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Look Around You posted:I'm in Penn Hills so technically Bladerunners in Harmarville, but I usually go out to one of the rinks in the South Hills for pick up and stick time since it takes like 30-45 minutes to get there and there's way more people. I used to play there with a group at Harmarville that had a weekly pickup, but they switched to North Park's outdoor rink for the winter. Both of those are like 45 min drives for me so I mainly play at Bladerunners in Cranberry or at RMU/Neville Island.
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real_scud posted:I skated at North Park's outdoor rink last year and was impressed that the ice was honestly better than our rink down here in FL. I'll have to go give it a try then, havent been able to make it since they started
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Habibi posted:What do y'all use to keep your gear smelling fresh and...well, not like death, anyway? I air my pads out after every game (they're actually being aired out anytime I'm not playing, ie: they spend very little time in my bag) and have historically had pretty inoffensive equipment. But increased playing activity over the last 2+ months due to paternity leave (and then being laid off) that allowed me to attend afternoon pickups has definitely caused it to get pretty rank. I've used Febreeze before, but am not a huge fan as it just makes my stuff smell like Febreezed death,. Not much of an improvement. Is there some spray? One of those little bag fresheners? What should I do? Along with airing it out, you can spray it down with a mix of isopropyl alcohol and water, will kill the bacteria without any smell
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AboveAndBeyond posted:Where would be the best place in/between Richmond, VA and DC to get skates? Re-read the OP and got the needed inspiration to move back to the ice while I destroy the walls in my basement. I got something from home depot/lowes that is called 1/8" smooth panelboard, almost like a whiteboard, came in a 8'x4' sheet for $7 or something. Just needed a little silicon spray for the puck to slide good. Heard it doesnt hold up every well to slapshots, but good for stickhandling/wrist shots
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My wrist has been bothering me for a couple months, finally got to a specialist the other day since my family doctor didnt know what the problem was. Something wrong with a tendon that goes from my thumb to my wrist, so got a steroid shot and am in a soft brace for almost a month. Of course I tried to plan this in the 6 weeks I had between leagues, but it didnt work out as expected, took a month to get an appointment. Got to skate at Consol again today, couldnt play pickup for that reason, but got to skate for 30 min or so and watch pickup. Someone tried to get Lemieux and Recchi to come out and skate with us, since Adult Fantasy Camp (pay $5k to skate on a team with 1 former pro and play in a tourny with 3 other teams) apparently just finished when we got there, but they were tired, would of been a cool experience.
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toxicsunset posted:How the gently caress do you get to play pickup at Consol I met someone who works there who was telling me how they try to do staff pickup whenever they can, but apparently no one knew any goalies who would go, so no one ever played. I was able to help them out with that, so now they are able to play pickup whenever they can get ice time, as long as I can find goalies.
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toxicsunset posted:God drat you Whats your email? Not guaranteeing anything though, unless you can bring a goalie if we need one.
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Fingers McGee posted:How about wax? How much do you use, if any? I feel like my tape gets soggy even with wax. Seems to only last a couple skates for me, I try to melt it in though with a hair dryer.
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Pure Hockey is supposed to be opening multiple stores in Pittsburgh this year, they havent said where yet though, cant wait to have a good store for once.
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Yeah I think both ice stick time and pick up are $8 for 2 hours here. Inline pickup is $8 for 4 hours, which apparently no one ever pays for since the entrance for this rink is like 100 yards from the front desk and no one that works there feels like walking and checking if people paid. Pittsburgh
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Benson Cunningham posted:Where are you doing 8$ stick times? I used to play in Delmont, but now I play in North Kittaning, Warrendale, Rostravor, and sometimes Castle Shannon. (These are all places around Pittsburgh for anyone who is confused) Neville Island has $8, not sure where else, Cranberry is $10
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Thufir posted:I think my league would be pretty reasonable if if they cut it down to just the bottom 6 or so teams. We'd still probably be the 2nd worst team but we can at least hold our own against those guys and lose by one or two goals. Against the top teams it's pretty much guaranteed to be a 5+ goal margin and those games are hard to get excited for. Yeah that is what I had our league director do. We had 5 great teams and 5 bad teams in our league, so we just split it into two leagues, every team is within four points from 1st to 5th in both leagues, it is a lot more fun now.
