vor allem in anderer Sprache.

Ich weiß nicht, ob ich verständlich erklären kann, warum ich nun auf Englisch bloggen möchte. Ich mag diese Sprache einfach sehr, ich lese und schaue (TV, Kino) viel auf Englisch, aber ich benutze die Sprache selbst leider viel zu selten. Zweisprachig bloggen - also erst auf Deutsch und dann übersetzen - ist mir aber zu zeitaufwändig, hab ich festgestellt. Um hier auf konsequent auf Englisch weiterzubloggen müsste ich allerdings die Kategorien und alles mögliche um-benennen und in diesem Zusammenhang kann ich dann auch gleich mal überdenken, über was und wen und wie ich generell bloggen möchte. Ich hab in den letzten Monaten eh schon einiges reduziert und je mehr ich drüber nachdenke, desto sinnvoller finde ich das. Weg von den manchmal sehr kurzen subjektiven Momentaufnahmen und Gedanken hin zu etwas mehr Substanziellen, das auch dann noch Sinn macht, wenn man es Monate später noch mal liest. Für das brandaktuelle Mitteilungsbedürfnis kann ich schließlich twittern...

Ich glaube gerade dieser - auch inhaltliche - Neuanfang, den das Englische und ein neues Blog bietet, hat mich dann in den letzten Tagen so schnell überzeugt, das alles auch in die Tat umzusetzen. Es war eine sehr schöne Zeit hier bei twoday.net und dieses Blog bzw. das Bloggen als solches war mir in den letzten Jahren schon sehr wichtig. Und es geht ja weiter. Nur eben anders. Ich freue mich auf jeden Fall drauf und hoffe, dass einige von euch sich von dem Englischen nicht abschrecken lassen und meinem neuen Blog auch in Zukunft mal einen Besuch abstatten werden. Kommentiert werden kann natürlich in beiden Sprachen, ich werde auch in beiden Sprachen antworten.

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WordPress oder nicht...?

liljan98 — 2008-04-01T06:26:00Z

Mmmh, ich überlege gerade ob ich mit dem Blog zu Wordpress umziehe... Bzw. nicht umziehe, denn von twoday.net kann man leider nicht zu wordpress exportieren. Es hieße also mal wieder, ein neues Blog aufzumachen. Das neue Blog wäre dann aber vermutlich komplett auf Englisch, was dann aber vielleicht auch konsequent wäre :-)

Ich hab gerade schon mal ein bisschen rumprobiert, so ganz sind die Themes nicht so nach meinem Geschmack, aber mit einem Upgrade lässt sich das sicher auch ändern und es kostet nicht die Welt. Wordpress hat schon was Reizvolles. Und wer weiß, vielleicht hoste ich mein Blog dann auch mal selbst, das wäre mit einem Wordpress Blog auch einfacher.

Eigentlich hab ich GAR keine Zeit mir über so was Gedanken zu machen, aber manchmal überkommt's mich halt. Vielleicht meine Art dem Frust und dem nervigen Alltag zu entgehen. "Procrastination" mal wieder in Reinform...

I Hate Everyone....

liljan98 — 2008-03-31T17:12:00Z

Manche Lieder passen manchmal wie die Faust aufs Auge... bei mir dröhnt jetzt erst mal eine Weile "I Hate Everyone" durch die Wohnung. ARGH! Das Schlimmste ist, am meisten im Moment mich selbst :-) Zumindest ärgere ich mich schon auch über mich selbst, aber die restliche Menschheit war heute auch nervig! Aufmuntern konnte mich dann gerade wenigstens die kleine Giraffe, die nach einigen Irrwegen nun endlich auch zu mir gefunden hat. Aufs Lesen heute Abend (wenn ich von der Sitzung wieder zu Hause bin) freue ich mich schon, immerhin hab ich ein Jahr lang die Entstehungsgeschichte mitverfolgt...

Some other kind of To-Do-List

liljan98 — 2008-03-30T20:11:00Z

Things from the To-Do-List, which I didn't manage to do this weekend...

start reading / working on part II.1. of said paper [I realized I missed working on a question of part I, damn it, so that part is not finished yet]
finish reading part 1.7 + 1.8. of the Climate Change studymaterial

Instead I...

sorted and filed a lot of documents I receive and have to read for my local political work
made more detailed plans for the Canada Vacation, which starts in exactly four weeks... Yay!

