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  1. A friend of mine is working at the new UBS Arena in Belmont Park where the Isles will (I guess) play next season. He's a Rangers fan, so he's been scrawling stuff like "Let's go Rangers" behind some of the walls, LOL The ice is just starting to freeze...
  2. Cool set. But yea those pads are definitely too tall.
  3. It's my Monday night "Vegan League"... and they prefer the term "vertically challenged" ..but seriously, I'm 5'11 or so and think the other guys were average height. ..maybe if I zoom in on the picture the people look larger?
  4. Ok, back to the action photos, here's one from the 19/20 season, one of my last Div.4 games
  5. A Rangers fan in Richter pads standing in front of all those NYI banners? Very brave my man, very brave
  6. Ok. There's nothing like that in Switzerland. Yea, you better just get white pads then. Or 10 different sets of colored pads could work too.
  7. Jesus, I AM getting old, here I am rambling on about calcium, LOL. Definitely time for me to retire and sit by the window and yell at the kids to get off my lawn, LOL
  8. Wow, I actually didn't know there was plant-based calcium until right now. When I was in school, I was always taught the food pyramid. And they always said milk stuff was for calcium to keep bones+teeth strong. I think the 11 servings of bread+pasta daily might be a little too much carbs, but this is FDA approved, so obey and "follow the science". The government would never lie to you Healthline says: I don't think dairy will be replaced by seeds+greens for everything, but good to know there is variety. I've been eating a spoon of chia seeds every day for the omega3, I didn't know it had calcium too From this table, it looks like N.America is not drinking much milk, but it's going strong in Europe. I was never a big fan myself, but got used to having a cup or two a day now. ...and from all the "natural sources of calcium" I was reading, I don't think anyone mentioned water (!). Not all water has alot of calcium, but if you look around, you can find some. Here in Switzerland, Adelbodner and Eptinger both have 580mg Calcium per liter.
  9. I was just talking to my son, we both shoot left and both say it feels "natural" to strap the left pad on first when dressing. Made me curious to see what everyone else does, and if shooting left/right has any effect on it (?)
  10. I'm in Switzerland, milk products are kind of a big thing here But actually, I don't really like milk products, which I guess is why I had a calcium deficiency. Now I drink 1 glass of milk a day, and also some mineral water with calcium in it. ...people have been drinking milk for thousands of years, what's the new "science" coming out?
  11. Yea, best equivalent of Div.4 would be: "glorified beer league" (a 2017 and 2018 game I played) I'm sure alot of you guys play better, but it's decent and competitive. Swiss Ice Hockey runs the league, it's structured well, and teams and players can move up/down (better Div.1 players go up to pro), there's a feeling like you're a part of something and have something to work towards. The Div.4 team I played with from 2002-2010 was good and moved up to the Div.3. The team I played with (on/off) from 2011-2021 was a Div.4 bottom-dweller. Actually, they were so bad, Swiss national TV made a documentary about them LOL (I'm not in it, joined the year after) But cool guys, and plenty of work for a goalie, so I was fine there Anyway, we play only about 20 games per year (including pre-season), and teams want to move up, so each game is taken seriously. I'd work hard in training, and prepare myself mentally on game-day, get into "warrior mode" and give 110% on each shot. But now just playing in "fun" games, it's nothing like that. Actually I have a fun-game today, and I almost forget about it, LOL. Not that I don't try, it just kind of like it's not a big deal. People are smiling in the locker-room after the game win or lose. Which is cool in a way, but at the same time it's strange that the competitive nature is missing. I need to adjust.
  12. Yea, I have the same problem with my jock.
  13. I've been saying "I'm getting old" for a while now. In my late 30's I had knee+back pain, but I took some painkillers when necessary and battled thru it. At 40 I had a stress fracture in my hip, so I changed my diet a little to get some more milk+calcium and hung in there. In my early/mid-40's I was still playing some pretty good hockey, but when my late 40's rolled around it was getting harder and harder to keep the same level of play. I've been playing in the Swiss Div.4 since 2001. It's obviously not the highest, but still a "competitive" level, mostly stocked with guys in their 20's and 30's who have been playing their whole lives. Now I've hit 50, and with the lack of ice-time in the last year due to COVID restrictions, I'm struggling even more, and now had the realization that I just can't do it anymore, and told my team I'm quitting Well, I'm not quitting hockey, just Div4. I've been also playing part-time with some other teams that play for "fun" rather than "competitive", and this is what I'll be doing from now on. Which is fine. It's not as fast and good quality as Div.4, but then I'm not so fast and good quality anymore either, so I guess it makes sense It's just been hard to figure out and deal with mentally. After playing a certain level of hockey for so long, to have to look in the mirror and admit you reached the end of the line there is kind of tough. I always used to look at these NHL guys at the end of their careers jumping teams, trying desperately to play just one more year, and would think "Dude, just retire", but now I see it's just that they just don't want the ride to end, because then they have to look in the mirror and admit it's over. And that's hard to do. At any level. Anyway, I've been keeping busy with some other hobbies like playing guitar. And riding my bike in the woods to keep fit (ever-changing-and-confusing COVID restrictions make ice-time very sporadic lately). Trying to make the best of it all. Well, ok, it's not that bad, just something of a hump that I need to get over and accept. At least I'm still playing. But now I've got my eye on the guys older than me, as the "canary in the coal mine", to see how much longer I can still play at all . I don't see too many guys over 60 playing, but I'm sure there's some around....
  14. Hey Rich, yea I bought a little too, but more of a long term investment. In the late 90's everyone was saying to buy Amazon and ebay stocks, and I ignored it, so don't want to miss the ship a second time. But it depends if you are looking for a long or short term investment. I'm looking more at long term, so I just bought some that was recommended and will just let it sit. If you are in it for more short-term, then you really need to keep up on the news and trends to see which are the hot ones and which are sinking ships. But don't ask me, I also don't know
  15. Where are you, in the UK? I see alot of Warrior in Germany and Finland for some reason (I think they might have some offices there?).
  16. Maybe not in the top tier, since there's alot of NHL guys there, but if you look at the lower levels Div.1-3, you'll definitley see more. ...just picking one country purely at random
  17. Good, it'll help keep their prices down. In Europe, Warrior is pretty big. Great stuff, and alot cheaper than CCM, Bauer, etc.. I don't know their numbers or business model, but I think they might be focusing more on Europe and not caring too much about the N.American market.
  18. Just got back from training. Been on the ice about 5 times in the last couple of weeks. Last season was cancelled due to lockdowns, so we only managed a handful of trainings. Switzerland expands "vaccine passports" on Monday to include sports, altho team trainings seem to exempt, so I think it will only be required for games. But I know many players who don't want the vaccine, so I wonder how this will impact the game situation. How is it for everyone else here? Less players on the ice since vaccine passport mandates? Or no real difference?
  19. estogoalie

    R GT/2

    Sorry, but the only man I've ever loved is Brian Heaton. ...well, ok, after Dave Wilcox made the TPS Summit trapper, I've kinda had a thing for him too.
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