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What's my minimum spend looking like on a set of used goalie pads? I think I'm going to switch to goalie next season because there is a dearth of netminders in my league.
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2015 17:25 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 00:48 |
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shyduck posted:If you want stuff that's not a million years old, probably like 1000-1200 bucks. I'd strongly consider buying the mask new. Also don't forget skates. Yeah, I'm going to buy stuff piecemeal until I have a full set due to the expense. Based on the reading I've done, I definitely don't want to skip out on a good helmet. I'd rather pay $600 than get concussed and eating through a straw the rest of my life. Does the stick curve make that much of a difference in a goalie stick? I'm going to play full right which hopefully won't impact gear availability too much.
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2015 18:54 |
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I have to roll on my compression socks much like a condom because they are so tight. However, they give me wheels so it succeeds in the cost/benefits analysis.
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2015 15:54 |
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I got smacked in the head by a clapper at a pickup game earlier this year while I was covering the point. I was working on getting my defensive zone positioning down as a winger and I'll be drat if the guy didn't wind up head high while I was in front of him. The puck bent my cage and I'm pretty sure I would have been blinded if it hit me square in the face. The guy was apologetic about it, but I can't believe he wound up like that during a pickup game. Oh well, that's why we wear helmets I guess.
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2015 17:21 |
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Dangerllama posted:Help me understand this guy's shot. You were playing wing. And the defenseman hit you in the head with a clapper? Exactly where were you standing? Honest to God, about 15 feet in front of him. The puck would have gone over the glass and into the netting. I don't know if it was his stick or he just had a bad release, but it came up high. Edit: This was the opposing team's defenseman and I was backchecking, not one of my own guys.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2015 12:21 |
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I thought the official rule was that the puck had to pass beyond the blue line before the last part of the body.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2015 17:09 |
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I knock back a shot of vodka in the car and listen to power metal before games. That's the only nutrition I need.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2015 22:41 |
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xzzy posted:Think it was this one: This would notably backfire with a griptac stick (I can't stand that poo poo).
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2015 00:01 |
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bgreman posted:Hahahaha! If I celebrate at all, it's always the "holster my stick" celebration but that strut really completes the effect. Man I wish we offered this kind of class where I live. I take everything I hear in beer league with a grain of salt, but in the D league I play in, we did better when wingers covered the point men tighter in the D zone. Most of the time it was absolute chaos anyway, so we basically split everyone in to corners in the D zone and told them to just stick to their men. It seemed to work better after the shitshow that was games 1 and 2.
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2015 12:32 |
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Snapped my Easton Stealth RS II last night. First shot during warmups. Goondolences.
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2015 21:01 |
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What exactly happens, do you feet just slide out from under you?
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2015 21:29 |
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I have the dubious honor of representing South Carolina in this thread... I'm native though.
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2015 01:19 |
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Duke Chin posted:Okay I lied... I bought new skates this weekend. Whatup fellow Bauer X60 buddy (even in size 8.5). What skate did you end up getting?
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2015 02:48 |
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I'm having the weirdest issue where my skates are pinching the poo poo out of the outer part of my foot about 2 inches back from my toes. And this is 6 months after I've been skating with them. What kills me is that they didn't hurt like this before and now they do. I can't explain it.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2015 12:11 |
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The refs in our no-check league will usually call interference if the first hit is a legal check or unintentional. Past that, you'll get tossed if you try and lay in hard hits to run somebody. It's D league for beginners and a lot of people bump into each other by merit of their skating inexperience, so we usually don't get too many checking calls. We did have a guy run our goalie during a shootout one night and I think he got suspended two games for that poo poo.
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2015 12:38 |
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doctor 7 posted:I've never spent more than $30 on a stick. I've gone with Crosby heel curve to whatever the gently caress and I know nothing about them other than I was told Crosby uses a pretty conservative curve. However I still find my shots going pretty high. Give the Stamkos curve a try if you're willing to look at a Bauer stick. It's a pretty neutral curve and I'm glad I chose it to learn how to shoot with. It's basically babbys first hockey stick for me (I've been playing for only 6 months).
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# ¿ Aug 1, 2015 00:58 |
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What level of play is this league? I've never understood people who try and start poo poo during a rec league game. I understand that everybody wants to compete and play hard, but verbally abusing people and taking runs is stupid.
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# ¿ Aug 3, 2015 19:52 |
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I'm sorry I just can't help chirping when people start taking dives in D league. I mean people fall down enough in the beginner league but some people just do whatever they can to try and milk it.
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# ¿ Aug 3, 2015 21:45 |
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Don't forget your number 99 jersey with your own last night on the back.
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2015 00:26 |
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I played my first pickup game as a goalie last night and I'm loving addicted. I was letting shots in left and right, but it was so fun guarding the net. Got a couple of good saves though playing against some decent people. gently caress I want to get back out there today!
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# ¿ Aug 9, 2015 16:54 |
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doctor 7 posted:Bless your god drat heart Honest to god I thought it was going to be an open practice session and it turned out to be a pickup game with like 25 people. I'm sure I was the awfullest fish, but everybody was just glad to have a second goalie I guess.
