Cringer
11-09-2003, 12:39 AM
Ok, i just got back from my week of work on the road and with the wife out of town i, with my kid, went to our new arena to see our new minor league hockey team, the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees. We went last week and loved it, including my little girl. Being from Spokane, WA, who had a great junior hockey team when i lived there, i'm a little embarrassed that i had never been to a hockey game in person............which leads to my question..........
How many of you guys have seen a woman five feet away get nailed in the face with a line drive puck?....or something similar?
In the second period this woman sitting across the stairs from me had this happen to her, sitting there with only her 6 month (or so) old little boy next to her as the husband had gone to get more beer. She wasn't looking because she was playing with the little boy. I was watching the game and here goes this puck absolutely blazing by right in front of me about 4 feet at eye level. I followed the puck fast enough with my eyes that i saw it bouncing off her left cheek as her head was snapping back....it was just nasty looking, yet somehow pretty damn cool (and yes i feel a little bad about saying that, but its the truth). She was surrounded pretty fast as all of us around her started to move towards her to basically do nothing for her but ask if she's ok.......i mainly wanted to get that kid out of there because he was getting freaked out, but grabbing someone's kid wouldn't have been the best thing to do. After a few minutes the husband came back with his 2 beers and you could see he was about to shit his pants. Another minute later team officials came and got them out of there. She probably broke her cheek bone if i had to guess, it didn't touch her nose, it was just to the left of it. The woman behind her had the puck land at her feet, and i guess she handed to someone near her. I thought of picking it up (nobody wanted to for those first few minutes) but it seemed like it would be wrong. What was funny for the rest of the game was you could see people eyeing the full beers the husband put down and left, but nobody wanted to take those either..........
How many of you guys have seen a woman five feet away get nailed in the face with a line drive puck?....or something similar?
In the second period this woman sitting across the stairs from me had this happen to her, sitting there with only her 6 month (or so) old little boy next to her as the husband had gone to get more beer. She wasn't looking because she was playing with the little boy. I was watching the game and here goes this puck absolutely blazing by right in front of me about 4 feet at eye level. I followed the puck fast enough with my eyes that i saw it bouncing off her left cheek as her head was snapping back....it was just nasty looking, yet somehow pretty damn cool (and yes i feel a little bad about saying that, but its the truth). She was surrounded pretty fast as all of us around her started to move towards her to basically do nothing for her but ask if she's ok.......i mainly wanted to get that kid out of there because he was getting freaked out, but grabbing someone's kid wouldn't have been the best thing to do. After a few minutes the husband came back with his 2 beers and you could see he was about to shit his pants. Another minute later team officials came and got them out of there. She probably broke her cheek bone if i had to guess, it didn't touch her nose, it was just to the left of it. The woman behind her had the puck land at her feet, and i guess she handed to someone near her. I thought of picking it up (nobody wanted to for those first few minutes) but it seemed like it would be wrong. What was funny for the rest of the game was you could see people eyeing the full beers the husband put down and left, but nobody wanted to take those either..........