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Er, Jack, did I tell you that Antony could play in goal for you guys?
It didn’t even dawn on me that you couldn’t do that till now.
I knew it was going to be Antony in goal for days before the game but I never even thought of it being against the rules!?It’s possible I may have even said it was okay if I was asked – I have no recollection of it but it’s possible. Mental block or something – my bad.
Ryan,
The beginners group often complains that they do way too much skating practise in what is a hockey session. A decent proportion (60% perhaps?) are attending actual skating lessons, the thing is though that they are going to figure skating lessons which is all good and well, but doesn’t teach them much about raw speed. I was trying to emphasise that to some of them a while back, but quite rightly they tend to pay more attention to what Deanna says which seems to be to concentrate on the fancy stuff and leave the speed till later.
But yeah I agree. I’m fairly certain I could skate faster than most of the current beginners crop when I first started, albeit I couldn’t do the fancy stuff so well. But speed wins over fancy stuff almost every time, particularly if you can combine the speed with an ability to stop at high speed as well.
Ryan,
Yeah, 7-0 after the first period was a little gutting.
Some quick advice to our newbies on defense seemed to help a lot for the next two periods but Jonnies still sunk an extra 5 goals in the next two periods.
More defense required in the future! I started playing back a bit during the last two periods which helped somewhat, but left us a little short on any attacking ability so all up a little awkward really. I felt like a bit of a marked man after the first period, I’d grab the puck and make a run for the goal on my own and next thing I had 3 of our opposition hacking at my feet trying to get the puck and since I’d generally just outrun my own team who still hadn’t made it to the blue line I had noone to pass to, so that route to scoring goals turned out to be a little futile (will know better for next time).
Good solid defense by John McGlashan though and some solid passing and team work, nice breakouts, passes right infront of our goalie followed by quick snap shots into our net were all quite impressive. We really didn’t have much of a reply for it really, I never expected them to be quite as well drilled as they were. They didn’t seem to have any star players who were scoring at will either, most of their goals were scored from good tactics, not just skating through us willy nilly.
They also had a lot more speed than us, our defense would be nicely in position on the blue line where they should be, but our opposition could skate so much faster than us that 3 on zero breakouts were a tad more common than we’d like. Even when our defense were hanging back at the red line in the second and third periods they still kept breaking past with their speed. Devin was definitely left high and dry on a decent number of those goals that went past him.
Devin incidentally is now our official goalie as Becky is unfortunately out for the rest of the season – ligament damage or something I think.
Ryan,
Hmm, that Bullfrogs vs John McGlashan score was a bit off the mark. 13 – 1. Unfortunately to John McGlashan <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="
” title=”Sad” />Kudos to Justin Biggs for scoring our one and only goal though.
Stats for the B-grade from last week should be up in the next hour or so.
Ryan,
That SK8 vs Ducks score line is surprising. From their team lineups on the night I definitely would have picked the Ducks, not SK8 who were missing a decent wack of their good players. Hopefully they’ll do better next week.
Ryan,Stats for Round One of the DIHL A-grade now available for download. Thanks to Joyce Miller for preparing them for us <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="
” title=”Smiley” />http://www.dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi/docum … ring06.pdf
Hopefully the B-grade stats will coming shortly.
Ryan,
Hi Dylan and welcome to the forum.
A guy called Scott Bason is selling brand new Franklin hockey equipment off dirt cheap on Trademe
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listin … er=1100733
Quite a few players in Dunedin have bought equipment off him lately and had no problems with it at all. All of his gear is dirt cheap, albeit not necessarily top quality. Much of it is designed for street hockey but plenty of people have been using it for ice hockey as well.
Ryan,
Here goes …
Ryan’s B-grade picks – 1st Game Round Robin Spring 2006
Beasts vs Kings
Kings took a beating in the DIHL last time, but the only time they won last season was against the Beasts, so history is definitely on their side. Having said that, this is the B-grade and both teams have had to prune off their best players and the Beasts have been doing some serious recruitment in the off-season, including Mark Hareb and Andy Noble from the undefeated Ducks team (Autumn 2006 DIHL), Canadian Jason Sedgwick and their new field hockey convert, goalie Mark Dudley who’s been stunning everyone with how quickly he’s picked up the sport. Interestingly, another one of the Beasts crew is Mike Mitchell who is infact a Kings High schools student, so there will likely be some rivalvry there, with Kings not wanting to be beaten by one of their school mates. The Beasts are the only team to have started pre-season training for the DIHL, they beat the Dunedin midgets twice and lost and won games against the Dunedin Womens team.
My pick 3 – 1 to the Beasts. The Beasts just have far too much experience and muscle for Kings, the Beasts are looking like favourites for the league at this stage.
Bears vs Bullfrogs
These are two entirely new teams. They’re in no way related to previous DIHL teams, despite the names. The Bears have the massively experienced Larry Wheeler, but he’s playing in goal, so we’ll have to see how quickly he can pick the new position up. Paul Roth is moving from rink side advisor/critic to actually playing, a move which is nice to see after all his efforts in helping hockey in Dunedin over the years. The Bears don’t have any stars to carry their team, but they also don’t have many total beginners so should be fairly consistent and not let too many in goals in, they may be lacking in scoring though.
The Bullfrogs are the product of Clare Sharpin’s hard work, cobbled together out of the beginners session, plus some Tairei high recruits, they’re lacking depth, but not the will to win! There’s quite a few total beginners on the team, but Ryan Hellyer (that’s me!) will hopefully help out and super star veteran Gina Bosselman has been brought out of retirement to bolster the ranks. Player to watch on the Bullfrogs – Keith Dickson, he’s been looking mean and lean on figure skates lately and may pull a few surprises out of the bag. Joss van Leeuwen is an unknown, the youngest member of van Leeuwen clan in the DIHL, but with an amazing family pedigree in hockey he’ll be eagerly watched by those who have seen is Dad and uncles carving up in the A-grade.
My pick, 2 – 2 draw
John McGlashan vs OBHS
OBHS have been looking weak all season long in the schools competition and John McG’s the opposite, so things aren’t looking good for OBHS. To top that off, Johnnies have bolstered their ranks with teacher John Bradfield and a few of their schools A-grade players. John McGlashan may be the Beasts strongest opposition this season.
My pick 4 – 1 to John McGlashan.
Yeah, I wasn’t sure if Ian was running it or not so sent it to him anyway. If figured it’s fairly irrelevant anyway since they obviously know their own teams contact details.
Ryan,
[quote:2wxu6qw3]somewhere along the way Justin biggs has fallen off the team list, pretty sure he filled in
a registration form though and know he’s keen on playing, can we please put
him back on i’ve emailed him the relevant info.[/quote:2wxu6qw3]I got the above message from Claire Sharpin today. Was Justin Biggs on the Bullfrogs registration list? If so, then how ’bout we bump Ruby Phipps-Black into the Bears and put Justin back in our team.
Well if he’s on their registration sheet then he has to go on their team I guess.
[quote:33u70qnj]I rejected a kid who registered today, had to phone his parents.[/quote:33u70qnj]
How did he register? Is someone still collecting registrations? Or did he just ask to register?And yep, $10 late fee sounds good.
Ryan,
Hmm, looks like I’ll need to do some pics for the B-grade then! Those high school teams could be a bit tricky to pick as I’m not sure who some of their players are, but I’ll see what I can come up with.
B-grade pics coming soon!
