Saturday, October 17, 2009

Edmonton Blogging

The hockey club arrived in Edmonton in the mid-afternoon yesterday and it's been eventful ever since.

We dropped off the gear at Rexall Place and the Oilers were gracious enough to give us a tour of their dressing room area. Let's keep in mind it's gameday for the Oil and we are three hours away from face-off against the Minnesota Wild.

Good thing Broncos Head Coach / GM is hockey royalty in this city. His longtime friend and former teammate Kelly Buchberger led us through the tour. Not many teams would do this...let alone hours before a game.

I snapped a few pics:



The Bulin stall. Later he would make 27 saves in a 5-2 win over Minnesota.

Broncos F Brad Hoban wanted a pic in front of Ales Hemsky's stall. He was scratched with the flu.

Oilers player lounge inside the room

Later that night the Oilers hooked us up with press box seating:




I have to run but more blogging later today....

Jon



4 comments:

Unknown said...

That's freaking awesome!! Good luck tonight...what time does the game start Swifty time?

Jon Keen said...

6:30pm pre-game... face-off around 7:10pm

Anonymous said...

thats so great! keep up the pictures

Anonymous said...

By the sounds of it Mark is bending over backwards for this team...Maybe the boys better take some of this to heart.