Rogers Place opener against Seattle Kraken on October 3
FINALLY hockey's back at Rogers Place π₯π₯ October 3 vs Seattle, gonna be LOUD in there, you just know it. Been counting down since summer and that opener plus five games in eleven nights to start, no better way to open a season. Riding with the boys all the way π
You don't abandon your own.
Seattle in the opener?? that's a free two points tbh π€π hope their fans booked flights for nothing, gonna be deaf in Rogers Place October 3 π₯π₯ five games in eleven nights, boys will be flying, backing them all the way πͺ ah well, nowt to do till puck drop π
On the terraces since I was a kid.
Free two points? Careful, Steve, Seattle's bugged me in openers before. My C$100 is going moneyline and I'll take a shot on the puck line only if it sits near +1.5 with juice, opener at Rogers Place, the line usually moves toward Edmonton by puck drop. Watch who starts in goal, that's where the value hides. πΈ
The line moves β catch it.
Beth dropping C$100 before the season even starts, meanwhile I'm out here budgeting which road trip costs me the most in missed work shifts π that Anaheim-San Jose-LA stretch is basically a California vacation with occasional hockey breaking out, my boss is gonna love the PTO request.
Honestly I just picture the Kraken walking into Rogers Place Oct 3 and the crowd already halfway through a pitcher, deafening before the anthem even ends. Me? I'll be the guy yelling tactical advice from section 312 that makes zero sense. Hold my pint, boys, eleven nights of chaos incoming π€£ππΏ
Hold my pint.
Uncle_Guy don't apologize, asking is how you learn π and yeah the California swing is the fun one. Anaheim, San Jose, LA in eight days, did that trip with my old minor hockey squad once and still tell stories about it. That Utah game back home on the 16th though? That's the one I'm circling, season opener energy all over again π₯π
Heart with the team, head on pause.
Beth putting C$100 on it before the puck even drops has me nervous for her π
maybe I'm wrong but Seattle bugging openers sounds like the kind of thing that keeps happening once you say it out loud?
Also quick question for PowerPlayDiehard since you've actually done the California swing, is it better to catch Anaheim or San Jose as a road fan? Still learning this stuff, and if I ever beg my boss for days off like RefBlindHater I want to spend them right π
Learn something new every day.
Seattle scared of an opener? nah, Kraken gonna feel that Rogers Place crowd from puck drop π€ who's most pumped matters less than who shows up loud tbh π₯
One love, one side β€οΈ
Uncle_Guy is onto something though, no? Everyone keeps saying California swing is the "fun" trip but five games in eleven nights sounds brutal, fun or not π
maybe the opener crowd carries them through Seattle but does that energy survive Anaheim on the 8th? Genuine question, go easy on me π
Learning from the veterans, go easy π