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rex rabidorum vires posted:Team Captain announced that we might have a sponsor for the rest of this season providing $350/$400 That's always cool. One of the (I guess) former guys on our team lined up a sponsorship to help with the cost of our jerseys. Deal was we'd pay for the jerseys in full (with the sponsor logo on them) then we'd be refunded half of the cost or something like that. Well, we paid in full for the jerseys, got them, and the dude hasn't shown up since. I mean, really the only thing we got ripped off was free advertising for them, but it still kinda pisses me off.
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The inspiration for Hans in the mighty ducks movies is closing his shop in the culver rink and is just retiring. Graf skates marked down to $200, a pretty sizable discount. The rest of the gear isn't hugely marked down as that. If you're in so cal it might be worth a call. Going in there I always wondered if he was the inspiration for that character. Turns out he was.
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Thufir posted:News: my team is coming up on a solid year since we've won a game Maybe I'm a bad beer leaguer, but I have to say I'd probably be looking for new team. Like, winning isn't everything, but I'm not sure I'd be able to take losing week in and week out like that and not even feeling competitive in the league. As an aside, I bought an Apx2 stick the other day and I absolutely love it. It's the first time I've payed full price for a stick in a long time, but I've been making decent money lately so i figured I'd reward myself. It's release just feels so much snappier than my Total One (non NXG), and the moving kickpoint is great when you get used to where the stick wants you to put your lower hand for certain shots.
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Feb 8, 2014 21:32
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Look Around You posted:Maybe I'm a bad beer leaguer, but I have to say I'd probably be looking for new team. Like, winning isn't everything, but I'm not sure I'd be able to take losing week in and week out like that and not even feeling competitive in the league. Note he never said they aren't competitive, just they aren't winning.  I mean it's implied but it's super common to have a close, fun game and still lose.
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Feb 8, 2014 21:42
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xzzy posted:Note he never said they aren't competitive, just they aren't winning. Oh, yeah, I know, but still, you would figure at some point you'd win a game over the course of the year if you're consistently in close games, either through a shootout or the other goalie letting in a really soft joke of a goal in OT or at the end of the 3rd or whatever.
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Feb 8, 2014 21:57
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Oh yeah, we get pounded every game. We've talked about dropping down a league but the rink is closing for repairs in May so we can't do anything until the fall. I'm going to try to find a more reasonable summer team at another rink though.
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Feb 8, 2014 22:45
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Is it skill or are the guys just not playing like a team? I skated with my upcoming team the other night and we'll have a couple strong skaters, but I saw a lot of breakdowns.. forwards standing still on the breakout, everyone dogpiling the slot trying to make a defensive play. Stuff like that is going to make for some really bad games when we get put against teams that have been playing for a while. You can compensate for a skill gap but bad teamwork is gonna accomplish nothing.
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Feb 8, 2014 23:00
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Oh it's definitely lack of skill. We play in "Lower B" league. When I started on the team maybe half the team were decent players at that level, there were a couple good players, and the rest were marginal or should have been in a lower league (including me). That group was bad but we still won maybe 30% of our games. In the last year though all of our good players left (or got in arguments with the league director and were banned from the rink) and were replaced by guys from the "Upper C" league, and not particularly good ones even. Basically our rink director sticks free agents wherever without any thought to their ability and all the low-level leagues are full. Anyway, it's pretty lovely for now but I still have fun playing. The rink is going to be closed all summer and a new rink is opening in town in the fall, so I'm thinking the beer league scene is going to be shaken up a bit so hopefully I'll be able to get on a reasonably competitive team somewhere.
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Feb 8, 2014 23:17
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Well there is always room for improvement. I joined the team I am on with a friend of mine after another league we were in folded. The team was coming off a perfect 0-25-0 from the last season before we joined. We joined in the second half of another losing season and helped the team "improve" to 0-23-2. The next year we actually won 2 games and since then we've been sniffing for a 10 win season though it hasn't happened yet. We are still either the 2nd worst or worst team in the league but we actually can play with everybody now. Our first year with them it was routine to lose 10-2 or 12-1 or something along those lines and I don't think we've given up double digits in like 2 years now and more routinely lose by 1 or 2 goals when we lose. We even finished third in our rink's spring tournament a couple years ago. Its kinda fun to think back at how far we have come since getting on the team.
