I have a shameful confession.....

Last year's hockey addiction has continued, apace, instead of reducing with familiarity. We've begun routinely taping online radio broadcasts of..... a UHL Team [sob] that's an hour away. We get there when we can when there's no Pens game on TV that night..... but I've got two or three UHL games in the can I am actually saving for a Sunday afternoon or two, or worse-- post-playoff (NHL) season!

Why the lowly UHL? Because it's nearby enough that we have been there and will go there again... because we can picture the rink and the players better than trying to follow Blackhawks on radio who we've never seen, in a rink we've never seen.

With the UHL team-- we've met the mascot, we've seen the players' styles and facial expressions, we can hear our known seat-mates from the section where we always sit, yelling and honking that horn they honk. (ah-OO-gah!)

When we go to those games, the tix are cheap enough we can sit right along the glass, and watch the play from ice-level. And they have an exceptionally good play-by-play guy streaming on the radio, home and away games.

But still, I know it's wrong.

~Susan