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All 3 leagues I've played in provide 1 jersey for you. Usually they don't conflict with the other team's color since they plan that out ahead. That's not always the case though, and sometimes you have to wear a very dirty pinny above your regular jersey for those games. But I know some rinks require all their teams to figure out their own jersey needs, but I suspect thats the exception rather than the general rule. If you're signing up as a free agent and the rink assigns you, you're probably getting a rink jersey.
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Hockey Giant has a bunch of entry level one piece composite sticks on sale today for $40. http://www.hockeygiant.com/20110330hg.html
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Mar 30, 2011 19:33
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D C posted:Beer league is 50% sexual innuendo names.
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Apr 4, 2011 21:32
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For anyone in New York, World Ice Arena has dropped their league prices in order to attract more players. It's $3500 for a team ($3000 if you pay by May 30th), and $300 for a free agent. That makes it one of the cheapest leagues in the area. Definitely can use more guys as we only have 4 teams in a single division, and there's an overabundance of goalies. Check out their facebook page if you're interested: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/World-Ice-Arena-Adult-Hockey/155183504499942
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May 18, 2011 07:49
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Finally used my GoPro at the rink last week for open hockey. Still thinking about whether I'll wear it during league games. Not the most thrilling since I don't typically score goals. The one shot I have at the end is the only shot I got that entire night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bleeQ79kTT8
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Jul 1, 2011 22:50
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Biggest problem for me switching back and forth between roller and ice is stopping in roller. For at least the first game back in awhile, I attempt to stop and go flat on my face in roller. Then if I don't play ice for awhile, my stops are really crap.
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Jul 26, 2011 07:11
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Had 2 inline games this week. The team we put together has been struggling all season as we seem to have difficulty playing as a single unit. I'm sure we'll get better as time goes on though. I just wish we could win a drat game though, and I really thought we were going to get 2 wins this week. The first game was good. Both teams were equally matched with goals back and forth. They sealed it during the last minute when they scored to go up by 2. The second game was completely one-sided due to the other team having a ringer from the top division. Keep in mind we're in the lowest of the 4 divisions. The guy would dance around everyone, and then if you body him, he would knock you over. He scored 7 out of their 11 goals. Through all the seasons I've played, I have never lost to this team before, and they have never had more than 1 win any season. I took video as well with the gopro on my helmet. Watching it again makes me realize how ridiculous it was playing against the guy from the first division. Can't even imagine how that would be fun for him. First game - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHXgFo7PuSM Second game, the ringer is #8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlL6Kq3QQtw
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Jul 30, 2011 21:44
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Verman posted:That rink looks really smooth but how is it playing on wood? I've always played on sport court which allows you to hockey stop to a degree, but the wood seems like it would be sticky.
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Aug 1, 2011 05:03
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My team was in danger of falling 0-8, and my hopes for the next 2 games aren't that high either, but we got our first win tonight........by forfeit! And not regular forfeit circumstances either, but rather some idiot on the other team took a baseball style sing at our goalie's head during the last 30 seconds, which led to a melee. All their guys on the bench jumped onto the rink, whereas our team stayed on the bench. After separating things, the refs deemed their team to not have enough players to continue (clock had expired during the melee), and we won by forfeit even though the score was 11-5 in their favor. So we're 1-7. Technically we still have a chance of going to the playoffs if we win the next 2 games...funny that way.
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Aug 9, 2011 04:25
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lazerwolf posted:Does anyone have a good link or some info on good positioning and plays? I feel my hockey sense is decent but not great I suggestion picking up the book Hockey Plays and Strategies http://www.amazon.com/Hockey-Plays-and-Strategies-ebook/dp/B003C2SP4Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1313180927&sr=8-3 It was written by two coaches who worked with the Canadian national team and the various NHL organizations.
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Aug 12, 2011 21:33
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I can also vouch for IceGuys and ProPucks. Both are great, albeit expensive. They move on pavement very similarly to how a puck does on the ice.
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Aug 18, 2011 17:28
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If anyone in the NY&LI area is interested in playing, a bunch of guys dropped out from my ice team. The rink is World Ice Arena in Flushing Meadows Park, right next to the USTA National Tennis Center. Fall season runs mid-September through mid-December, 12 games plus playoffs. Shoot me a message if interested.
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Aug 25, 2011 20:37
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I've been waiting a year for the new Easton stick to come out figuring the S19 would drop in price and I could grab that on the cheap. So what happens when the new RS gets released? Of course, the S19 doesn't get cheaper, they just make the RS more expensive. 
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Sep 14, 2011 20:04
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ManicJason posted:Anyone play hockey out in Vegas? I just accepted a job offer there.
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Sep 18, 2011 19:47
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I put together a team this season and our first game was tonight. It was a total bitch finding enough guys and then coordinating payments, transportation, etc, but it all paid off when we won 7-5! It's been a long time since a legit win too, so it feels extra special. Glad I had the forethought to pack a cooler full of beers to the locker room also.
