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For Thunder catching sight of the imports is going to be pretty key. They’re going to need to be good quality like last year’s for Thunder to be in the mix.
I’m thinking Red Devils will be back with a good chance, Swarm likely finalists. Admirals to slip down. Keen to see how Stevo Reid does coaching Stampede, he’s racked up four straight gold medals at nationals with U16s and U19s and hoping they have a good season.
So umm… Swarm and Thunder is my out on a limb pick.
Sheree joined them direct from St Marys College I believe.
You can see her college career here: http://www.saintmaryssports.com/news/20 … 13632.aspx
And that’s the final score. Shots 62-8. NZ takes gold and promotion to Div 3 where they’ll see Australia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, and a team to be demoted from Div 2 next week (possibly People’s Republic of Korea who are defaulting all their games by not showing up?).
Australia lost out to Netherlands for promotion to Div 2 on overtime shootout.
Yeah, once the ref just dropped the puck with only one side at the face off which got me yelling at him. You’re not supposed to do that Mr Ref.
Paul Roth offered last year to put together a team of randoms, but he’s not actually available that weekend. If someone else wants to organise a team of all-comers… maybe they can post here, and someone can volunteer to collect money and sort out tops on the weekend.
dropping the puck after they take too long is what you used to do. The advice these days is that you should throw out the centre when they get there, and give the bench their warning.
Then second time they do it, delay of game penalty.
"Active":m6nqmh1j wrote:they may be dissapointed but so what?
[/quote:m6nqmh1j]What Thirteen said. The public are being deceived and that’s pretty crap. The only way the promotions and the event are getting such big attention is that the ticket prices are horrendous for the product, so they can afford to blow a couple of hundred grand on advertising.
But the risk to us is that people pay to see an ice hockey game and decide that ice hockey is a crappy game to watch. We’ve got a major international event three weeks later in Dunedin which we can’t put the tag ‘USA vs Canada’ on. If people walk out of that building unhappy with the experience of going to see an ice hockey game they won’t come back and see the Ice Blacks take on Australia and China, or Thunder vs Stampede.
If this was actually the an event of the level that was being promoted – even say a pre-season series between two NHL teams which is what I think we should be aiming at to have in NZ, it would be fantastic for our ice hockey.
Teams released on 21 July, first game 23 July.
Must be in case the plane crashes and they all die, you’d have to hope they’re not still scrabbling for players on the 20th.
Typically with any faceoff in a centre ice spot, the non-dropping official goes to whichever line is needed to be covered immediately, leaving the official that dropped the puck to cover the other one.
With all things though it’s a matter of communication between officials. If a team wins a clean faceoff back to their D at centre ice and is looking to put a pass through to the attacking blue line I would tend go to that attacking blue line as the non-dropping official, despite the puck initially being won the other way. The officials need to look at each other to see where their partner is going as its all about communication.
Back official signals as the puck crosses the center line and they think it could possibly be icing. They need to call it out and hold teir arm up until the front official blows it or washes it out.
If for some reason they think it isn’t icing, they need to give a clear washout signal, with a loud ‘no’.
If you think the back official should be indicating icing or not and they haven’t, point clearly at the puck as you skate after it. You should then get an icing or washout call.
What I do is not blow the whistle at the beginning of each period, and after each goal is scored – referee faceoffs.
My interpretation: The whistle blowing is the signal that the linesman has taken control of the faceoff from the referee after the change signal comes down. Doesn’t happen when the referee takes the face off.
From the version of the rulebook that’s just expired, p 37: “1. The whistle shall not be blown by the official to start play.”
