1/9 GDT Wild VS Blackhawks

forthewild wrote:

sqare wrote:

Oh, btw... Have I mentioned that the Ice Hogs fans are CRAZY!?

do elaborate.

It's an AHL team in a city that isn't so up on hockey IQ.

One example is when the refs called an offsides on the Ice Hogs. There was a group of fans that absolutely railed on the refs for the whistle and started heckling them. Now, there was a player lagging close to the crease, the puck came out about a good five feet and it was clearly offside. Yet, one of the hysterical kids wanted to throw things at the ref and had to be calmed down by his grandfather because his parents were almost tossing HIM at the officials.

There's also politics going on with the Met Center. It's in downtown Rockford and the city paid a shit-ton to revitalize it. Downtown rockford is a SCARY place and I ain't no wimp. For the money that the city paid to renovate, they could have built a new facility out in Cherry Vale and it would have drawn much bigger crowds. When the Hogs were losing to the Aeros, the crowd started a chant about that. I think it was "SHOULDVE BUILT IN CHERRY VALE".

It's nuts. They heckle their own players WAY more than the opponents. Oh, and they think Skille is a god.