It actually began more like 2 weeks ago when I received an email and a voicemail that I won a pair of Toronto Maple Leafs tickets from a radio station. That's awesome part 1. Then it was winning 2 free coffees from Tim Hortons. Sure, coffee is only work about $3 but a win's a win! And then I find out that I was a draw to be part of a pre-show for my new favourite show Lost Girl.
So Saturday, March 24th was to be good day but then we (me and Septicor) found out there was a free skate PLUS autograph with Leaf's legend, Darryl Sittler. So, I'd figure why not? It's going to be a full day of event.
And so it began, we went to Mississauga for skating and lined up for autographs. And I am much closer to my goal of getting who ever is still alive on the poster signed.
What you see there is a banner poster of "All-Time Leaf" greats. Completed signatures include: Johnny Bower, Borje Salming, Frank Mahavolich, Doug Gilmoure and now Darryl Sittler. I am missing just 2 that was still alive: Lanny MacDonald and Dave Keon. Anyone know where I can find a "Tim Hortons" signature stamp? He's in the poster!
So we did some skating and Septicor has not skated since he was in elementary school - to put it in simple terms, it's been a LONG, LONG time. But considering it's been that long... this video is him after 20min.
After an hour of skating, we drove down to downtown and went to the Spaghetti Factory for food. We really didn't know what to eat... not really sure WHY we went to Spaghetti Factory. Maybe just one of those days.
I went with the Blue Cheese Farfelle with Chicken. First, blue cheese is an acquired taste because it's strong and second, it's not cheap (but not overly expensive). AND it was with bow-tie pasta. I found the blue cheese a bit stronger then I wanted... oh well, still good and washed it down with Mill St. Organic.
We proceeded to the Air Canada Centre for the game. Leafs lost in shootout but it was an entertaining game. We had these 2 (1 guy and 1 girl) who disappeared after the 1st period. The girl kept complaining about something. Septicor tried to explain the game to her and she asked him if she was annoying him. Then she asked me for a girl's opinion which automatically alerted and "uh oh... what does she want??" And it turns out she wanted to know if she should go use the toilets now or wait for the period to be over to avoid the line up. But they never returned.
On the other side, I had a father-daughter together at the game. I thought that was cute. It's too bad she couldn't get on TV.
The greatness of Mats Sundin honoured beside his hero, Borje Salming.
Anthem time.
Powerplay time!
Now who doesn't like Timbits hockey? This time it was actually girls. There was this one girl who was slightly better then others and everyone cheer for her when she scored.
A little close up shot.
And Leafs scores!!
Mr. Nifty Mitten, Nazem Kadri in the shootout.
Part 2 will be coming soon...
