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.Spec posted:Has anyone tried out sticks from prostockhockeysticks.com and had any thoughts? I've somehow broken two sticks since Jan and I'd like to not shell out the cost of another True if I can get something comparable for less (especially since it's going to break eventually). I played with a stick from allblackhockeysticks before and it was _fine_ but didn't feel great so I'm looking for alternatives. I have a friend who ordered custom sticks from there because he gets a fitness budget from work, and he's a big and tall guy who wanted some flex in a long enough stick without having to worry about a flimsy extension. He's happy with the sticks, but they took forever because they were custom. Buying an existing stick is probably going to give you a good experience.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Try them on if you can, but Supremes are wider than Vapors. Supremes are targeted to people who want better ankle support while skating. Vapors are cut a little lower are are supposed to be better for really tight turning and agility. Most beer leaguers should be paying for Supremes at best. The really good skaters will notice the difference, but it's more if it fits and feels good then you should be wearing those. You can get them baked a few times, so if you're buying used take them in some where to get them baked to your feet. I did manage to wear the heels out on mine already after a year, but I was in them 20-30 hours for most of last year (over 1000 hours easily). This year should be closer to maybe just 20 hours a week? I'm going to need to buy new skates in a few months already when the rest of the padding falls out of the heels. I haven't found a way to fix it nicely, but I can at least wear them for a bit still. Jhet fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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I’m pretty sure there’s a team in our league that used to be sponsored by a porn site or sex shop. A bunch of them have names that are thinly veiled innuendo on the nameplates. They’re a fun group of players either way.
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I’m to the point where I’m getting my skates sharpened almost once a week and it feels ridiculous. Then I step onto the ice and remember why. Really nothing like having a really nice sharp edge.
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Oct 2, 2023 19:19
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calandryll posted:The Sparx is an awesome thing to own if you live in an area where getting a good sharpening is nigh impossible. I've had a half dozen people complain to me about their Sparx messing up their edge too, but I think it messes with the profile after too many uses. I think we're going to invest in one of the Wissota machines. I'm spending $50-60 a month during the season on sharpening and I expect that number to go up before it goes down as my kid gets more particular about his edges.
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Oct 17, 2023 03:58
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Own goals are always hilarious. I turned around and apologized to my goalie for my rear end being to large. I was at least clearing a forward out from in front properly, just left 1/2” too slowly. It hit the far post and just dropped in.
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V for Vegans posted:Had a goal bounce off my shoulder and in whole fighting the center for net front position. Goalie blamed me for that goal but still didn’t make up for the 8 soft ones he let in the rest of the game so I can’t be too mad. lols, definitely your fault that you lost that game too, right? Our goalie wasn't upset. I was more upset than he was. He looked lined up to catch it, but those bounces happen. We do only give up 2-3 goals a game these days when we're playing teams in our division, but we're working on scoring next. The big deal is that we've stopped the 8-9 goals against this season now. I switched into playing D this season too, and learning the timing on my transitions took a couple weeks. Figuring out what looks like a good pinch and bad one has been interesting too. Really makes me appreciate people who can anticipate the puck that well to routinely keep it in the zone. I've stopped over-pressuring at the offensive blue line, and I've been managing to keep most of the breakouts to the outside too.
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How many people on your team wear mouthguards? It'll be the same people who will wear laceration protective gear. Not a bad idea at all, but a horrible way for people to start paying attention to it. I've just always worn the cut protection socks because they're the most comfortable ones I could find. I play bad low level hockey too, my biggest concern is people falling and stabbing me with their skates. I have more concern when I'm dropping the puck for a faceoff. Narrowly avoided taking a butt end this weekend to the face. I've also managed to only get submarined twice in the last few months, but I'm getting good at anticipating play and making sure I'm not getting run into in the corners. Helps when the players keep their heads up and look where they're going too.
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.Spec posted:One of the teams I play I play on is div 7-8, so not the most skilled, and more people than I would have thought wear mouth guards. Definitely not a majority but I counted a solid third of them had one in last night. I don't think anyone wears cut resistant socks and that's just wild to me. I don't trust players at that level to keep upright the whole game so feet are flying everywhere. If you’re in the Kraken League we’ve almost certainly crossed paths then. My team moved up to try 7a before settling into 7b this winter if you want to try to narrow me down. I’m improving enough with my positional play, but my hands aren’t quite there yet. My passing is improving a lot more than my shooting, and I can keep up going backwards so I’m having fun on D this year. Starting to hit those break out passes and picking up assists. I don’t ref on Sunday nights normally because I’m playing, but you’re right about the bottom Divs. They don’t know how to skate and more importantly stop in a lot of cases. And they still push their speed which makes a lot of things dangerous even if it isn’t really a penalty because they can’t stop. I find myself lowering the standard of calls sometimes because it’s for their safety and they need someone to draw the line for what constitutes safe play. Most of the players are great people, but I just want to take them out and run skating drills for them instead of letting them play yet. I know playing it part of it, but they’re going to have a lot more fun in a year when they can put more of the pieces together. I do more adult league on Mondays and Tuesdays though, and they can be fun. That’s your Div 3-5 that you’d see me at normally. Occasionally on Thursday for the 1-2 where they don’t like to wear even half shields. The near butt end was from the 18u Tier 1 boys this weekend though. Caught my shield.
