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On the topic of spankings:
Dunedin peewees played Gore and Maniototo today in Gore.
They beat Gore 22-0, and Maniototo 20-1.
In a couple of months the team will have won every game for three full years.
I heard that they got a bit annoyed with you trying to flash your glove at _every_ shot that came your way – high, low, five hole, blocker side.
Christ. Some people you kick them out, they keep coming back over and over again.
Do we need to put up a sign?
(Umm, probably email Larry as well as posting here which you have already done).
Unfortunately, for the Seniors the IIHF provides 300K Swiss Francs to put on the tournament.
For all other grades – womens, U20, U18, they provide about half of that. Yet you have to provide all the same services, hotels, buses, airfares etc etc. Which makes no sense – same costs, less income.
Last time womens was held here apparently the NZIHF lost 60K as a result.
So we won’t be doing womens unless that policy changes.
"Rhys M":1vwjljzq wrote:A big hands up to everyone who was involved in running and organising the event especially kyle who pretty much lived at the rink for the whole tournament. Very well run event, highly impressed with how smooth it ran!
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[/quote:1vwjljzq]Cheers guys. The event went well from my point of view, a few no shows but largely everyone fronted up and did what they said they would do, and more, which made my job a lot easier. All the volunteers were very professional and devoted a lot of time to the event.
We will look at bidding for a future tournament (we’re the only rink in New Zealand that can host worlds, as it requires six changing rooms) in a couple of years if people are supportive.
We don’t yet know what the club will get in terms of financial benefit, but the plan is to split it with volunteers via ice time credits so hopefully everyone benefits, and the club can plow it back into equipment and coaching and referees etc.
I’m no expert on sound, but the fact that you can hear the music clearly all around the building, but not hear the announcer seems silly to me.
If someone could explain why two different sources of sound going through (as far as I know) the same speakers vary between ‘quite good’ and ‘pretty useless’ I’d be keen to hear it.
"Ryan":hh70mz1t wrote:How does that work? Why doesn’t the linesman just blow their whistle when they see a penalty?
[/quote:hh70mz1t]Linesmen can’t blow their whistle for a penalty. What they do is wait until the next stoppage of play and then inform the referee, who can call it or not.
That wouldn’t explain why the referee never signalled the goal however.
Yes Peter was there and taking photos today.
Greece were a completely different team from earlier in the tournament. Luxembourg played fairly well, but Greece got themselves in penalty problems, let in two shorthanded goals, and their goalie that performed so well against the IBs was just average today.
"Defense101":3qnauhxk wrote:I still don’t understand how the ref can call an interference penelty 5-10 seconds after it happened and after greece scores a beautiful goal.
[/quote:3qnauhxk]I didn’t get a good look at this as I was going from one side of the rink to the other. The ref seemed to let the play go until the goal was scored, but then he didn’t signal the goal. I wondered if he got a call from the linesman about the penalty.
"vpatrol":mviqt1mi wrote:…so I shouldn’t have left after the 1st period?
[/quote:mviqt1mi]No, though I mentioned that to you. Outstanding game, the Greek goalie was fantastic, and by the end of the game the crowd was really getting into it and backing the ice blacks.
The luxembourg turkey game wasn’t very good. Both teams were positively awful on the powerplay – seemed to always be giving the puck to the other team, couldn’t get into the zone, lots of penalties. It was pretty slow, though Turkey looked better throughout and never looked like losing.
NZ-Greece was a hell of a game, went to overtime with Chris Eaden breaking in off a great pass from Spiers to put it away on the backhand. Greece had led until the last couple of minutes when NZ put away a rebound on the Greek goalie, who kept his team in it all game with some fantastic saves. Fast, physical, some great play, well worth the price of admission.
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