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For those in Pittsburgh, looks like Pure Hockey announced their first store will be on Neville Island. It will be open late Spring and multiple other stores are still to be announced.
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Benson Cunningham posted:Can they sharpen skates correctly? I'll go there every time if they can. I have never been to one, I would hope to think they might be a little more knowledgeable than the 16 year old's usually working at other places
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I also want to purchase a backpack bag, couple people on my team have them, makes the 5-10 min walks to the locker room look so easy versus a strap digging into my shoulder from my bag.robcat posted:Backpacks seem cool though. My issue isn't so much shoulder strap digging into my shoulder as it is the bag slamming into my leg with every step I take. Oh yeah I forgot to mention that part too dms666 fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Mar 22, 2012 |
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lazerwolf posted:All this shinguard chat makes me want some new ones. The elastic is wearing out and they keep shifting when I play If you have access to a sewing machine, you can cut the strap and sew it back on about 2" back and it makes them like new again.
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Filled it out We need to know if people have wheeled bags, backpacks, or normal 
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Pleads posted:Oh, there was an ID check. Yeah I played a team last night in our best of 2 semi finals series, (if both teams win a game there is a 15 min tiebreaker game), lost 11-2, but in game one, we had no problem with a 5-2 win. Completely different team showed up, they are all rostered with probably the minimum 3 games played to be eligible to be in the playoffs. Ended up with a tie in the OT game, but lost in the shootout. The good thing is though is that their captain wasnt at the last captains meeting a few days ago, so we moved them up into a higher league without them knowing.
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Apparently Dave Hanson of the Hanson brothers happened to be at the rink (which he manages) when we got destroyed by the team that brought ringers in the playoffs the other day and is pretty mad that it was able to happen. Still not sure if any changes will come of this, but who knows.
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Finally found what is supposedly a beginners only ice league in my area, doesnt start until August though
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Benson Cunningham posted:Are you in Pittsburgh? I'm just guessing based on your avatar. I am in a beginner league right now as goalie. I can give you more info if you want. Which one are you in? This one is in Bladerunners in Cranberry
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Benson Cunningham posted:I'm at the rink in warrendale. I can see if any teams have an opening in my league. Second season is about to start. Same place, I emailed Bill Kessel a week or so ago to find out all the info on the league, told me nothing til the August season as of now. Just glad to have the option of some Friday pickup too. Let me know though
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Look Around You posted:
Email this guy fxnfly at zoominternet dot net and ask about beginners league info. I think there were over 30 spots remaining for August. Where do you play dek at? We need a list of where/what everyone plays like the gear list someone made.
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Look Around You posted:I'm on a team out at DekStar. Me and a friend actually got on our team by chance; we went out to Greentree to gently caress around and these guys asked us if we wanted to be on their team that they were throwing together because the season was starting 2 days later. It worked out pretty well though, we're 8-1 with 1 game left before the playoffs. I dont think he asks, just say you were interested in beginners league and pickup and he will add you to the email list for pickup and give you league info. I still play Dek, but out at Cranberry Dek Hockey, used to play at Dek-Star but got tired of how badly that place was ran.
