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I had a game yesterday and I'm gonna have a game Thursday, but then I won't have another one for 2 weeks 
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May 11, 2015 21:22
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Vicas posted:I had a game yesterday and I'm gonna have a game Thursday, but then I won't have another one for 2 weeks
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May 11, 2015 21:26
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shyduck posted:Where do you play at? Ice House in Hackensack. I live just outside NYC now
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May 11, 2015 21:27
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I had a game last night, got a nice breakway goal, faked FH, BH, pulled it back FH, kept dragging the goalie sideways then put it off the pipe and in over his blocker shoulder just under the pipe. We lost 7-2  Tomorrow I leave for Africa for 12 days and will only miss 1 game. Both of my leagues go into a weird series of bye weeks so I don't play again until June 7th or something. Verman fucked around with this message at 21:37 on May 11, 2015 |
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May 11, 2015 21:32
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Vicas posted:Ice House in Hackensack. I live just outside NYC now
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May 11, 2015 21:35
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shyduck posted:Nice, that's four ice surfaces isn't it? Very nice rink if I remember right. I forget the name of the travel team that plays out of there but I've been up there a few times for away games. Scored a goal there from flat on my stomach when playing midget level, that was cool. Yeah, it's a shockingly large rink in the middle of nowhere (okay, suburbia, same poo poo). The house league is fuckin' massive, too. ~8 divisions, 4-16 teams per. The ice is pretty nice, except their fourth rink, which can get kinda choppy when they do a sloppy job with the zamboni e: are you still at iceland or am i thinking of someone else?
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May 11, 2015 21:40
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Ice House's travel team is the Avalanche. The ice is pretty good, but they covered the roof with solar panels and now they can't actually get workers up there to do maintenance/repair damage so they mitigate leaks with tarps and PVC piping to make it drain into the corners. Rink 4 is a figure skating rink and I'm sure the boner drivers get lazy about cutting it for when they do actually put hockey on it. Had to teach a JV player to repair a divot there once.
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May 11, 2015 22:46
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Goddamn figure skaters man. I was eating lunch at the nearby rink and a group of them were working on a routine, fuckers are so loving precise on their edges it makes me jealous. I wish I could go back 30 years and smack younger me into actually learning to skate. Hockey would be so much easier now.
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May 11, 2015 22:52
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EvilTwig posted:I'm playing in the 6:40 one on Sundays, Quincy Youth Arena, and may pop in to the C/D one once in a while. QYA is kind of a shithole compared to some of the other rinks around, but it is qunicy after all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dopXFXHLhSY&t=52s Thanks for the input. I was gonna go for the 7:50 Tuesday C level but I didn't move fast enough I guess because it is sold out. I have no idea where I stand since I've never played in a tiered skill system so I'm just going with C and figuring out if I'm good enough for it. The youth arena is the one on Murphy Memorial Drive right? I just looked it up on google, the stinky socks site kept giving me the Internal Server Error whenever I clicked the link to the rink looking for info on it. I guess I'll have to wait till next week to check it out.
