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Yeah I think it'll only last a few weeks. We have 14 rostered skaters and our ice times are rank rear end so it should be easy to trim the regular attendance down by just not inviting subs.
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I wouldn’t consider switching to Sparx lucky but I both sharpen my own skates with a blackstone sharpener at home and also can go 6mo+ without sharpening if I need to All I’m saying is if you get a Sparx sharpening and you don’t like it or it feels weird it may not be you.
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Sep 12, 2022 20:24
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We run 10 skaters a side at our shinny. I'd way, way rather play with 8 skaters than 12. I didn't drag myself off the couch just to sit on a bench and watch other people play hockey.
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Sep 12, 2022 21:38
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I can't justify the cost of Sparx unless you're either planning a sharpening side-business or you have 10 children who all play hockey
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Sep 12, 2022 21:40
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prom candy posted:We run 10 skaters a side at our shinny. I'd way, way rather play with 8 skaters than 12. I didn't drag myself off the couch just to sit on a bench and watch other people play hockey. People seem to play better when numbers are down too. Whether it's because they're tired and pick their battles better or less time on the bench keeps them in tune with the pace isn't clear to me, but it works.
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Sep 12, 2022 21:43
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RC Cola posted:How did your league go? How did you go? This was your first time playing in a league too? Did you know anyone? I'm mostly nervous about not knowing anyone LOLOLOL we're 1-9-1. Heh. Playoffs are Friday night. This was indeed my first league. I signed up because another goalie I went to camp with told me to just do it already. She was the only person I even kinda knew but I didn't know anyone on my team at the start. So I went to check it out one Friday and I realized I did not have to be "OMG SO VERY AWESOME ALL THE SAVES!" I save more than I let in and I'm noticeably better than when I started. So I'm happy and ready to keep getting better. You'll be fine even not knowing anyone because you'll get to know them pretty quickly. 
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Sep 12, 2022 21:47
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I can't justify the cost of Sparx unless you're either planning a sharpening side-business or you have 10 children who all play hockey I went that route because the pro shop at the rink was so bad it was unreal. I was shipping out my blades to be sharpened that it got costly fast. I end up sharpening my teams stuff during tournaments. I know a few people who had trouble getting proper sharpenings from theirs but turns out they didn't set it up perfectly. I'm anal so I check everything every time I sharpen.
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Sep 12, 2022 22:47
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I'm lucky enough to live in a big hockey city, so there are lots of good options for sharpening. It's $5 per sharpening and I probably get mine sharpened every 2 months, so I'd need to be playing hockey until I'm like 70 before I'd make up the cost of a Sparx.
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Sep 13, 2022 01:05
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The Sparx fall out of alignment and if you don’t check it, you won’t notice until you’re out there with a bad sharpening. They may have fixed this idk I found a mistaken listing on eBay this Blackstone and got it for a song. Plus I can do FBV as well as regular hollow so I’m happy about that. sellouts fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Sep 13, 2022 |
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It finally happened after 30 years of off and on playing hockey. Took a puck to the face last night. I’ve been playing drop in roller hockey and decided to take off my cage two weeks ago because the rink was too hot for safety. Luckily speed pucks are half the weight of an ice puck so instead of a broken orbital bone and nose I’ve just got a mouse under my eye and a small cut on the bridge of my nose. Not worth it, putting the cage back on next week.
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Sep 13, 2022 05:05
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I'm lucky enough to live in a big hockey city, so there are lots of good options for sharpening. It's $5 per sharpening and I probably get mine sharpened every 2 months, so I'd need to be playing hockey until I'm like 70 before I'd make up the cost of a Sparx. I wish I lived in a big hockey town. I think the closest real store is about 2 hours away. I've been happy with mine and know it's not for everyone. Since my daughter is interested in skating, I'm sure she'll get use out of it as well.
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Sep 13, 2022 10:21
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Our team would rather play with 12 than 8 because we are old and have no gas in our tank. 11 is fun for us because we have 3 really good, hard skating Centres.