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.Spec posted:hah yep! There's a solid chance I have both played against you and have had you ref a game I was playing You should definitely just skate over to every ref you have on Mondays to ask if they have stairs in their house then. If only for the random stares and confused questions you'd get. But there's always a chance. My legs don't feel as bad after a long weekend of skating. I had a really busy weekend a few weeks ago where I had 13 games in 3 days and that did it for me. Soft ice at LIC for hours and hours. That's an interesting question for people though. How good/bad is the ice in your area? I was talking to a coach this weekend who's from Minnesota but is in Salt Lake City now and his team really enjoyed the ice (it was really pretty good that morning). Is everyone skating on soft ice rinks and I'm just being extra picky about what's good and bad?
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Cripes there’s a bunch of you here. If anyone figures me out I can give you a free tour of any penalty box whenever you want. Also happy to grab a beer on a night I’m not in stripes. Non-Kraken league used rinks need tiering too. I’d put Snoqualmie at A tier as they do keep it nice and it’s kept cold. Kirkland is D tier. VMFH is C tier unless you get it after 9pm when they’ve had a chance to lower the temp and it’s not summer. D tier at 7pm or all summer because windows. Renton is a C tier. It’s okay, bit soft, but the only spot on the ice I hate is the Zam doors. Highland gets an honorable mention for having the best ice this winter they’ve had in a decade.
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I think the problem here is he wasn’t really making a controlled hockey play, so it rises above into something very bad. I don’t think he was trying to kill him, but intent to injure comes up from the hockey people I know that have watched it.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Today at Rat, a guy on the other team kept hooking me from behind and it got so bad that one time he actually pulled me down onto the ice. When I told him to stop hooking me, he responded with "that's my game." I’m sure that’s super helpful when he takes three hooking calls in the first period of every game. That or he doesn’t play leagues anymore and it’s just rat hockey because he takes too many calls. Referees do remember those guys.
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Nov 14, 2023 21:18
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xzzy posted:Bending your knees more is treated like a cure-all, but there's a lot more going on down there than just the angle of your knees. It's obviously something all never-evers gently caress up so I get why coaches harp on it so much but it's just part of the equation. The only planks the majority of beer leaguers I see can do are the ones that were popular on tiktok. Core strength was the part that I needed to work on to get down in my chair more than the leg/knee strength. Once I improved it I found that I could really get down with bent knees in the A frame. That and daily stretching really helped a ton.
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I don’t know how old you are, but you might have fun in the 40+ Advanced on Tuesday nights. It’s about that Div 4-5 skill level, but not quite as hard physically. Still fast with hands, but it’s less contact than the other divisions. They’re also on an 8 week season I think. Winthrop is awesome though. Good luck getting back to a good feeling condition. Anytime I get even a small pain in my lower back it’s the worst feeling.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:I was up in Seattle for work today and took the opportunity to visit KCI for a stick n puck. Ice so smooth and hard, someone please raise funds for my local decrepit rink for a new chiller plant and zam. Both the Starbucks and Smartsheet rinks are really pretty good. VMFH (the one with all the south facing windows) gets torn up a lot and soft depending on the day. But that’s what figure skaters and keeping it warmer will do. I do enjoy skating there most days. The ice crew takes good care of the ice. Parking there is super dumb though. They have two big parking lots just roped off now for two years waiting for building sometime maybe?
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The Zam drivers at KCI can be divided into okay to good. The ones there at night honestly do the best job. The ones during the day can be hit and miss. There’s one that is really good that works during the day, but there’s one who takes a really odd pattern and it’s not as clean after. The guys at night leave the ice in great shape and a couple are good at varying the water flow to fix the gouges after the kids practice too. They’re all good to stand around and bullshit with though at night.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:We lost one of the goalies halfway through Rat today. A guy shot the puck on net and somehow it found its way into the goalie's blocker and lacerated his palm. I don't think anything is broken, but he definitely needed stitches and had to go to the ER. I’ve been trying to figure out how this is even possible with him holding his stick. That’s a really strange angle for it to fire in fast enough to cause injury. Hoping it’s just a cut and heals up fast because that sucks. It’s been two weeks since I last took a puck in a way that bruised. To no one’s surprise I get hit less the higher the level game I do. It’s the mid division or AA games that cause the most injury.