Anyone interested in my agenda for the evenings of the next two weeks?

Monday: local Green Party meeting
Tuesday: go to a hockey game
Wednesday: at home, should be studying
Thursday: local councilwomen meeting
Friday: watch a hockey game on TV
Saturday: County Green Party meeting
Sunday: go to a hockey game (yes, it's playoff-time... *g*)
Monday: movie premiere of "The Red Baron" (*squee*) with Hai_di and kerrsmith2306
Tuesday: council committee meeting
Wednesday: at home, should be studying
Thursday: work (annual general meeting in job #2)

I don't have anything scheduled for the days after that, but I think it's more than enough. Thank God I don't work on Fridays, so I can use that day to recuperate...

This weekend's To-Do-List

liljan98 — 2008-03-29T11:31:00Z

Once again I whiled away my time this morning. I think I'm in need for another To-Do-List, even if it's just for this weekend. And I already postponed cleaning my apartment till Tuesday, which I have off. I'm way to lazy to do it today, although my apartement wouldn't mind, I guess. But I'm not spending too much time here (during daylight *g*) this weekend anyway.

Things I want / have / plan to do this weekend (in no specific order)

~~finish part I.2 of the "Energy: Basics" paper~~
start reading / working on part II.1. of said paper
finish reading part 1.7 + 1.8. of the Climate Change studymaterial
~~visit the festivities on our remodeled shopping-street~~
~~go groceries shopping~~
~~prepare pastasalad at my mom's place (I just don't feel like cooking for myself and I'll probably be spending most of my weekend over there anyway)~~
~~iron lots of laundry~~
~~watch game 7 of Iserlohns quarterfinal playoffs on TV tomorrow afternoon and keep my fingers crossed~~
~~watch "Tatort" (crime television series) tomorrow night, because David Rott will be a guest star in this episode~~
~~continue reading "Der Hüter der Rose" (historical novel)~~

And there are lots of lots of other things I could do this weekend, but I'm not even trying to plan doing them, because I know I would fail anyway :-)

My personal hockey history

liljan98 — 2008-03-27T19:36:00Z

[In dieser Länge definitiv nur auf Englisch...]

*yawn* I was home around 11.30 pm last night. I didn't go to bed until 12.30 and couldn't fall asleep until after 1 am. And I had to get up a little after 6am because I had a doctors appointment at 8 am and the public transport sucks at the moment and takes ages. Thank god it's holiday time and there wasn't much to do at work, no deadlines or anything. Its the time of the year made for sorting and filing and all that stupid and simple and montonous stuff. I felt like the watchdog [is that really the right translation of "Stallwache"? The Stallwache in office-speak, not in a farm and stables speak * g*]. Anyway my main purpose this week is to make sure the office is manned during office hours just in case something happens which might require action on our part. So sorting and filing gave me some time to start a longer hockey talk entry. Which I finished at home this evening.

So for the (inter)national hockey crazy friends and anyone else interested here is a long version of my hockey history. Today I just felt like telling this story :-). You might want to get some snacks and drinks and make yourself comfortable, because it's a looooooong one. I'm a rambler, I know.

I'll try it in a rather chronological and some what sorted way...

My oldest brother (aka Bro #1) has been a hockey fan as long as I can remember Well almost, because he's not THAT much older ;-). He became a fan in the late 80s. It must have been after 1987 otherwise he would have mentioned witnessing Iserlohns last playoffs 21 years ago. Still I should ask him about the exact time some time. He was and still is a fan of Iserlohn, which is the hockey team closest (about 35 km) to our hometown. He stayed a fan through all the ups and downs and there were more downs for almost 20 years now: Bancrupcy, relegation to the 3rd league, struggle in the 2nd league and some more.
Until the late 90s I was often mocking him for his addiction to the game and this team. He was one of these hardcore fans who take part in all these crazy events like going to a (far) away game on a special train with hundreds of other fans and partying the whole trip there and back.

