{"id":2600,"date":"2010-05-23T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2010-06-09T01:46:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T06:46:41","slug":"blackhawks-advance-to-the-nhl-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/blackhawks-advance-to-the-nhl-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks Advance to the NHL Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was back at the United Center after missing the last two Blackhawks playoff games. This game I was not going to miss. The Blackhawks had a chance to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1992 and the first time since I have been living in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Beg, Borrow and Deal<\/span>
\nBlackhawks Jim, who I am now renaming Hospitality Jim after the London version of Hospitality Jim, picked me up. He already had a ticket so we needed to buy two tickets \u2013 one for me and one for his son.<\/p>\n

Since it was a clinching game I thought tickets would be tough to buy outside of the United Center. Tickets on StubHub ranged from $100 to $130 for SRO the entire morning before the game. So when it was a couple of hours before the game and I found two SRO tickets for $80 each on eBay I decided to buy. Since I knew we were showing up early to the United Center, buying SRO was not a big deal and saved about $100 each over buying seats.<\/p>\n

San Jose Sharks at Chicago Blackhawks<\/span>
\nWe found a good standing room spot between sections 331 and 332 where we could see well. The Blackhawks completed their four-game sweep of the Sharks defeating them in Game Four 4-2. This was the first time I saw the presentation of the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl which is given to the Western Conference Champion (which is the first NHL trophy I have seen since I have not seen the Prince of Wales Trophy handed out).<\/p>\n

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\nWhile in standing room, I saw a guy wearing a Blackhawks jersey with the name on the jersey of Big Hit Buda (he runs the website bighitbuda.com<\/a>). I recognized him since I also saw him recently at a Cubs game.<\/p>\n

Post Game Celebrity Sighting<\/span>
\nAs we ran down to Hospitality Jim\u2019s seats, I saw Vince Vaughn heading up the aisle. Of course, rather than exit with Hospitality Jim I took pictures of Vince and asked if I could have a picture with him. He said no. But then his line came to a standstill and I asked if he could turn his head. I never heard his answer but this was the picture that was taken.<\/p>\n

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\nI guess he is tired of his picture taken at Blackhawks games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was back at the United Center after missing the last two Blackhawks playoff games. This game I was not going to miss. The Blackhawks had a chance to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1992 and the first time since I have been living in Chicago.
\nBeg, Borrow and Deal
\nBlackhawks Jim, who I am now renaming Hospitality Jim after the London version of Hospitality Jim, picked me up. He already had a ticket so we needed to buy two tickets \u2013 one for me and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[170,46,147,248],"tags":[337,349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}