Team Canada Olympic Hockey Camp

When I heard that Hockey Canada would be holding their orientation camps in Calgary this August, I knew that I would be going down for at least one day. I couldn’t get confirmation about getting into the arena for the daily skates, so I left it to the last day when the mens team held their Red vs. White scrimmage.

I drove down from Edmonton to Calgary, and arrived at the Saddledome pretty early. I was tempted to head over to 17th ave to stare at the hot broads in Calgary, I mean get something to eat, but I figured I’d stick around and see if there was anything going on. I lapped the outside of the stadium a few times until I found a few people hanging around the South East corner of the building. They saw my SLR and were like “Get over here! This is where all the players are coming in!” So there I waited for about 12 second, and then of course security came and told us to beat it… Just as they were tossing us, Darren Dreger of TSN told us that all the players were inside already so it wasn’t a big deal that we had to move. Prior to leaving one of the other guys that was waiting around for pictures/autographs asked Dreger if he could hook him up with a job at TSN. Dreger simply responded, “Send your resume.”

They didn’t open up the doors until 6pm so I just continued to hang around until I could get in there and do a litmus test on the herion content in the beer at the Saddledome. More on that later…

Prior to heading inside I saw this obvious jersey foul outside… Yeah your kid and his girlfriend are wearing Iginla jerseys, which is ok because there were about one billion different hockey jerseys in the stadium, but you decide to wear your Stampeders jersey? Yeah it’s red, but come on!

So as soon as I get inside I make a b-line to the “famous” hotdog stand, and get something that looked like this. I always knew people in Calgary were weird, but this hot dog just confirmed that for me. Pretty disgusting.

Anyway, after getting inside I immediately got jacked up by security again saying that I couldn’t take pictures with my “professional camera.” Take a look at any of these pics and you’ll see that you could probably get better results with a 0.2 megapixel motorola camera phone. So yeah, he walked away, and I started taking pictures. The usher in my section didn’t give a flying one that I was snapping away and taking video. Anyway, here are some other’s that I got from inside the rink:

Yes, that’s a hot hockey mom/wife… couldn’t figure out who she belonged to though.

This guy is a beauty!

Corey Perry likes what he sees…

Yeah as you can see it was a beauty night. Oh, you can’t really see? How about some video?

Oh yeah, I spoke with Pierre Mcguire as well… that’s going to be saved for a separate post. Until then…