The Hockey Adventure

Me and Pete(r) ended up with a friends tickets to an Islanders game that he could not attend. It was decided by Pete(r) that we would drive there as his lady had driven the car into the city for work. After work, we picked up the car and noticed the ride was was anything but smooth. We pulled over around Herald Square and discovered we had a bad flat. By this time it was 6:30, game starts at 7:00. We ended up driving to the west side passing by 9th ave where my lady happened to be at the time (I had her walk to the corner we were going to be passing so I could wave to her) and the following is what happened:

We get to an BP station and find out that their air machine doesn't work. We are told that there is a tire shop across the street. Upon inspection, we find out that the shop has recently relocated... yay.

Pull into a Hess on 45th and 10th that has free air and fill the tire. After a few minutes, the air can be heard escaping the tire once again. Luckily for us, there is a tire shop right across the street that hasn't relocated. We buy ourselves a tire for 45 bucks.

It is now 7:20 but we decide it's still worth it to go to the game. We drive towards the Midtown tunnel and upon exiting on the other side, are met with beautiful traffic.

We eagerly await getting close enough to Long Island so we can listen to the game we are missing on the radio, joking that we are probably missing the greatest game ever. When we finally get in range, this is what happens:

-I text my friend Jason D. to ask him the name of the goalie he asked to keep an eye out for.

-We hear that it's scoreless in the second period and laugh at our fear of missing something exciting.

-While we are laughing (and as I'm texting Jason that the goalie in question was not playing), the Islanders score a power play goal, a few seconds later they score one more and then one more. 3 goals in 3 and a half minutes. We laugh even harder because of it.

-As Jason is responding to my text, said goalie is put in and so I let him know.

After that it was all straight forward, got to the game at the end of the second period, saw Lecav score a goal, saw Stamkos and that was it, Islanders 3, Bolts 1. Pete(r) was nice enough to drive me back to Jersey and that is the end of the evening.