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"Joe":2d2slkd8 wrote:Crosby.
Ovechkin puts on a better show but Crosby will win more games for his team.[/quote:2d2slkd8]Always nice to have your own personal batch of snapshots to bring out Joe!
I don’t get to watch much NHL at all, so I couldn’t give a technical opinion.
My impression is that Crosby is seen as the most exciting player to enter the NHL in a fair while. Everyone’s talking about him, and he’s more inspiring for young people than anyone else. To me, when you’re talking about relatives between the very best, those are the things you look for. Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, Jonah Lomu, Pele – they were all the biggest things their sport had seen, and they crossed boundaries between countries/professional teams etc. I think at the top level, that’s what you look for to distinguish between several ‘great’ players into the ‘legend’ territory.
Whether or not Crosby’s hype over Ovechkin is just because he’s Canadian, not Russian… who knows? Our NZ view of ice hockey is seen very much through a North American lens, Europeans might view the picture differently.
Alrighty. B Grade week 4.
We’ve finished the first round, and the teams are starting to rank up. Kings have come through the pack, and are well-improved over last year. Three victories from three games. Beasts are nicely lodged in second place, with a couple of wins. Johnnies and Bears are tussling on third equal – that draw last week hasn’t resolved anything. The teams have all had time to settle in and sort out what they’re doing, it’s heading to the business end of the league, things should settle down for some good hockey.
First up, Beasts taking on JMs. Beasts took this game first up, they’ll be looking for a solid repeat performance to lock them into the top half of the table. Johnnies were disappointed with their first up game – they started well enough, with a couple of early goals, but fell away after that and let the Beasts get back into it and overtake them. They’ll be fired up this week though, and know that they must win this game if they want to be in the final in three weeks. A couple of their guys played in the A grade game on Tuesday, which is only going to be good for them now they’re playing back down – watch for them to be fired up and skating fast. Beasts will be looking to get back on track after falling over a bit last week against Kings. If they get their lines working right, and work hard, they’re going to be hard to beat. Kyle’s pick: Beasts 5-4 – close match, but Beasts take it out in the end.
Bears vs Kings. Bears went down 5-0 in this matchup first time around. They’re a better team now, and will be hoping to get closer. Key for Bears – do something that Beasts failed to do last week, shut down Harrison King, who’s playing well and getting a lot of non-assisted goals, particularly from faceoffs. Key for Kings – they’ve been playing well, so keeping on a roll is the key for them. Good defence, solid offence, there’s some pacey skaters on the team and they’re looking to lock in that finals spot tonight, a couple of weeks early. My pick – 6-2 to Kings.
Remember, games start at 7pm and 8:10 pm from now on, but the timetable hasn’t changed from the original schedule, it’s just later.
Edit by Ryan – DIHL B-grade schedule: [url:399teheh]http://www.dunedinicehockey.co.nz/documents/dihlscheduleautumn07.pdf[/url:399teheh]
Nothing to do with the original post.
On the main page of the web site Ryan, you have 5 May as the Stampede trials.
You might also want to note that the SIHL trials are on 12 May, also in Queenstown. Times not yet known.
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Event posting isn’t allowed – sorry.”I’d test it out and let you know what I thought of it, but it won’t let me.
Ah, nothing to do with DIHL then, that’s good.
That was always going to be happening at some stage. People should be paying in bulk advance for practices I believe is the policy. The prems had to shell out a significant amount of money recently I believe.
I’m still waiting on the peewees one to turn up, but thankfully that’s going to be much cheaper.
“Sorry, the copyright must be in the template.
Please notify this forum’s administrator that this site is missing the copyright message for SMF so they can rectify the situation. Display of copyright is a legal requirement. For more information on this please visit the Simple Machines website.”"Janey":23fjyuff wrote:Wanna here a funny joke?
A student Paying 250 bucks to be part of womens Dunedin ice hockey team and what ever it costs for them to be in the SIHL as well as 250 bucks for a DIHL team …
esspecially when you course requires you on placement for 8 weeks at the end of the year and 3 weeks in the middle….
just thought I might complain about my wee issues…. and i thought field hockey was dear!…[/quote:23fjyuff]If your DIHL team is charging you $250 then call the police.
I presume $250 includes your SIHL beasts games.
