If you were at Lindenwood's first home Division I hockey game on Friday and thought the guy watching the Lions play Air Force from the Zamboni gate at Centene Community Ice Center looked a lot like Blues defenseman Colton Parayko it is, of course, because it was.
"It was good," said Parayko, who played college hockey at Alaska-Fairbanks. "A lot of people there. Just wanted to go see what it was all about. Takes me back to the good old days of DI hockey and we played Air Force four or six times probably in my career, so it's kind of cool just to relive a little memory."
Of course, seeing Parayko at a hockey game, whatever the level, may not seem odd, but Parayko seems to turn up at all sorts of sporting events. He was at two of the three events at World Wide Technology Raceway this summer, seeing the Indy cars and the drag races but missing NASCAR. (Parayko did laps before the IndyCar race at World Wide with Indy 500 champ Marcus Ericsson; he still was talking about it at the start of training camp.) Golf tournaments, college basketball and football, Cardinals games. Hopefully you didn't sit behind him at the Fox Theater — he's listed at 6 feet 6.
