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i had 3 assists in my first game but also fell on my rear end trying to pivot on a big turnover but got bailed out. gg
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doctor 7 posted:Well 45 minutes of power skating before my first game tonight Don't worry, just express to the amateur scouts that stat lines aren't everything and you bring a ton of "intagibles" to the team. In all seriousness, you probably didn't do all that bad. Beer league is a fickle mistress.
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Sep 18, 2015 14:03
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doctor 7 posted:Well 45 minutes of power skating before my first game tonight It couldn't have been much worse than this (flash link, so phone may not work): http://stevedommer.com/hockey/20130310_doh/20130310_doh.html It's my buddy in the championship from a few years ago.
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Pinky Artichoke posted:As a connoisseur of ugly jerseys I am deeply envious. Although if I were designing it I'd replace the blue with purple. communist kangaroo posted:I'm jealous of the shelf space and generous allocation of coat hooks in that locker room Both of these are true. Registration for our winter league started and instead of registering for a team, there's a form option that says "What team would you like to play on?" When I emailed the league asking why it was phrased that way, they came right out and said they'd move people around to balance rosters so everyone has the mandatory minimum of 14+G. This sent me into a seething internet rage, so I let them know they could expect a fair number of chargebacks should they decide to force people onto new teams. The vast majority of the teams in my division have been playing together for a very long time. In my case, we've been skating as a whole for 8 years. Several guys have been on the same roster since high school. I'll never understand the ineptitude of amateur hockey organizations.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:49
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Oh god my hip flexors day after Really feeling it and seriously glad I stretch the poo poo out of them before I skate now. Henrik Zetterberg posted:It couldn't have been much worse than this (flash link, so phone may not work): It was a much faster paced game than I am used to so I was immediately getting rid of the puck to someone else. Really I need to calm down, take a second with it and decide what to do. Instead of playing hot potato and making GBS threads up our team.
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Sep 18, 2015 20:08
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delpheye posted:Both of these are true. What's so wrong about this again? Do y'all carry 15 or more? Seems like a way to integrate new players and handle a situation where a team has like 8 people sign up
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Sep 18, 2015 20:53
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Plus they can avoid one team stacking themselves to stupid levels by forcing them to split up.
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Sep 18, 2015 21:01
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I can see being pissed if the league breaks up your team of good buds but on the other hand it's hard enough to balance skill levels without being able to shift players among teams. We got a new rink in town last year, and new leagues, and they were initially planning on re-scrambling all the teams every year with the idea that people would be better acquainted with guys on other teams and less likely to start poo poo on the ice. Everybody hated the idea though so they didn't do it.
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Sep 18, 2015 21:16
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If you don't have enough to make league minimums what can you do? 14 is a weird number though. 13 makes more sense to me.
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Sep 18, 2015 21:21
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Eh, there's usually at least one person that doesn't show up to a game so you're not likely to actually have 14 and maybe less likely to get stuck with a crappy number of skaters like 11 or 12.
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Sep 18, 2015 21:25
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Thufir posted:I can see being pissed if the league breaks up your team of good buds but on the other hand it's hard enough to balance skill levels without being able to shift players among teams. We got a new rink in town last year, and new leagues, and they were initially planning on re-scrambling all the teams every year with the idea that people would be better acquainted with guys on other teams and less likely to start poo poo on the ice. Everybody hated the idea though so they didn't do it. That's the theory behind the rink I recently stopped playing at. It worked well when they had a good, involved hockey director and fell to poo poo when that was not the case. One of the big problems is that you can't be half-assed about it: either all of the teams are drafted or none of them are. It's no fun knowing that every season 20% of your games are going to consist of being stomped by the one non-drafted team.
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Sep 18, 2015 21:29
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I wish my rink would do a draft league. We have the same teams every year, usually four sometimes a fifth team scrapes together but no matter what its all the same guys. We all know each other and all have been playing with/against each other for a long time. Same thing every year. There are two teams at the top that compete with each other and crush everyone else and two teams at the bottom that compete with each other and get crushed by the other two. I just think it would be fun to keep like maybe a full line, or a captain and a goalie and just have them pick the rest from the pool. I mean with only 4 or 5 teams at most we could do the draft schoolyard style in like 30 minutes. I like my team, even if we are one of the bottom teams, but it is getting kind of stale.
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Sep 18, 2015 22:50
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Same team has won the cup 4 years in a row in our league Though that may change this year Because the top 2-4/8 teams in the 30+C want to drop down to 30+D
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Sep 18, 2015 23:35
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communist kangaroo posted:I'm jealous of the shelf space and generous allocation of coat hooks in that locker room Thunderbird Arena at UBC, was an Olympic venue. Only the second time I've played there but its pretty nice, though its impossible to find the puck when it goes above board level, and its really bright on the ice. 
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Sep 18, 2015 23:55
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Thufir posted:Eh, there's usually at least one person that doesn't show up to a game so you're not likely to actually have 14 and maybe less likely to get stuck with a crappy number of skaters like 11 or 12. It's poo poo when everyone shows up (playoffs)
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D C posted:Thunderbird Arena at UBC, was an Olympic venue. Only the second time I've played there but its pretty nice, though its impossible to find the puck when it goes above board level, and its really bright on the ice. gently caress me. The rink I normally play at has CURTAINS in the corners of the rink as locker rooms.
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Sep 19, 2015 01:41
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if it makes you feel any better its the same way when we play at staples center
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Vargatron posted:gently caress me. The rink I normally play at has CURTAINS in the corners of the rink as locker rooms. I had to change in a weird curtain corner at my last game because the Preds are using a bunch of locker rooms for their rookie camp right now. Almost made me miss lovely concrete benches.