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Feb 8, 2014 23:56
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Thufir posted:Oh yeah, we get pounded every game. We've talked about dropping down a league but the rink is closing for repairs in May so we can't do anything until the fall. I'm going to try to find a more reasonable summer team at another rink though. I'm honestly surprised that the other teams don't make a stink. We left a league because it wasn't worth putting on the pads for 50% of the games because the other teams would be so non-competitive.
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sellouts posted:I'm honestly surprised that the other teams don't make a stink. It's a big-ish league and we're by far the worst so they probably love the chance to work on their goal differential 3 times a year. Their goalies probably hate how little work they get though.
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Feb 9, 2014 03:42
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The Yeehaw v. xzzy preview happened today. Safe to say that we were both sucking wind by the time we got to the contact drill we were paired up for. Didn't help that he had just come off a game.
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YeehawMcKickass posted:The Yeehaw v. xzzy preview happened today. Also I was running on 5 hours of sleep and I did lunges in the gym yesterday.. my legs are garbage right now. That means I'll be tougher next time, right? 
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Feb 10, 2014 03:10
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goons who just ordered the RSII clearance deal, how's the stick hold up? My APX two piece needs a new blade soon and I almost can't pass up a shot at a high end stick for ~$100 off. Is the RSII similar to the APX?
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Feb 10, 2014 03:27
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I call for a stick check. No way that's legal.
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lazerwolf posted:goons who just ordered the RSII clearance deal, how's the stick hold up? My APX two piece needs a new blade soon and I almost can't pass up a shot at a high end stick for ~$100 off. Is the RSII similar to the APX? A two piece is going to be fundamentally different than a one piece in my experience. Also how would new buyers know how a stick they just got holds up? That being said I used mine today and it was great. I also just got an apx in the same deal and the pattern is different but I really like the rsII. I have no regrets given the sale price.
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Feb 10, 2014 05:04
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lazerwolf posted:goons who just ordered the RSII clearance deal, how's the stick hold up? My APX two piece needs a new blade soon and I almost can't pass up a shot at a high end stick for ~$100 off. Is the RSII similar to the APX?
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Feb 10, 2014 05:40
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I got to play with the RS II last night and I had a mixed time with it. I ended up cutting an inch off from where I had my other sticks cut after I realized I had them a little too long. That felt good, stick handling was much improved, and I shoveled a a nice goal top shelf in front of the net. I'm afraid to say I got used to the grip on the last stick and felt like I couldn't get anything on any of my wrist/snap/slap shots. I didn't have that problem with my first non stick RS so I just need to get used to it again. Also I'm going to re-tape the top as I made a change there that I'm not totally happy with. It sucks there is no stick and puck at all this week.
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Feb 10, 2014 06:07
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Yeah thats pretty much the same pattern I have on my Warrior. It's hilarious.
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Zip! posted:Yeah thats pretty much the same pattern I have on my Warrior. It's hilarious. Do you score goals or does everything just go high and wide?
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Feb 10, 2014 15:59
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Had my first D league game yesterday evening. Was a mix of new players, D league regulars and some C leaguers who apparently couldn't find a team for this season. Bit miffed that they allowed some of those guys to play down (one had 4 of his team's 5 goals) but aside from that I had a blast. An hour and a half for drills and a game each Sunday plus stick and pucks is going to do me a world of good.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:03
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loving bro hug posted:Had my first D league game yesterday evening. Was a mix of new players, D league regulars and some C leaguers who apparently couldn't find a team for this season. Bit miffed that they allowed some of those guys to play down (one had 4 of his team's 5 goals) but aside from that I had a blast. An hour and a half for drills and a game each Sunday plus stick and pucks is going to do me a world of good. The league I'm getting into fixes this by limiting the goals that players playing down can get. The ratings are a bit unusual.. a B player is basically anyone who played college or varsity high school, the guys that know how to skate. Everyone else is a C. C3 teams are allowed to have 3 B players, and between them they can get 4 goals in a game. C2 is 2 B players, and they can have 3 goals, and C1 is 1 B player. If they score too much they can actually get minor penalties for it. The idea is to force them to help set up goals for the scrubs. Or they can just not play down and stick to the B league. It's kind of a weird rule set but everyone I talk to seems to enjoy the setup.
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Do you have a min/max spreadsheet that charts how many goals each person can score and who can get the assists? How many boar pelts does it take to level up to C2?
