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Yeah. The ‘Stealing my thunder will you?’ topic had two postings within 5 minutes of each other from different addresses.
It’s entirely possible to log into overseas machines and then post through them of course. So it might just be him, or he might be getting someone else to do it.
Either way, it got pretty old some time ago, I’m surprised it still entertains him/them.
If it’s the one I’m thinking of, where the puck finished on the line, I thought I had a pretty good view of that (I was of to the left side on the goal line), not too far away, and didn’t see that puck in the net. Aaron stopped it right on the line and his pad was right on top of it, rather than being in front of it.
I was out of position (too far behind the play) on the first goal which is why I couldn’t say 100% that it went in.
The lack of goal judges is a problem in our games. If people when they’re out on the ice playing want to get better support for referees in giving/not giving goals, then they need to goal judge when they’re not playing. People don’t tend to do that here, even though we ask for it, so they just have to lump it when someone doesn’t do it for them.
If there was a queue of people to get paid for enabling ice hockey games to happen, I’d put the people in the scorebox well ahead of goal judges. We’re very lucky in Dunedin that we have a few wonderful women who do the majority of our scoring and timekeeping for absolutely nothing.
Before I started playing ice hockey I played inline hockey. There team duties include all of refereeing, goal judging, and scoring/timekeeping. Only refereeing was paid, and when a team got duties, they had to front up with six people, two of whom were qualified referees, and two of whom could run scoring and timekeeping. Here when duties is on the roster, the
In ice hockey here, people seem to think that all they need to do is pay money and play. That only works if they don’t want goal judges, and we continue to be fantastically supported by our scorebox wonder-people.
"vpatrol":38plhd5i wrote:Has anyone considered the possibility that the rink would not want to cancel all scheduled events for one day or more? It’s a tough logistical task running the marathon events. Getting the rink to staff the place overnight can be tough too. I’m good for 8 hours of ice time though minimum
[/quote:38plhd5i]Down here, the only thing that pays better than ice hockey in terms of bringing money into the rink, is social skating. But because we have two ice rinks, for special occasions they’ll put social skating on the curling rink and just re-spray it when it’s done. They could also move figure skaters onto there. They did that for friendship, they’ll do it again for nationals. If we booked ice for 24 hours, I bet they’d give us a really good price, because normally the hours 11pm to 6am aren’t used at all – that’s free additional income, the only cost of which is lighting and having a staff member there who can groom. There are a couple of ice hockey players who can do the grooming, so even if they give us a discount rate, it could all be profit for them.
I still think it should be done for a ‘good cause’ – either inside or outside the club. That way you can get sponsorship and look at most or all of the money that people pay in ice time being profit.
Both games last night were real close, with goalies being pulled in the last minute to try and get draws.
"Kyle":kahpe7m1 wrote:Tonight, first up will see Sharks take on John McGlashan. Last time the two teams played Johnnies took it 4-0, but they also pulled in Toby Schuck as their goalie for that game, so tonight’s game will be really interesting. Sharks pulled off a really big win last week against a tiring Phantoms team, and might have finally hit their straps. I’m picking this to be a big game, and I’m going with Sharks to win it 4-2.[/quote:kahpe7m1]John McGlashan take it 2-1. A controversial first goal which I awarded on a ‘did it or didn’t it go into the net off the crossbar’ call, to Wadworth, and then a nice goal to Blake Sinclair off two assists, before Sharks got one back from Sam Smith off Zane, but were unable to get the tying goal. Johnnies missed the open net on a length of the ice shot, which coasted calmly through the crease. That sees Johnnies through to the final next week, Sharks will play off for third against the Bullfrogs.
"Kyle":kahpe7m1 wrote:Secondly, Phantoms take on Bullfrogs. First time these two teams played it finished up a draw, and the Bullfrogs might swoop in and spoil Phantoms home run, after Phantoms stumbled badly last week in the last period to lose to the Sharks. I’m thinking it’ll be close, 2-2 draw with a late Phantoms goal to tie it up.
[/quote:kahpe7m1]Topsy turvy game. Bullfrogs took some early leads in the first two periods, but were 3-2 going into the last, when both teams traded two goals – Bullfrogs tying it up twice. Play of the day, Simon Christos skating right down to the goal line (the puck was literally on it when he shot) and then somehow finding a hole to get the puck into the net through (off?) Bullfrogs goalie Schuck. First Bullfrogs goal kindly provided by Phantoms player King, who knocked a Kemp pass that I was never going to get to into his own net. He celebrated in style too.
Final next week.
Winning more games would help me sleep at night. The outcomes of my random picks… just done for fun and all your entertainment.
Though winning players and parents certainly like gloating when I get them wrong. Good to see that the competition is close and it’s not always easy to pick a winner.
