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On 10/25/2023 at 2:21 PM, chakal said:

Is it OK if the action picture is from 1995?

That was my favorite set prior the profly box pads :

Ferland Victory pads
Koho Revolution gloves
CCM Supra pants
Brian's C/A with lots of modifications
Cooper kneepads
Bauer skates
Protechsport original mask with Hextal paintjob.

Koho twig too? Looks like a revolution one too. Nice setup.

I'm still using my Canadian made Gatekeepers. They are tanks and held up great. Canadian made gear was amazing...

21 hours ago, coopaloop1234 said:

 

If these come in a size 12 wide, I'm getting a pair. True Bladerunners

2 hours ago, ThatCarGuy said:

Recieved my reason today. They do not have a process to extend a tourist visa for unpayed hockey players from outside of the EU. As of today I have 2 weeks to leave Sweden or 4 if I choose to appeal my case. Time to start packing and searching for teams to play for. 

2 weeks to get hitched to a pretty looking Swedish lady...

5 hours ago, ThatCarGuy said:

My application to live in Sweden has been rejected meaning I have to return to the US within 3 weeks. I had no backup plan for this season. 

Sorry buddy. Amazing that they can just reject you. It seems like anyone can live in the US. Guess we're not the meanies that we're portrayed to be.

Hopefully Lundquist wears the team shells. He'll look good as usual.

Better than when Messier wore his Cascade helmet... woof!

20 hours ago, coopaloop1234 said:

And the garage once again gets more cluttered. Doesn't help that I'm still in the midst of packing up my hunting gear. 

 

Preaching to the choir. 

Wait, I see space on the shelves still... what is that? a floor? Good hoarders don't let others see their floor.

Suspension list = owes money to rink or league

Looks like a Minecraft version of CCM gear.

On 10/25/2023 at 9:54 PM, Mike24 said:

... from the local Heritages...

You know you're local when you shop at a Heritage's. I'm there daily anymore.

Quebec is to the French language as Philly is to the English language?

16 hours ago, chakal said:

Now I see it! But I don't think Hayward had these pads for a long period of time.

Need the 15" Kenesky pads...

That's a nice looking buck.

The mistake would be not buying it.

Take it to car shows. People are craving seeing these again.

Dave Art ruins everything.

If he made a mask with 'Seattle Lifestyle' and coated it in flannel. That would rule.

Not paint that looks like flannel with glitter and whatever BS name he uses for his work. No. I want to see actual flannel stretched over the mask and glued on. Skates that look like Doc Martens. Etc.

Come on Seattle goalies. You can do this right.

On 10/17/2023 at 1:42 PM, seagoal said:

 

I had to growing up in the south.  It was roller or nothing before university for me.  

I played forever at a skating rink that added rink glass around the walls too. Rink was small as heck, had cinderblock walls around it and rock hard glass on top of the block wall. The puck would come off the wall behind the net as fast as it came in. Transitions from offense to defense were lightning quick.

Hockey is hockey. Rink was close as heck and I played a ton there for free. Workout was amazing and the people who played were all good company.

Sadly the rink didn't make it past covid and closed.

You've clearly never played roller.

You can go from a 3 on 1 against them - miss the net on a hard shot - puck comes out fast and it's a 3 on 1 back at you.

Crappy would be an improvement. Nothing stinks more than getting hit in a bad spot and the puck still goes in.

On 10/6/2023 at 3:46 PM, Lucky Pucker said:

- Agree regarding practices, but we in our House League association are not allowed to withhold opportunities or otherwise “punish” tardiness, delinquency, or absenteeism. I don’t expect that it will be a problem with my team this year, but the only recourse I would have is to hope that my words alone would elicit a change. 

We pay so much for hockey - nobody really skips practice. No way! I use that line all the time with my kids that I paid too much to skip.

USA Hockey obviously was getting their tails handed to them forever by Canada. So they really put in the work to get the youngest of kids on a well designed track that leads them to Juniors and beyond. Look at the number of US kids in the league now that are stars. 