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Look Around You posted:Lol they just had a "scheduling issue" where they told us the makeup game that they had scheduled for tomorrow at 3 is actually going to be played thursday at 7:30. It's kinda ridiculous but it's still pretty fun. I think our division is supposed to be like E or D maybe, but it's really unbalanced. The top two teams are 8-0 and 8-1 (we're .5GB), and then you have 3 teams roughly near each other and then 2 that are 2-8 and 1-8. The top team and my team definitely should be up a league, we're just crushing everyone and it isn't even fair. Other than parity though, it doesn't seem to be all that terribly ran, but I've been playing there for less than a full season. I've seen at least 3 times where 3 teams showed up for the same time slot. Hmm, what else, schedule requests, our goalie couldnt play Saturdays due to work, ended up with 9 out of 10 saturday games without ever playing one in previous seasons. At least you dont have to deal with the ref named Dean who was kicked out of there, went to Cranberry and got kicked out of there too. Melchiresa posted:I'm in Pittsburgh as well. I don't play ice at the moment, since I don't have all of my gear yet, but I'm down with drinking. You can probably make male stuff work, I'd just try going to a hockey store and trying stuff on and see what fits you best. I'm not sure where you're located, but there are new Total Hockey stores that opened in Robinson/Cranberry and Pure Hockey is opening soon on Neville Island. I have never had much luck with Peranis, but heard they added a lot more stuff to compete with the new stores. There is also K.O. in Cannonsburg dms666 fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Jun 2, 2012 |
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Attempting to make a list of everyones location/rinks they play at to let people try to find people to play with easier. e: New version https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDJsWnlTUG5xM2trTmtFai1DQ1pHN1E6MQ dms666 fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Jun 3, 2012 |
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coldwind posted:You should put up an option for goalies and invite us, too. Good idea, can add positions too e: updated version https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDJsWnlTUG5xM2trTmtFai1DQ1pHN1E6MQ and results page https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiScXmeJDaOidDJsWnlTUG5xM2trTmtFai1DQ1pHN1E dms666 fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jun 3, 2012 |
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Cool Ranch posted:Filled out the google doc, but I didn't type out the state so I boned up the alphabetizing...sorry. Dont worry, easily fixable
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Lawnie posted:I have a real world job for the summer and after an 8 hour work day I don't think i could handle more than 45 minutes on the ice. As long as its one of the middle two that are missing you'll be fine.
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Hockles posted:Top, I don't know much of what is said in upper level leagues by refs when players are arguing, complaining, etc. However, there is a ref in my league that will start to argue back at the player and in some cases when the player starts to swear at the ref and insult the ref, the ref will dish it right back and almost egg on the player. It almost seems like the ref wants to be the focus of attention in situations like that. I would expect that it not professional in nature to do something like that as a ref, but he has gotten a reputation from doing these things. What are your thoughts on that, and the ref? A ref in my league did that a few weeks ago, kept egging on our player and suspended him for 3 games when he yelled back at him.
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I just spread everything out on my front porch except my skates . Everything is dry by the morning and doesnt really seem to get a smell to it as long as I do this right after every game.
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Should add the player location list to the OP if you get a chance https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiScXmeJDaOidDJsWnlTUG5xM2trTmtFai1DQ1pHN1E Survey for this who havent filled it out https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDJsWnlTUG5xM2trTmtFai1DQ1pHN1E6MQ
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EvilTwig posted:Speaking of private ice, how do most people manage whos in for that week? Our weekly thing is a lot of emails sent to the whole invite list. We've been looking at a Google spreadsheet/form option, but is there a simpler way? The guy that runs the pickup that I go to uses this, seems easy enough. I think you just email a list of people and from there you RSVP and it shows who is a yes/no. Can limit the open spots that there are too. http://socializr.punchbowl.com/new_event
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Yeah I also wrap some clear hockey tape around the knob of tape at the end of my stick just to keep wear down on my gloves
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Look Around You posted:Hey, are any of you Pittsburgh goons playing in that E League out at Warrendale that got mentioned like way earlier in this thread? If so we should meet up or whatever. Actually we should just have a Pittsburgh hockey meetup anyway. I ended up on Team 7
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Look Around You posted:Did you guys get emails? I haven't gotten one yet if so. The guy who drafted the team I'm on emailed me, I guess its up to them if they want to do that or not. I'm not sure if Bill will end up sending out an email too at one point or not. Heading out there tonight though for the 7:40 pickup.
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Topoisomerase posted:I went to Warrendale Bladerunners last night and played drop-in with the fast 18-21 year old crowd (for the most part, a few old dudes there but not many). I could actually keep up pretty well, as long as I kept my shifts short, haha. Which was that, the 9pm pickup?
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Topoisomerase posted:yeah, 9:40 or something I've only watched that one, but it seems like it usually has a lot higher skill level.
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Look Around You posted:I just got an email a few minutes ago. Apparently I am on Team 7 as well, so I guess we'll be meeting soon regardless. I don't think I'm goony enough to actually stairs anyone though, so we'll have to find out each others' real life identities in a more normal way Looks like our schedule is up, first game at 11 on Friday. http://sportability.com/spx/Leagues/schedule.asp?LgID=30562&Filter=217675 My friend got put on Ninja Perogies as goalie, he is currently trying to switch to our team if possible. He played for the first time in like 8 years last week and is still looking good, so hopefully that can be done. Oh, I'm the one with the camo hockey bag.
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