My original thoughts on the matter, which I’ll repost below, were that you’d run it as 24 sequential hockey games – taking an hour each. You could keep a total score from each bench for the 24 hours, but essentially it’d just be 24 games. That might be different from what Ryan was thinking, which might be a straight 24 hour game.
Here’s my original post earlier this year:
My second idea was after watching a heap of people produce thousands of cheese rolls to scrape together a few hundred dollars. I was wondering if the next time the club needed to do a big fundraising (for players heading overseas internationally or something) if we should play a 24 hour game of hockey. It’d run as 24 sequential games, just rope teams in and they pay their money, play three games (or more) during the 24 hour period. If each player paid $10/game, even if we had to pay full ice costs you’d earn $50/hour. But if we could get the ice rink to give us a discount for booking a 24 hour session, or get sponsorship (or both), you might look at earning about $3-6000, before you start selling food and raffles and whatnot at the same time.
You’d keep the score ticking over so at the end of the 24 hours it’d be 104 – 86 or something, but you’d match the teams up – so the peewees would play each other three times, the midgets would do the same, some DIHL teams would play a round robin within their grades etc etc.
And it’d be great publicity for ice hockey, we’d be a good shot for TV news on TV1 or TV3 – memories of those telethon things that were on in the 80s.
Actually, if you look back at the picks, I never pick against my own team (which hasn’t proven to be very good for my picks record this season <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="
” title=”Sad” /> ). So if we ignore those ones, I’ve got both your games wrong against the Sharks. Last night was a good close game – 2-1 to you guys. The first game, well, it helps when you bring big Toby Schuck in between the posts rather than the rookie goalie you did have lined up!"Ryan":196o2mo4 wrote:Kyle suggested this a while ago. I don’t think he got anywhere with planning it though. Count me in for 6 hours or so. Could be tricky finding numbers from 1am-7am or so I imagine.
[/quote:196o2mo4]Yeah. Though it was an idea for future fundraising that I raised to see what people thought of it. So far I haven’t heard of a cause which would draw the sponsors enough to make it worthwhile. I was originally thinking of fundraising for a team to travel internationally. I thought it could raise up to $5000.
Though that 24 hour walk for cancer research thing would be a logical thing to think about if we were to think outside the club.
I don’t think the nights would actually be that hard. I came up with a draw model for it which only required 5 teams to get through those 6 hours, and no team played two hours in a row.
"Ryan":38mt8igd wrote:[color=green:38mt8igd]Not something I ever want to see. If you play shirtless I will hit [on] you.[/color:38mt8igd]
[/quote:38mt8igd]You mistyped there Ryan. I fixed it for you though.
"Ryan":2tamwbet wrote:I was going to try and beat Kyles mammoth email from earlier, but I ran out of things to say!Ryan,
[/quote:2tamwbet]A puny attempt. You pale at the feet of the master, paduwan (sp?) learner.
Speaking of goalies.
Bode is away next Monday so powerskating won’t be powerskating, it’ll be a pickup game.
Games are obviously a hundred times better with talented goalies standing on the ice waving their arms around and occasionally sitting down and calling it ‘butterfly’ and whatnot. So if two goalies would be good enough as to volunteer their 9 – 10pm, that’d be great.
I’m not sure what the story will be with cost for the game. I presume it won’t come from the powerskating money, so it’ll be a standard $10 each. There will be a referee, dunno about someone in the scorebox.
The Dunedin Ice Hockey League topic got pushed off the front page of topics because of no posting in it for five days.
I had to go looking for it!
A grade picks:
Right, we’re almost at the finish line, it’s in sight, there’s just the home stretch to go.
Let’s see where the teams are and how the table looks.
Phantoms are still on top at 7 points. They’re playing in the final next week, but they don’t yet know who against. A win tonight will see them secure first place and home bench advantage.
John McGlashan OB are in second on six points. If they win tonight, they’re in the final, if they win and Phantoms lose, they’re top spot.
Sharks are in third on four points. If they win tonight, they’ll finish equal with Johnnies OB, and it’ll come down to goal difference. I don’t have the complete figures in front of me, but I suspect they’ll finish out ahead, so heaps of motivation for them to win tonight and sneak into the final.
Bullfrogs are in fourth, and can’t make the final. Boohoo.
Tonight, first up will see Sharks take on John McGlashan. Last time the two teams played Johnnies took it 4-0, but they also pulled in Toby Schuck as their goalie for that game, so tonight’s game will be really interesting. Sharks pulled off a really big win last week against a tiring Phantoms team, and might have finally hit their straps. I’m picking this to be a big game, and I’m going with Sharks to win it 4-2.
Secondly, Phantoms take on Bullfrogs. First time these two teams played it finished up a draw, and the Bullfrogs might swoop in and spoil Phantoms home run, after Phantoms stumbled badly last week in the last period to lose to the Sharks. I’m thinking it’ll be close, 2-2 draw with a late Phantoms goal to tie it up.
