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"Chris":1oxm2u5q wrote:I also think that there is a maturity aspect here. Granted, I’m not yoda-like when it comes to serenity, but recently I’ve been particularly unimpressed by the belligerence and discourtesy of younger players. I’m not talking about mere rough playing either, as everyone knows that I’ve always been a fan of a bit of rough and tumble, but that certainly does come into it as well.
[/quote:1oxm2u5q]The behaviour of senior players, in terms of language, respect for other players/teams, respect for referees, and playing clean hockey, not fighting etc, is typically much worse than peewees and midgets.
I know of one midget who’s been trouble this year, and none of the peewees, I can think of half-a-dozen ‘adult’ players who have crossed the line.
"Ryan":1cw4vr6q wrote:"battered_and_bruised":1cw4vr6q wrote:The other thing with the age is the numbers. We don’t have the numbers to put the age up to 16 min and if you pushed to 18, well then there really would be a lack of numbers.
[/quote:1cw4vr6q]I’d prefer to see the kids competing as part of their rep. teams in the DIHL, ie: Dunedin Midgets field a team in the B-grade. I think this would encourage players to strive to be on those rep. teams and would give them some good, stiff local competition which they don’t have too much of at the moment.
[/quote:1cw4vr6q]I’m fully in favour of this idea. I can’t remember where I’ve seen it before, but it always looked like it worked quite well – juniors play A grade, midgets play B grade. It’s not perfect, but it’d give them more game time together as teams. It’d really hurt high schools however. Those kids are interspersed through several different schools, and high schools is the big growth (and still more potential, there’s 12 high schools teams in the schools competition) area.
I’m not in favour of raising the age. DIHL B grade is a social competition, it’s open to people of a range of abilities, sizes, genders, ages etc. It means parents can play with their kids, siblings can play together, coaches and managers can play with their team etc etc. If you raised the age you wouldn’t just lose the kids, you might lose a lot of other players who play to play with those kids.
If people only want to play with adults then SIHL has grades for that.
"Ryan":2jfc69ff wrote:"Kyle":2jfc69ff wrote:A fairly accurate summation! Henceforth known as ‘the day Ryan surpassed Kyle in geekiness’.[/quote:2jfc69ff]Sorry Kyle, but I surpassed your geekiness a long time before that <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/tongue.gif" alt="
” title=”Tongue” /> I think it happened somewhere between researching the synthesis of mitochondrially targetted anti-oxidative pharmaceuticals and the transition metal binding properities of pyrazine/pyridine Schiff based ligands.
[/quote:2jfc69ff]I meant computer geekiness.
Chemistry geekiness, you passed me… well some time when you were at high school, if not before.
It turns out that I was talking through a hole in my head.
Last peewees practice this coming week. Two more house league games (next two Saturdays.
"Ryan":2gcg9lsd wrote:[b:2gcg9lsd]November 2005[/b:2gcg9lsd]
At this stage the site was still coded with Yahoo! Site Builder which created some of the most revolting HTML code ever seen. Kyle Matthews pointed this out to me one day so I sat down and learned some HTML basics, which Kyle kindly told me were utter crap, so I sat down and relearned, then he told me they were still crap, so I learned some more and so and so forth till I decided I knew more than him and chose to ignore him <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> Thanks for the help Kyle <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="” title=”Smiley” />
[/quote:2gcg9lsd]A fairly accurate summation! Henceforth known as ‘the day Ryan surpassed Kyle in geekiness’.
"Ryan":4rse7ia9 wrote:"Kyle":4rse7ia9 wrote:One thing to keep in mind with the DIHL next year, is that if the national league team goes ahead, they might not be allowed to play in the DIHL – either all of them, or some of them.[/quote:4rse7ia9]Why would they not be allowed to play? Too much hockey on?
Ryan,
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Not playing at a high enough level for them, encourages them to play lazy hockey. Also, they could get injured.
I’m not saying that they will be banned, it might be that all or some of them could play, just something to keep in mind for next year.
One thing to keep in mind with the DIHL next year, is that if the national league team goes ahead, they might not be allowed to play in the DIHL – either all of them, or some of them.
If that does happen, that might require some modification. The gap between the grades might need to be shifted down to make it viable, or the ‘open DIHL’ might need to be looked at again for the first half of the year, with all the 10s and 9s off playing prems.
No peewees definitely had their last practise Tuesday. Done for the season.
Their last house league game is this Saturday.
Hi Marek,
There’s a whole pile of gear down at the rink. None of it is great, but there’s everything you’ll need to get out on the ice.
The only thing is, I’m not sure how long practices are going on for. Peewees had their last one this week, I’m not sure when advanced finishes.
But you could come along and play a social game 7:15 Sunday as well.
"Ryan":19rt7255 wrote:although I did notice a lot of people staring at me!
[/quote:19rt7255]That’s them wondering when your brain tumour got so large!
You obviously had it mounted high on your helmet, as that was more my perspective on people than yours. Almost like being able to go to practice last night.
"Ryan":3jr1mf6q wrote:Those dangler thingies are a bit too expensive to have just for a camera unfortunately.Here’s a demo of the ultimate in on rink video coverage <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> A radio controlled blimp with on board camera <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/grin.gif" alt="
” title=”Grin” /> It can stream the video signal live to a computer and we could send it straight here to the website if we wanted <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/grin.gif" alt="” title=”Grin” /> I know someone with a blimp I may be able to borrow and I can get helium for for free, so all we need now is for someone to provide the camera, er … anyone got a spare US$449.95 lying round? … http://www.rctoys.com/rc-products-catalog/RC-PARTS-WIRELESS-VIDEO-KITS.html%5B/url:3jr1mf6q%5D
Ryan,[/quote:3jr1mf6q]
Good god Ryan, you need to get out more. Someone take this man to the pub.
You missed the bit where Aaron said he doesn’t wear one <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” />Referees also spend a lot of time wagging their heads back and forward to keep all the players in vision, which is going to screw with the focus on a cheap camera I’d imagine. And in two man, they spend half their time acting as a linesman, looking at the backs of players.
I presume you could turn the camera off when you go to the bench.
The goalie would be ideal, but you couldn’t really do that in a game. Too likely to get hit and break and then the game would have to stop to clean up bits of camera.
Bit of half a dozen one way, six the other really.
