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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2820031 … nt-rethink
Slow steps but looks positive.
Not holding my breath but it would be awesome when they finally get it. A 6 team league is a very good situation when they develop enough quality players. Having a semi-final would be fantastic!
This doesn’t sound so great:
[quote:2wloer3j]She said the temporary rink could provide ice skating for four months each winter.[/quote:2wloer3j]
It would make travelling to the north island to play hockey a lot more fun though. There’s not much point in travelling to Auckland when you can get to Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane for about the same price.
"vpatrol":2jnerr8z wrote:Not holding my breath but it would be awesome when they finally get it. A 6 team league is a very good situation when they develop enough quality players. Having a semi-final would be fantastic!
[/quote:2jnerr8z]Why wait Dunedin didn’t!
"kelf6966":2xqh7u07 wrote:Why wait Dunedin didn’t!
[/quote:2xqh7u07]Why the agro towards Dunedin? They’ve never been thumped in the NZIHL so I don’t know what you are getting at.
The more teams/players the better IMO.
It would be a really fun road trip to travel up the island, stop off in ChCh for a few games, catch the ferry across, play a few games in Welly then stop in on Tekapo for a game or two on the way back.
That wasn’t the Thunder! That was some team in grey. Nobody knew who they were though because we couldn’t read the jerseys. The Thunder only played a couple games in Auckland I hear.
You guys have a totally different concept of thumped than I do.
Maybe I’m just used to getting my ass whipped at hockey, but 10 – 0 is not a thumping in my book. Heck, I remember being on the Dunedin Aces and being stoked when we kept games below that sort of score line.
We were still getting thumped Ryan. In the NZIHL, I’d say anything over 6 goals difference is a thumping.
Taupo: http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/new-zeala … a-in-Taupo
Ambitious.
Sounds promising.
They’d probably have a good team as well since they have a solid base of inline hockey players who would hopefully make the switch to playing on ice.
Wellington has in built problems I have have two meetings with Kerry Penetgust s and right of renewaklhe was all for it.
There is a problem in Wellington as you can not get a long lease anywhere.
All the landowners seem to think the next year they will get some big paying government client so the best at three years is stupid for an ice skate rink as this needs a long term lease.
WELLINGTON is also short on space and the wharf area is another one of hot
topic I have met with several people who operate in that area.
That canoe guy Ferguson owns a roller blade thing on the water front he is dead against some one coming into his space. He is also a wanker to boot.
I have had talks with heeps of property developers in Wellington, even though I am a Dunedin person and have never lived in Wellington I was interested in seeing a rink up there as my daughter lives there.
So at the moment I am talking with ICE WORLD as they wish to establish a rink here, they are a Dutch company who have own rinks all over the world about 230 of them.
You may not know there is over 600 ice skating rinks in the USA alone this is official from ICE SKATE AMERICA as I have also been intouch with them to see if they will help.
Albertown as this rink cant attract enough customer I am closing it it will become a garden bar for the pub but still look like a skating rink dassher boards and all sorry, Wanaka people did not support it.
Keithi cant beleive nz ice hockey is as big as it is, and getting bigger! australian hockey isn’t as big (i live in brisbane) apart from that big complex they building in melbourne the rinks here are the poos. I only found my local rink by mistake and have just started playing… sort of
big props to nz hockey eh? how many rinks in nz have the glass walls? i dont think any here have em
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