In 1994 the premier league was transformed into a the DEL, a league similar to the NHL. Don't ask for details but it was and still is a business decision. All teams are something like shareholder of the league (as a company). There still was sort of relegation/promotion (from the still existing 2nd league) for over 10 years, but there always were problems with this modus. Teams which had to relegate to the 2nd league complained, because they were shareholders after all and invested money and teams who would have been allowed to promote according to the standings of the 2nd league, still had to meet special financial and other requirements. Sometimes it was quite a mess. And the modus was changed every other year, which made it even worse.
A couple of years ago relegation was abolished, but there is still one spot available in the league for a 2nd league candidate meeting the requirements. After that there will be no change in the league's participating teams, unless one team goes bancrupt and a new (or 2nd league) team buys its licence.

In 1999 I went to see my first hockey game. In Cologne (about 70 km away), because my friend Hai_di went to college in Cologne and went to some games of the Cologne Sharks. I just tagged along once and we saw a 9:1 (or 9:0) victory. We had to jump up every few minutes to cheer and I thought "Wow, this is fun!" :-) Even when Hai_di moved back home to start a job here, we continued to watch games in Cologne. I started to understand why Bro #3 was such a huge fan of this sport. But he is still way out of my league when it comes to understanding and "seeing" the game. He notices everything and shows a very good judgement of the game and the players and the refs.

The Sharks got into the final in that season 99/00, but lost the championship to Munich. (A team which a few years later was completly re-located to Hamburg. Relocations is one of the many peculiarities of premiere league hockey a sportsfan in a soccer dominated country hardly understands). Hai_di and I and a couple of other fans went to Cologne Airport to greet our team after the lost final game and we even went to the city hall were there was a small reception for the team. We just wanted to show our support outside city hall but as there were just a couple of fans, we were allowed to attend to reception as well, which was pretty cool. We could chat with some players and take pictures and get autographs. There usually are other opportunities for that as well, but usually there are a lot more fans present at these other opportunities. But all of this, chatting with players was the last thing needed to get my totally hooked.

In 00/01 Iserlohn was promoted to the premiere league, but Hai_di and I were already rooting for Cologne and there was no chance we would just switch teams. So we went to see hockey games regulary and I bought my first jersey (goalie Andrew Verner), but the Sharks lost their quarterfinal playoff series and the season was a short one. Iserlohn struggled a bit, but even when there still was relegation they stayed in the league and slowly became a team that always finished around 10 (of 15-16 teams).

Short excursion to financial matters: Iserlohn still is the underdog of the league, with the smallest buget, smallest and oldest hockey arena. Unlike other teams Iserlohn has got a very good managment who is working very reasonable. They might not make the most profits, but unlike other teams they don't have to struggle financially or are indebted or anything. They know their limits. Cologne on the other hand has the biggest arena, one of the biggest budget, a good working management, the best players (or at least those who get the most money) and are obligated to at least make it to the playoffs. And every time they lose in the first round they fall short of everyones expectations.
Tickets to hockey games are affordable and usually always available in Germany. This country is just not a hockey-country, soccer is dominating everything. The cheapest tickets in Cologne cost 18,50 EUR (=30$) and of course there are other expenses, but all in all it's ok. To get tickets to playoff games (especially semi-final or final) can be difficult sometimes, but it's no problem to watch a regular game. Jersey's costs about 60 - 80 EUR (= 90-120$), which isn't that cheap, but I guess nothing compared to NHL jerseys.

01/02 didn't look like the best season, the Sharkes finished at 6th. And as they hadn't survived the quarterfinal the year before we scaled down our expecations. Hai_di booked a vacation which started a day before the last possible (fifth) game of the final series. Thinking, that even if the Sharks would make it to the final, there was a huge chance that they will be defeated in 3 or 4 games. But they weren't! They made it to the final and there was a fifth game. It took place in Mannheim and the Sharks won! The championship. It was broadcasted live in the Cologne hockey arena and after the game hell broke lose :-). A lot of fans went into downtown and celebrated and obstructed the traffic and all that crazy stuff. And Hai_di was stuck on some mediterrian island. But I celebrated for both of us. :-)

In 02/03 we got into the final again, but this time we lost the fifth game. At home, which felt terrible. And we lost to a team which won the championship for the first time since the 50s or so. It was almost impossible to get ticket for the final series so I decided to get a season ticket for 03/04, because the playoff tickets were included. And I bought a new jersey - Sebastian Furchner, a forward. He's going to leave the Sharks after this season, which saddens me, but I can understand that he's looking for a new challenge. I really hope to see him as member of Team Germany in Halifax.