The USA Hockey stuff leans on a lot of the European and Russian training methods too. I think it's great to blend everything together and offer so much to the coaches and players to utilize.

3 hours ago, coopaloop1234 said:

Imagine going to the finals and your season opener tickets are still the cheapest in the league. 

 

Maybe. The Flames are $31 Calgary money. So that's like $3 real money.

I wouldn't take free Flyers tickets. Why? Still $30 to park plus whatever you buy inside. I don't even watch them on tv for free, why now pay to?

17 hours ago, jerd31 said:

Bauer doing their best Simmons impersonation 

 

Classic design for sure. I wish someone would bring back the Simmons Illusion design. With the Bauer printed pads now - now more than ever! Let's get crazy!

1 hour ago, seagoal said:

There is guy going around starting fires in my neighborhood at work.  We were setting up to start our sensory analysis this morning and all of a sudden we smelled smoke.  Successive fires every 3 blocks to the south.  Good times.  Oh, city life.

Could be worse.

Philly.

On 10/5/2023 at 7:23 AM, ThatCarGuy said:

Anyone have experience with how long this process takes?

I don't, sorry. Hopefully someone here does.

Dumb things I learned coaching.

• USA Hockey has a ton of coaching resources available. They have practice plans for whole ice, half ice, 1/4, etc. You'd be amazed at some of the drills they have.
• Run practices on a schedule. Plan ahead with what drills, times, who's doing what, etc. Ice time is limited, don't waste it explaining. Tell the assistants too before so they are already up to speed and don't slow the practice down.
• Practice plan / schedule I would make on paper with a sharpie and tape to the glass and in the locker room every practice. 
• I've explained new drills off ice before practice. Rather than gathering around on the ice while I draw. Do it ahead if possible.
• Run only one new drill a practice. Run familiar drills the rest of the time. Kids will get more done. Work that new drill a few times too before adding another.
• I gave all my drills names. So when we change to them, I just said the name of the drill. Stupider the name, the more the kids remember what it is. Candy names, cereal names, pokemon guy, whatever.
• Practice at game speed. Practice slow and the kids will play slow in the game. Go fast and push the tempo. Get the kids used to being rushed. Make uncomfortable comfortable. That's how it is in the games. Eliminate the ability to make whole ice passes in practice. This works on drills with fewer skaters - but in a game it won't.
• Work on checking off ice. Use the other side of the boards before practice and have the kids get used to banging around. Again, ice time is limited. I had them in full pads and all doing the checking drills before we got on the ice. We did on ice checking too - but they had some practice already. Did that once a week.
• My rink and myself love having the kids do dryland every practice. I would schedule every practice as 1 1/2 hours and have one hour on the ice. 10 mins to change. and 20 mins of sprints and all after (or before depending on how late our slot was). Parents complain and have excuses why they have to leave. Be ready. Why I just made every practice an hour and half on Team Snap so that there was no surprise we were still going. The running was not optional. Kids hated running, but when we'd out score the other team in the third because we still had legs - I'd remind them that this is because you run so hard after practice. It works.
• Rules. Practice is mandatory. Miss a practice, miss a period. No excuses. Saved me from having to judge reasons why kid wasn't there and deeming it worth of missing time or not. Easier and fairer to just say it's a period for a practice no matter what. Sorry. Then you have to stick to your rule. Funeral? I'm sorry that happened but you know the rule. Was playing xBox all night instead, you know the rule. I never heard reasons after a week or two anymore. So refreshing! It's also fair to the kids (and parents) who make it every practice. 
• I've done many goalie drills off ice with the kids. On foot. Just to get them used to the footwork positioning for pushing off and all. 
• Goalies skate with the team at times. They need to learn how to sprint and stop too. Bark at them too to move faster.

There's a million more...

My kids play on teams that dads don't coach. So I don't really do it anymore.

Last year my older son's 16u AAA team got a crap load of penalties and the coach got suspended. So I stepped in. Team got more penalties than the previous game, I too was subsequently suspended.

One and done.

Beers at the corner again during the game.