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In case anyone is confused, I merged the two DIHL topics together. I probably shouldn’t have posted a separate one in the first place.
Bullfrogs got dealt a thumping 11 – 2 (or thereabouts) by the Superfly tonight.
Not enough defense on the Bullfrogs and letting the Superfly’ers cycle around behind the defense leaving Kara in some bad situations with three on noughts to deal with. Forwards kept crashing in on the defense to cope and all turned to poop. Breakouts were non-existent but that’s not unexpected in the B-grade. We (Bullfrogs) had two new players who had never played a game before and had only been to a single practice, but they seemed to keep their head up and were doing a good job of marking the Superfly players as best they could, they’ll rapidly improve over the next few games and some of our older hands like myself will (hopefully) gain some fitness as the season progresses. So despite a bad score line I think the Bullfrogs will do okay. The Superfly appear to be the John McGlashan team who have been playing together all season so probably won’t improve as rapidly as the Bullfrogs as the season progresses.
Superfly looked a bit wonky too. They had too many players trying to skate the puck straight up the ice. They were good at passing it in front of the net, but too much head down skating for them to see their team mates skating up the ice (as opposed to across which would make it a lot easier to receive a pass). If they face a more experienced team (Midgets maybe?) I could see their tactics failing as the defense will simply push them wide and leave them out in the cold on the boards and having to just dump the puck.
Even in the absence of a coach, having somebody bossy enough to sort drills would be ok. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
9am on Sunday is an interesting time to have it. I’d probably turn up at that time, it would be a good way to wake me up in the morning
” title=”Cheesy” />I may come. Depends on my motivation at the time though so I wouldn’t rely on me to make up numbers.
Is there a smaller gap than normal this season? Or no gap at all?
No gap at all seems a little odd, but I spose it gets the games over and done quicker.
[size=4:2rlqxayw][b:2rlqxayw]Dunedin Ice Hockey League B Grade Spring 2009[/b:2rlqxayw][/size:2rlqxayw]
[b:2rlqxayw]The Chiefs[/b:2rlqxayw]
Peter Wallis
Jordan Campbell
Sarah Gee
Richard Hemi
Gavin Kennedy
Greg Leonard
Kim Meredith-Jones
Dave Patchett
Paul Roth
Rieke Stackmann
Ben Wallis
Sarah Weller
Sonja Woods[b:2rlqxayw]Bullfrogs[/b:2rlqxayw]
Kara Ross
Joe Baird
Jaydee Cabral
Billy Cooper
Anna Craw
Keith Dickson
Bret Dougherty
Lisa Grant
Ryan Hellyer
Jonathan Kitchen
David Richards
Liz Roberts
Walter von Ballmoos
Sarah Ward
Kayla Wilson[b:2rlqxayw]Midgets[/b:2rlqxayw]
Jamie Wood
Matt Bishop
Regan Howells
Jacob Hurring
Josh McLaren
Joe Orr
Nic Patchett
Steph Patchett
Justin Stevenson
Jayden Thompson
Oli Wilson[b:2rlqxayw]Super fly[/b:2rlqxayw]
Josh Hubbard
Gabriel Avis
Tom Craven
Sam Dodunski
Adam Fleming
James Han
Isaac Hay
Nick Henderson
Robert Morgan
Joel Pickworth
Sam Sheard[b:2rlqxayw]Players:[/b:2rlqxayw] for accurate information, please check your emails or visit the DIHA site. The information here is [b:2rlqxayw]not[/b:2rlqxayw] official.
Here’s the [b:1p1kuq1m]unofficial[/b:1p1kuq1m] run down of the DIHL B-grade Spring 2009 teams:
[size=4:1p1kuq1m][b:1p1kuq1m]The Chiefs[/b:1p1kuq1m][/size:1p1kuq1m]
The chiefs are made up of a hotch potch of experienced and not so experienced players. Players to look out for include ultra aggressive Sonja Wood who is well known for her no holds barred approach to taking the puck. Veteran DIHA member Paul Roth will be a man to watch with his highly experienced hockey family available to provide expert advice. Dave Patchett will be very useful for providing in depth knowledge of the Midget players (two of his kids are on the Midgets team) and German superstar import Rieke Stackmann will be imperative her lightning reflexes and for game fixing due to her connections with the league organiser.[size=4:1p1kuq1m][b:1p1kuq1m]Midgets[/b:1p1kuq1m][/size:1p1kuq1m]
The midgets feature the regular line up of players from the Dunedin Midgets team. He may be small in stature, but Nic Patchett is bound to cause some serious problems for their opposing defense. NZ rep. Stephanie Patchett will be the danger woman for the other teams and must be shut down at all costs. Justin Stevenson is another man to beat on the Midgets and backing everything up is Superstar goal tender Jaimee Wood.[size=4:1p1kuq1m][b:1p1kuq1m]Super fly[/b:1p1kuq1m][/size:1p1kuq1m]
The Superfly team appears to be a hotch potch of Junior aged players who as in previous seasons are likely to take a very aggressive approach to their opposition. Players to watch out for include Sam Dodunski and Tom Craven.[size=4:1p1kuq1m][b:1p1kuq1m]Bullfrogs[/b:1p1kuq1m][/size:1p1kuq1m]
The Bullfrogs feature a strong lineup. Anna Craw will be the teams danger woman for the opposing teams [b:1p1kuq1m]if[/b:1p1kuq1m] she can avoid another mid-season injury. Keith Dickson will bring a serious amount of experience to the team and the power man Jonathan Kitchen is bound to infuriate the opposition with his high powered wrist shots. Other players to watch include superstar imports Jaydee Cabral from the USA and tough guy Walter von Ballmoos from South Africa. Fresh off the NZ National champs are AIHA import Sarah Ward and pint sized but effective goal tender Kara Ross. There’s also a highly unfit gimp called Ryan who will hopefully not keel over with exhaustion due to sitting in front the of the computer for too long instead of getting off his ass and exercising
” title=”Tongue” />Unofficial team rosters for the B-grade are available here … https://slapshot.hellyer.kiwi/general-chatter/ … ring-2009/
Players: For accurate information please check your emails or the DIHA site. These are unofficial rosters.
"vpatrol":1zb6520c wrote:Are we having an identity crisis Peter?
[/quote:1zb6520c]Peter, if you just want to change your username I can do that for you. That way your old posts will appear under your own username instead of on a separate account.
Lots of Red Devils players in there.
Facinating to see Ryan Ruddle doing so well. He must be one of the few south island inline hockey players who have actually bothered to transition properly to ice hockey. Most of the top players seem to treat it as an amusing hobby alongside their regular sport of inline hockey.
