Hockey Night in Praha

Tickets to a European Championship game run between 10 and 20 Euros (that is a maximum of 30$ Canadian for seats behind the bench). When we got to Prague however, the great Jaromir Jagr was scheduled to be playing and they had completely sold out. Well the Czech Champ got the flu and was unable to play so the scalpers, who were happy to rip us off, were left with plenty of good tickets. My poker face was terrible and my Czech was even worse so I wasn't exactly in a position to bargain.

Still, 20$ got us pretty close to the ice and the action. It was almost like being at an NHL game, complete with a Kiss Cam and Dj Otzi (hey hey baby, oh, ah, I wanna know...will you be my girl?). It seemed like the CR was going to take it, Jagr or no, but just like the trusty Habitants, they got a bunch of terrible penalties, stopped trying and lost what seemed to be a sure win. Interestingly enough, the fans didn't boo the other team. I guess being a jerk in the stands is native to North America. You can Czech out our video from the game on the right hand side of the page, where we will be posting all our videos.

In other hockey news, we managed to tap into CBC's live broadcast of Hockey Day in Canada to watch the Montreal Ottawa game. More on this and some pictures at berlinbabel.blogspot.com