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My only food rule is no BBQ the day of a game because that poo poo sits in your gut like a bag of sand. Everything else is fair game.
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bewbies posted:you don't replace old shoulder pads, you just stop wearing shoulder pads Shoulder pads are cool though. It makes you feel like Ironman. Plus I've always worn them and it would feel weird to not.
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Sep 12, 2018 18:50
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prom candy posted:A straight week of sleeping 9 hours. My brain doesn't comprehend this. I don't think I've had a week of sleeping 9 hours per day since summer break in highschool ... 16 years ago. On an unrelated note, heading to the eval skate tonight and draft tomorrow because I need to draft a few extra players for winter season. We only ran 13 full time skaters over summer to see how it would go and regularly had 10 on the bench. Also have to cut 2 dudes because they can't answer emails/fb messages/texts regarding registration and have been unresponsive for weeks despite expressing interest. Surprise, they also have issues RSVPing for games. Sorry bro's. Aint got time for that poo poo. You either want to play hockey or you don't and I'm not here to babysit. God I can't wait until the season starts back up. NEED TO HOCKEYZ. I should probably go get my skates sharpened and order the Pro-filer ... could have used that a lot this season. ***shoulder pads*** I played inline for a long time (you don't wear shoulder pads) but I switched over to ice years ago and put them on (as well as a cage). Even though its non-check, there is still a lot more contact than inline. I also realize the difference in my ability won't drastically improve one way or the other so I'll opt for the protection which is how I feel about cages as well. Verman fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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Sep 12, 2018 19:36
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I wear shoulder pads for any hockey skate (stick/puck included) because the shoulder is an incredibly complex joint that can require lengthy rehab for even minor tweaks, I'm not an NHL level skater, and all it takes is one tiny slip, nudge, or miscalculation to blow out a body part that is crucial to being able to participate in an activity that I love.xzzy posted:My only food rule is no BBQ the day of a game because that poo poo sits in your gut like a bag of sand. Now officially into my late-30s (37, ugh), the one thing I've found I have a hard time consuming the day of a game is alcohol. Any down time after I've been drinking triggers my body's shutdown sequence, so unless I'm drinking and immediately hitting the ice, I try to abstain from liquor - not really a beer or wine drinker - if I have a game later in the day. Habibi fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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Sep 12, 2018 20:24
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At 38 I'm one of the youngest guys on the team. The oldest is 68 and his son plays with us as well, of which I am completely jealous. At least with the new team we all stay after to drink, previous team no one really drank.
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Sep 12, 2018 21:06
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Verman posted:On an unrelated note, heading to the eval skate tonight and draft tomorrow because I need to draft a few extra players for winter season. We only ran 13 full time skaters over summer to see how it would go and regularly had 10 on the bench. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it Do you need them to rsvp so you can do (edit2: low level (edit: beer league)) lines? sellouts fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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Sep 12, 2018 21:54
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sellouts posted:If it ain’t broke don’t fix it Its mostly for calling subs if needed. We broke off a div 5 team to build a div 4 team which is more of a challenge and everyone is skating harder than we're used to. We can mange with 10 skaters but we're much better with 13. If people rsvp yes or no in advance, I can contact subs early to secure 13 skaters for that evening (3F lines, 2 D lines) and give subs ample heads up. If they don't RSVP, I will call subs to make a 13 skater bench. Suddenly, 2 guys show up who didn't RSVP and now we have 15 skaters which is dumb. We're all adults and its easier now more than ever to stay in contact. If you can't respond to a text/email/fb message or simply hit an RSVP button yes or no once per week ... I can't help you out and its only making my job more difficult. I'm not going to beg you to come play. Either you do or you dont but I would prefer to know. Our league draft is tomorrow so I need to know how many new players to pick up. When I've messaged these guys over the last few weeks and received nothing in return I have to move on. Beer league captaining. Its super awesome and everyone should do it because of how awesome it is.
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Sep 12, 2018 22:48
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xzzy posted:My only food rule is no BBQ the day of a game because that poo poo sits in your gut like a bag of sand. For me it's not really what I eat as much as it is how much and when. Assuming I'm playing at like 9 or later I like to have a big lunch, medium size dinner, and then a small bowl of cereal or something 60-90 minutes before the game. This place near my old work used to have a $2.99 CAD cheeseburger and fry combo special, I turned that nasty lunch into a lot of good hockey
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Sep 12, 2018 23:10
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Kessel pre-game meal. Failing that. 
