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We drove down to Boston Friday night to see UNH v BC at the Garden. The game started at 5pm and ended 5 hours later. It went into 3 overtime periods. Yes, I actually watched all of them. It was kind of an edge-of-your seat game. BC made the game-winning goal. They were almost perfectly matched, and it seemed pretty clear to me that the reason they lost was a bone-head move by UNH... one of the guys lost his stick, and so decided to blatantly get on his hands and knees in front of a BC player to trip him. BC was able to score the game winning goal during the resulting penalty, 1 min into the 6th period. I didn't realize hockey overtime was sudden death, so I was disappointed when I saw the teams shaking hands and figured out it was over just like that. The UNH goalie Kevin Regan is just amazing -- 62 saves in the game. He's like the Ditka of college hockey (Note: all I know about Ditka is from those old Sat Night Live sketches). I wonder if I will still like hockey next year without him?

And yes, we even went back down to Boston the following night to watch BC beat VT. That wasn't as interesting to me, although that's ok, I had enough stress the previous night. And it gave me a chance to get an ice cream sundae (excuse me, they serve gelato now in the Garden, not ice cream). Which ended up with hot fudge all over me thanks to the concession staff. Last time I do that.

We had a pretty good dinner before Saturday's game at Flat Iron Tapas Bar which is within walking distance of the Garden. Pretty good food, and we had a great cocktail (Belveder Pomarancza, Drambuie, Ginger Beer) although the bar service was pretty bad... it took us 25 minutes to get our first cocktail, three of the signature cocktails we attempted to order they couldn't make because they didn't have the secret ingredients made up, and even when the waitress mentioned "maybe" we could have those instead for our second round and we were clear that we would do that, they still had not gotten around to puréeing the Asian pear or whatever. Ah, well, all that really matters is the food is pretty good and they are within walking distance of the Garden.