Hockey night in Catania

Well, Arcireale really but Catania is close enough....

Anyway here we go.

The teams (notice I am not in the goalie gear)
Catania Flames in the blue
Sigonella Flames in the red

apparently "Flames" is a popular name for hockey teams around here. A little known fact about our jerseys is that the sun was drawn up with a pitchfork and horns and the old team was going to be called the "Sun Devils" but the old CO thought it was satanic and did not want his base to be represented as such. So now we are unoriginal.

A salute to the teams. Each team salutes the other by saying something like
Us: "For Catania, pip pip!(sticks banging)
Them: For Sigonella pip pip! (more banging of sticks)
This is their pre-game ritual to show respect and sportsmanship and whatnot.



Here we are in the 1st period intermission. So far we are not losing too badly.







A mid-period conference to strategize as we begin to lose our grip on the game.






There were no good action shots as the lighting is odd (as I am sure you can tell) and we are not so savvy with our own camera yet, at least not enough to find just the right settings to get action shots at night in weird light. Better luck next time I guess. Anyway we went on to lose our inaugural scrimmage either 10 to 5, or 9 to 4. Something like that anyway, we weren't technically keeping score. I think we are playing again Thursday, so maybe more pictures and stories or something.
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