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We lost 4-8. We have 10 skaters and a goalie, they had 17 + goalie. Also half my team was new, half was from last season. Also they had a ringer. The guy blew past everyone over and over effortlessly. It was very fun but holy cow do I need to get better at skating. I was told I'm tenacious like a badger and to keep fighting for pucks along the boards like I was. So that felt good. I was playing wing. I've only played defense before so my positioning sucked. Also my legs are dead but my lungs were fine all game. I guess I need to lift.
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Sep 14, 2022 07:00
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10 + goalie is ideal. 17 is more than I've ever heard of, jesus.
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17 is insane
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Did they even have enough bench space for people to sit? Those games crack me up when the one dude who just got off the ice is standing.
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Sep 14, 2022 10:29
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Don’t overthink it. Sounds like you had a nice first game. Congrats and welcome!!
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Sep 14, 2022 10:39
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17 skaters should be illegal, hopefully those guys all enjoyed their 6 minutes of ice time
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Sep 14, 2022 15:01
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4 minutes for most of them probably, I guarantee they had a few guys that were taking 2+ minute shifts.
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Sep 14, 2022 15:17
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10 is the perfect number of skaters, 11-14 is acceptable, 17 is see you guys next week.
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Yeah 10 is best. 12-13 is the absolute most I'd want. As a defenseman, I hate having more than 4 defensemen. That's just too much for beer league hockey. 3 forward lines and 4 d is the most I'd wanna run. 3 forward lines is more acceptable than 6 d because forwards have more skating to do and therefore get tired more easily. Can't even imagine 17. No way I'd play on a team like that lol. That's absurd
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Ginette Reno posted:. 3 forward lines is more acceptable than 6 d because forwards have more skating to do and therefore get tired more easily. You try tellin them that
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Yesterday was my literal first time playing forward in anything. I'm usually defense in soccer or any other team sport, and all of my hockey practicing has been defense. So playing forward really tired me out and I was out of position a lot, which is probably why I was so tired since I kept sprinting everywhere to try to be in position. Should I do a stick and puck today, or a public skate to give my poor weak fingers and forearms and back a day of rest? Anyways ya'll were right and hockey is extremely fun. Honestly we did pretty well although I felt like an anchor on the team. 4 of our 10 skaters were new to the team. One of the new guys played D and hadn't skated in 10 years, was extremely out of shape (20 second shifts) and also the blade was falling off his skates. 2 of the new people were me and another guy from the same learn to play hockey class. The last new guy was decent though.
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sellouts posted:You try tellin them that Honestly usually isn't a problem on any team I've been on. Most people don't want to play d in beer league. People who grew up playing d want to gently caress around on forward and people who grew up playing forward want to keep playing forward because they wanna score goals.
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Sep 14, 2022 16:11
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Ginette Reno posted:Honestly usually isn't a problem on any team I've been on. Most people don't want to play d in beer league. People who grew up playing d want to gently caress around on forward and people who grew up playing forward want to keep playing forward because they wanna score goals. I am the perfect storm of new and wanting to play d. I just need to suck less first. I hate that none of you live in Denver so I can bully you into skating with me and helping me get better at D
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Sep 14, 2022 16:15
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Ginette Reno posted:Honestly usually isn't a problem on any team I've been on. Most people don't want to play d in beer league. People who grew up playing d want to gently caress around on forward and people who grew up playing forward want to keep playing forward because they wanna score goals. Mine was a “forwards don’t back check hard and thus don’t skate hard” shitpost
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We had 8 skaters once and decided to run 3 D, 2 C, and then I was one of the lucky 3 wingers who had to rotate into 2 spots. Would not recommend.
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sellouts posted:Mine was a “forwards don’t back check hard and thus don’t skate hard” shitpost ah well yeah that is definitely a thing too. I'm fully capable of doing the same on d though. I'll rush a puck up and then get too gassed to back check after I fail to score. RC Cola posted:I am the perfect storm of new and wanting to play d. I just need to suck less first. I hate that none of you live in Denver so I can bully you into skating with me and helping me get better at D Long as you're having fun, that's the main thing. Hockey rules
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Ginette Reno posted:Honestly usually isn't a problem on any team I've been on. Most people don't want to play d in beer league. People who grew up playing d want to gently caress around on forward and people who grew up playing forward want to keep playing forward because they wanna score goals. I play forward because my backwards skating skills are laughably bad, but I'm in decent enough physical shape to where I can outhustle a lot of the other old farts in my league. 
