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Some very old picks, just running through them seeing how I went.
Week 5
"Kyle":3vnp5giz wrote:[b:3vnp5giz]OBHS vs Kings[/b:3vnp5giz]OBHS scored their first point last week, and a win here would see them in the running for the finals, but Kings suffered hard last week, and will be wanting to come back and win to cement third place. Kyle’s pick: Kings 4-1.[/quote:3vnp5giz]
Kings take it narrowly 6-5 over OBHS, and that knocks OBHS out of the running for the final.
Adam Bodnachuk gets the hat trick for Kings, McCaughan and Muirhead both get doubles for OBHS. Ihaia again does well in goal for OBHS, stopping 20 shots."Kyle":3vnp5giz wrote:[b:3vnp5giz]Beasts vs Bullfrogs[/b:3vnp5giz]Beasts have looked the business all DIHL, and the Bullfrogs have gotten better, but not good enough. There’s going to be Bullfrog splattered all over the rink, and I’m picking it’ll go to 8-1 to the Beasties.[/quote:3vnp5giz]
7-1, I was close. Blackett gets a hat trick – he’d have been stoked about that one. Biggs again gets Bullfrog’s solitary goal. Big difference in the goaltenders here helps Beasts out – Dudley runs at 90%, Williams struggles to break 50% saves.
"Kyle":3vnp5giz wrote:[b:3vnp5giz]John McGlashan vs Bears[/b:3vnp5giz]Bears will be running scared against Johnnies, and rightly so. MacLean has been in good form this season, piling on a heap of goals, and the Bears just aren’t going to have an answer to the kids from JMs. My pick: 7-0 to JMs.[/quote:3vnp5giz]
Another close one, 7-1 to JMs. McLean and Kliegl pick up two more hat tricks, Larry Wheeler stops a whole heap of shots, but you can’t take 34 shots vs putting 5 on and expect to win.
"Kyle":3vnp5giz wrote:That would see finals qualification, in order, for JMs, Beasts, Kings, and Bullfrogs sneaking in at 4th.[/quote:3vnp5giz]Got that bit right.
OK, I went to mangle Mark, but it looks like someone beat me to it. One side of his face came pre-done!
Haha, good luck. You’re going to have to take over running the meetings if that’s how you want it to work.
I was blown away by the attitude to the funding applications. The idea that we should apply for as much money as we felt we could justify on paper, just to employ a person for a full year… I thought that was greedy. It’d be great for whoever ended up getting the job, but if we actually got $40,000, there’s no way that we’d need that amount of money, and the excess $10,000 is money that the funder couldn’t give to another sport/charity.
And to go to the same two places for both coaching and ice time – effectively what that was saying to me is that the association thinks that players shouldn’t pay anything for their ice hockey. They could have at least been subtle about it and gone to different places for the different things.
Larry’s obviously more of an expert in funding stuff than I am, but I think those are going to flop. It’s a real rough money-grab approach in my opinion. They’ll get some funding for one or two teams, so the juniors or peewees are going to get free practises, and we’ll get no coach.
"Ryan":1wcnbxuw wrote:Sheesh, worlds most boring meeting over and done with! Too much talking, not enough action …I’m glad I got the Rule Book pushed through, didn’t want it left on the dust heap forever.
Ryan,[/quote:1wcnbxuw]
Once they started having a question and answer session about Queensland Ice Hockey, I just about hit someone! I almost regretted us bringing up the security, because all that needed to be done was the association to ask the rink to do something, not have a half hour discussion on it.
And it was good that the rulebook got passed. Why they did it without actually looking at it, I have no idea!
"hanffy":1gbhxdxk wrote:John McGlashan College- Spring DIHL Champions 2006[/quote:1gbhxdxk]Ahem. That should be “John McGlashan College- Spring DIHL B Grade Champions 2006”. No need to get ahead of yourselves.
And Ryan’s right. You all played a game of hockey on Wednesday. Well done etc, congratulations to Johnnies, hard luck to Beasts. It’s Thursday now, time for everyone to move on.
OK, and that went well and truly downhill.
Always the way of a good revolution. Cuba, China, Soviet Union. Falls over after about half an hour.
There’s a heap of people who have signed up to the forum from this DIHL, which is great. Some are even posting.
It’s like an internet revolution!
Ah good that you told her that. I was thinking we should probably let his parents know how well he’s done, but sounds like they’re aware.
"Ryan":11yqnzem wrote:Jake Woodhouse for manager of the year then, I guess I didn’t think much about him during the season as his team just turned up and I never actually had to deal with him.[/quote:11yqnzem]See, now it sounds like we should have 14 year olds running all our teams!
I would have nominated Jake for manager of the season. Not only was he 14, apparently very responsible and organised with large amounts of money, but he got all his money and forms in on time, unlike Mark! And he never used an A grade goalie in the B grade competition
I don’t know him personally at all, but he’s clearly a pretty motivated and capable young man.I can’t comment on the B grade really at all, but I would presume that Robert McLean or Mark Kleigl of JMs would have most number of goals. Who knows what the stats will show if they turn up!
