My Experience at the Islander Game

Alright, so I get to the Coliseum around 6:50 and get a decent parking spot. My buddy got these print out ticketmaster tickets from his boss which looked ridiculously fake. We get frisked (which still makes me feel dirty) and are waiting on line to get into the Coliseum. I take out the piece of paper and the lady tries to scan the bar code and the scanner starts beeping, she does it again, and again, and does not say anything than, "already used." How am I supposed to know what that means? After a few seconds of awkward standing around she tells us to go to the box office.

We get to the box office and the dude working the window looks at me and my friend like were speaking Japanese. Ten minutes later he actually got out of his chair to try and solve this problem. So there we are me and my friend standing at this now empty window, with a line building up behind us. During the 7 minutes it took the box office guy to figure out the problem two different people approached us, one trying to sell us tickets, and the other trying to give us tickets, but only one.....what good would that do guy?

The ticket man comes back and is talking to my friend, I couldn't hear a word he was saying, but apparently our tickets were indeed fake. Here is the funny part, they still let us in. We go to a different scanner person and are let in on the first try. We get to our section and give the tickets to the usher and he says, "There's someone sitting in your seats" he takes our ticket walks down to the people and asks to see there ticket, they were identical. He tells us to just sit next to them, awkward, but we got into the game with fake Islander tickets so whatever.

As for the game, what a snoozer. There was a time in the game when the Devils were on the powerplay in the first period and Joey Mac made about 300 saves in 5 seconds. He looked really good, even the Devil fan next to me was praising Joey Mac. There were no fights, which really upset me especially after seeing Kip Brennan in person because he is HUGE. I thought he was going to drop the gloves with Colin White at one point, but it didn't happen.

Game Highlight:
- Me receiving a text message that Pedro Martinez was injured, I was devastated.

One game left in the Coliseum this season. I can guarantee you one thing, I won't be there. My record at Islander games this year is 0-3....ugh. I know what you may be thinking, "Only three games what kind of Islander fan are you?" I'm a college student, I'm broke, get off my nuts.