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:We had 8 skaters once and decided to run 3 D, 2 C, and then I was one of the lucky 3 wingers who had to rotate into 2 spots. Would not recommend. We usually run 8 as 3, D then drop-in style for the 5 forwards. The best is when you are the first to go for a change, then the other 2 come off 7 seconds later and want you to go back on.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:We usually run 8 as 3, D then drop-in style for the 5 forwards. That's how my team normally does it, but I think the captain was upset with inconsistent center play, so he changed it to make it way harder for the wingers. 
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:We usually run 8 as 3, D then drop-in style for the 5 forwards. The best is when you are the first to go for a change, then the other 2 come off 7 seconds later and want you to go back on. Yeah this is the only correct way to run 8 skaters imo. We do it fairly often, it's not bad as long as everyone is in decent shape.
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5: gently caress it, you decided to iron man it. You made your bed. 6: As above, but everyone gets to sit on the bench for 3 seconds every 8 minutes as four exhausted people try to change at once. 7: Doable. 3D and roll forwards. 8: 3D and either: roll forwards, or 2 centers and roll wings 9: 3D and two forward lines 10: PERFECTION 11: 4D, 3 centers, 2 wing pairs 12: 4D, 2 centers, 3 wing pairs 13: 4D, 3 forward lines 14: I have no idea. 5D? Ugh. 4 centers? Gross. 15: Even worse than 14. 16: No. 17: I believed this to be a myth until this week. For the teams I run, if I can't get at least 5 from my own team to show up, I'll consider a forfeit. I won't sub beyond 10 skaters in situations where we can pull in league subs.
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RC Cola posted:
This is absolutely a beginner thing. I try to remind myself that I’m not paying to dump the puck, to not make mistakes, or even to win, so try to do something real with the puck and if you gently caress up, who gives a poo poo, you get a little better for trying and none of it matters anyway. 10 is best. Anything over ten and my first move is to try to convince the D to run 5 and it never works. E: also, especially at the beginner level, if you have two guys charging at you and you can protect the puck or poke it just past them as they arrive, congrats you’ve just gained basically an eternity to make a play while they figure out how to stop and turn around. Every lovely forechecker is planning on doing a driveby so if you can figure out how to keep the puck while they cruise on past you’ll look pretty good. Thufir fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Sep 15, 2022 |
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I managed to start playing hockey last spring, and it's been a big change from playing soccer for a long time. It's taken until about now to not feel completely slow and completely worthless on the ice. And until about a month ago for the muscle groups to get used to being used differently. About the best thing the Kraken have done so far is unify the adult leagues and run adult learn to play programs on a schedule. Also, they do take good care of their ice. Playing on a low tier team this winter with a bunch of other hockey parents, so it should be great fun. Also, very unsurprised to see a lot of the same names from the NHL thread.
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sellouts posted:not paying to dump the puck is a new one, I gotta say Selfish hockey boys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA5kVB8QIyE
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Jhet posted:I managed to start playing hockey last spring, and it's been a big change from playing soccer for a long time. It's taken until about now to not feel completely slow and completely worthless on the ice. And until about a month ago for the muscle groups to get used to being used differently. About the best thing the Kraken have done so far is unify the adult leagues and run adult learn to play programs on a schedule. Also, they do take good care of their ice. Playing on a low tier team this winter with a bunch of other hockey parents, so it should be great fun. Hey! I'm glad there is another noobie in the thread!
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RC Cola posted:Hey! I'm glad there is another noobie in the thread! Yeah, my kid made me do it. He's still way better than me. It's super fun and I've been doing novice/beginner drop in this summer. I'm no longer completely out of place and can actually receive a pass and either turn up ice or pass it again. I'm also really good at hitting the edges of the shooter tutors when there's not a goalie. What I'm saying is I'm not great at scoring. Most everyone here is really understanding about skill levels as long as you're honest with yourself and are working to play the game. I'm sure regular season adult league will have some try hards, but so does beer league softball. But yay for fun and being bad. I'm almost down to my old pre-kids in the house weight when exercise was a thing that didn't have to be fit into a full schedule.
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