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The photographer with the highly phallic lens who was taking lots of photos, works for this site:
http://www.seenindunedin.co.nz/
I spoke to him and he said the photos will be up in the next day.
I think it’ll still be in the powerskating, as I think it’s starting another 10 week session.
But I can’t imagine there would be any problem with powerskating not having that one week. Travelling teams don’t come here all the time, and aardwolfs are good to play against.
Monday you will have the problem of not being able to get the ice until 9pm however, because of adult skating. That’s awful late to start two games.
I think you have the score wrong on the main page Ryan. I thought it was 6-6 at the end of ordinary time, with 7-6 after sudden death.
An interesting game, and most importantly, it was a pretty good spectacle for the crowd, and both teams took it very seriously, but there was very little silly stuff.
Big ups for Michael for agreeing to referee it when our more experienced outside referee fell through. None of us wanted to do it, and he got through a really tough last period, when he was under a lot of pressure from both teams. At one stage I had to physically push away some Canterbury players who wouldn’t leave us alone to talk about the last second Dunedin goal.
Canterbury brought down a good team and were evenly matched with Dunedin. I thought Dunedin played fairly well as a team, Canterbury relied a bit more on individuals. Both teams played shorthanded a fair bit – Dunedin particularly in the first period, Canterbury in the final period. Those two parts of the game were probably the difference in the game – Canterbury scored on the powerplay and held even with Dunedin when they looked like they might run away with it early, and then scored short-handed – a double sequence of 3 on 5 and 4 on 5 – that moved them from 5-4 down to 6-5 ahead. Dunedin would have really been spewing about those two goals – they had the game at that point and let Canterbury back in front.
The final minute was exciting to say the least. Dunedin were a man up and pulled their goalie and were full-on on attack. Faceoff with 12.30 seconds to go and one missed shot, got it back in front and buried the puck in the net from up close. Was it before the hooter? I’ve heard a bit from Dunedin that it was, and a bit from Canterbury that it wasn’t. I don’t know – I looked straight up at the clock after the goal and it was 0.00 when I looked, but if it turned over in the half a second that I looked up there… I can’t say. Anyway, we went to extra time, but it didn’t last long as Canterbury got a quick goal – that number 12, gee he’s good one-on-one.
Michael can provide a better idea of what happened with the disallowed goal in that third period. What I saw was a delayed penalty against Canterbury, and a Canterbury player touched the puck, sending it back in. I looked to Michael to see if he was going to blow it up, and he was looking at Hodge in a pileup with a couple of Canterbury guys. Canterbury got the puck back again a few seconds later and shot on the open net, as Toby had gone to the bench for the extra skater. I presume Michael had been going to award a penalty, but had changed his mind. I don’t know what should be done in that case, but just dropping the arm wasn’t fair, and I think not awarding the goal was a fair result. Things got really hard for officialing from that point on, and at one stage (when Joe got hit on the offensive blue line) I thought things might get out of control. Both teams played harder and angrier, but I don’t think it got too bad.
It was an exciting game to be involved with. I know I missed a couple of calls, I felt a bit distracted by it being a big game, and in the last period, trying to support a referee who was under a lot of pressure in a close, big game, and not concentrating enough on my job. Though I appreciated the Dunedin team very loudly from the bench pointing out that they had too many men on the ice – next time try and get the player off quietly guys, you might get away with it!
And all I got for it was a bag of moros. I don’t even like moros!
Hehe! I was quite surprised when you fell over. I just about made a comment about short people, but restrained myself.
Jason caught me in the helmet with his stick in the first minute, but I either caught, or got very close to catching Jack on the visor later that period flicking the puck about four metres over Bode.
So if Jack went to your bench and smacked Jason in the head with his stick, it’s all evens.
Hey Ryan? Our wonderful professional photographer is playing tonight. Are going to be bringing your camera in and taking photos?
I say this both because we should make sure someone takes photos of the event and of the teams afterwards. But also I’ve never seen a photograph of myself refereeing/lining, and I’m hoping someone can take a few tonight.
