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calandryll posted:Wouldn't be beer league if you also didn't slam your stick into the boards as well. Only if the boards hit your girlfriend first, right?
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Maaaaaaaan we almost, ALMOST finally beat the  's going off in my head after the first step forward and that little voice screaming "what are you doing WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?" gah.Ahh well, it's still the best we've played those guys yet this season so hey: Moral Victory.  ed: oh, I guess they ended up getting the 2nd seed at the end, not 1st. Duke Chin fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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Apr 9, 2016 01:42
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Sometimes you pinch and score a goal. Sometimes you pinch and lead to hilarious breakaways. Such is hockey.
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V for Vegans posted:Is it legal to have teammates launch a player with bungee cords to get a massive break away? There's no rule that says you can't. Go for it.
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Second game last night. Was really close the entire way through*. I got my first goal, which was also really integral to us winning, after hauling rear end to have an icing call waved off. Goalie came out of the crease and played it to the corner, I picked it up and took a side angle shot which went in behind the goalie. Final score 13-2 To re-cap we have lost 9-2 and we have won 13-2... so unless this is normal the league has varying degrees of talent. *this is a lie, it was a blow-out.
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Apr 10, 2016 01:27
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All the youth hockey done for the summer, rink is suddenly a lot nicer place to be and the ice times don't suck either. Best time of year for hockey I think. At least until the heat shows up and humidity turns the place foggy.
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Apr 10, 2016 18:35
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Taught my little sister how to skate over the weekend, figured she'd want to do speed or figure skating. Turns out she saw some hockey being played and wants get get involved. I'm so proud. She's usually quite the girly girl so I never saw a contact sport coming. Gonna buy her some decent skates if she sticks with it.
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Apr 11, 2016 11:36
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Wife brought a camera to the game, how do I look?
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Apr 11, 2016 14:23
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2/10 - missing mullet and tinted visor.
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dogstile posted:Taught my little sister how to skate over the weekend, figured she'd want to do speed or figure skating. Most programs do Girls Try Hockey a couple times a year which is a free event where all gear is provided and they get an hour on the ice.
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Our captain and goalie both announced their...retirements yesterday. Goalie played in college and in the WHA and is a couple of weeks from his 70th birthday...he's been way over his head skill-wise for a couple of years now but we didn't ever have the heart to ask him to play elsewhere so we've just put up with the .600 save percentage. Our captain is like...59 or so and was by far the worst player in our league so...that's also good, I guess. Also like 3 other guys decided they can no longer skate in our current division so there was like 3 of us left in the locker room kind of looking around awkwardly wondering where we'll play next year.
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Apr 11, 2016 15:40
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Hook up with some bottom tier team that's super mad about losing all their games and are looking to bring in a ringer.
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Apr 11, 2016 15:43
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bewbies posted:Our captain and goalie both announced their...retirements yesterday. Goalie played in college and in the WHA and is a couple of weeks from his 70th birthday...he's been way over his head skill-wise for a couple of years now but we didn't ever have the heart to ask him to play elsewhere so we've just put up with the .600 save percentage. Our captain is like...59 or so and was by far the worst player in our league so...that's also good, I guess. Can he still butterfly without breaking a hip? That's pretty impressive, I plan on playing till 70 if possible. Only 30 some odd more years!
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Pleads posted:Move to Columbia, MO I TOTALLY WOULD DO THIS And our goalie wasn't really the "butterfly" type insomuch as he was the "stand there and hope for the best" type. Although he said his balky knee and inability to push off anymore were the impetus for his finally hanging it up.
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Yeah, I refuse to spend more than $70 on sticks. I just broke a stick last week that I've used for like 3 years, so now I'm on the look out for a Int Bauer P88 right handed stick for under $70.
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bewbies posted:I TOTALLY WOULD DO THIS That's funny, my goaltending style is "scream loudly at the shooter to try and throw them off their game". Also I flop a lot. It works sometimes.
