Two Kinds of Kaniac

Anyone who has read this blog for more than, say, two minutes, knows how much I love love love Christian Kane. You know I’m a CD-blasting, t-shirt-wearing, concert-going, twitter-following, facebook-stalking Kaniac. Being a Kaniac has turned into one of my most favorite things to be. But last night, I got to be a different kind of Kaniac.

A few days ago, I received an email offering me a few tickets to last night’s hockey game which pitted the Carolina Hurricanes against the Florida Panthers. So, I grabbed a buddy and off we went. Our seats were fantastic and wow, was it crowded!

While I’m able to give you a play-by-play of the Daytona 500 and I could be a commentator for football, baseball, or MMA, I have to confess that I actually know very little about hockey. I wore red and black, the Hurricanes colors, and tried to blend in as a Kaniac, the term of endearment for Hurricanes fans. I cheered when the people around me cheered. I assumed they knew what was going on because almost every one of them had on red and black, or a Hurricanes jersey, and they were using words that I knew enough to know were phrases of "hockey lingo". I think maybe they’d been to a few (thousand) games before.

Since I was sitting with a gaggle of gals, the chit-chat inevitably turned to which players might be ‘single and searching’ and the fashion that is (or isn’t) a hockey uniform. After much discussion (and more than our share of giggling like school girls), and a few suggestions to scoot on down to the penalty box for a little up close and personal investigation, we decided the uniform was shorts over either tights or some really tall knee socks over a bunch of padding. We also concluded this ensemble makes determining the fun yummy factor of a hockey player a bit of a challenge but we used the jumbotron and the player calendar to pick our favorites. There were also discussions of why Florida would have an ice hockey team in the first place, why we didn’t learn how to ice skate growing up, the job requirements to be a member of the Storm Squad, and what everyone’s upcoming weekend plans were. What can I say? We may be sports fans on the outside but we're still chatty, curious girls on the inside. Oh, yeah, and somewhere along the way, we did actually watch the game (when we weren't scoping out what the people around us were eating). We’re multi-taskers, we are! The Canes won and a good time was had by all J

All in all, the Carolina Hurricanes hockey game was a lot of fun and a great way to spend a night in the middle of the week. And today, I blasted my Christian Kane CD and celebrated being two kinds of Kaniac. And, I'm thinking that the Canes should take a tip from the Colorado Eagles hockey team and make The House Rules their team theme song.