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From my memory, and Ryan knows how long it’s been, they were about a foot square each. So… 10 – 12 per square metre.
They ripped all sorts of layers of skin off when you dived though. I just about needed a skin graft after those 10 games.
Yup, it is $10/game.
Or at least, it’s $10 a game if you register and pay the whole lot. The casual fee is more.
This DIHL will be 7 games, so it’s $70 ice time, or $770/team.
The other things I’m going to be looking for volunteers for:
Someone to ‘manage’ the B grade competition. I’ll probably be around the B grade competition this DIHL (unlike last year where I wasn’t there at all), but I’ll need someone who works with the B grade managers, score people, referees, and is around on the Sunday night to deal with any problems. My attendance won’t be reliable enough for me to do it. It could be a B grade player. The work isn’t really too much, it’s mostly talking to the managers and them knowing who you are.
A couple of managers of A grade teams. This involves handing out and getting back tops, and ensuring that if you have any add-in casual players, that their money goes to the scorebox. Occasionally it requires phoning players who don’t have email addresses, but not much of that.
Statistician: Ryan’s done the stats for the past couple of dihls, but he’s keen to do something else I think. This person needs to collect, or be sent the scoresheets, and convert them using a spreadsheet or database so they can go up on the web. Good for a keen computer geeky sort of maths/stats type.
Anyone who wanted to collect registrations on a Sunday night would also be welcome, but that’s not essential at this stage.
No interesting decisions. Not too much of a meeting really!
Anyway, I need someone who has the time to wander around campus, and if they’re really keen, down George St cafes, putting up about 50 posters. Or more.
Chris? Anyone else? It’s a bunch of fun, honest.
I’m desperately hoping that someone will tell me a registration date/time/amount so I can print off materials for clubs and socs day tomorrow. So far I’ve got two times for registration (different ages, or just two times?), and no indication of cost at all. The cost I _really_ need, otherwise the DIHL ain’t going no where
” title=”Smiley” />Why not just paint the concrete up there and save yourself $9,900? Use an inline surface and pucks. For shooting there’s almost no difference at all. The goalies might have to use different pads to avoid their ice pads getting munted, but they might have to do that for the plastic court surface a’how.
Ryan cruelly deleted my intelligent and insightful post about off-ice area vs inline hockey rink. Boo! Hiss!
Stefan, I think it’s the same as that mat SK8 has in the shop. I believe you don’t maintain it, it just eventually degrades and gets worse quality as it gets scratched.
I’m curious as to how it affects your skate blades – does it make them go blunt faster?
Also. If anyone’s found a small elbow pad a few weeks ago, probably in the same changing room. That’s my son’s. We’d love that back too!
I hadn’t even realised I’d left my shirt there. Duh.
Yay for ‘The Canadian Guy’, whichever one you’re talking about.
And the answer is: Thirteen year olds are fine. Tom can you email me at kyle.matthews@otago.ac.nz and let me know who you are etc? That way you’ll be on the list.
Thanks,
KyleYeah it’s not my decision, it’s the decision of the guy who’s running the course, he’s from Queenstown and we’re waiting to hear back. I’m just trying to round up as many people as possible, so it’s good that you’re keen.
The other issue is that being qualified is only half the story. Refereeing games, at least games run by the Dunedin Ice Hockey Association, requires that you’re chosen by the head referee. I don’t know what criteria he uses for that (at present we’re so short that ‘qualified’ is the main criteria!), but certainly age and experience would be two of the things I presume he’d consider. There certainly should be an age limit (5 is definitely too young!), but I don’t know what it is.
Hopefully he’ll get back to us soon.
I’m not sure what the minimum age is, but I suspect 14 probably is under what they’d normally take. I’ll find out and post back here.
Yeah.
Maybe someone should organise a little import consortium. Twenty people or so, place an order every couple of months, divide the shipping up.
I like SK8, and it’s where I’ve got almost all my stuff from, but the prices just don’t compare, because no hockey shop here sells enough stuff to keep the overheads down to a minimal part of the product price. So I’m holding off getting a helmet, elbow pads, until I can get a good price.
I’ve just been keeping a bit of an eye on this web site that is trying to get into competition with trademe. They’re really failing, most of their categories are empty, but they do have a fair bit of ice hockey stuff – mostly new but out of date stock.
I’ve just bought a new pair of CCM Tacks 252. They’ve got a whole range of sizes up there for $135/pair, which is pretty good. Also pants, helmets, stick blades and shafts.
Anyway, the web site is http://www.letmebid.co.nz. Worth a look.
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