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So the "goalie drought" in Austin took another weird turn. I get an email asking for a 7:15 goalie sub in the league above me, but alas I've promised to sub in a 6:30 game at the Pond. Not expecting much, I send back "If no one else takes it, and while I can't promise to be there at puck drop, I'll beat feet to the rink and fill in." I check in about 5 to see if anything happened, and it turns out that in fact no one else has taken the goalie sub spot, and I'm the only hope. I play my 6:30 game and after the end game whistle, about 7:20, I wave at everyone on the ice shouting good game, and immediately jump off to my pre-positioned bag by the doors and strip off the bare minimum. I'm driving with my thigh guards, cup, goalie pants, and collar guard to the 7:15 game. When I get there, the second period has already started, and the team in need still has no goalie and is miraculously only down 0-1, so I'm busting rear end getting redressed. All ready, I hop on. I proceed to somehow not suck and shutdown the other team, and my sub team ties it up late in the third. Shootout time. I somehow manage to make the luckiest, stupidest, most fantastic flopping glove save ever against one of my secret gay hockey lovers. I wish I had a camera recording or a photo, it was utterly stupid sick. We win the shootout. I go to the other locker room and tell my secret gay hockey lover that I will never ever make that save against him again. Feels good. It turns out the next goalie, who was going to play against Bradf0rd (who could not sub due to tiny parasite problems) in the game after us, was there the whole time, but declined to play because of something along the lines of "I don't like to play a game before MY game". wtf Goalies, man... Bootcha fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 11, 2016 |
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So I'm in a stinky socks league where we play the same team every Sunday night, and they all joined as a group so and are mostly beginners so we've been winning every game. Last night we discovered the other team not only has a name, but a YouTube channel where they post player interviews and even recordings of some of our games. (Pro tip, never watch a video of yourself playing d league hockey, it's just disappointing and sad) Now we've been inspired to come up with a team name so that each game isn't just Thunder Demons vs team 2. The games have been wicked fun though. The other team brings a large crowd of parents and girlfriends to the games so there's actual cheering when stuff happens, which I wasn't expecting going in but it really makes games much more enjoyable.
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Apr 11, 2016 20:57
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You should be the Dunder Themons.
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the last 2 games have each had an instance of a different forward getting tripped and sliding nut first into a prone opposing goalie's helmet resulting in a timeout. it was funny/sad the first time because the goalie appeared to get some kind of neck strain out of it, the second time was just bizarre because the player that got tripped was out the previous game and the exact same play went down only without any injury. we started a pool on defense to see if/when it happens for a 3rd game in a row on thursday. aaand before I could hit submit, we just got our 7pm game time moved back to 8:30, so we'll all miss wild/stars game1. worst league ever.
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Summer Coed league started up again over the weekend with my team taking a 6-1 loss. Our brand new goalie was late getting in, so I anchored down the goal during warmups... and got nailed by two shots in the exact same spot on the back of my knee within twenty seconds of each other. The new goalie is actually new to playing goal. She hasn't quite figured out positioning or a lot of the basics yet. This is a pretty good league to do that in though, as we're not super competitive. It is a bit slower than D2 was, but far less douchey. Oh, yeah. I may or may not have mentioned this here (I know xzzy saw what I'm talking about in person), but when the league started up last year they had to put together a draft team to fill out the fourth team. That team didn't get custom jerseys, so they were at the mercy of whatever the rink provided. They were also trying to figure out a team name, and at best had some good jokes. They ended up with bright pink generic jerseys... and chose the name Glitter Ponies. Because it's obviously manly. They're back for this year, and they almost went full ham:  We started giving them poo poo about the jerseys when we found out they all could have paid an extra five dollars each and ACTUALLY HAD THE PONY GLITTER. That would have been a completely acceptable use of $5. Come on.
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I see the penis.