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May 11, 2015 22:56
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PFlats posted:Ice House's travel team is the Avalanche. ha, this explains a lot. Yeah, the locker rooms are tiny and in pretty bad shape
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May 11, 2015 23:22
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I no longer play at Iceland, I've been at Skatezone in NE Philly. The leagues are better and it's easier for everyone to get there. As far as rinks falling apart, I can't imagine how much it costs to own and operate one. Every single one I go to seems to be in various states of disrepair (except for Voorhees because that's where the Flyers practice)
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May 11, 2015 23:26
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bigbillystyle posted:Thanks for the input. I was gonna go for the 7:50 Tuesday C level but I didn't move fast enough I guess because it is sold out. I have no idea where I stand since I've never played in a tiered skill system so I'm just going with C and figuring out if I'm good enough for it. The youth arena is the one on Murphy Memorial Drive right? I just looked it up on google, the stinky socks site kept giving me the Internal Server Error whenever I clicked the link to the rink looking for info on it. I guess I'll have to wait till next week to check it out. You would probably be fine in C level, or a C/D game. I find that even though they claim to keep players from playing down, they can't get it right all the time - for instance, this past week we had a guy there who's cousin was playing who really was much better then the D skaters out there. They didn't count his (4) goals. It doesn't bother me because stinky socks is more like a glorified pickup that guarantee goalies show up. I usually have a good skate, and the one time I had an issue (no goalies) , a refund had been issued before I even got home. The Murphy memorial drive looks like the right one, although I always thought it was sea street - it refers to the same road. This place is on the corner of the drive into the lot, you will see the sign http://www.grumpywhites.com
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May 12, 2015 01:59
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EvilTwig posted:You would probably be fine in C level, or a C/D game. I find that even though they claim to keep players from playing down, they can't get it right all the time - for instance, this past week we had a guy there who's cousin was playing who really was much better then the D skaters out there. They didn't count his (4) goals. It doesn't bother me because stinky socks is more like a glorified pickup that guarantee goalies show up. I usually have a good skate, and the one time I had an issue (no goalies) , a refund had been issued before I even got home. Sweet. Thanks.
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May 12, 2015 03:26
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xzzy posted:Goddamn figure skaters man. I was eating lunch at the nearby rink and a group of them were working on a routine, fuckers are so loving precise on their edges it makes me jealous. I can pick out the figure skaters in my beginner league a mile away. Great skating, no hands, and they all do that little bob while they skate.
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May 12, 2015 04:47
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Vicas posted:I had a game yesterday and I'm gonna have a game Thursday, but then I won't have another one for 2 weeks They just updated my league's schedule, we have games the next two weeks when I'm working, then a bye week the week that I come back. 
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May 12, 2015 10:41
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A thing for our newbies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E--ZZMP8Y7U
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May 12, 2015 15:21
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Just got our mix'n'match Division 8 rosters announced today!  Got the email list of our team all put together and are chatting Some dude from our LTP class is already e-lobbying to be team captain with a super wordy email before we've even been in the same room together  I think I'm just gonna reply all with Brass Bonanza. 
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May 13, 2015 01:59
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Vicas posted:ha, this explains a lot. Yeah, the locker rooms are tiny and in pretty bad shape Look up the next time you're there and you'll see the wonderful plumbing. I think in Rink 4 it actually drains behind the scoreboard? Duke Chin posted:I think I'm just gonna reply all with Brass Bonanza.
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May 13, 2015 02:07
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reply with a beer schedule and offer to take the first shift if you want to be the coolest guy in the room
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May 13, 2015 02:10
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  sellouts posted:reply with a beer schedule and offer to take the first shift if you want to be the coolest guy in the room I don't care about being the coolest guy but that's not a bad idea. It's always good to listen to the beer/rec league veterans. 
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May 13, 2015 02:18
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 I broke the glass with a shot tonight, that was pretty cool. I kept some glass.
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May 13, 2015 05:35
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That's pretty drat cool bewbies.
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May 14, 2015 00:49
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Hella small pic, though, hard to see the neat details.
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May 14, 2015 00:56
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Ohhh gently caress yes, won my first league game. Drew the penalty and started the breakout that put us up 1-0, and only screwed up horrifically once or twice. Once we got a solid lead I just tried to control the neutral zone and keep the puck moving up ice and we held on to take it 3-1. Feels good to win!
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May 14, 2015 04:23
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Scrimmaged a team tonight that beat us 5 times during the season, a combined 28-11. We beat them 8-2 maybe? I had 2 goals on the same shift.  We lined up to shake hands after the game. One of their guys goes through our line, everybody else on their team just gets off the ice. Good times.
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May 14, 2015 04:28
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I had something like that happen to me the other night. Shaking hands and the one kid I shutdown the entire night went for the old shake the hand but nope just kidding going through my hair fake out. I had a good laugh about it. Ugh, no ice time till next Monday because of figure skating show. First world problems. 