For A grade, most influential player in the competition I would have thought Hodge. I wasn’t aware just how good he was until playing with him in this competition, and he’s leading goal scorer and point scorer in it by a fair bit, and he only played 5 games. He basically won that final for us. For goalie, I’d almost be tempted to put Mark in as most committed goalie, given the absenses that the competition suffered. Other influential players – Stefan had a good competition, Peter Lamb was real trouble for Phantoms at least, and his 8 grading is definitely wrong – mark him up as a 9 next DIHL. James I thought played well, and I appreciated his efforts, even if they didn’t work too well, to calm his team down in the final. I don’t really have a Duck to nominate – they were a well organised team, but didn’t seem to work out in the end. Duncan got a bunch of goals, but I’d put Richard ahead of him as better for the team.
Worst influence on the competition. Ryan Wick takes it out ahead of Shaun Hinson and Adrian VL. And I thought Blake was the pick of the referees that I played in games with.
I can’t comment on the game as life prevents me from being at the rink on Wednesdays, but I understand that the referees didn’t hear this comment/s, but did make efforts to do what they could.
Player behaviour has become an increasing concern in both grades this DIHL – we’ve had more fights, penalties, abuse hurled at other players and referees this competition than in either of the last two DIHLs. This is a real concern and something we may have to look at in terms of expanding the short code of conduct that we get players to sign when they join up, and working with referees to enforce player behaviour across the board.
As Phil says, it’s not game 7 of the Stanley Cup, and while I’m 100% behind people taking the hockey very seriously, that’s no excuse for some of the stuff that’s been going on.
A grade played a big finals night last night. There was a hum in the air, the crowd was about four times its normal size (that’s maybe, 40 people!), and absolutely no Channel 9 at all (some sort of wrong day confusion seemed to afflict the entire evening).
Stars played the Ducks for 3rd place. Ducks were well in it until about half time. Backup goalie Mark Dudley played a blinder in goal for the first period, stopping a bunch of really good shots, and kept his team in it. The Ducks even took the lead briefly early in the second period, before the Stars finally started to find holes in the Ducks goalie, and the floodgates started to open, leaving it as a final score of 6-1. The Stars had a devastating line of Peter Lamb, Simon Christos, and Aaron Benda, who were causing all sorts of havoc. The Ducks not having Stampede player Duncan Sykes on defense didn’t help either, and I’m not sure I saw Mike Sam there as well. Anyway, well done to the Stars for clocking up their first victory of the DIHL.
The big final was up next, but there was chaos in the changing room with half the SK8 team not there, including goalie Tony Pasco. Some sort of confusion about what day the final game was on. A flurry of text messages were sent, and gentle persuasion kept Stars goalie Aaron Bryant in gear to cover for goal, and both squads spent a good six or seven minutes off the rink waiting for the ice to freeze – and when we went on there were still puddles. A long warm-up – the referees and scorekeepers were clearly taking this game with utmost seriousness. Phantoms lineup had been strengthened not only by the addition of Larry Wheeler, but also a second Larry, who’s recently moved here from Queenstown and mysteriously appeared on the ice in a Phantoms top. SK8 picked up Rane Phipps-Black who changed over from his Ducks top to help out an SK8 team who were looking like being short.
The game was played at a really high tempo, and Phantoms let in an early goal when Dudley failed to cover up a stopped shot, and an SK8 forward skated through and knocked it between his pads. A second goal went in later in the first period, by more traditional means. Phantoms had plenty of shots in the period, but consistently found the centre of netminder Bryant’s chest pads.
Phantoms came out firing in the second period, with van Leeuwen netting while in the process of falling down on the breakaway, off an assist from Matthews. The floodgates really started to open when the Phantoms went on powerplay however, and Hodge netted.
Third period the Phantoms stacked up three more goals, all to Hodge, at least one again with the man advantage. There was some really good puck control and heaps of pressure in the SK8 zone, which eventually led to goals. SK8 had a couple of good attempts at getting one back, but were unable to, including a penalty shot taken by Hey, which was called off as he lost control of the puck. Some big saves by Dudley, who found true A grade form in net.
The game got pretty ugly in the final period, with Wheeler and Roth the younger set off for roughing in front of the SK8 net, and a second SK8 player put in for five minutes for being the third man in. Then Wick and van Leewen tussled at a faceoff, and it was all fists flying as they both really went at it. Both were deservedly sent from the rink with a match penalty, and missed the end of the game and the post-match celebrations.
After the handshake, the referees were thanked and given beer, the scorekeepers were thanked and given chocolates and wine (unfortunately a puck shortly afterwards reduced one of the bottles of wine to rubbish), and the Phantoms were awarded the DIHL trophy for winning the competition.
Well done to all the teams, and all the players who managed not to get sent off, and we’ll be back next year with more DIHL fun.