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Sep 22, 2011 06:39
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Someone pointed out to me last night that my team has 3 games next week. Figure in my other league, and I've got 4 straight nights of games, Sunday through Wednesday. I was worried I would miss a lot of the schedule cause I fly out for vacation on Thursday for 2 weeks. But after a run like this, I think I'll need a 2 week break just to recover. Worse yet, a guy on both my teams is also part of a third league. That means he has 5 games next week!
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Sep 27, 2011 17:01
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5'6" and I wear 14" Easton Sealth S1's. I wear the tongue underneath the shin pad. I've tried wearing it over and under, but it just felt right that way.
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Sep 27, 2011 19:53
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Has anyone ever been benched before in a beer league? I joined what I thought was a beer league, but apparently everyone is super serious about winning and complete hot heads. It's a new outdoor roller league in a rink at a public park. I knew a few people who were joining, and it was only $30 for the season, so I joined in too. I'm also in an ice and another roller league, which are casual but competitive, so I thought this would be similar. Every game has so far featured fights, constant arguing, ample racial slurs, and physical play. I was lucky enough to get drafted onto one of the top 2 teams. Looks like about 80% of the team played with one another since they were kids, and they're pretty good together. I'll also admit I'm no Gretzky, as I haven't scored a goal in a year. Anyway it finally happened where we got down by a bunch of goals in the first period. Now I typically don't get many shifts, and certainly not the 5+ minutes most of the guys push, but after that first period it was announced that only the top guys would keep going out so we could get back into the game. I'm all for putting out your best players in order to have a better chance at winning, but this was ridiculous. This is a regular season game too, and we're mid-way through the season, and it was against a team 2 positions lower than us. Real important game...right. I got 1 more 30 second shift, which we scored on too. Then I sat for the remainder of the game. The same thing happened for 2 other guys with me. Obviously we lost, otherwise maybe they would have been willing to let us on. At this point I'm just debating if I even bother showing up for the remainder of the season.
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Nov 15, 2011 06:48
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Actually went to see my old team play tonight, and made me feel awful because they're so unbelievably good this year. Damnit, I should have signed up with them.
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Nov 18, 2011 07:07
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I played the #1 team twice in the past week. They always run plays in our zone where the puck carrier switches places with one of the other forwards to confuse our defensive coverage. Any suggestions with to do against this? So far we've continued to play our zone coverage, but frequently that leaves the puck carrier with more speed than the d-man and he can get a shot off. Is it better to do man-to-man coverage in this scenario?
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Nov 23, 2011 17:38
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My team's record keeps getting worse, but our post-game beer consumption keeps increasing. Ended the season 2-10-0 last night. Playoff game next week. Considering we just dropped 3 games to the team we face, things are not looking so good. Also a guy on another team got injured this season in a game against us. I was out sick for that game, but everyone said he tripped near the net and hit the boards on his back pretty hard. He had to be taken out on a stretcher to the hospital. This was about 6 weeks ago. Confirmed with the rink manager last night that the guy is now paralyzed with no movement in his limbs, and he had spinal surgery. Supposedly he will undergo rehab at some point in the future, which might mean he'll walk again. Crazy stuff for a beer league since I never expected to see that happen.
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Dec 7, 2011 17:57
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One of the guys brought his 4 year old kid to the pick-up game this weekend and we skated 5.5-on-5. The kid had as many shots on goal as I did....
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Dec 12, 2011 22:00
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Got the new Eagle PFX gloves. They're the "low end" of the Eagle line, but have a lot of high end features. Wore them for the first time in game last night, and they didn't need any breaking in. Completely soft and comfortable with a nice snug fit. Really glad I got them as my old gloves were so worn they would chafe my hands, scrape my thumb joint on slappers, and didn't provide great protection.
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My team finally won it's first game in 3 seasons of playing with one another this past Sunday. Although we won once last season since the other team had to forfeit. It was a great decisive 9-6 win also. We had another game last night again a team of free agents. 75% of their goals comes from 1 single guy. We were shutting him down and eventually held him to only 1 goal all game, but still lost 8-6 with them scoring an empty netter at the end. Almost tied it up, but we were sloppy with a lot of penalties which killed us.
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bewbies posted:http://www.icehockeyworld.com/products/Easton-Synergy-EQ50-Grip-Senior-Hockey-Stick.html
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xzzy posted:So my local rink hung up a flag for Mexico the other day, next to the US and Canadian flags. http://www.iihf.com/channels1011/wm20/news/news-singleview-wm20/article/hockey-fiesta-in-mexico.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE3UGAnOaSI But really no, Mexico is a non-entity as far as hockey goes. They would be better off hanging the flag of Latvia.
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I had 15 skaters on my team last season purely for financial reasons, and that was about 2 guys too many. 13 is the sweet spot as you still have enough guys on the bench when people can't make the game.
