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For A grade, I’m still looking for another couple of people to sign up, including rather desperately, one goalie. That’ll get us up to the four teams.
There should be an email coming out Saturday with a draw and team rosters, but assuming we can get a 4th goalie to agree to play, the A grade is looking pretty good.
NZ knock over Mongolia 10-1. Their last game is against South Africa tomorrow. South Africa lost to Ireland, who NZ has already beaten, so NZ is looking good for finishing top and being promoted back up to division 2.
The Ireland Ice Hockey Association web site also says that they’ve got video streaming of the games. If anyone gets it working, post here and let us know, it spazzed on the plugin install on my mac os x.
http://www.iiha.org/ has links to the plugin and files.
Ice Blacks clean up Luxembourg. Still to play Mongolia, and South Africa, SA should be the only competition.
Photos of the Ireland game here:
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” title=”Cheesy” />[/quote:2my68l3i]I wanted to come. Coach said I wasn’t big enough, but if I tried really hard and growed up good, I could maybe come next year.
My first thought when I saw the photo is, that’s exactly what we used to do in Judo when I was young.
What are you looking for the calendar to do?
My only real requirement would be that it could link through to web pages or pdf files, and that you could click buttons to show and unshow things on the calendar via categories – like taking off the juniors and womens and prems stuff, but showing all the peewees, midgets, snc and dihl stuff, because that’s what affects me. Ideally it would remember my settings on that, but that’s not essential. Things should definitely be colour-coded – peewees blue, midgets green, seniors orange, etc.
I guess being able to alter how much it showed – a week, a day, a month, a whole year would be useful as well.
At some stage you might want the flexibility so that it could be linked to user accounts, so a day before an event everyone in the event got an email, but that’s nothing to worry about now.
I’m going to try and make my picks a bit early this week, as I missed last round due to… well, missing.
A grade starts on Tuesday, but we haven’t sorted teams or anything yet, so I’ll make those picks during or after the weekend.
B grade, coming to the end of the first round-robin. That’ll give us a good idea of where the teams stand.
John McGlashan vs Bears: Bears have had a rough time of it so far, with a couple of losses, but so have Johnnies, so this will be an interesting to game to see relative pecking order. Johnnies have a good all-round team and good team play – passing, shots on net, working for rebounds, and shutting down Bears offense should see them take the game. For the Bears the task is harder. They’ve got a bunch of talented kids on the team, but they just struggle with skating speed, which means their attacks get shut down in the neutral zone a lot. Plus, they’re all having to carry their ‘olds’, so that’s hard. Their last game saw a great team goal however against the Beasts, and if they can continue to work on putting players into gaps with good passes, they might see a couple more. Probably their best hope of an upset though is for a couple of their better players – Hellyer, Kinraid, to head up ice and look to score a couple of non-assisted goals. Their ability to work well on defense and shut down Johnnies and help out goalie Jaimee Wood, who’s looked good so far, is also crucial. My pick: Johnnies to take it 5:2.
Kings vs Beasts: Top of the table clash here. Beasts are looking like the money team to date, but Kings have also had two good wins, and have improved well over last year. Both teams have some players that can score goals – King had a nice effort for Kings last week up the ice, and Beasts have three or four that look likely. For Kings to stand a chance, I think the Beasts goalie is going to need to have a rough night. If there’s only 10 – 15 shots, 3 or 4 of them are going to need to go in. Similarly, Kings goalie and defense is going to have to find form. My picks: Beasts to take it 5-3 with a late goal making it safe.
Off Ice: Janey’s car to turn up abandoned, in seriously bad condition. Sorry Jane <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="
” title=”Sad” /> Kyle to referee four games over the weekend and to finish a third weekend in a row ‘seriously knackered’.And Ireland had a pre-game tizzy about the ice blacks doing the haka, after agreeing in writing before the tournament that the ice blacks could do it.
Good gossip here: http://www.iceblacks.com/
Including the NZ coach confirming that Ireland could indeed dance a jig if they wanted to!
Also, currently we use ‘grade’ for two things. Players play in A or B grade, but some also have a number grade assigned to them.
I think the second one should be renamed for keeping things simple and avoiding confusion. Rating might be a word we could use?
Yes. I guess it doesn’t matter which way around it goes. Almost everyone on the Beasts seems to have assumed they are Dunedin Blue, and everyone on the Ducks assumed they were Green (or purple as it turns out), including Graham and Steve who were organising things.
Obviously we don’t mind winning games for you guys. You’ll just have to return the favour when you play for us! And don’t break the coach this time! Bad Beasties.
No.
I’ve emailed the DCC and asked what regular times they have available. Once they get back to me I’ll consult with Ryan and we’ll try and sort out a regular time.
Info will be posted here once we know.
I’m hoping we’re going to see some more A grade entries real soon, as currently we don’t have enough people entered to run a competition.
People who were hoping to play A grade, but who haven’t entered yet…. send me an email or post here or phone/txt me on 021-113-0236, or best of all, bring a registration form tonight to me between 6 and 7 to the rink with money.
Obviously we need entries soon so that we can put teams together and put out a draw. If we don’t get a bunch more people soon, we’ll have to look at the numbers and think about whether it can go ahead.