In 03/04 the Sharks didn't made it through the quarterfinal of the playoffs either, so a season ticket didn't really pay off. :-) I didn't go to that many games during the season that it would have payed off without the playoff games, so I didn't get a season ticket for 04/05. In which they failed at quarterfinal once again. So these weren't the most successful hockey seasons for a team with higher expectations. I think it was around that time, that I started to also watch a few more games of Iserlohn. Because it's closer and Bro #1 has really nice group of friends there. He is also part of the voluntary crew and get's one additional frew ticket for every game, which makes going to the game a rather low-cost experience.

The Sharks reached the semi-final in 05/06 and 06/07, but never the final again. I hope that's going to change this year! In 2004 the Sharks got a new defense player, Paul Traynor #7 and Hai_di and I very soon liked him a lot. She more than I, I guess :-) But he was pretty cool. And became one of the fans favorite quickly, which was insane at some of these fans meet the team occasions. It saddened us, when his contract wasn't renewed after two years, because he could have transfered to anywhere, Sweden, Austria or whereever. But.... he transfered to Iserlohn! Wooohooo! We had him even closer and all the more reason to go watch games in Iserlohn.
I even bought a Iserlohn Traynor Jersey. Friends of Bro #1 are not giving up trying to make me switch my favorite team, but that will never happen. Never ever :-)! But it's not too bad to have two hockey teams to root for. Except when they play against each other, which might happen again in the semi-final. :-( This season was also the most successful for Iserlohn, they finished as 5th and are leading 3:2 in their quarterfinal series of the playoffs. It's been the first time since 1987 that they've reached the playoffs and the fans, the city and the whole region is in a crazy hockey fever.

With Bro #1 and his friends we went to see the World Championship 2005 in Vienna and it's this same group of hockey friends with which we're going to Halifax in about four weeks. I'm really really looking forward to that, because it's Canada and it's hockey and this is a group of totally crazy hockey people. We're going to have sooooooo much fun.

So is anyone still with me? Or fallen asleep in front of the screen? Geez, that wasn't supposed to get THIS long, but a lot of hockey stuff happened during these years (and I've probably forgotten to mention some of it).

Going back to Georgia...

liljan98 — 2008-03-27T18:06:00Z

... ist ein Song von Nanci Griffith. Aber den hatte ich gar nicht so im Sinn, als ich diese Schrift gewählt habe. Mir stand einfach der Sinn nach was "Geschwungenerem". Öfter mal was Neues. Aber ich glaube, das bleibt nun doch eine Weile so.

"Halbfinale ist schön...." sing

liljan98 — 2008-03-27T10:12:00Z

Zu faul für's bilinguale Bloggen, mal wieder...

The scarf I'm currently wearing when I watch a hockey game is six years old, so it was about time I buy another one. And I just had to get this one, because - like I said so many times before - I love that statement:

And we didn't lose last night, but defeated the current champion with 4:1 and won our series. Wooooohoooo! We scored the first goal pretty early but then the Sharks got a bit lazy and complacent and Mannheim tied with a short-hand goal. I always hate these. Unless WE are scoring them *g* We scored the 2:1 early in the 2nd period and got overconfident again. But then my favorite Shark - Sebastian Furchner - scored a well worth seeing shorthand (*g*!) goal. 3:1. And our goalie had a great night last night, so we kept that score until the last minute when we even scored the 4:1 and we celebrated a glorious victory. Yes! Semi-Final! And I've even got my tickets for the first (and hopefully only) two home games of this series.

Lovely small talks

liljan98 — 2008-03-26T11:06:00Z

This took place already yesterday. When I left my office to go shopping I ran into the janitor, the nicest janitor I've met in my life yet.