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Verman posted:I don't even try to screen for this poo poo. Let the goalie handle it. I don’t block shots on purpose while playing. Sometimes I’m already there and can’t move to open the angle to the net, and those I might take. But there’s a reason I bought pro stock breezers and they have saved me a few times. On the other hand I have lazy players who don’t lift their head and look before moving the puck who hit me the guy with the stripes who literally just dropped the puck on the face off. Those are the ones that end up bruising because they also aren’t really aiming either.
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.Spec posted:Did the refs not notice him taking shots at you or did they just didn't care? He kept missing, that's not quite unsporting behavior (601(a.2)). Now if he was down on the ice and they intentionally rocket one then you might get a call if it's not a shot on goal. The number of shots that go toward players standing or skating through lanes is very high. The Watson shot on Lauzon last week was different because he shot the puck at him with much more clear intent to injure.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:602a - intent to injure or recklessly endanger. Shouldn’t matter if he couldn’t hit someone with his shot, it was an attempt to injure and should have been given a match penalty. That’s a rule that elevates the others into match penalty territory instead of just being 5+game. In this situation, it wouldn’t be appropriate. No contact was made, no injury was sustained. We can’t just have match penalties for people who shoot the puck hard if they’re not hitting anything. And not if they fire the puck to make a regular hockey play if there’s a defender in the way either. I’m not saying the guy wasn’t being an rear end in a top hat, but that’s not what we call an injury potential situation.
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I was working with a guy today who’s also on the team with the guy that broke his fibula on Tuesday. They play on a different team than the Tuesday game though. Glad you were wearing a cup though, think of how nasty it would be if you weren’t. Just like those guys who refuse to wear shoulder pads because ‘reasons’. I like my ribs attached properly thanks. Hockey is a very small community and now I know that I’ve for sure reffed some of your games.
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KAHL players, you can DM me if you want the league unofficial discord. People bitch and moan and post hot clips and cold takes. That clip may have been posted today. That looks like it really hurt. They were concerned that you didn’t have a cup. Personally I’m glad that you’re feeling okay today. One of team zebra took a puck to the head last night on a clearing attempt. Then last week someone had their cup explode taking a shot to the groin. It happens more often than I’d have expected.
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Pleads posted:Yeah LiveBarn not being standardized for quality+audio is kind of a failing of their whole structure. Because we miss out on the *doink* sound when players take a hockey puck to the groin. The rinks can decide to turn off the audio and a couple of them do here because of the location of the mic being right above the benches for the kid games. At least that’s what I’ve been told. I wish the audio would be on so I can here what sort of cranky nonsense the benches get up to saying. Really helpful when filling out misconduct reporting when a coach crosses the line. Gratz on your first goalie point! I give one of those every few weeks it feels like.
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Verman posted:Played a game with my sub team again and the opponents had a half dozen college kids show up, with matching college helmets and gloves and proceeded to walk every single person on the ice at will. They come back and play all summer too. They were in first place in the summer season, were in the playoffs. Then classes started and the team lost in the first round iirc. It's one thing to have a friend or a kid come play with your beer league team and sandbag hard because they just want to play with friends. It's another to have a whole line of them not sandbagging. They'd get owned in Div 1-2 though where they're supposed to play.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:A guy who played in Juniors and at Illinois came in and subbed against my D-league team once. That was not fun at all. Lols why? How was that fun for that guy? Div 5 here is about a C league in most places. A/B are about Div 1-3/4, and D league is 6ish to 10! Why do we have 10 divs? IDK stop adding teams. We get a handful of new teams each year right now straight from the Kraken Learn 2 Play, but they're at least stuck in Div 10 away from people who can skate (and stop). I'd rather be on the ice with the former college/juniors players.
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I have a 6pm game on Sunday. Something is wrong with the world. We’re going to have 15 skaters! I’m actually going to need to change?
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Lols, how long ago is this from LIC? That sign looks pretty old. I think the WC ice is up for one more day and is getting taken down on Friday. Super awesome that everyone's having a bunch of fun with it. Too many Seattle hockey people itt where we're all going to need to at least drink beer in a parking lot at some point.
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Take your chains. If it’s blizzard in the pass it’s going to be slow driving up through the Methow valley especially once you’re on 20. Beautiful drive if you can see anything in the snow, but when we were there last year it added an hour of extra car time almost and it was only some snow flurries and not blizzard. There was enough snow that the piles from the plows were 15’ tall. Great fun for the kids to get to play outside and the mountains behind the rink are awesome scenery.