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Sep 13, 2018 00:09
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Verman posted:Its mostly for calling subs if needed. . So partially for beer league lines, yeah? Managing a team that wants 10 or 9, with 12 if everyone shows up, and everyone understanding that less players is more beer in the parking lot for everyone else, is awesome. It sucks when people move away 
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Sep 13, 2018 06:36
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Played my first-ever past 11pm game last night. Feel predictably terrible this morning but I also managed to play like complete rear end last night. Could barely skate and was losing edges/falling over constantly, made terrible decisions, and they had a couple really fast guys who just danced around me multiple times. They scored like 4 or 5 goals off rebounds that were just sitting there in the crease and I couldn't get there in time. I also managed to basically deflect a puck in on one. Their goalie was real good, but we had a bunch of chances that just refused to go in. Ended up being 8-4 I think. So far this league/season has seemed to be a case of "the other team's ringers are better than our ringers."
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Sep 13, 2018 15:10
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On my lowest level team, I keep a full-time roster of 15, with 4 subs, and still have trouble getting 10 to show up. If we're under 10 with all of those, I sub up to 10, but no more. 10 is ideal. 10 is perfect. (13 is fine for my higher-level teams, since the pace is higher, but I'd never sub up to 13). After a sort of spotty August, I was supposed to have back to back 10:30 starts last night and tonight, but I have a monstrous head cold and for once elected not to try to play through it. I don't think people would care for the amount of mucus coming out of me.
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Sep 13, 2018 16:46
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So weird. The higher the level the less players needed/wanted for me.
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Sep 14, 2018 07:12
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After loving up my wrist and missing the majority of our season last year I played the first game of the season last night. Got multiple people saying I was skating and playing better than previous seasons, which was pretty cool as that was my goal. Got a lot of new players on the team and a large roster (opposed to last year where we only had about 9-10 show up on good days). Because of that we rolled 3 forward lines which I prefer to 2 as I like skating hard for 1-1.5 minutes then sitting for 2-3. Lost 3-5 but our goalie let in some softies but he recovered in the 3rd and made some great saves after being shaken pretty early. My secret to being slightly better? Did some stick and puck, skating where I could, a bit of learn to play. Also half a beer before the game to take the edge off helps.
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Sep 14, 2018 21:03
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Bag talk: since I'm replacing everything I'm getting a new bag too. Any likes/dislikes? My old one is just an old cheap CCM, so almost anything would be an upgrade. I looked at the Pacific Rink stuff - drat it looks sweet, but $200, ouch.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:26
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Hunt down someone that makes bags for colleges. They last forever and because they have to supply random color combos all the time it's by super expensive to get whatever colors make you happy. I forget who made mine and I can't check at the moment but it's going on three years showing no signs of wear.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:33
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a mysterious cloak posted:Bag talk: since I'm replacing everything I'm getting a new bag too. Any likes/dislikes? My old one is just an old cheap CCM, so almost anything would be an upgrade. Price tag hurts but the PR bag I have is hands down the best bag I’ve ever owned.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:43
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Wife dug it up for me, got one from here. https://www.tonyscanvas.com Can customize as much or as little as you want.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:53
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I like my Warrior Pro bag. I've had it for about 6 years now.
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Sep 16, 2018 01:06
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Any basic college or pro level bag. They are meant for lots of use and travel. I love the one big opening and a fat loving zipper.
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Sep 16, 2018 01:22
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xzzy posted:Wife dug it up for me, got one from here. Completely different topic, but how good was The Whale when you played them on Sunday? I just saw the score on that and was curious.
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Sep 16, 2018 01:54
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They were pretty good. Only one bonafide ringer who played down once they ran up the score, the rest were proper D3 if you got them 1v1 but their passing game was good and we couldn't do poo poo about it. Their goalie was the one iffy part, he had experience but someone said he just converted from roller and looked wobbly on his skates. Did that weird "lunge at the shot" on every save where he'd be in butterfly then look like he wanted to jump to his feet. I'd rank them in the top third of D3, unless the goalie lets them down.
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Sep 16, 2018 02:10
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Thanks for the bag ideas, guys. Tony's Canvas isn't taking new orders now, so that's out, unfortunately. I'll keep my eyes open, though.
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Sep 16, 2018 03:02
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Pacific Rink is very good. I kinda feel like I could've gotten away with a junior bag though.
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Sep 16, 2018 06:46
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You can be a cheap-rear end like me and get a giant army surplus canvas bag for under $20
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Sep 16, 2018 16:40
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I have the GRIT Airbox bag. It's ventilated on the top, which could be good or bad depending on your living situation. I've gotten moderate to heavy use in the last year and still holding up good
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Sep 16, 2018 17:54
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I have a Vic hockey bag. It is now 4 years old give or take. Both zipper handles have broke off, replaced them with paper clips, and the stitching for one of the outside skate pockets has come undone all along the top. All this happened like a year ago or more. Core of the bag is fine though. Buying a new bag I would rather take a chance on another brand than Vic tbh.