Update: Dunedin played Gore (with a bunch of Dunedin people helping the Gore team), and beat them 8-2 or so. Turned out to be non-checking, but still was an OK game.
This morning, Beasts and Ducks compressed their two games into a full stop time game, and then reset the scoreboard at the end of the second period. Ducks were without a goalie, so played a third defence back. I forget the scores, but it was 14-3 or something in two periods, and then 13-2 in the third period to the Ducks? Good fun, but perhaps not so much if you were on the other side of the scoreboard.
Best of luck to the Dunedin peewees, and of course in the big game, the prems tonight. Hopefully we send Canterbury home with a couple of losses for their trip south.
Bizarre.
Anyway, if CIHA has rescinded it, whatever the actions and background of the decision, then we have to respect that and let him on the ice.
Hopefully both teams and all players keep the game clean and we get a good game of hockey tonight. It’s a big game for the teams, but it’s also an important night for promoting our sport. Last thing we want is a fight or something like that turning people off.
Haha. It does happen. I was in charge of discipline for the south island for inline hockey a couple of years ago and a coach was brought up on charges and got them dropped on legal advice, on the technicality that the disciplinary procedure wasn’t mentioned in the event notice, and that he was threatening a high court injunction to stop us.
No I’m not shitting you, sometimes people take hockey that seriously.
It’d be much better if there was an online database of all games, including teams and referees!
But pictures of referees and links to rules etc wouldn’t hurt.
That’s about as good a copyright protection as you can get on the internet. Not unusual for professional photographers.
Not your fault, but we should probably be a bit more organised earlier on this. Between the Saturday night, Sunday night, and the Sunday day games, it’d be worth paying the petrol for someone to come down, or across from Queenstown.
I mean, we’ll cover, but having a Jerome or something down would have been ideal.
"Crash":8oi4s1yd wrote:[color=green:8oi4s1yd]Its not confirmed yet as I need to feed information back to Phil but he goes by the name: Paul Scott[/color:8oi4s1yd]
[/quote:8oi4s1yd]We’re probably going to have problems with the Ducks vs Beasts games on Sunday (if anyone ever tells us when they are!). Almost all our regular referees (Joe, Richard, Phil PJ, Graham PB for the Ducks, Mark, Jason, Michael, Jack, Andy for the Beasts) are playing in the games. Phil H is out of town, Drew is in Australia wrestling.
The only two likely local options for refereeing the games are Blake and Nigel. Blake is playing two stop time contact games – one Saturday night, one Sunday night, and I doubt he’ll want to referee two games on Sunday. Nigel is playing for Maniototo this weekend (on Saturday I think), and I don’t know if he’ll be around.
So if you want to check with him and see if he wants to come down early on Sunday and referee one or both of those games as well, otherwise we are going to have to pull people from the teams to cover the games.
Oh OK. And now while I’ve been typing this you’ve posted to say he’s not coming. Blah.
That’s good Graham.
It’d be good if the subcommittee could think about what the barriers are currently to the existence of the team. There’s a lot of us that support the concept, and would be willing to contribute our time/skills etc to help it happen. But we’d need to know what needs to be done. I’ve heard a lot of talk about money, is that all looking good? Sponsors? Management structure? International contacts for international players? Possible jobs for international players? Marketing for the team? Tops design and production? A hockey competition structure here which pushes the top 30 or so players to the right level?
There’s no point us all sticking our fingers in the pie, hopefully there’s some good people on the committee who can pull it all together, but our hockey community is pretty big and diverse, so if there’s things we can do to make the proposal, and the eventual team better, then we’d be keen to hear.
"Ryan":2odh10a3 wrote:True. Although the rink scheduling system should probably be different actually as it should be hosted on the rinks website, not ours really.
[/quote:2odh10a3]That’s not really the issue. We need to think about a couple of years from now when it needs to be bug-fixed/updated/changed to match the new server etc. There’s a big investment from the rink in adopting new systems, even if they don’t actually cost any money, and there’s some things to think about before someone hacks something together. It’ll be no good if a couple of students set something up, and then graduate and it has to be junked and redone because no one understands what they’ve done.
