Rockford Icehogs San Diego Sport reviews
My Last IceHogs Game?
Reviews of the last hockey game of the season are always hard, but they are doubly hard when you don’t know if you will be able to attend another one due to personal circumstances. I began my evening by taking a roll around the entire concourse in my wheelchair from the elevator around to the Pinitza place, past Oink Outfitters, winding my way around past the Barnyard BBQ and into my normal seats in A123. The arena was packed to bid farewell to the 2016-17 IceHogs who are our team despite of how they perform on the ice.
And this philosophy would be borne out as the team fell down 5-0 after two periods, prompting my mom to shout “Try not to suck” ALA Joe Maddon at the team prior to the third period. As if this wasn’t bad enough, the sound of thunder outside was audible throughout the arena, meaning that I was also going to get wet in all likelihood leaving the arena. Now 5-0 is too much of a hill to climb, but man when Dowell found a streaking P.C. Labrie on a breakaway and he buried it in the back of the net for his first goal of the season. The building erupted, you would’ve thought that the IceHogs had won the Calder Cup. William Pelletier added a second goal, but the IceHogs could get no further losing 5-2. I thought it was surprisingly touching that one of the longest tenured IceHogs and one of our newest possible future players were the goal scorers.
It made departing into the rain so much easier. Hopefully, I’ll see the IceHogs in 2017-18.