Yeah. The Johnnies team picked it up a lot in the 3rd period, and you were winning that period 1-0 for quite a while before Phantoms got back on top in the last five minutes or so. I thought some of your team were suffering a bit of ‘shock and awe’ in the first part of the game to use a military term, and once they were out there going hell for leather, they looked a lot better. It’s also the first game for a new team.
We’ve picked up a bit of help for them for the rest of the DIHL, in the form of Steve Jackson, possibly job-sharing with Mike Sam. We’ll slot them in place of Dwayne Cleugh who has had to pull out.
Still working on the goalie, if we can get that sorted your team will have a much healthier look about it. and my Bullfrogs will be in for a good game against them next week.
"leftright":3sdn9rzt wrote:The concrete is 100mm thick and a new ice slab would be 225mm thick above that. But there is no point in building another mini rink. Its not commercially viable and would have limited use and besides theres a very large rink in the building already!. Why would you want another piddly poo one. Stupid idea if I may say so myself.[/quote:3sdn9rzt]There ya go Jack. Yer a ning nong <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> From the horse’s mouth even."Ryan":2wfurglb wrote:"Kyle":2wfurglb wrote:Well, probably slim to none, as while hypothetically someone could raise the money, there’s nowhere left in the building left to lay ice. Unless someone wants to run all the curlers out of town, but I can’t imagine that Neil would look on that too kindly.[/quote:2wfurglb]Untrue, there’s also the other side of the cooling tower which is (I think) exactly the same size as the end we’re using for the existing gallery. Plus there’s the bowls hall upstairs at the front of the building <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” /> I don’t see either of those options coming to fruition any time soon though <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/tongue.gif" alt="
” title=”Tongue” />Ryan,[/quote:2wfurglb]
I’m no expert on laying down ice, but I can’t imagine that either of those spaces would work very easily. You couldn’t put pipes inside the existing floor, so you’d need to put pipes in sand or concrete on top of the existing floor and then ice on top of that. It’d end up going up a couple of feet, and there’s not much room in there to do that. I presume the floor would hold how ever many tonnes of weight a mini-ice rink weighs, but that’d be another question to be answered.
That’s if you can even get the pipes up there. That floor must be at least a foot thick. And the bowls hall is at the other end of the building from the cooling unit, they’d have to lay pipes of about a hundred metres or put in an additional unit for it.
I was thinking of the trouble the SNC practice has been having with the defensive zone stuff that Jenel has been trying to teach. The off ice area would be ideal for that, if it was just a little bit bigger. Get everyone to turn up early and go up there and just have people in their shoes, throwing around a tennis ball for the puck.
But it’d need to be about five metres wider <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="
” title=”Sad” />Well, probably slim to none, as while hypothetically someone could raise the money, there’s nowhere left in the building left to lay ice. Unless someone wants to run all the curlers out of town, but I can’t imagine that Neil would look on that too kindly.
The mangling of tags seems to just print the broken tag. Which is better than displaying porn images I guess. I wonder if anything that came in with [ ] around them you could just display ‘broken link’ rather than the address etc, and then leave it to the user or admin to fix the link.
Yeah, I deleted about 25 posts in the three public forums from 8afrog and Abedsterder – posting exactly the same thing.
There were a couple more from kinbaroll, which were a lot worse, embedded images of porn. Forgot to get an address sorry.
I wonder if we could stop the automatic posting of these links by changing the format used for posting images and links to our own format. instead of [ use { or something. How would that look? I’ll mangle one deliberately.
{url=http://www.dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi/}Dunedin Ice Hockey{/url}
I’m on another forum a fair bit, but they’ve made their own system rather than using one off the shelf, and I wonder if the unique nature of their sign up and posting methods means that they just don’t get this stuff at all – the autobots never pick it up when surfing as something that they can spam. Can we remove the generic comments and php from our code and rename things so it’s no longer obvious we’re using a system that can be abused like this?
What about moving to manual approval of users Ryan. It’s not ideal, as it means people can’t post straight away, and it’ll mean a little extra work, but the most we’re ever going to get in the forum is maybe a couple of hundred users, so the workload isn’t horrendous. You’d have to add a section in the signup where people have to tell you who they are – something which gave you a real name and where they’re from: “Kyle from the DIHL”, or “John, I’m in Christchurch, but I’m looking to sell some goalie gear” etc.
