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I don’t know about ‘most’ visors. This page: http://www.hockeyrange.com/shop/index.p … ry=Helmets
If it’s correct, indicates that itech, ccm, and jofa all have HECC approved half visors. Whether you can buy them from our good buddy Stefan at sk8… dunno. I would hope that if those three major suppliers are putting out visors that are approved then SK8 would carry them.
The rulebook does have the rule about tinted/colored visors in it. Rule 224F: Players shall not be permitted to wear a coloured or tinted visor or tinted full face mask. It’s a new rule for 2006 – 2010 rulebook. And yes, it’s done because it can create an unfair advantage if you can’t see where the player is looking. So yes, most places in the world that law could be enforced, whether or not they will….
And some people think they look dumb. So it’s really just a fashion thing.
"Ryan":2zrm1zsd wrote:"Kyle":2zrm1zsd wrote:I emailed you a contact list yesterday evening. Did you get it?[/quote:2zrm1zsd]Nope, all I got was …
[quote:2zrm1zsd]Ryan,
I have some new contacts from the DIHL B grade. Do you want these now, or do you want to wait until I can add new A grade people as well.
Cheers,
Kyle[/quote:2zrm1zsd]with no attachments.
Ryan,[/quote:2zrm1zsd]
Hmm, I sent another one from the dihl email address. I’ll send it again now.
No I didn’t forget. I add people to the roster when I get their signed form. I haven’t been given one with your name on it – or indeed three other beasts. You’ll need to bring it on Sunday.
And stirring has two rs.
Ooh yes, we’re under way again, with a new streamlined, smooth-as, DIHL. Four B grade teams vying for… y’know. Winning lots of games and gloating over the other three teams.
Let’s run through the teams:
John McGlashan: Defending champions Jonnies return to defend their B grade title. They’ve dropped a couple of top players out of the team, and picked up a couple of young’uns, but Leask in goal is an improving player and is going to be a big help to them. Jonnies work hard on their hockey and the kids have a bit of a profile up at the school, so they’ll be going all guns again. A little bit of settle down and play the game rather than the player, and they’re going to be hard to beat this year.
Beasts: Losing finalists last year, Beasts are back and just as strong. They’ll be looking to do one better this year, and they’ve picked up another ex-field hockey goalie to help them out – Neil Dudley, younger brother of 2006’s Mark. There’s a big lineup of solid players – Li, Sedgwick, Noble, Hareb, Mitchell and they’re my pick for the title.
Bears: A mishmash of Peewees, midgets, parents, odd-bod students and whoever else accidentally filled in a piece of paper, the Bears will struggle this year, but they’ll have great fun doing it. Children will laugh as their parents wipe out into each other, and they’ll play 100%, and might push a couple of the better teams at times. Watch for American exchange student Tess, DIHL regular Hellyer, Kinraid, and Roth the younger, who’s been cutting up the ice in the peewees for the past couple of years. He can score a few goals, and might clock up some assists as well.
Kings: Kings are back and looking solid as ever. A couple of new players, but a lot of the team that placed third in 2006 are still there. Watch out for King, Bodnardvik (is that spelt right?), and Auton, all of whom scored a fair bit last year. Goalie Williams has been around the scene for a while, and should be looking for some good numbers this DIHL.
Picks!
Yes, we know you all love it.
Jonnies vs Beasts: Kinda serious for first up, I didn’t plan it that way, honest! Teams are going to take the first week to settle themselves down, but I know the Beasts have been building for a big season, with playing in the Southern Ice Hockey League Senior Non-checking as well. Jonnies are a good team, and will be wanting a victory first up over their major rivals for the title. Key for Beasts – taking advantage of when they’re on the powerplay – good puck control, keeping the pressure on, and getting it on net, and putting the rebounds away. Key for Jonnies – keeping those opportunities down, and looking to their better players to make the Beasts goalie have a bad night. My pick: Beasts 5-3.
Kings vs Bears: I think both these teams are going to be off to a bit of a cold start, and it’ll take a while for them to sort their systems out and figure out who should go where. Key for Bears – working well as a team, they don’t have the skaters that can go coast to coast, but some of them might think they can. This ain’t peewees/midgets, this is big person hockey, and good passing and working on assists as much as goals is important. Getting players to the net and making good shots and putting away rebounds is key. For Kings, not so much. They’ve got some players who can cut up the ice pretty well, so they’ll be looking to get those players out in the open and away, and see how the Bears goalie copes. Special note for Peewees goalie Jaimee Wood, who’s fronting up and facing some serious offence coming her way, hope she has a good game. Kyle’s pick: Kings 7-2.
"Janey":2tinn5r7 wrote:Hey I wanna play this DIHL can someone make sure the Beasts don’t forget me when regestering the team! [/quote:2tinn5r7]This might be more stirring, but the Beasts forgot about you when registering their team. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink.gif" alt="
” title=”Wink” />Well I’m not sure what further practices they’re planning to put into the schedule. The new things are the powerskating classes, one of them is going into Tuesday night, the other into Sunday morning, but as far as I know both those times are already set.
I urged a principle to be adopted of keeping practices away from time periods where people are playing games. So B grade games shouldn’t be on a night when practices are on that involve B grade players (peewees, midgets, adult beginners, high schools). Adult beginners refused to move however, so there’s a clash which I suspect doesn’t help either the beginners or the DIHL B grade.
If practices and games need to be on the same night, then they should cross over. So Prems practice on a night when B grade games are on, and Peewees practice on a night when A grade games are on. It’s mostly worked out that way, but not perfectly.
It’s looking like at this stage, unless I get any late information, that B grade DIHL will only have four teams. I couple of teams that I was expecting to front just haven’t appeared.
Information should be coming out probably tomorrow with a draw etc, but games will be 6:30, or 7:45 Sunday night.
Actually Mark really had that one totally covered when he skated up to the offside line, went to stick his whistle in his mouth, and discovered that his grill was still domed on, so he took 20 seconds to take it off before blowing the whistle.
Latest. Offside. Call. Ever. Goals were scored in the interim I’m telling ya <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” />Google had a good set of game broadcasts, and they’re still up (see Jason’s post earlier for a link), but they seemed to have stopped pre-Xmas.
Aaron recommended sopcast to me. I haven’t been able to try it yet, but it’s p2p broadcasting. Which is at http://www.sopcast.com/player/.
I presume there’s another place where you can link up to games being played, maybe if Aaron reads this he can post that site.
I hope when you pronounce it, you spell it right.
And look like a dork doing the goofy game misconduct signal <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” />People say that I can be trying, yes <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” />Last night to sign up for the B grade DIHL is Tuesday at the Bowler. Get your names and money in so that we can put the teams together.
First games next Sunday.
"Jack":2mocvxle wrote:Lol, trust me, we haven’t forgotten you yet!!!!! Good that ur getting some ice time up in Auckland tho, and we shall see u soon!!![/quote:2mocvxle]No they haven’t forgotten you at all. Just the other day Jack was telling me how he was hoping you wouldn’t make it back for the DIHL. About how you shoot like a girl or something.
Bloody beasts. No sensitivity at all.
