Red Wings X-Mas and a little SI Secret Uncovered
Yes it is Christmas Eve and I’m flying with Santa again on my way home to the padres in the 503.
Since I have to wait for my now 40 mins delayed flight out of the ever inefficient ORD, I thought I’d throw up some festive Red Wings hockey shots from last night.
Santa girls
Datsyuk celebrates his goal in the second
My fav Red Wing trying to score
Also of interest from last night’s game was my education upon how SI got their Red Wings playoff shots from a seemingly impossible angle:
SI did this shot from a really cool angle
It seems those crafty, and influential, photogs from SI got the Joe Louis Arena management to cut a hole in the Zamboni door to the ice rink, slap a piece of glass over the hole, and that’s how the above photo was taken, with a remotely mounted camera:
Cut hole, install glass, perfect mount location!
So simple, yet so utterly exclusive because only SI could get something like that done… i’m hoping maybe i can get access to that some day to try a few shots.