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Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:15 pm
by mikey
It's training camp season, @meow did anyone care about getting goalies ready for the season in your playing days...? Anything you found useful to get you ready during these early skates...? Or were you just target practice...?

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:18 pm
by MR25
We defeated ex Penguins prospect Jaden Lindo in our dek hockey championship last night lol

Cranberry or Murrysville?

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:18 pm
by Joegap
North Hills - previously known as Dek Star

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:22 pm
by meow
It's training camp season, @meow did anyone care about getting goalies ready for the season in your playing days...? Anything you found useful to get you ready during these early skates...? Or were you just target practice...?
In team settings, just a target for the most part. When I had a goalie coach, we’d trail off into a dead spot and work on something simple, but super important. Post set-ups. Recovery positioning. Situational movements.

If you don’t have a goalie coach, goalies are glorified shooter tutors

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:23 pm
by MR25
I haven't played there in years so I occasionally forget it exists. We used to play D league down there before moving up to Cranberry's college league circa 2012.

Surprised he'd be jobbing it up down there as opposed to one of the newer rinks.

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:24 pm
by mikey
I figured as much. I was thinking about what I could do for my goalies, and I came up empty. I'm working on getting a former pro who has a goalie school in the area to provide some on-ice consultations...we're too poor for a full-time goalie coach unfortunately...

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:26 pm
by Joegap
I haven't played there in years so I occasionally forget it exists. We used to play D league down there before moving up to Cranberry's college league circa 2012.

Surprised he'd be jobbing it up down there as opposed to one of the newer rinks.
I think a kid who works for the Penguins runs the team

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:38 pm
by meow
I figured as much. I was thinking about what I could do for my goalies, and I came up empty. I'm working on getting a former pro who has a goalie school in the area to provide some on-ice consultations...we're too poor for a full-time goalie coach unfortunately...
You can have an assistant watch a few insta-reels and have enough drills to put your Gs through a few drills for 15 minutes. ingoalmag and goaliecoaches are two really good ones for that.

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:51 pm
by mikey
One of my assistants was a goalie at the college level, so I have a bit of an advantage there...more of a platform for him to learn and apply stuff to our goalies...

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2022 8:40 am
by shoeshine boy
last night I had my first game of the new adult hockey season and saw something I've never seen in 20 years of beer league hockey: the ref (who is also a goalie at a higher level) comes up to our bench about 4 minutes in after 2 goals and says the opposing goalie needs a second. apparently he put his leg pads on the wrong legs. :lol:
this guy has been playing goal for probably a year? I'm dying to know if he's been putting them on the wrong way this entire time.....

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2022 9:49 am
by mikey
Not that I played goalie too, too much, but I put them on the wrong legs once when I was like 13...

I have it on good authority that meow frequently used his cup as a mouth guard...

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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2022 12:34 pm
by meow
I had to wear two cups to cover my massive hammer thank you very much

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2022 12:37 pm
by mikey
I usually waited for everyone else to be done showering before I went in...I didn't want anyone to trip over my horn, ya know...safety first!

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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:45 pm
by MR25
Late games on a Sunday are the worst. I'll be lucky to get 5 hours of actual sleep tonight

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 8:00 am
by shoeshine boy
Late games on a Sunday are the worst. I'll be lucky to get 5 hours of actual sleep tonight
define "late" please. I'm always interested to see when other locations are playing their adult games. I have friends in Huntsville who get annoyed when their games start after 9:00PM. here in ATL, we have games starting as late as 10:50PM. :scared:

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 9:32 am
by MR25
Last night was 10 PM (didn't walk back into my place til 11:45 on account of the snow). I do have a 10:50 scheduled for a Thursday in a couple weeks.

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:03 am
by mikey
I used to have 12:30 am/1 am spots in some leagues when I was younger...not sure if I'd be up for that now, to be fair...

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:30 am
by MR25
I think the latest I've had was an 11:30, but it was either a Friday or Saturday, so there was no need to wake up the next day.

I just hate it on the night before I have to wake up at 6:30 to go into the office

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 11:10 am
by shoeshine boy


I just hate it on the night before I have to wake up at 6:30 to go into the office
with you 100%. if we have a 10:50 on a weeknight I usually won't go unless we've got a short bench. 10:50 start means we're not done until 12:20. 15 minutes to get undressed, as much as 45 minutes to drive home, hang up gear to dry, ice things because I'm old, shower means it's almost 3:00AM before I'm getting into bed and the alarm goes off at 6:00AM and when it's a late Sunday game it just wrecks you for the entire week. :thumbdown:

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:42 pm
by MalkinIsMyHomeboy
the National Whitewater Center here built an ice skating space here including a little pond hockey space. They started a league and I am on the “I don’t have any friends” free agent team. Unfortunately half our team has never played hockey before so needless to say we are tanking for Wembanyama

I don’t know why but I at first imagined a full size sheet or at least half size. Actual length is like 25 yards

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:31 pm
by meow
Yeah that’s for shiny hockey. That’s not a real league. It’s probably sun though

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 7:49 am
by iamjs
Are there any places around Pittsburgh that have stick time that aren't over lunch hour?

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 12:18 pm
by meow
Am I violating some child protection law if I buy mini-meow a Bauer 4500 helmet? He needs a white one with his new team and there is nothing better looking that a 4500. But it protects like a layer of aluminum foil

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 12:22 pm
by mikey
As long as there's no cage on the front of it, you're golden...

Amateur Hockey Thread

Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 12:24 pm
by meow
I was going to get a cage two sizes too big and then not snap it tight to the J hooks for ultimate drip