She even tried to help me learn how to stop near the boards, although I was too scared to attempt the execution. She grew up a figure skater in Southern California and is a former member of the Kings’ ice crew.
While skating, I made friends with Deborah Lew, who works for the Kings. The delivery wasn’t smooth, but skating on a blade in a baseball stadium doesn’t make for pinpoint concentration. Multi-tasking I did as I took video from my cellphone, making like GoPro. So I can’t call him out, especially because he was skating around on one skate for a while. Most reporters were flying around the ice, and I only saw one take a spill and that’s because he had just stepped on to the ice and turned around quickly when I called his name. I grew up a skiier in Colorado, and while I can’t do any figure skating tricks, I could make my way around the rink that the Kings and Ducks will use to play the first outdoor NHL game in Los Angeles history. I wasn’t graceful, but I didn’t fall either. Thanks to my friend Ally Kelly, she loaned me a pair of skates that were exactly my size.Ĭouldn’t believe someone in Southern California actually owned ice skates. I don’t have skates, so I posted on Facebook a silly question, asking if anyone in Los Angeles had skates I could borrow. I skated by Luc Robitaille, who was conducting interviews from the ice, and in no universe did I ever think I’d share ice time with the Hall of Famer.
#Ice skating game pomp series#
This pomp and circumstance is all in anticipation of Saturday’s NHL Stadium Series game between the Kings and Ducks. The NHL hosted a media pleasure skate at Dodger Stadium, and it sure was a pleasure to see the sights - palm trees and dugout seats and Jumbo Trons with fake snow falling - from a unique, albeit wobbly, view. I never had that on my bucket list, but it was so cool, skating around under the Wednesday night lights over the area where Hanley Ramirez is normally fielding plays at shortstop for the Dodgers. Check ice skating at Dodger Stadium off my bucket list.
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