As a big fan of outdoor NHL games, I must say that this will be an event to see: a hockey game will be played in Pula, Croatia inside Arena.
Preparations in progress -
http://www.jutarnji.hr/nestvarna-scena--hokejaski-teren-usred-pulske-arene--pocinju-pripreme-za-spektakl/1051868/
Pretty cool.
Two games will be played; 14th and 16th of Sept.
Awesome. I wish I’d known about this sooner, I totally could have arranged to go!
I can’t read Croatian, but how in the hell are they going to maintain ice outdoors, in Croatia in the middle of September? Refrigeration units can’t be that powerful. Heck we have a hard time in North America for the outdoor NHL games in January.
Is this going to be a crossover game? Hockey with some gladatorial combat thrown in? 
Be careful what you wish for. I’m picturing retiarii sans trident, just throwing nets at each other. Synchornized retiarii.
I guess a hijacky side question: was Diocletian the only Emperor who could be considered Croatian? I don’t know if he ever would’ve visited this particular Coliseum, or what shape it would’ve been 200 years later. But he was one of the few to retire, and lived in what is now Split (the cities aren’t terribly close).
Well, they did have an outdoor exhibition game in Vegas some years back.
Wow. So they did.
How would you tell the difference? 
Well, a slight difference in equipment for one. Give the goalie a trident rather than a hockey stick to go with his net. 
I dunno, this looks like a typical game to me.
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This was posted on one of my hockey forums a few months back.
One of the posters on there is a Yugoslav expat living in Italy, who remarked that a) this part of Croatia is very hot in September; and b) that this hockey league is pretty piss poor to begin with.
Obviously the quality of the play is vastly outstripped by the cool factor, but still.
I wouldn’t consider him Croatian, if only because there were no Croatians there yet, nor would there be for a few hundred years. Attila the Hun also wasn’t Hungarian, despite the protests of my grandparents.
I know, which is why I said “could be considered.” I doubt Philip the Arab has much ethnically in common with modern Arabs, except that he was born in what is now Syria.
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