TPS starting on a slight down note
15 Sep 2019 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWe went to the TPS season opener again! They lost 3-1 to Ässät ('The Aces', from Pori/Björneborg: their logo is a card-suit spade), who according to Wax are supposed to suck, but they didn't suck last night. To my anxious eyes it appeared that Ässät had the puck all the time, but later they showed a possession map and it seems like it was pretty evenly divided. TPS didn't suck either... they just seemed to be struggling. Their one goal was courtesy of Holm, a Swede on his first game in Liiga. TPS' chief goalie, Rasmus Tirronen, was again the MVP and did nothing wrong in his life. Very nice facial hair.
The most memorable part actually was Ässät's three new players. A Swedish black man named Hedberg was responsible for the most beautiful of their three goals, and they also had a pair of Canadian identical twins who have played together their entire lives named Tylor and Tyson Spink. I mean #1 SPINK!, #2 they're a set so you get to call them SPINKS instead, #3 SPINX is the name of a hair salon in Turku because they meant to say sphinx but Finnish people are confused by 'ph', #4 TYLOR - that's the first time I've ever seen this particular Go Back to Alberta white boy spelling (but he's from Ontario and also they probably did it to match the vowels with his brother's name, but still). They saw a lot of ice time; they're pretty good.
2nd most memorable: Jore the teddy bear mascot came out with a tshirt gun that malfunctioned and shot the tshirt backwards instead, where it skidded across the ice. One of the people on the ice brought it over to the attendant at the guest penalty box, who blinked at it through his little glasses and then gamely baseball-tossed it up into the stands, where a guy in the very 1st row caught it easily and handed it to a kid. (Jore brought a functioning tshirt gun at the 2nd intermission and shot two more.)
Concessions were also funny. Wax discovered on her last trip that the Special Diet concession stand on the top (third) level of the arena, where they sell soy hot dogs and veggie burgers and the like, also has bagels, so she bought us these bagel sandwiches with grilled goat cheese, avocado, herbed cream cheese, tomato, and some kind of... cloudberry jam??? It was fuckin' weird. I mean, it was fairly good, but it was bizarrely gourmet and the jam was way too sweet, and also that was too much filling to successfully fit into a bagel. The bagel itself was of better quality (read: actually firm and dense and springy, like they're supposed to be) than Finnish bagels usually are. However, I regret not having time to eat popcorn, because the line to concessions in the 1st intermission never got shorter than 100 m, so we eventually gave up. Instead I ate half a chocolate bar from my bag.
The most memorable part actually was Ässät's three new players. A Swedish black man named Hedberg was responsible for the most beautiful of their three goals, and they also had a pair of Canadian identical twins who have played together their entire lives named Tylor and Tyson Spink. I mean #1 SPINK!, #2 they're a set so you get to call them SPINKS instead, #3 SPINX is the name of a hair salon in Turku because they meant to say sphinx but Finnish people are confused by 'ph', #4 TYLOR - that's the first time I've ever seen this particular Go Back to Alberta white boy spelling (but he's from Ontario and also they probably did it to match the vowels with his brother's name, but still). They saw a lot of ice time; they're pretty good.
2nd most memorable: Jore the teddy bear mascot came out with a tshirt gun that malfunctioned and shot the tshirt backwards instead, where it skidded across the ice. One of the people on the ice brought it over to the attendant at the guest penalty box, who blinked at it through his little glasses and then gamely baseball-tossed it up into the stands, where a guy in the very 1st row caught it easily and handed it to a kid. (Jore brought a functioning tshirt gun at the 2nd intermission and shot two more.)
Concessions were also funny. Wax discovered on her last trip that the Special Diet concession stand on the top (third) level of the arena, where they sell soy hot dogs and veggie burgers and the like, also has bagels, so she bought us these bagel sandwiches with grilled goat cheese, avocado, herbed cream cheese, tomato, and some kind of... cloudberry jam??? It was fuckin' weird. I mean, it was fairly good, but it was bizarrely gourmet and the jam was way too sweet, and also that was too much filling to successfully fit into a bagel. The bagel itself was of better quality (read: actually firm and dense and springy, like they're supposed to be) than Finnish bagels usually are. However, I regret not having time to eat popcorn, because the line to concessions in the 1st intermission never got shorter than 100 m, so we eventually gave up. Instead I ate half a chocolate bar from my bag.