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Feb 10, 2014 19:43
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xzzy posted:Also I was running on 5 hours of sleep and I did lunges in the gym yesterday.. my legs are garbage right now. My whole body is burning right now. I have to cover a lot of stairs at my work and oh god the burn in my quads.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Do you have a min/max spreadsheet that charts how many goals each person can score and who can get the assists? How many boar pelts does it take to level up to C2? Teams sign up for whatever level they want, mister snark.  Assists aren't tracked, they limit scoring on the high quality players because it's supposed to be a low level recreational league but they wanted to leave room for friends to play together or get a taste of the higher skill levels if they want.
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I was just joking. It's a good rule, but seems kind of a pain in the rear end to track during the games. We got single-handedly beaten by a ringer last night. He had a hatty and assisted on the only other goal. We lost 4-2. Our hockey director came up with a list of ringers who are getting bumped up after this season finally. He's on the list.
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It is a lot of work but that's on the score keeper, not the players. They've run the league this way for a long time and in the two years I've been skating at this rink I haven't heard anyone say anything bad about it. The guy that runs the league claims he keeps the score sheet for every single game ever played, mostly for tracking suspensions.
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loving bro hug posted:Had my first D league game yesterday evening. Was a mix of new players, D league regulars and some C leaguers who apparently couldn't find a team for this season. Bit miffed that they allowed some of those guys to play down (one had 4 of his team's 5 goals) but aside from that I had a blast. An hour and a half for drills and a game each Sunday plus stick and pucks is going to do me a world of good. Nice man keep at it. If you eventually feel comfortable enough maybe come suit up for the Saturday night pickup. There has been a few very new guys playing too. As for the C guys in your league someone mentioned that to me after I got screwed on the fall league, but I couldn't see how playing down in D would be enjoyable for me.
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My Sunday night clinic/game ( 1 hour each) is getting a bit congested, we had 17 people on each side last night. Combine that with Mr 7 minute shift and you get pretty cold sitting on the bench. Heckling your own players passes the time (' how about a liiiiine chaaaaange' ) but doesn't solve the problem. Hopefully they start capping the number of attendees soon. Its too close to my house not to go.
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If it's a clinic why isn't there a coach out there yelling at people who do this? If it's not an official league game I don't understand why they wouldn't just have the horn sound every 2 minutes to signal a line change
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My clinic has a coach who likes to be vocal. We also do 1 minute mini games. Every minute the buzzer rings and the whole line changes
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You had 34 skaters?! I would honestly just leave. 24 is the absolute max for a decent drop-in. Any more than that and you're basically just paying to watch other people skate up close.
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sellouts posted:If it's a clinic why isn't there a coach out there yelling at people who do this? Chewing tobacco stuck in the whistle? Rumor is the cap on skaters is coming. This program stated out last year and we would be lucky to get 6 skaters. Is really taking off and football ending is only going to bump the numbers. Its either that or the 2 minute whistles start. They will have to do something soon.
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Dangerllama posted:You had 34 skaters?! I would honestly just leave. 24 is the absolute max for a decent drop-in. Any more than that and you're basically just paying to watch other people skate up close. Sometimes you have to take the ice you can get. There hasn't been a single drop in at a time I can go to since early December, I'd probably take a 34 skater session at this point 
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Acquired a pair of T-Blade T-33s from my cousin this weekend for the great price of nothing...went to a regular old public on Sunday to try them out and had a blast. Still don't understand much other than going forwards and turning left with a cross over, but it is a start. Signed my girlfriend and I up for a learn to skate for Valentines Day that starts on the 19th. Super excited and I'm pretty sure the rink wraps the Basics of Hockey into that class. Promises to be an adventure 
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Thufir posted:Sometimes you have to take the ice you can get. There hasn't been a single drop in at a time I can go to since early December, I'd probably take a 34 skater session at this point This is surprising that they would even allow this. They cap drop-ins at 30 skaters at the places I skate at, minus goalies of course.
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I play a Sunday night pickup that tells guys to go pound sand if we get over 20. If there are more than 2 lines for each side of the ice it really is as you described it, paying to watch people skate up close. And there are always those guys that take 10 minute shifts that are coming back into the defensive zone slumped over, sucking air, behind the play and still stay out there for another 5 minutes.
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EvilTwig posted:My Sunday night clinic/game ( 1 hour each) is getting a bit congested, we had 17 people on each side last night. Combine that with Mr 7 minute shift and you get pretty cold sitting on the bench. Heckling your own players passes the time (' how about a liiiiine chaaaaange' ) but doesn't solve the problem. That's a bummer...I was thinking about coming back to this now that football is over. Is the clinic as congested as the game?
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