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2015 00:25 |
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My league runs three 17 minute periods with a running clock. We're required to keep 12 people on the team, but I've seen teams play with less than that before. I kind of wish they would do clock stoppages, but at least it keeps the game time down to one hour. This is especially relevant with the 10:15PM start times some nights...
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2015 13:54 |
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I wish people would mix teams better in pickup games. I played in Atlanta last night and one side had nothing but college age kids and they were running circles around everyone else. Depending on the goal I was in, I either saw no action or got sniped bar down every time. Unfortunately I did dishonor my name by flinching in front of a slapper from the point. Oh well, it was my second time playing goalie...
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 02:43 |
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Anybody planning on attending any pickup games in the Charlotte, NC area this Saturday? Me and a buddy of mine will be driving up there to play. You'll have a goalie to take slappers at (I'm training myself not to flinch).
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2015 16:17 |
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Fingers McGee posted:The pineville icehouse usually has a satuday night pickup at 10:30. I've been lazy or busy and haven't been in months. I need to get off my rear end and go. I'll definitely be doing the 10:30PM pickup and possibly the 5:30? stick time earlier that day.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2015 19:16 |
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I try and get in the beer league mindset before pickup games... For some reason I decided to act Canadian and drink Labatt.
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 22:29 |
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Pleads posted:Canadians don't drink Labatt. Nah that was actually the tail end of public skate. I got in a bit early and decided to have a beer before the game. Although it would have been super fun to play with the disco lights on and a glow puck...
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 22:36 |
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Fingers McGee posted:Nice, my Saturday was a mess and I didn't make it out. How was the turn out? Last time I tried to go to pickup it was already filled up at 9:30. Had 3 goalies and enough on the benches for two full lines on each side. I was going to do stick time earlier that day, but it already was filled up by the time we got there from Greenville. I'll probably come back up this coming weekend.
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 22:53 |
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Looks like I'm signing up as a D League goalie tomorrow when fall league registration gets to open up. Cool thing is that we get to play at the same arena that the Swamp Rabbits (former Greenville Road Warriors) play at due to our ice rink being down for maintenance. Probably going to cost the team some games, but D league is all about learning how to play your position.
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# ¿ Sep 1, 2015 03:59 |
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communist kangaroo posted:if anyone scores on you just pick a random defenseman from your team and glare at him for a good five seconds Nah man, my go to is going to be "he was in the loving crease! Interference! *Nobody around*"
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# ¿ Sep 1, 2015 12:24 |
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doctor 7 posted:First schedule just came out. Just cite emergency personal leave. "My family needs me".
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 22:34 |
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communist kangaroo posted:I took a puck off the cage once where it would have hit me square in the teeth had I been wearing a visor. I took a slapper off the cage that would have been at the bridge of my nose. It bent the gently caress out of the cage but I was glad I wore it. Otherwise I would have probably lost vision.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 23:09 |
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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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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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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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# ¿ Sep 21, 2015 22:49 |
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Like any beer league ever kicks ringers off. I swear to god I've start pad stack tackling ringers on breakaways now in games. It sucks when your team is winning by a goal and then the ringer steps on the ice and proceeds to just burn everybody.
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 15:14 |
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Can anybody confirm/deny that Bauer Nexus (player) skates fit similarly to the Reactor (goalie) skates? I'm going to be playing as a forward for winter league since there were no spots for additional goalies, but when I skated on my Vapors, it felt like I was leaned way too far forward. The Reactor skates have me leaned back a bit more on my heel, which tends to give me more stability, however I get the feeling goalie skates are more stable since they are longer and flatter with the skate blade curve.
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# ¿ Sep 27, 2015 22:32 |
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YeehawMcKickass posted:More fallout from our mini-thunderdome game on Sunday night. Followed by a 9-3 spanking of a loss because we couldn't work together. poo poo how old is your goalie? That's hosed up that he feels like he has to quit on the spot. You should kick that dude off the team and get your goalie back.
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# ¿ Sep 29, 2015 15:26 |
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I've been getting progressively better as a winger the whole season, but I've yet to score any goals My teammates commented much I had improved since the first game after we played last night and I had a few good looks out of some rebounds, but just couldn't get anything in. Scoring is apparently hard. Strangely I'm really strong in the D zone and neutral zone when it comes to forcing turnovers and taking up time and space from other players, so I guess that's my contribution to the team effort! Maybe I should switch over to defense for a game or two. Hell it can't hurt, I'm in D league.
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2015 02:36 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 00:48 |
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Okay, so I got a shot on goal last night and blocked a shot in the defensive zone. I got on a line with a really good center who explained a lot of things for me playing left wing. We had a pretty good tandem going where I would forecheck hard after a dump in and force the defense to play it up on the boards where my center would then pick up the puck and keep it in the zone. Pretty basic beer league stuff but it seemed to work since we got a 5-2 victory. Staying wide and forechecking deep as a wing seems to be the concept that I was missing when I started out this season. I'm feeling a lot better about my play now.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2015 14:48 |