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cenzo posted:I find that's nearly impossible to do in roller, at least for me. Whenever I try it I normally wind up coming to a full stop and need to hustle my rear end in the other direction skating forward. You can definitely do it in roller. That video makes it seem hard because he's actually doing like a semi-hockey stop before rotating his hips. I prefer making a tight turn and then rotating my hips, as it helps save momentum. Definitely a pain in the rear end maneuver to get down at first because rotating your hips quick like that is draining.
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Had a great game last night with a hilarious finish. We were down by 1 goal with a minute left, pulled our goalie for the extra skater, but the other team got the puck and scored an empty netter. But the refs disallowed the goal because the other team had an extra skater on too! This meathead on the other team who was cherry picking all night jumped on the ice when we pulled our goalie for some reason. There were only 12 seconds left since they wouldn't put time back on the clock, so we pulled the goalie for a 6-on-4 faceoff in the neutral zone. We win the puck and one of our guy's who spent the entire night dangling way too much, and not shooting enough, gets on a breakaway. Dangles right in front of the goalie of course, top shelf backhand goal with no space whatsoever to tie it up with 4 seconds left. It was sick. There's no OT in my league this season, so we settled for 1 point split. We actually had the exact same thing happen to us last week, but on the receiving end where we coughed up lead with 7 seconds left. I also scored my first league goal in about a year in that game too. Puck trickled out to point, I had a terrible weak wrister bounce along the ice. The goalie was completely screened and it went in. I think I've scored most of my goals like that actually.
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Mar 21, 2012 23:08
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I know a guy who brings his stuff in black trash bags to games. Making us all look like fools with such a cheaper option.
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Does anyone know where I can find all weather replacement netting for a goal? I bought an EZ Goal with a rebounder about a year and a half ago, and the netting disintegrated last year. Supposedly a known issue with their netting.
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Zettace posted:How about fish net netting? I would think that would stand the elements quiet well. I have no idea how much it'll cost though. http://www.amazon.com/Fishing-Nets-Backstop-Hockey-Barrier/dp/B002754T44/ref=pd_sim_sbs_sg_5 I'll have to take their word on the quality though as I don't know poo poo about netting. Either way it's cheaper than buying it from EZGoal, and I can just cut it down to size. I like their description: Great for hockey, lacrosse, golf, and weddings!
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Verman posted:Anyone want to feel terrible at hockey? This kid is 9 years old and plays with the rest of the team. I think this team play is better than most adult leagues I've seen.
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Won the championship last night in a sweep of the best-of-three series. We were also dead last by a far margin last season, so it's a huge jump. Though to be fair, for this season the rink decided to do a draft. We retained 5 guys, and everyone else was all new. It was a great season and everyone on the team was a strong player. I've won a championship before, but this is by far the best overall team I've been on.
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D C posted:WHOLE TEAM OF RINGERS
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May 19, 2012 04:22
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Has anyone participated in one of the Can/Am tournaments? http://www.canamhockey.com/ Seeing as how the Labatt pond hockey stuff sells out in apparently 15 minutes, I started looking at other options. Only reason I know about this is a guy I met at a bar recommended it, which is always a good start for hockey. A weekend in Vegas or AC with a tournament sounds good to me. They also have a pond hockey tournament too. I have no clue what Double or Triple means for their player sign-up though.
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At the roller rink in the park near me some guys don't wear any protection other than gloves, especially in the summer when it's hot. There's also a few people I've seen with no gloves, but that's just cause they're noobs. I myself don't wear a helmet, but at least realize how stupid I am.
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Teeter posted:Anyone have thoughts on Easton pads? The Synergy line in particular. Most of the stuff I've been eyeing is excluded from the sale but I managed to find a cart full of Easton stuff that is discounted. It's a pretty good deal so I'm considering pulling the trigger for my first set of pads. I've seen the EQ30 and EQ50 stuff, and you're armored up like Robocop. Probably can take a bullet and live. I wear Stealth S1 pads (circa 2008), and considering that was on their low end, it's held up really well.
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sellouts posted:When we won we treated it like any other win, shook hands, then took a few fun pictures. Pretty much the same when my team won last season. I think it was about the same celebration level as a close OT win, plus a trophy.
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Do you guys have any suggestions for what to do when you have an uneven amount of guys for lines? Like let's say you have 7 or 8 forwards. Typically for forwards I've always done revolving door style, where people just change with whoever comes off. But I feel this isn't good because the lines just get all scrambled, and there's always some guy who uses it as an excuse to stay out for 10 minute shifts. But if you keep official lines everyone can get used to each others style, and it's easy to keep tabs on shift length. Recently in one game we had 7 forwards, and the "extra" guy would switch off with a guy on a line every other shift, and that guy would be different each time. Essentially a line of 4 people. The order it went for him was: Sit Shift Out, Play LW, Sit Shift, Play Center, Sit Shift, Play RW, and repeat. Then he would move to another line for the second period. I felt this was better since it kept the lines mostly the same, and distributed the sitting between more guys evenly. But it does sort of screw the extra guy who ends up taking less shifts than the others.
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