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I do approve of their embracing the pink though. I'm surprised they got everyone to buy in to it. I meant to to get into that league this summer.. but I procrastinated and it didn't happen. Kinda regretting it now because I really want two games a week. Bootcha posted:I see the penis. Yeah, they hid it well.
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My new Silver A team is getting their new jerseys this week. Completely paid for by one of the dude's companies looking for a last-minute tax deduction. It's like Christmas is a couple days away. 
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Apr 11, 2016 23:11
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Between seasons right now so I am currently washing all the luck out of my pads.
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Hot pink jerseys rule. The brony logo is the icing on the cake.
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I hate brony poo poo with every fiber of my being but even I have to admit that's pretty funny. (oh also we lost our final playoff game in overtime last night because I fell down on a pivot when I caught an edge on the motherfucking garbage poo poo hole trash rear end Highland ice and it led to the other team's best player having a breakaway cause who the hell knows where my D partner was during all of that god damnit I hate highland ice)
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V for Vegans posted:So I'm in a stinky socks league where we play the same team every Sunday night, and they all joined as a group so and are mostly beginners so we've been winning every game. Last night we discovered the other team not only has a name, but a YouTube channel where they post player interviews and even recordings of some of our games. (Pro tip, never watch a video of yourself playing d league hockey, it's just disappointing and sad) Now we've been inspired to come up with a team name so that each game isn't just Thunder Demons vs team 2. Oh man. This is amazing. Post the youtube. I want to see just how poorly I skate. Also I gotta try and get a slot again sometime soon -- it's always sold out now sadly. e: found it (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC95hTgLpo5W60NBDefRlCEQ), and of course the first game I open up has me in it. Uuuuuuuuuu. Wonder_Bread fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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I still haven't been to highland yet despite it being only 5 minutes from my house. Everything I hear about it sounds like its somewhere between skating in a horse barn and a rink from mutant league hockey. In other news I have a few days off so I'm going to try and hit up all those weekday lunch skates I'm never able to get to. The last time I did sticks and pucks in Kent I had the rink to myself.
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That 11:45a-1:30pm session? Renton also does a 6am - 6:10pm (no that's not a typo) stick n puck every day / every other day that I go to regularly as well.
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xzzy posted:I do approve of their embracing the pink though. I'm surprised they got everyone to buy in to it. Growlers may have need of a player or two. They were kinda short while they were beating our brains in. Try to get a hold of Monica S. Doesn't hurt that their goalie is Mandi from the highest division Rampage team. I've seen her frustrate B level players.
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Someone came up to me after my game yesterday and apologized for running me into the boards it was the weirdest thing ever
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Duke Chin posted:That 11:45a-1:30pm session? Yeah probably (kent valley 1145 -130). I have a game at 9pm tomorrow but I would like to get out and do stick and puck earlier in the day. I looked at renton and saw the 6am session and a 2pmish session. 6am is brutal. I'm out of town starting Thursday so tomorrow is what I'm aiming for.
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I've played 6:30 am hockey every Sunday the past couple months. Getting up for that hurts but once you loosen up on the ice it's pretty drat good. Feels good for the rest of the day too.
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Wonder_Bread posted:Oh man. This is amazing. Post the youtube. I want to see just how poorly I skate. We had some slots last week that were filled with a couple b leaguers who would just take the puck from our zone back to their zone and just seemed very uninterested the whole game, but they were brought in last minute but maybe some people just didn't show up. The ref didn't even have a real roster sheet, he just wrote down our jersey numbers on a piece of paper.
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Verman posted:Yeah probably (kent valley 1145 -130). I have a game at 9pm tomorrow but I would like to get out and do stick and puck earlier in the day. I looked at renton and saw the 6am session and a 2pmish session. 6am is brutal. xzzy posted:I've played 6:30 am hockey every Sunday the past couple months. Getting up for that hurts but once you loosen up on the ice it's pretty drat good. Feels good for the rest of the day too. I pretty much never ever wake up before like 11am because... why? Especially not for stick n puck.
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