Coachella Valley Firebirds vs Bakersfield Condors - Thanksgiving Break
By the day after Thanksgiving the house has run out of things to say. The food is gone, the relatives are still here, somebody has put a parade recording on that nobody is watching, and the afternoon will not end. This is the escape hatch. Everyone gets in the car, drives to the arena, and for two hours the family has something to look at that is not each other - which is the actual function of minor-league hockey in a town like this and nobody says it out loud. The Condors are the other California farm club, two hours up the 99, so there is just enough edge in it to care. The giveaway is a Fuego on a Shelf figurine, Fuego being the team's phoenix mascot, and yes, that is the joke it sounds like. Puck drops at 7, 75702 Varner Road. The valley fills up with people visiting family all week, which is the one stretch of the year the desert is louder than the coast.
By the day after Thanksgiving the house has run out of things to say. The food is gone, the relatives are still here, somebody has put a parade recording on that nobody is watching, and the afternoon will not end. This is the escape hatch. Everyone gets in the car, drives to the arena, and for two hours the family has something to look at that is not each other - which is the actual function of minor-league hockey in a town like this and nobody says it out loud. The Condors are the other California farm club, two hours up the 99, so there is just enough edge in it to care. The giveaway is a Fuego on a Shelf figurine, Fuego being the team's phoenix mascot, and yes, that is the joke it sounds like. Puck drops at 7, 75702 Varner Road. The valley fills up with people visiting family all week, which is the one stretch of the year the desert is louder than the coast.
By the day after Thanksgiving the house has run out of things to say. The food is gone, the relatives are still here, somebody has put a parade recording on that nobody is watching, and the afternoon will not end. This is the escape hatch. Everyone gets in the car, drives to the arena, and for two hours the family has something to look at that is not each other - which is the actual function of minor-league hockey in a town like this and nobody says it out loud. The Condors are the other California farm club, two hours up the 99, so there is just enough edge in it to care. The giveaway is a Fuego on a Shelf figurine, Fuego being the team's phoenix mascot, and yes, that is the joke it sounds like. Puck drops at 7, 75702 Varner Road. The valley fills up with people visiting family all week, which is the one stretch of the year the desert is louder than the coast.