Nice - St. Gervais 7-15

I’ve been an ice hockey fan since I was a kid, but haven’t been to a live game for about 7 years now (the last game I saw was between the Edinburgh Capitals vs. the Peterborough Pirates – and I have to say that was nothing to write home about). An opportunity for some live hockey action surprisingly came up when Sami & Mikko (who play for the local hockey team) convinced us to watch their game against St. Gervais, who had come down all the way from the Alps to Nice for the occasion...

So off we went to the local hockey rink in Nice (which, it has to be admitted, could do with a bit of a refurbishment). After a very professional and entertaining display by the team’s pom-pom girls, game on! (this being the south of France, about 15 minutes behind schedule ;-).




The game started badly for Nice, with some impressive playmaking and finishing from St. Gervais giving them a safe-seeming 5-1 lead after the first period. Mikko’s and Sami’s line did quite well though, keeping an even score, I think. The rest of the game went much the same way, with a final score of 15-7 for St. Gervais. Well, as Mikko and Sami said after the game: “it could’ve been worse”. In spite of their heroic, self-sacrificing game and staunch defence, Nice were sorely missing their third Finnish reinforcement, Mr. Karumo, the playmaker of the team.





After the game, we headed for a well-deserved dinner (both for the chaps who played, and us fans who shouted our lungs out for Nice!) in a nice little restaurant near the hockey rink.