This afternoon we walked down to US Bank Arena to get tickets for this evening’s NCAA Midwest Regional Men’s Ice Hockey Championship between North Dakota and the University of Michigan. Genifer had never been to a college hockey game before, and surprisingly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Michigan play hockey in person…

Somehow, I managed to turn on the date and time stamp on my camera. So that’s lovely…

Michigan brought it’s hockey pep band…

LET’S PLAY HOCKEY!

Our seats were just behind a whole bunch of North Dakota fans who didn’t sit down until after the first whistle…

North Dakota scored the games first goal right at the end of the first period…

And that’s the way the first period ended…

We moved up and over a couple of sections to get away from those North Dakota fans who were a little too into the game. Plus, we like to have a little elbow room and it was a pretty packed US Bank Arena for this championship hockey game…

The puck dropped for the start of the second period…

GOAL MICHIGAN!

But North Dakota retook the lead…

TIE GAME!!

But it all kinda went downhill from their for the Wolverines…

And that’s the way the game would end. 5-2. North Dakota advances to the Frozen Four in Tampa.

Congratulations to North Dakota. It was pretty awesome to get the chance to see a NCAA tournament hockey game! 🙂