Gold Medal Game

As you already know, i had the gold medal game yesterday evening. I didn't post a blog last night because we were all hanging out and a couple of people were leaving the next morning so i wanted to spend more time with them before they left. But let me say that the game was very exciting and was pretty packed. The arena was close to capacity at 5,500 people and was extremely loud. A lot of fans brought in those inflatable sticks that you hit together and it makes a really loud noise. Canada obviously came out on fire the first few minutes of the game, but the Chinese goalie made some great saves and didn't get scored on until the end of the 1st period. In the second period China scored on a power play, and in the third Canada scored 2 goals making it 3-1. It was a very close game and China definitely stepped it up since the first time they played Canada and lost 8-1. Satu and i worked great together and  Tara had a great game as well. It was very cool to get to do the Winter Universiade's first women's gold medal game. This year was the introductory year for Women's ice hockey into the Winter Universiade's Games. We packed up all of our stuff at the end of the night from the locker room and went back to the hotel and ate dinner. 

I found out from Matt that the televised version of the gold medal game was viewed in China by over 100 million households, probably because team China was in it, but still i thought that was awesome! 

 

I had a great time working the game and it was an awesome experience i will never forget!