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Yeah there’s skates there that would fit you.
They’re not very good skates, but they’re inline skates so they’re better than the junk you’d get at kmart etc.
A grade goalies:
I’m starting to think about the push for getting A grade players to sign up for the dihl, which starts in 3 weeks.
I’m just thinking about goalies who can play A grade. Toby, Nick, Aaron, Tony. That’s only four so that’s cutting it real close – they’d all have to sign up to play for us to get to our four teams. We’ve lost Antony and Mark Dudley from last year.
Anyone else know of any goalies lurking around that we could hit up to play?
There’s about 20 sets of skates there. In fact, apart from the fact that the sticks there are crappy, we can equip someone better than the ice rink, but we have much smaller amounts of gear.
I’ll presume to speak for Ryan and say “no age limit”. People should be able to play hockey and have a pair of inline skates. You’d be fine to turn up Tom.
Does anyone have any decent inline pucks? Like there’s a bunch of nasty ones there I think (it’s been a couple of years since I’ve been into the gear), but it’d be nice to have a few nice ones if anyone had them.
Bean pole? Whatever short stuff.
Yeah that was my conclusion about the Beasts after the game. Probably not enough skating speed I thought. They’ll get ripped to shreds in the weekend if they can’t sort that out better with better cover on the defense and maybe a bit more commitment in shutting players down.
Dammit. I had a busy weekend with my son’s birthday and family down, so I completely got to call my picks. For the first time in ages!
Anyway, I probably would have picked 6-2 maybe for the Beasts over the Bears, so that was close (6-3 in the end?), and 4-3 to Johnnies over Kings (finished up 4-1 to Kings, so I would have got that wrong).
Kings vs Johnnies was a good game, and Kings have stepped up this year. A little bit rough in points, but not too bad. Johnnies will probably be a bit disappointed both that the they let Kings get a couple of late goals, and that they didn’t get another one or two – they had chances, but Kings defense shut them down well in their own zone and kept a lot of chances away from the goalie. Johnnies defense looked better with regular goalie Leask between the pipes, but they didn’t seem to have their positions on the rink quite sorted, often ending up 5 on one side of the ice, and lacked a bit of straight out skating pace on attack.
I got to play in the bears vs Beasts game to help out the bears, who were going to get a bit of a hammering otherwise. Picked up a goal (and I just want to point out to Jack, who I zoomed past with the puck, your effort was so a slap shot) and hit the upright with another shot. Hellyer picked up a solo effort coast-to-coast as well.
Bears worked hard and got a really good goal when the Patchett kids worked it amongst themselves, and Larry Martin finished off with his first ever hockey goal, bouncing himself and the puck off players. Beasts were fairly comfortable most of the game, and despite some good saves from Bears goalie, took way more shots and spread them around a few players, finishing it up fairly comfortably, but it was a good game and played in a pretty good feeling.
And was that Mr Laing boarding me in the first period? You ain’t got the size for it buddy!
The other thing is to give kids a straight stick the first time they play, and see which way they hold it – isn’t there a rule about putting it down on the ice, tell them to pick it up, and the way they pick it up shows which side they should play?
I can’t imagine I’d be as brave as you Graham and try switching. There’s enough shortcomings in my game without creating more
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First game NZ beat Israel 10-0. Megan got an assist, and a boarding and a tripping call in the first period. Two assists in the second, and a goal and an assist in the 3rd. Zanzee picked up an assist in the last period. Megan was +3, Zanzee +5 (I really don’t understand those figures, how Megan only finished on +3 when she got 5 points herself, and the other team scored no goals. Surely she’d be at least +5?)
Second game NZ lost 4-3 to croatia. Unfortunately the opposition got four goals in the 1st period, and unable to drag it back. Zanzee called for interference in the first period. Megan clocked a goal in the second.
They’re playing Turkey tomorrow night our time.
Ryan will note that that’s easy, but the best way to do it would be to wrap your beasts site around the database, and send queries to the live database. You could have different CSS and header and footer files so that it would look quite different.
