Anniversary Part I – The first game
Stories | Thursday 2 December 2010 by Richard BlayneyI wouldn’t quite say it feels like yesterday, but it certainly doesn’t feel like ten years. Maybe about five years? I mean there has been enough ups and downs to make us all aware that the Giants have been around for a while, but the thought that ten full years of hockey has passed under the Odyssey Arena bridge is hard to believe even though we’ve always known it was the 2nd December 2000 that they officially arrived in town. That’s right, on these words the memories come flooding back that today marks ten years to the day that professional hockey arrived in Belfast – and I wasn’t even there.
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