Yea i agree with Kyle, I love how the Sabres play iv been picking them all season, i think they can win it. Chris Drury, Danny Briere, Maxim Afinogenov, Jason Pominville, Derek Roy, just to name a few of the clutch players on their lineup. They have all scored big goals this season, briere especially. I just dont think any other team has enough speed and flare to match them for a whole game, especially how the nhl is emphasising speed now, and the fast players (EUROPEANS, SORRY RYAN) are starting to dominate!

I thin we will be looking at a Buffalo vs. Anaheim final, mabye san jose, they are starting to click also.

I predict Briere and Afinogenov to score some big goals like these goals from buffalo last year!! Check out goal #3 by Afinogenov, he is god!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g84zkhiAHo
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Or some of us could learn to shoot accurately, and we wouldnt have this problem! Wonder if neil knows it was me?? Given that im still alive, I guess he doesnt know yet.

Hey dudes and dudesses,

Yea man the sportcourt would be by far the better option, the tiles i would estimate to be 250mmx250mm i dunno, mabye closer to 300mm?
Why i suggested contacting palmerston inline hockey, is basically because the Palmerston North club were looking at getting sportcourt specifically designed for hockey, but the rights to the design are owned by a north american company. They did not want to pay the patent or whatever its called, so they designed their own tiles which are very similar in design to the north american ones, but are square instead of triangular (which are the original N. A. design).

Palmerston has had some problems with them but nothing major, and in my opinion these tiles are the most alike surface to ice that I have come across. There is practically no maintainence with them, and the puck slides extremely well, just like ice. I would fully recommend these tiles, we were going to get them in Napier at one stage and were sent a sample of them which we used to practice some skills on. They proved a very good surface.

No offence or anything, but this ice court thing doesnt make sense, I imagine there would be a whole lot more maintenance, and think about it: A razor sharp blade cutting into some plastic surface had got to do some serious damage!! I just cant see how this type of surface would work without a whole lot of maintenance we dont really want to put up with.
I fully agree with you on the fact that we need the closest thing we can get to ice, so that training is as effective and applicable to ice as possible. However any practice is good practice and the fundamentals are the same, if you can shoot top-shelf on an inline surface, chances are you can do this on ice as well!!

Anyway peace and godbless 😉 ,
STIFF #19

I have heard of this stuff too, however, I dont see how it works.
If you can use normal ice skates on it and can hockeystop etc, then how do u repair it. Im assuming that a hockey stop would damage the surface in some way, so how is it maintained??

Yeah this hockeyshop.co.nz site is not going to happen guys.

Basically it was an auckland dude wanting to sell gear but I dont think he got enough interest through email for him to bother with it.
I emailed him about getting my new mission sticks but its basically pointless to order through him, as all that he does is import the gear and charge you the total importing cost plus he takes a cut, ur basically paying him to take the risk of importing. If you want gear from North America i suggest just ordering a shipment for yourself (from hockeygiant.com, icewarehouse.com, epuck.com, hockeymonkey.com) as i have done many times. Even better is to get a group of people to order, so that shipping is shared. Remember dont go over about $1000 as N.Z. Customs will ping u for importing duties and taxes.
Of course the best place to get gear has got to be [b:1hlbiqn0]www.sk8.co.nz[/b:1hlbiqn0], come and see us today!! haha 😉

Cu Sunday nite guys,
Stiff #19

Yea man 4sure get me the clips and i could do that.
Id also be keen to do highlights around playoff time so that everyone could check out the latest action so I could put some stuff together for the site, as often the highlights are shit and not exactly straight to the point for us here in N.Z.
Would someone be that uptight about us using highlights to help promote ice hockey in this country??

Hey guys just posted my first video on youtube of the best goals to date for the NHL season, check it out and let me know what you think!!! (sux how the quality goes to shit but yea check it anyway!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQbl-4golZI

Peace,
Stiff

Hey guys hope all is well down there sounds like the summer leagues going well, which is good to hear.
Anyway, if u want highlights the best site in my opinion would easily be CIF-Forums (http://www.cif-forums.com/vb). I have been to almost every site with videos and nothing comes close, there are weekly highlights posted, about 5-10mins long each, and it will most definately keep u up to date with action round the league, and even some elite leagues like SM-Liiga etc.
So yea check it out and let me know what u think, most files are in WMV or JPG format and are done through rapidshare and sendspace etc so easy as to download.
As far as signing up is concerned, there are times during the year you cannot sign up. If this is the case hit me wit an email and il give u my password.
Peace,
Stiff.