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That SK8 vs Ducks score line is surprising. From their team lineups on the night I definitely would have picked the Ducks, not SK8 who were missing a decent wack of their good players. Hopefully they’ll do better next week.
Ryan,Stats for Round One of the DIHL A-grade now available for download. Thanks to Joyce Miller for preparing them for us
” title=”Smiley” />http://www.dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi/docum … ring06.pdf
Hopefully the B-grade stats will coming shortly.
Ryan,
Hi Dylan and welcome to the forum.
A guy called Scott Bason is selling brand new Franklin hockey equipment off dirt cheap on Trademe
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listin … er=1100733
Quite a few players in Dunedin have bought equipment off him lately and had no problems with it at all. All of his gear is dirt cheap, albeit not necessarily top quality. Much of it is designed for street hockey but plenty of people have been using it for ice hockey as well.
Ryan,
Here goes …
Ryan’s B-grade picks – 1st Game Round Robin Spring 2006
Beasts vs Kings
Kings took a beating in the DIHL last time, but the only time they won last season was against the Beasts, so history is definitely on their side. Having said that, this is the B-grade and both teams have had to prune off their best players and the Beasts have been doing some serious recruitment in the off-season, including Mark Hareb and Andy Noble from the undefeated Ducks team (Autumn 2006 DIHL), Canadian Jason Sedgwick and their new field hockey convert, goalie Mark Dudley who’s been stunning everyone with how quickly he’s picked up the sport. Interestingly, another one of the Beasts crew is Mike Mitchell who is infact a Kings High schools student, so there will likely be some rivalvry there, with Kings not wanting to be beaten by one of their school mates. The Beasts are the only team to have started pre-season training for the DIHL, they beat the Dunedin midgets twice and lost and won games against the Dunedin Womens team.
My pick 3 – 1 to the Beasts. The Beasts just have far too much experience and muscle for Kings, the Beasts are looking like favourites for the league at this stage.
Bears vs Bullfrogs
These are two entirely new teams. They’re in no way related to previous DIHL teams, despite the names. The Bears have the massively experienced Larry Wheeler, but he’s playing in goal, so we’ll have to see how quickly he can pick the new position up. Paul Roth is moving from rink side advisor/critic to actually playing, a move which is nice to see after all his efforts in helping hockey in Dunedin over the years. The Bears don’t have any stars to carry their team, but they also don’t have many total beginners so should be fairly consistent and not let too many in goals in, they may be lacking in scoring though.
The Bullfrogs are the product of Clare Sharpin’s hard work, cobbled together out of the beginners session, plus some Tairei high recruits, they’re lacking depth, but not the will to win! There’s quite a few total beginners on the team, but Ryan Hellyer (that’s me!) will hopefully help out and super star veteran Gina Bosselman has been brought out of retirement to bolster the ranks. Player to watch on the Bullfrogs – Keith Dickson, he’s been looking mean and lean on figure skates lately and may pull a few surprises out of the bag. Joss van Leeuwen is an unknown, the youngest member of van Leeuwen clan in the DIHL, but with an amazing family pedigree in hockey he’ll be eagerly watched by those who have seen is Dad and uncles carving up in the A-grade.
My pick, 2 – 2 draw
John McGlashan vs OBHS
OBHS have been looking weak all season long in the schools competition and John McG’s the opposite, so things aren’t looking good for OBHS. To top that off, Johnnies have bolstered their ranks with teacher John Bradfield and a few of their schools A-grade players. John McGlashan may be the Beasts strongest opposition this season.
My pick 4 – 1 to John McGlashan.
Yeah, I wasn’t sure if Ian was running it or not so sent it to him anyway. If figured it’s fairly irrelevant anyway since they obviously know their own teams contact details.
Ryan,
[quote:2wxu6qw3]somewhere along the way Justin biggs has fallen off the team list, pretty sure he filled in
a registration form though and know he’s keen on playing, can we please put
him back on i’ve emailed him the relevant info.[/quote:2wxu6qw3]I got the above message from Claire Sharpin today. Was Justin Biggs on the Bullfrogs registration list? If so, then how ’bout we bump Ruby Phipps-Black into the Bears and put Justin back in our team.
Well if he’s on their registration sheet then he has to go on their team I guess.
[quote:33u70qnj]I rejected a kid who registered today, had to phone his parents.[/quote:33u70qnj]
How did he register? Is someone still collecting registrations? Or did he just ask to register?And yep, $10 late fee sounds good.
Ryan,
Hmm, looks like I’ll need to do some pics for the B-grade then! Those high school teams could be a bit tricky to pick as I’m not sure who some of their players are, but I’ll see what I can come up with.
B-grade pics coming soon!
Yeah, I’ve considered preventing guests from posting stuff, but I thought it might also deter people from bothering to post at all if they have to go though the registration process.
If another bit of spam turns up then I’ll stop the guests posting.
Ryan,
Aw, I missed the posts
” title=”Sad” />Did you get their IP address?
If they ever actually registered we’d be able to track them down to their real identity that way.
Although I’m guessing it was probably just a random spammer.So where is said movie for viewing? I think I should inspect for authenticity
” title=”Smiley” /> It’s one of those jobs us web admin people need to do from time to time ” title=”Smiley” />Ryan,
Looks like the site isn’t amounting to anything. It’s still just a bunch of images and says ‘coming July 2006’.
Ryan,Well that sounds like tough bickies for those in the sixth team. Did some of them sign up after Sunday night? Shouldn’t they be pruned out? They were late anyway.
The goalie of Jackies will just need to be turned away. There’s obviously no room for them anyway. And I definitely wouldn’t like to see Andre’s kid being signed up this late.
We could put say an extra 4 onto Claires team (14 total), leaving 18.
Did any of them get paid for by any of the schools teams (seperate from their actual teams). Ie: John Bradfield paying up the money for his team and then handing over some seperate forms for extra players of his? If so, I’m guessing they were all late and hence could be rejected as well.
Perhaps this would get us down to 15?
The other teams will have to agree to taking on more players is the thing. We can’t just shove players at them and tell them they have no choice. So if they don’t want more then those 20+ players need to go somewhere.
Ryan,
I’m not sure Jack and Mark will want more players.
Claire obviously needs more though. Do you know how many she wants in total? I don’t think I’ve asked her that before, although I spose we could just decide ourselves and hope she doesn’t mind. More will cost less for the rest of the team anyway so there shouldn’t be too many complaints. Below are lists of all the registrations I collected in. The full lists are in an excel document which I can forward.
Could you collate these into team lists? I can’t do anything with the info. above as I don’t know who’s registered with what team.
B-Grade registrations:
callumn McLaughlan
Mark Hareb
Jon Kitchen
Andy Noble
Robert Owens
Michael Mitchell
Gareth Dorset
Jack Li
Marc Dudley
Jason Sedgwick
Callumn McLaughlan
Estelle Baker
Jane Soper
Jordan Bishop
Gina BosselmanA-grade registrations:
Peter Lamb
Nick Reymond
Duncan Sykes
Aaron Benda
Tim Honore
Mike Sam
