Saturday night with a Canadian team in the building is the closest this city gets to the real thing. For generations Saturday has been the night hockey belongs to up there, a fixed point in the week, and Calgary supporters carry that with them - they will tell you about it, at length, entirely unprompted, and they are not actually wrong to. The red sweaters travel in numbers. What makes it work in a room like this one is the contrast: a crowd that grew up inside the sport sitting directly beside a crowd that went out and chose it later in life, each of them louder for the other being there. Downtown on a Saturday evening at least gives you somewhere to go afterwards rather than a car park and a freeway on-ramp. Go, and let somebody from Alberta explain the offside rule to you whether or not you asked them to.
Saturday night with a Canadian team in the building is the closest this city gets to the real thing. For generations Saturday has been the night hockey belongs to up there, a fixed point in the week, and Calgary supporters carry that with them - they will tell you about it, at length, entirely unprompted, and they are not actually wrong to. The red sweaters travel in numbers. What makes it work in a room like this one is the contrast: a crowd that grew up inside the sport sitting directly beside a crowd that went out and chose it later in life, each of them louder for the other being there. Downtown on a Saturday evening at least gives you somewhere to go afterwards rather than a car park and a freeway on-ramp. Go, and let somebody from Alberta explain the offside rule to you whether or not you asked them to.
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Saturday night with a Canadian team in the building is the closest this city gets to the real thing. For generations Saturday has been the night hockey belongs to up there, a fixed point in the week, and Calgary supporters carry that with them - they will tell you about it, at length, entirely unprompted, and they are not actually wrong to. The red sweaters travel in numbers. What makes it work in a room like this one is the contrast: a crowd that grew up inside the sport sitting directly beside a crowd that went out and chose it later in life, each of them louder for the other being there. Downtown on a Saturday evening at least gives you somewhere to go afterwards rather than a car park and a freeway on-ramp. Go, and let somebody from Alberta explain the offside rule to you whether or not you asked them to.