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Sep 16, 2018 18:46
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xzzy posted:They were pretty good. Only one bonafide ringer who played down once they ran up the score, the rest were proper D3 if you got them 1v1 but their passing game was good and we couldn't do poo poo about it. Their goalie was the one iffy part, he had experience but someone said he just converted from roller and looked wobbly on his skates. Did that weird "lunge at the shot" on every save where he'd be in butterfly then look like he wanted to jump to his feet. The desire to stand then move makes sense if he converted from roller. Also, I may be your opposing goalie tonight. Stick in the Box apparently can’t find one and your game is right after mine. Switching to goal has made me super popular.
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Sep 16, 2018 19:49
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Found out one of my sticks had two goals left in it. Tied the game twice. And then it died blocking a shot to keep the lead. RIP stick. You were a good stick.
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Sep 16, 2018 22:35
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For some ungodly reason the new team decided I should try out being a winger. Screw this offense poo poo too much skating. I did get a goal.
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Sep 16, 2018 22:54
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calandryll posted:For some ungodly reason the new team decided I should try out being a winger. Screw this offense poo poo too much skating. I did get a goal. It's so painful to transition, played a tournament at winger a few months ago and I felt like I had no idea what I was doing on the ice. But I ended up leading the team in points so I must have been doing something right?
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Sep 18, 2018 00:05
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Joined a new team for Friday league. Went top corner on my first ever shift for them. We lost 2-1 in OT. Goddammit.
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Sep 18, 2018 00:23
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D C posted:It's so painful to transition, played a tournament at winger a few months ago and I felt like I had no idea what I was doing on the ice. But I ended up leading the team in points so I must have been doing something right? I kept having to tell myself during the 2nd period to be on the other side of the blue line. Lol. Some of my teammates threatened to put me at center next game, ugh.
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Sep 18, 2018 00:44
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I like playing center in the defensive zone... but only because some of our centers do not understand they need to be the man in front of the net to take the extra man that floats into there. So many opposing goals are because our centre is waiting for an outlet pass instead of being in proper defensive positioning. Absolutely gently caress skating that much though.
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Sep 18, 2018 00:47
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calandryll posted:For some ungodly reason the new team decided I should try out being a winger. Screw this offense poo poo too much skating. I did get a goal. I usually play wing and have floated back to D a couple of times. Basically puts the other team on a PP while I'm out there.
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Sep 18, 2018 16:51
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Most wingers in my league pay absolutely no attention to the points and chase the puck toward the net or decide the best place to wait for a break-out pass is somewhere up past the blue line, behind the other team's D... It's awesome being too gassed to try to skate the puck out of the zone since we've been trapped there for a couple minutes, but having the puck easily intercepted every time I try to send it up the boards to the winger. I really need to get better at chipping it up high and out.
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Sep 18, 2018 18:25
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Scored twice today, one of which was just purely reflexive, kicking a pass off my skate, doing a quick 180 and flinging the puck into the corner of the net. I also got really good wood on two one-timers, one was wide by about an inch and the goalie gloved the other one, but just getting them off the ice with some velocity is a plus for me. I've had a stretch of 3 good games in a row now, let's keep this train rolling. 
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Sep 18, 2018 18:27
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Finally broke my goal drought after 16 games. Do of course they give it to the defenseman that wasn't even on the ice at the time.
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Sep 18, 2018 18:34
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doctor 7 posted:I like playing center in the defensive zone... but only because some of our centers do not understand they need to be the man in front of the net to take the extra man that floats into there. So many opposing goals are because our centre is waiting for an outlet pass instead of being in proper defensive positioning. Yeah I basically got short strawed into playing center when my two linemates basically took the gently caress skating that much approach. We played a few games rotating because none of us had every played center through high school and we weren't sure who would be the best at it and then they were like, yeah gently caress skating, you do it. I liked it though and once you get into "center shape" you don't really notice the extra skating. It made me really wish I had the opportunity to play center growing up and through school, if nothing else but to have a shorter learning curve to taking draws. I sucked for a while but then really started getting better and after a few years it was fun seeing other centers get physically upset after losing like 5 draws in a row against me.
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Playing center is cool and good. At low to mid beer league level it’s almost as simple as “have the puck, if your team doesn’t have it then go get it” There’s a lot more to it of course but a center who keeps their feet moving is a huge advantage at lower levels.
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