Milwaukee Admirals Game

Last night, Lisa and I went to see the Milwaukee Admirals play against the Omaha Knights. It was a fun night.

The night started with dinner at Buck Bradley's. This was our first time to this bar. It is an old bar on a street full of historic buildings, and is very nice. The bar keeps a lot of its historic charm on the inside. The beer selection is great, and the food is very good. I had a rueben, a cup of chili, and two tappers of Guinness. Lisa had a BBQ chicken sandwich, a cup of the soup of the day, and a Sprecher root beer.

After dinner, we walked over to the Bradley Center for the hockey game. The first period, the Admirals did not look that great. On offense, they couldn't keep the puck in the zone, and they weren't really making any shots on goal. Things on defense were not that much better. The Knights actually were able to keep the puck in the zone, and were able to make a lot of shots on goal. The Admirals goalie really kept them in the game the first period, saving each shot on goal. A few good hard body checks started to get the Admirals fired up, and tightened up, and with just under a minute or two left in the period, they scored the first goal of the game.

First period break had some pee-wee hockey. Very cute!

For the second and third periods, the Admirals were back in the game. The were playing much tighter. The ended up scoring a power-play goal, but then gave up a power-play goal to the Knights. With less than two minutes left, the Knights pulled their goalie, leading to an empty net goal for the Admirals. Final score: 3-1 in favor of the Admirals.

With hockey, there is often a fight or two. Last night, there were two. The first one was a dud, with the two guys squaring off for quite some time before a punch was even thrown, and then they weren't even thrown that hard. Lame! For the second fight, an Admiral checked a Knight hard into the boards and it looked like he may have elbowed him in the head in the process. The crybaby Knight took offense to that and came out swinging. This one quickly ended up being a good old fashion face punching where two guys grab each other and start pounding on each others heads for a while. Great fun! The Knight player was bloodied up a bit, and got a nice sound harassing from the crowd when his ugly bloody mug was put on the screen.

All in all, it was a good game (at least after the sloppy play of the first period). We had a good night.

Currently listening to - Deliver Me from the album "Beneath...Between...Beyond..." by Static-X