The opportunity arose for me to take in a hockey game and to see the local professional team play. They are known as Slovan (the blue team). Some of you remember I also saw the team play last year on my first trip to Slovakia. This is the Slovakian professional league. In this game the home town team played against a mountain town team called Poprad. The good guys won in an overtime shoot out and everybody went home happy. There were probably 3000 or 4000 people in an arena that holds 7 or 8ooo.