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How many sticks are you going through? I don’t think I’m particularly easy on my sticks, but I’ve only retired one in 2 years. Maybe you’re just leaning into it harder than I am, a very probable option. I do tend to take a number of slashes on my stick too, but I play in a lower ability Div, so that’s definitely part of my stick longevity.
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That does explain why my primary stick feels soft in the flex now. Here I thought I was just finally using it properly. Maybe some of each. I have Warrior Alphas too, but the timing was good for me to be near Vancouver BC for Boxing Day and I got another for 150CA$ in their sale. Bought my kid an extra stick too for just as cheap. With the exchange rate it came out nice and cheapish. I’ll probably keep using the primary for a bit, but the new one needs tape and then I’ll see how it goes. Didn’t notice it was an 85 instead of 75 flex, but I probably won’t notice the difference. I’d hate to be buying these normal price there, some are normally priced around 400CA$ and that’s just stupid expensive. I do notice different contact to my shaft playing D this year, and I load up for shots and passes with more strength too. I’m near the top of the list on assists, but I put one in off the face off last weekend. That felt really nice.
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I'm a little disappointed no one has labeled it "Dear Richard," but ASCII dicks are good too.
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Yeah we have a Gretzky rule for the lower divs. Anything 6-10 is a 3 goal max. Teams that constantly have someone hitting it have been getting moved up to harder competition. The sandbagging in the lower divs has been getting a little better, but you’ll run into someone who just wants to play hockey with a partner or family member who really does sandbag it successfully just so they can have some fun. It’s the middle divs where that’s still an issue.
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There's no requirements for expiration dates to be within any limit for adult recreational hockey. That said, if your bucket is in lovely shape, get a new one so you don't find out the hard way how big a difference it makes. There are helmets out there now with a ton of options for adjusting the fit. Even the skaters in the A/1-2 divs will occasionally find out how much work their helmet is doing. Also advisable to replace old helmets if you take a big impact in them as the padding is what goes. I'm also seeing a larger percentage of lower div adult skaters wearing laceration guards on their neck, or the full shirt with cut protection. I don't know how they don't absolutely carry sweat and then I see how fast their skating and realize there's probably not much to soak up.
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wandler20 posted:I have a question about skates. Did you put decent insoles into them? The ones that come standard in skates are really hard. I like superfeet, but Bauer makes ones that are also nice (and I think more expensive). If you're not going to be using skates for a ton of time a week there's not probably a point in buying $400 skates. Using them and breaking them in will also help. Can you even bake those? I'd think not for the price point.
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RC Cola posted:gently caress the cop team. Go hockey! Hey now. That wasn't me at least. Thursday nights are usually the top divisions, so if you're used to playing outside it you may not like how Thursdays get called. One of my games last night was USPHL and college players versus former USPHL players and while there's no body checking allowed, there are a lot of other tools in the game that they get to use. Even they complain about stuff that they've been doing the whole game and then the other team does it and "where's the call?" I did mostly Tier II and Tier I games this year, and even they complain less than adult league. It's part of the allure. My team lost it's first game last weekend. We took 6 or 7 calls that game, and still only lost in OT to a deflected shot from four feet wide of the net that went top corner. I'm a little salty because I almost got my stick on it while split between defending two forwards net front.
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Verman posted:Also, they're cops. They've told us so on the ice on several occasions. Maybe it's why their team name is the bullets. Did not know this about them. I’ve only refereed them maybe twice. I just figured they were nerds because the logo looks like the one in Mario. The teams who have a misguided sense of self importance tend to blend together. You have more than the average in that division though. It’s pretty common in that number Div and the one above it. Good luck with the finals, I’m not working that night.
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Yeah, we lost out in OT last night for the second game in a row to end the season. Even game, one call in the whole thing. They were great at crashing the net and it left us overloaded on D constantly. Two of their goals including the game winner came off a play with two in front before our forwards could get back and they'd just dump a puck in front to whack at it. Not a bad strategy.
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So with my old and slowish team we signed up for the Kraken Cup for this last weekend. Going in we had only one expectation of having a ton of fun and playing 4 games of hockey. And drinking enough to remind us we’re old. So we not only accomplished our goal, but won our division and scored a bunch of goals in the process. My skill playing defense has improved a ton since last year and it’s been great fun. I can angle plays off into the corner and take the puck away. I can hold the offensive blue line pretty well. My puck handling still needs improvement, but also much better than it used to be. Time soon for summer season and maybe giving my legs and back a break for a couple weeks.
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