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Postby mikey » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:21 pm

Excellent. :thumb:

In roller, where it's a possession game, your disadvantages are lesser. There aren't a lot of board battles or using the boards and glass and what not and there's no offside rules (presumably) where holding in pucks is necessary. If, like most good roller hockey players, the team uses their points regularly, you have an advantage with an interior shot. This can also be an advantage (pending skill level for/against) when carrying pucks...it can also be a disadvantage though too, depending on various factors.

You're better setup for the ol' step n' steal by having an interior shot...so let's go with that...it's roller, after all. It's all about transition/possession...

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Postby dodint » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:26 pm

Cool, thanks, both of you. It's been one of those things that have been niggling at me but I haven't sought out the answer until now.

One thing that I'm finding is that by staying home in my zone/lane I'm physically slowing down my game which is heightening my awareness. Very cool.

Due to a scheduling quirk I don't play again until April 24th. Blech. No game next week and then I'm in Minnesota the following two weeks. Going to focus on weight loss and continuing to build back cardio endurance in the meantime.

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Postby mikey » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:32 pm

Ah that sucks to get into a rhythm and then not play for a month...but at least you know the formula for success. And good call about the slowing down game/heightened awareness thing...you hear that on broadcasts sometimes, "such and such, just slows the game down...they play the game at his speed" that's what you're experiencing...you can control more of the game and more about the game than you think.

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Postby MR25 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:42 pm

We won our finals in OT last night. First time since I started playing 2 years ago (I think?).

Feels good.

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Postby dodint » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:51 pm

Congrats man, that's awesome. Can't imagine that in OT, great stuff.

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Postby dodint » Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:47 pm

Unrelated to anything, but here is a goalie punching the lights out of a guy at my rink. Not my team, it was a few months ago:


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Postby dodint » Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:17 pm

The length and curve of my new stick is great, happy there. But I can't get used to how light it is. I keep thinking it's going to snap like a twig when I thrust it into a players shot or it hits the boards. About 12 times a game I look at the blade to make sure it's still in one piece.

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Postby meow » Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:01 pm

It ain't gonna break

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Postby dodint » Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:22 pm

At a risk of "ACKTUALLLY" we had a guy on our team last night break a blade in half.

He got it stuck in a door and impaled himself, but that's beside the point. I think.

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Postby meow » Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:23 pm

1 that's hilarious
2 that's an unusual event
3 that's really hilarious

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:25 pm

Probably have to worry about the bearings before the stick...

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Postby dodint » Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:28 pm

There have been two self-spears on my team this year, but only last nights broke the blade. It snapped the toe off of the blade, never seen that before. The other one shattered the shaft and that could've been genuinely ugly, but it was at a practice and it was one of those old Jagr wooden street sticks.

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Postby meow » Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:56 pm

Gotta teach them boys some angles

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Postby mikey » Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:22 pm

I impaled myself once with a stick before, right in the stomach...sent me for a ride...not a great feeling...

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Postby MR25 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:24 pm

I've done it too. My stick was almost at a 180 degree arc. No idea how it didn't snap.

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Postby dodint » Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:26 pm

It happens at the 'wrong' end of the rink, but if you go to 22:25 you can see the incident with the stick. You can clearly hear it snap, and obviously the big guy in the Pens pajama sweater goes down as if a sniper shot him.


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Postby dodint » Tue May 01, 2018 10:03 am

As the first regular season came to a close last night I'm really happy with my progression. I no longer feel like a liability up and down the rink. In the defense zone I'm very effective clogging up passing lanes, blocking shots, and ruining the day of whoever wants to camp in front of the net. I've gotten much better at matching the speed of rushers and keeping them outside; I figure if I let them inside I have to block their shot so it's just easier to drive them to the corner or have them force a pass to the point. I've started skating the puck out and hitting outlet passes rather than just wildly tossing it up the rink as soon as I get it.
Offense zone is alright. I play as the back D so I rarely get down to even the blue line. Biffed a one-timer last night that pissed me off pretty good, but I take wrist shots almost exclusively so that shouldn't have been too much of a surprise.

I think I'm going to play defense again next season. I'm more comfortable skating backward than forward, still. It's hard finding four guys that want to do it. And I still have a ton to learn about the position.

Thanks for the pointers mikey, meow, everyone. Was a fun season, have some bonus hockey next week and then it starts over.

My team is thinking of doing a Top Gun theme next season. Sky blue jerseys with callsigns from the movie on the back; I'll be Stinger, old and angry. You in, @tifosi77?

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Postby mikey » Tue May 01, 2018 10:09 am

:thumb: good stuff

It's been several weeks since I've been on the rink I think at this point...I'm getting antsy...right now I'm playing in a football league and while being the star QB in a rec touch league has its perks...I need to get some puck going again soon...

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue May 01, 2018 10:22 am

Make sure you tell all the ladies you meet you're the star QB.

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Postby dodint » Tue May 01, 2018 10:24 am

He told me the one time I met him.

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue May 01, 2018 10:32 am

mikey, you dog you

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Postby meow » Tue May 01, 2018 10:56 am

:thumb: good stuff

It's been several weeks since I've been on the rink I think at this point...I'm getting antsy...right now I'm playing in a football league and while being the star QB in a rec touch league has its perks...I need to get some puck going again soon...
I’ll throw you a life preserver since you are obviously drowning in it.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue May 01, 2018 10:59 am

It has been so long since I skated, I honestly don't remember what calendar year it was.

When we moved to Encino in 2012, we downsized our house from 2200 sq ft to around 1300 sq ft. So some stuff went into one of those public storage lockers. When we moved to SF, we sort of....... forgot about it. We went a year after moving, and the mail forwarding thing expired, and the company called us with a robust WTF. (Bill was auto-pay, but they still sent a monthly invoice) Anyway, we told them they could do what they wanted with all that stuff. Which included all of my hockey gear.

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Postby mikey » Tue May 01, 2018 11:24 am

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Yup, 6'5", laser, rocket arm...nawt a big deal...

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Postby MR25 » Tue May 01, 2018 12:31 pm

My legs are still sore from my game Sunday. 2 lines of offense, so I played about 25-30 minutes (running clock). At least 4 or 5 shifts resulted in a minute or so of extended O-zone time. Lot of starts and stops that I've been trying to get better at, so at least I had that going for me.

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