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I played ice hockey from 7 years old to 18 years old - mostly a B level player. I'm 28 now and I kinda want to get back in to it a little bit, though I only have my skates, helmet, and stick left. My skates are tight width wise in the toe box area on one foot, is there any way around buying a set of new ones? I played a fuckload back in the day at this place that had half-size rinks 3 on 3 no goalies. Really, really fun but it seems they are closed now. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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Sep 21, 2015 03:39
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I was told the toe box itself is one thing that cannot be adjusted. Right behind it though? You can adjust that.
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Sep 21, 2015 04:08
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Have you tried Superfeet? The added arch support will pull your toes back and maybe take up a little width at the expense of overall volume. Also, they improve performance 
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sellouts posted:I was told the toe box itself is one thing that cannot be adjusted. Right behind it though? You can adjust that. Shitballs. I pulled the insoles out of these skates at some point in the distant past, seems like its worth a shot  I should probably just pony up for new skates, just hard to do when I'm not sure if I want to get that heavily back into the sport. Kinda hit a tipping point and am considering selling off all of my motorcycle roadracing stuff and transitioning to a far loving cheaper hobby.
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Sep 21, 2015 04:19
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Try the super feets idea that's a good idea
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Do either of you have a recommended Superfeet insole? They have a metric fuckton of them  I suppose I could bring the skates to a shoe store and start throwing insoles at them.edit: Oh, I see they have one aimed at hockey skates. Nice.
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Sep 21, 2015 04:24
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The yellows
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BlackMK4 posted:selling off all of my motorcycle roadracing stuff and transitioning to a far loving cheaper hobby. Woah. We've found The One
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Thanks guys  I'll give it a shot.Dangerllama posted:Woah. We've found The One Huh?
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Hockey's a pretty expensive sport. It's kind of rare to find someone switching to it because it's less expensive than whatever they're currently into.
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Dangerllama posted:Hockey's a pretty expensive sport. It's kind of rare to find someone switching to it because it's less expensive than whatever they're currently into. Consider that you're killing $400 in tires a weekend or two, ontop of a $200 track fee. If you end up going down you're likely going to be out a $300++ helmet, bodywork, hard part damage, etc. I base a normal weekend at $500. I've had a weekend end up costing $2000+ three times now. I looked at the local league and it's $450 for a 21 game season. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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sellouts posted:What's so wrong about this again? Previous to this year we tried to only carry 11-12 and a goalie. There are usually one two who are out for whatever reason, but we feel like 10 is the perfect number of skaters in a game. Prior to registrations, the league informed everyone that the minimum was 14 and a goalie which was annoying to a lot of teams, but especially to us because we're somewhat of an exception in that we don't have any ringers. We could move up a division, but don't because 1, we like the nights we play on and 2, we aren't winning championships every year. My problem with that part of the form is that we pay to play on a specific team with specific dudes and they're suggesting that they'll move around at their whim to balance teams. A fine idea, but we're the ones pay to play on a team together. Realy it's a gripe about the hypothetical scenarios they're suggesting could be come a reality.
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Is the rink running at capacity? Are dues a team fee, or do players pay individually? The only way I could see them enforcing roster sizes is to empty out waiting lists. If they see a team running 10 skaters the management may see that as $500 they aren't earning. Unless there's a big issue with teams forfeiting games because people don't show up.
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BlackMK4 posted:Consider that you're killing $400 in tires a weekend or two, ontop of a $200 track fee. If you end up going down you're likely going to be out a $300++ helmet, bodywork, hard part damage, etc. I base a normal weekend at $500. I've had a weekend end up costing $2000+ three times now. I just bought a WRX and my teammates are trying to get me to take it to the track with them. Hockey AND cars.  e: Just had my first 11pm game last night now that there are like 400 Bronze teams that all need to play Sunday nights. Only having 1 beer and getting home at 1:30am makes for a lovely Monday. This was going to be my last Bronze season anyway, but that one 11pm game solidified it. I don't know how you San Jose goons deal with midnight/1am/whatever start times down there. Also, anyone use Impact mouth guards? I have a few teammates who like them and can actually talk with them in. Looking to replace my Shock Doctor since it sounds like I have a bag of dicks in my mouth. Henrik Zetterberg fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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if you're like me and have no self control, hockey tron is selling their leather $89 gloves for $32 today if you use the code LG60 at checkout. You can even get retro-brown colored ones and we can match!!!
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In actually surprised by the quality of tron gloves. I got their pro gloves for the same price and they've lasted a long time with no wear in the palms.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I just bought a WRX and my teammates are trying to get me to take it to the track with them. Hockey AND cars. I really love late-night games as they're happening. I go to a midnight stick & shoot session every so often, too. Next morning, not so much.
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I like 11pm games, unless I have a 7am game the next morning. But I do it anyways because I gotta take the ice that's available to me.
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xzzy posted:Is the rink running at capacity? Are dues a team fee, or do players pay individually? Dues are a team fee but if a team rosters more than the enforced minimum then each player pays the same 670 they would have anyway, so the league makes more off larger teams. They definitely aren't at capacity, there's a league that plays at one rink on the north end of town. The league organization inexplicably moved 4 of the 7 teams in that division to a rink further south creating a situation where the north side rink now has 3 teams total for a 30 game season and the rink further south now has 12. This summer we played a 20 game season in a division with 16 teams. We played some teams more than once and other teams not at all. I just like highlighting out my league is run by loving idiots.
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BlackMK4 posted:Kinda hit a tipping point and am considering selling off all of my motorcycle roadracing stuff and transitioning to a far loving cheaper hobby. Have you looked into learning goaltending? 
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Bradf0rd posted:Have you looked into learning goaltending? That poo poo's like a $2k spend minimum... even with used poo poo.
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