I would have given you a pass on that one. I hope you gave the mom a steely glare. Or a boot to the head. Either would have sufficed.
I adore live hockey games- I even turned my mom onto hockey, back when the Gulls were playing the Red Army team. She had a very “slap shot” idea of what a hockey game was like, but she loved it.
We get lots of ignorant hockey fans here, mostly at Ducks games. Some of them make an effort, though, and will ask us about penalties that confuse them (or non-penalties, as the case may be!), or why the sign says “sit the fuck down while the puck is in play,” or other stuff. Actually, though, most of the eager students are up in the cheap seats…
Well, you can always cheer for your home team at an away game…
I’m living near Washington DC now and I try to go to all the Capitals/Canadiens games I can. Wearing my Canadiens jersey, screeching in joy when they score, cursing them if they suck… Oh GOD do I miss Montreal hockey. And it’s so much better to be at the game than to watch it on TV. I’ve never had good seats, I’m always way up in the “nosebleed” section, but it’s more fun up there anyway. That’s where all the real fans are.
I think it shows my dedication that I’ve had to be talked out of going to a Caps/Leafs game, wearing my Montreal jersey, bearing a “Leafs suck” sign. 
Well, in all fairness, “The Leafs Suck” is pretty much understood. 
This about sums it up …
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=573008&id=652432006
Go Leafs!!!
Quite possible. I hadn’t thought of that.
The best I could figure, it was an all-drum concert. And as we all know, drums come from the deep, dark jungles of Africa. And Max Roach was black. As we all know, all black people used to live in Africa. Put the two together, and hey! It’s obvious.
Other than that, it makes about as much sense as randomly shouting “Armadillo!” at a ballet, or “Ham sandwich!” at a funeral.
At one of the prop 8 marches there were a couple of people carrying “Free Tibet” signs. They should hook up with Africa girl and form a “we’re lost” brigade.
Yeah, we glared at her however we were more worried about the kid’s vomit on our clothes and items. Ew.
We have to be patient. They’re in a rebuilding century.
Even when watching on TV, I notice the American crowds (city-dependent, of course) seem to be more subdued in general than in Canadian cities or at least in cities with a decent hockey market. You want real hockey fans, go to an Oilers home game! My friend and I just dropped $500 each on lower bowl tickets for next month, so it better be good. And thanks for cheering my team on, pbbth. 
Ugh, I went to some World Championship games last spring and there was a whole group of stupid little kids in the row ahead of us that WOULD NOT SHUT UP. Look, I understand kids can have short attention spans, but that doesn’t mean it’s permissible to let them jabber away so loudly I can’t hear the loudspeaker.
A few years ago, when the Rockford IceHogs were in the UHL, they had a day game scheduled for the kids to attend, and several players were scheduled to speak during pre-game. Also scheduled were the giveaway of Thunder Sticks. Unfortunately, the Thunder Sticks were given away BEFORE the pre-game activities, and kids being kids, they started banging away with the Sticks as soon as they sat down. Naturally, the result was that nobody could hear the players, and one even got frustrated enough to ask the kids not to bang the sticks until he was finished talking. Didn’t work. I don’t blame the kids entirely for this, however. The Sticks should have been given away AFTER the game as the kids were leaving the arena.
Regarding people who don’t pay attention to the game, they are asking to get waffled upside the head with a HARD, FROZEN puck that’s shot into the stands. Whenever I go to a game, I ALWAYS have my eyes on the ice, because you never know just when that puck is going to fly into the stands.