Giants game

Last Friday night, we scored free tickets to a Vancouver Giants game! These were courtesy of our friend Angharad's workmate, who has season tickets but couldn't make it to the game due to being on vacation.

The Giants are an ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League, which is a division down from the National Hockey League that the Vancouver Canucks play in (click here to read about the time we went to a Canucks game). This means the Giants are not quite as good as the Canucks, but they are still professional, full-time hockey players... and they have some very loyal fans!




The game was at the Pacific Coliseum, part of the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) grounds in Vancouver. We had excellent seats directly behind one of the goals. Before the game started, we stood while the national anthem, O Canada, was sung, and then we were introduced to the Giants' mascot: Jack the Giant. The team playing the Giants were the Prince George Cougars (wearing the darker-coloured jerseys).



We put together a 6-minute video compilation to show you some of the evening's highlights. Only a small portion of the video actually shows the game underway... the rest of the time you can enjoy the national anthem, breaktime activities including a kids' hockey game, ATV doughies and a trike race... and to top it all off, the requisite on-ice fight! Just listen to the crowd when the fight gets going... polite, respectable Canadians, eh? Hahaha!

The Giants won, 3-0. The last photo above actually shows the split second before the third goal was scored!

All in all, it was a fun night and another great Canadian experience. Thanks to Ken and Karen for the use of their tickets, and to Angharad for thinking of us!