Janitor: Miss liljan98, you're not already calling it a day?
Me: Yes, I am. And now I'm going to check out the new mall.
Janitor: (dead serious) But it's a nasty weather outside. You don't want to go out there. Keep working for another 3-4 hours, that's going to be much more fun.
Me: I doubt that.
Janitor: (grinning) Yeah, me too. Have a nice day.

Today I had to stop by the main postoffice here in Essen on my way to work and the clerk saw my Cologne Shark scarf (which I usually only wear when I'm on my way to see a game)

Clerk: Are the Sharks playing tonight?
Me: Yes.
Clerk: They have to lose that game.
Me: No, they don't. (while thinking "Why?" and "It would be a strange coincidence if he were a Mannheim fan. A hockey fan at all!")
Clerk: Yes, they do. Because if Mannheim lose the game and the series, their backup-goalie will return to play in the farmteam Heilbronn and we'll have to play against them on Friday.

Right, I totally forgot, there IS hockey in Essen as well. 2nd league, but obviously with dedicated fans. :-)

Bubble Shooter - Vorsicht Suchtgefahr

liljan98 — 2008-03-25T21:47:00Z

Ich wollt eigentlich noch einen Film oder zumindest ein paar Serienfolgen gucken heute Abend, wenn ich schon zu nix anderem mehr in der Lage bin. Stattdessen hat jawl über ein Kügelchen Spiel getwittert. Und ich die letzte Stunde (oder länger) vorm Bildschirm gehockt... "ein Mal spiele ich noch.." jaja *g*

Limbecker Platz...

liljan98 — 2008-03-25T19:28:00Z

Eigentlich wollte ich einen längeren Beitrag übers neue Einkaufszentrum am Limbecker Platz in Essen formulieren. Aber nachdem mir der Zug vor der Nase wegefahren ist und irgendwie gerade schlecht gelaunt bin, halt ich mich kurz. Also Limbecker Platz. Hab ich nun mal gesehen und werde diesen Einkaufstempel aber vermutlich kein zweites Mal betreten.
Was sicher daran liegt, dass die zig Klamottengeschäfte dort einfach meine große Größe nicht führen und der Rest der Geschäfte auch eher von der Art sind, in denen ich selten bis nie einkaufen. Ich fand das ganze Ding aber auch nicht wirklich beeindruckend. Dort wurde einfach eine absolut künstliche Welt geschaffen. Mit künstlichen Pflanzen, künstlichem Marmor und Reliefs (was beides auch beim oberflächlichen Blick irgendwie billig wirkte), klimatisiert (entsprechend nicht frisch war die warme Luft) und mit künstlichem Licht. Wer's mag.... Ich ziehe dann doch die klassische Einkaufsmeile einer Stadt vor. Und von den stadtplanerischen und -soziologischen Problemen, die ein solches Einkaufszentrum für die europäische Stadt verursacht, rede ich mal erst gar nicht.

Vermutlich werde ich in fünf Wochen trotzdem mit großen Augen durchs Eaton Centre wandern, aber in Nordamerika ist auch die Stadtgestalt und -kultur eine ganz andere. Aber ich höre schon auf zu dozieren :-)

Wooohooo! Again

liljan98 — 2008-03-24T17:05:00Z

The Sharks won game 4 (after a few minutes of the first overtime) and now need to win just one more game to win the series. Woooohooo! Thanks to cologne_chick I found a great site live internet radio from the Sharks games. It's sooo much better than reading a live ticker. Thanks again. And I had to grab the latest wallpaper, if only for a couple of days. I just love that line from the Intro Video. "We don't play this game to lose." Soooo true.

Here is this season's intro clip, which I didn't like that much at the beginning of the season, but it grew on me.

Intro - Season 07/08

My favorite is still the "entertain you" clip, from a couple of years back. On youtube I only found a filmed from the screen version. But it's still fun to watch it.

Intro - Let me entertain you

Woooooohoooo!

liljan98 — 2008-03-24T14:32:00Z

Zur Zeit bin ich doch zu faul zum bilingualen Bloggen :-(

The "Enviromental Law" lecturer just mailed me the grading of my paper. I got 95 of 100 points! Woooooohoooo! I had such a hard time writing it, partly because I was sloppy, but partly because I just didn't know what to write. I scored full points on the first two parts, even the one, which I got so stuck on, that I ignored the whole paper for weeks. And I got 35 of 40 on the third part, where I wrote so much less than the permitted limit and thus was worried, that I had forgotten something essential. I obviously didn't. 95 of 100. YES!