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May 14, 2015 13:19
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If I'm a short (5'6") guy playing defense do I want a longer stick? My D partner suggested that, and I used to use an eye-height one in ball hockey but I've switched to chin height since then and I like the stickhandling opportunities it affords me, especially at drop in where I play both ends of the ice. That being said I have pretty poor reach so should I keep a long stick on hand for league games when I'm playing 100% D? He actually offered to take my backup stick and put a plug in it so I can try it out next week, but I'm just wondering what the school of thought is.
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May 14, 2015 17:01
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Personally, I think you want an "average" length for drop-in/beer league play. Going with a longer stick will give you greater reach, but (all things being equal) decreases your stickhandling ability. That said, I've seen others play with sticks that looked like vaulting poles before, and it worked for them. Why not give it a try for a game and see how it feels  I probably wouldn't skate with two different lengths forever though. That just seems like a recipe for not being able to catch pucks.
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May 14, 2015 17:17
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If you do choose a longer stick, you'll probably want a shallower lie. You can probably adjust without changing the lie, but that just seems like a way to develop bad habits to me. You don't want to have to work to keep the stick flat on the ice.
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May 14, 2015 17:21
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prom candy posted:If I'm a short (5'6") guy playing defense do I want a longer stick? My D partner suggested that, and I used to use an eye-height one in ball hockey but I've switched to chin height since then and I like the stickhandling opportunities it affords me, especially at drop in where I play both ends of the ice. That being said I have pretty poor reach so should I keep a long stick on hand for league games when I'm playing 100% D? He actually offered to take my backup stick and put a plug in it so I can try it out next week, but I'm just wondering what the school of thought is. I try to deal with the lack of reach by taking the extra step. I don't always succeed.
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May 14, 2015 19:21
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My D stick goes up to my hairline. Because I'm a bit lazy.
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May 14, 2015 19:41
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Played D my whole life with a stick that went to my chin on skates (nose off skates). Only time I use something different now is in roller hockey because I play forward, and I go with the height to my chin without skates, WHICH luckily is the standard height for a senior stick .
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May 15, 2015 05:39
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Bootcha posted:My D stick goes up to my hairline. Because I'm a bit lazy. That's a really tall stick. 
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May 15, 2015 06:23
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Bradf0rd posted:That's a really tall stick. 
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May 15, 2015 06:35
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I made an end to end rush last night, swinging around our net, beating the first guy as he tried to cut me off on the other side, the second guy at the blueline, the third and fourth guys as I cut to the center at the redline, and the fifth guy at their blueline as he was trying to turn around. Went in on the goalie 1-on-0... and he managed to save it with his shoulder It was 3-3 at the time too, so they had reason to actually play D. When I get a full head of steam the best you can really hope to do is get the puck away from me, but I don't usually beat an entire team so cleanly. I just wish I had shot a little higher I also hit the post on an empty net from about their blueline. There were two of them on me but really, I'm just cursed
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May 15, 2015 14:19
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There were like 6 Tier III junior kids at drop in last night. Average shift length: 7 minutes probably.
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May 15, 2015 15:44
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There is a guy that does that at our private drop-in. We ran through an entire rotation and he was out on the ice the entire time. Of course when you camp the blue-line you don't get tired. He always wears a dark jersey and one reason I stopped bringing a dark to that drop-in. No desire to play with that dude. Also, the same guy that tried to start a fight with me over a bump. It's hockey dude bumps happen.
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May 15, 2015 17:05
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School's coming to an end for the kids so it happens a lot more now. They come home, head to a drop-in, and live out their NHL fantasy on the fat slow slobs that normally populate the skate. Eventually they get bored when they realize there's no competition and filter into higher level play for the summer.. or get picked up as ringers for teams looking for a bump.
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May 15, 2015 17:11
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Two days til my summer league starts... two... days.... hnnnnnnnnnngh hurry up 
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May 15, 2015 23:59
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I know it's come up in the thread before, but for all D, and short dudes especially: get used to gluing your stick hand to your hip when taking a 1-on-1, then throwing a sharp poke check mid-stride. It makes your reach deceptively longer than it appears, and you can (with a little practice) throw poke checks without taking yourself out of the play if you miss. (thumbs up emoji)
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