Question

[unicornduke]

 How the frick do people stay warm at mostly empty hockey games. I bring a blanket and hoodie/coat every time and I still end up partially chilly and there are some people here in shorts and tshirts. 

I mean, right now I'm sick, so I understand but I've been to plenty other games and I'm still cold. 

Comments

[graydon]

What kinds of seats? There's the horrid plank-over-concrete stuff, there's the awful composite buckets, and there's the awful metal foldy stuff; it's all a heat-thief in one degree or another.

Taking a pad, especially one with a back -- "trail chair", generally; sometimes called a "senate seat" in Canada -- can be a big help. The LL Bean ones are fancy and have aerogel insulation.

My expectation is that the folks in shorts get really into the cheering and waving their arms parts of things.

[unicornduke]

These ones in particular were padded. Newer arena so I think they invested. Plus it's used for concerts and stuff. I did warm up after i made this post. The local university that i do most of my hockey watching has an old arena. It's been upgraded but not the seats, those are wood. That would definitely be why i normally get pretty cold. I'll probably just bring a second blanket lol

[graydon]

Really traditional is a big sack of straw. :)

Anything that keeps the seat from being a heat-thief helps. The more modern trail chairs have built-in space blanket layers and stuff so they're amazingly good insulation for the weight. Hopefully the extra blanket does the trick!

[cerberusia]

Being sick won't help, but some people are just Like That. At uni in winter, I wouldn't step outside college without seven layers on; and there would be blokes in shorts and flipflops.

[unicornduke]

Yeah, must be nice not to bundle up.

[cerberusia]

I know, right? How do these people do it. What is their secret.