Badgers 5, Gophers nil

Hockey wasn't very entertaining for us today.

TOPWLH had driven to the event separately and had to leave immediately after the game to attend a social and/or cultural event. That means she went to a concert with some friends. There are a limited number of artists whose live performances I will attend and the one on tonight's bill was not one of them.

So while GRider ran off barely before the echoes of the final horn had died in the building, I followed the usual protocol of hanging around for a few minutes, waiting for the teams to leave the ice and for the announcement of the three stars of the game.

In a 5-0 game all of the stars of the game play for the team that had 5. So that wasn't very entertaining either.

But all was not lost, even after all that.

At the conclusion of all of the actual game activities, the Gopher Sports promotion department conducted chuck-a-puck. Today's prize was a $50 gift card for Punch Pizza. We don't care much about the prizes but we always participate just for the joy of chucking a foam rubber puck out onto the ice in concert with a couple hundred other people doing the same thing. Chuck-a-puck is a happening.

As is our standard procedure, my usual chucking partner had selected pucks for both of us. But as she was not in the building for the event, I had to chuck both hers and my foam rubber pucks.

Hers went wide.

Mine was better.