If you import something by nature it’s static, and you’re replicating information as well. There being one source of information is a good principle to follow.
You might be best to talk to Ryan about having the dunedinicehockey host the beasts website. I know he created a function whereby people can update web pages using a fairly simple editing system. That way there wouldn’t be any problem with external database access and having to open up access to the database from external web sites.
I think it looks good.
In the schedule. It’d make sense to me to show the next X games – say 8 games, on this page. There should be a ‘more’ link which links to the complete schedule. Also a ‘previous’ button at the top which links to the complete schedule, but to an anchor at the top. The same with the six tables below – ‘complete list’ is needed as a link. In those complete lists, it’d be good to have ‘sort’ buttons at each column – so you can sort by name, team, points etc.
Also in the schedule, there should be a game number. Michael’s going to put a universal game number into the database, which will keep increasing as we add stats, but there should be a game number from 1 – X for each league which is in the schedule. So Sunday’s game Beasts vs Bears is game 3 in the DIHL B grade Autumn 2007. That number should link to a ‘game stats’ page, with the stats for that game. Michael, is it possible to get the system to put these in when the league is set up?
What about SHG and PPG? It might be possible, if times are put in for goals, to have the system pick these up automatically? That would also open up powerplay and short-handed percentages for games/teams, again, which would be good (this would require, across multiple games, penalties to list the non-offending team, I can’t remember if it does this Michael, but I guess you can get it from the game table).
Who do you email? sky@skytv.co.nz?
We should start a wee campaign. Get a bunch of people to email them and say that we’ll sign up for sky if they get some ice hockey.
"Ryan":1tbxjv8j wrote:Our rinks would need to be smaller than theirs unfortunately though, 30×30 m (two at once) or 30×20 m (three at once).
Personally I’d rather go for three rinks as it would cut costs. However the advantage of having square (30×30 m) rinks is that it allows for setting up some quite funky plays, it would be very much like inline hockey but with a goal on the half-way line. Rectangular rinks don’t give as many options for passing as square rinks.[/quote:1tbxjv8j]I would have suggested three rinks, but to my knowledge we only have one set of boards for splitting up the rink. If there was an easy way to split it into three, yes, I’d go that way.
"Ryan":1tbxjv8j wrote:[quote:1tbxjv8j]but only do a wet groom a couple of times during the day, to try and recreate the pond effect.[/quote:1tbxjv8j]Lol, I dunno about “recreating the pond effect”! The surface is the worst thing about pond hockey, so I’d rather not replicate it! I played on some rather shocking outdoor rinks in Calgary and I wouldn’t recommend it. Snow is not a good thing when it comes to playing hockey
” title=”Tongue” />[/quote:1tbxjv8j]Well the dry grooms would take care of the snow.
"Ryan":1tbxjv8j wrote:[quote:1tbxjv8j]think we’d probably need to have a referee each game, but maybe not.[/quote:1tbxjv8j]Not much point really, teams should be able to ref themselves.[/quote:1tbxjv8j]
I was thinking our players might take a while to get used to the ‘absolutely no contact’ rule.. having a referee available might help with that.
Like you say, hopefully it wouldn’t be necessary.
"Ryan":1tbxjv8j wrote:[quote:1tbxjv8j]24 hour game of hockey. It’d run as 24 sequential games, just rope teams in and they pay their money, play three games (or more) during the 24 hour period.[/quote:1tbxjv8j]Nice idea, I think if there were drop in times for anyone to turn up and play would be a good idea too. If it was advertised on the radio and what not it would be a good chance to introduce some newbies to the sport. It would be interesting seeing how many people you could to turn up at 3:30am though! I suspect numbers may run a little lean around then![/quote:1tbxjv8j]
Well you’d have some teams that were timetabled to play their games in that time. I think a lot of students and seniors would get into the idea of midnight hockey. If you had five teams, then you’d go A/B, C/D, A/E, B/C, E/D, A/C, B/D, E/C. that’s 11pm until 7am between five teams, no sequential games. You’d just timetable the seniors then, and that’s their part of the tournament.
