September 20, 2014. Western Head, N.S. Hockey.

For a Canadian, nothing beats watching a hockey game. Ken and Ian attended the first game of The Liverpool Privateers, a team newly relocated from outside Halifax. For the past few years, the Liverpool team was a Junior C team but this team is a Junior B team so the quality of hockey should improve. The new arena is a very nice facility which is what attracted the team to come to Liverpool. After a half an hour at the Swing Band Dance, Rita and Ian joined Ken and Ian at the hockey game. There were 30 people at the dance and several thousand at the hockey game. When we arrived at the end of the 1st period the home team was ahead by two goals. It was very satisfying to see the final score, which was 5 to 2 for the Liverpool team. The speed of the game is always more impressive in real life than when you watch on TV although Ken said that he misses the pictures of the replayed goals. Neither Ken or I have seen a hockey game live for many years and we enjoyed every minute. Our team looks to be a well coached team with a couple of very talented players on the team. Evidently the Junior B players are trying to get a college scholarship at an american college. It was a good game and we wish the team well.