Tuesday night saw my third trip of the season to the Garden, which was also happened to be the first victory I witnessed and the first back-to-back win the Bruins recorded this season.

Both the B's and I had been on a rocky road since the season started. I was in house at the opening night, when the B's hosted and got badly beaten by the Caps at 1-4. I was also there on last Thursday as the Habs was in town - the B's tied the game with 51 seconds left in the regulation only to lose in the shootout later. To make things worse, the B's were no better without my presence. Hence this victory was certainly something both they and I loved to see and hoped to build on.

Like I said last season, it was all about packing the right mojo. Sitting pretty in a deep hole of a 4-game losing streak of the B's games I attended (my records was like: 2L-4W-4L), and being called "a bad karma" by my colleague (yup, Hunwick's buddy, that one), I needed to change a wee bit. Desperate times called for desperate measures. I didn't bring my camera with me, as I figured recording their shootouts in the Habs game might have jinxed them - I still wore my Wheels jersey though, trying to turn the tide for him and his snakebitten line. Moreover, instead of watching their warmups in section 1, this time I stayed beside the penalty box - Vladdie standing right under my nose for about 2 mins and Begin strentching on the ice just in front of me! The view was kinda overwhelming, despite the sad fact that Wheels decided to skate as far away from me as possible.

My actual seat was waaaay back, on balcony up against the wall, behind the goal that the visitors shoot twice. The advantage of sitting there was the ability to see how the plays built and unfolded. The drawback was, of course, it was just too far away from the ice. You couldn't beat the price though. The atmosphere back there was great too. And the best thing? I could stand up during the game whenever I felt like to. once again, you just couldn't beat the price.

The game itself was more exciting than what I babbled here. Oh, did I mention it was against the reigning champ Pittsburg Penguins? Our boys outskated their boys in the first period, kinda slowed down in the second, and then stepped up in the final period. A score of 3-0, including an empty-netter in the final 3 seconds, sent me home very very happy. It was also my first time to see Sidney Crosby live. He was great at stickhandling and skating as advertised, but it was just not his day, or maybe they just missed injured Evgeni Malkin.

Anyways, a shutout Bruins win + Rene Rancourt singing the US national anthem + standing up whenever I wanted = I should totally do it again!

Go B's!