Getting such good grades, even when I feel like I didn't do a good job or not as good as I could have done, feels really really cool! But I have to watch out to not become to complacent now, because just because it worked out once, doesn't mean it will again in the future.

After the first period: Mannheim vs Cologne Sharks 1:0. :-( but Iserlohn vs Frankfurt 3:0. Yes! I follow the Sharks news ticker online and listen to the Iserlohn game on online radio (why does Radio Köln not broadcast from the game?) Aside from the intermediate result in Mannheim, I'm totally happy right now. 95 of 100. Woooooohoooo!

Even more crazy hockey talk and records

liljan98 — 2008-03-22T23:22:00Z

On Thursday I thought I could brag with witnessing the longest hockey game in the history of German hockey, Iserlohn vs. Frankfurt, which Iserlohn won after 118 minutes (60 regular minutes + 58 in overtime) Tonight I could brag even more. And I will, although I didn't witness it live till the end.

The third playoff game between Cologne Mannheim ended with a 4:4 tie. I had to leave the arena after the third overtime, that's 120 minutes - remember two complete games in a row - to get the last train back home. It takes me about an hour to get home and during the trip we didn't get a text message from our friends at the game. I came home around 11.30 pm and turned on my computer to watch the newsflash on the Sharks website. The game was still on in the 5th OT. And there also was a 6th. A few minutes after midnight this game was the second longest game in the history of hockey!

And a few more minutes later it finally ended and WE WON!! WE WON! After 169 minutes! That's almost THREE games in a row. Only a game in 1936 between Detroit and Montreal last longer. Talking about a crazy, crazy sport. But it's soooo much fun!

Being part of hockey history...

liljan98 — 2008-03-21T10:40:00Z

One of my favorite hockey teams wrote history last night. And not just because they've reached the playoffs for the first time since 21 years, which alone was reason enough for this poster. I had to buy one and still have to figure out where I should put it in my tiny apartement.

The atmosphere was so intense at the start of the game, that I was already really happy to part of it.

This season brought some new rules, like pre-playoffs for the teams 6-10 in the standings, and the abolition of shootouts during the playoffs. Until this year, when a playoff game ended in a tie after the regular 60 minutes, there was a 20 minutes sudden-death overtime, followed by a shootout. And only in thoses games which could resolve a playoff series, the overtime continued (with intermission of course) until one team finally scored.

The longest game in the history of the German premiere hockey league took place just a couple of days ago during the pre-playoffs between Hannover and Düsseldorf and last 91:44 minutes. That's the regular 60 + the first 20 minute overtime + 12 minutes in the second overtime.

Last night my team finally scored at minute 117:45! That's 118 minutes! Two hours! Or in other words: two games in a row!

THEY PLAYED TWO GAMES IN A ROW!

I'm still dumbstruck and I can't express what that felt like last night. I probably couldn't even express it in German. It was the total madness. And I was frozen to death, because they play in the smallest, probably oldest, most traditional venue of the league. It feels like icehockey even for the audience and we sat close to the open doors, which had to stay open for the TV equipment of the pay-TV channel broadcasting this game. It's soooo cool this one was the game they broadcasted, because they just broadcast one game on every matchday. Bro#3 recorded it, but of course he set the timer to end at 11.30 pm, which usually is more than enough, as a hockey game usually ends around 10.00 pm. So even with the one overtime we could expect, it would have been sufficient. Thank God he was able to record the rerun later that night, as he just told me on the phone. I have to watch part of it this afternoon. The game (regular, overtime and all intermissions) last almost five hours. After midnight we started singing "We're staying here till morning light" And we would have.

What the players went through can't be appreciated enough. Hockey is an exhausting sport and they already fought so hard during the regular 60 minutes. And I was there to be a part of it! I lived history. I still have to wrap my mind around it. And my mind was supposed to do some studying today, but I don't know if it's up to it :-)