Let me start by roughly describing how hockey matches look in Tampere. So our arena in Tivoli (Slovenia )takes about 4000 people (which is never the case). Now Nokia arena takes more than 13000 people and is usually fully packed. I watched Tampera’s best team play and I have to say it was just amazing. The quality of their game is just so much better than Olympia’s it’s insane. And don’t get me started of the fans. Whole arena was going nuts when they scored. They were using everything from giant flags, to trumpets. Of course I had to buy the jersey haha. Breaks and announcements are on an another level with all the light shows and mascots throwing t shorts at crowd. They also had their own cheerleading squad, and of course, they were all women. But I noticed, that they don’t or didn’t use torches unlike green dragons back in Slovenia. And the seats were not plastic like in Tivoli, because they actually take care of stuff unlike Slovenians. So overall experience was amazing and would/will definitely watch it again.
