I currently live about a two hour drive from Nashville, and a three hour drive from St. Louis. There's a place across the Ohio River in southern Indiana called Evansville where they are just as far away from NHL hockey as I am, but the travel time might be reversed. Well when I first moved out here, one of the first things that I looked for was a skatepark (be patient, I'll get to the hockey part in a minute). I found one nice indoor park in Evansville at a place called Swonders.
Yes, it looks like somebody built a skatepark in a section of a concourse in a hockey arena. The really cool part though, is that is kind of what they did. On the other side of the wall to the right is in fact, a hockey rink. It's like my two favorite things all rolled into one. Swonders just got better though, they now have their own minor (very minor) league hockey team, the IceMen.
The only thing that bothered me though, was the local coverage:
Keep in mind though, this is the same channel that a few years ago reported that the Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Houston[sic] Oilers for the Stanley Cup. Not to mention that I can't even begin to try to type out how they pronounced "Brind'Amour". Is fighting really what all those people went to see? Well that's what Mike Chesney (by the way, I've never seen him on the news before) and some random player said, but I didn't see any interviews with fans. Fortunately, the morning crew had a little bit more hockey insight and enthusiasm, too bad they are Pennsylvania team fans. At least their normal sportscaster put some real effort into it.
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