Tales from the beer league part 2

It wasn't pretty but we pulled out the W last night, in a shootout, with your compadre scoring the only goal....in the 5th round!

We jumped out to a very, very early 1-0 lead on the first shot of the game! From there we were outshooting them by a lot, not quite a 2-1 margin, but close. I was stoked to be playing with another solid D partner, we passed well and knew where each other would be and would cover for each other in situations that called for it. This made for a fun time since we didnt have to worry about one of us (a la another D on our team) randomly jumping into plays and getting stuck on the forecheck deep in the O'zone, WTF?!!. They eventually tied it early in the 2nd, then we went up 2-1 late in the 2nd. Their goalie was coming up big as we kept the shots coming, just weren't able to bury rebounds. Things were looking good until 4 seconds left in the game when the slowest dribbler rolled in during a scramble in our crease. I was on the bench so I couldn't really see the details, other than it was beyond frustrating! That lead us to the shootout. I have never participated in one since usually they are settled by the time the 3rd shooter (they are always set for 3 rounds in our league). Welp, after our top 4 guys (forwards and centers) went I said that I'd go. During warm-ups and at stick-times I practice a Datsyuk style breakaway move. It isn't overy fancy, but it worked for him a lot and I had been getting pretty proficient with it so I figured what the heck. I came in with a few wide stick handles and made my way to the left of center ice as I moderately tightened the width of my puck movement width, changing the angle, I moved towards the right post, pulling the goalie with me. Opened up the stick blade as if I was going to shoot to get her to drop and slide, pulled the puck back a bit on my back hand then lobbed in back towards her blocker side over the pad and in! All the boys were really stoked and said that it looked silky-smooth! Then said I had to shoot first in the next shoot out, lol!

That win put us in first temporarily with 11, as there are games to be played tonight, with two of the teams having 10 points.

Just wanted to check-in here to see how everyone is doing in the BHL.

My main team, Bronze Division (Wednesday nights) has playoffs tomorrow night, we finished in 4th (out of 8) for the regular season. The team we play tomorrow has a few really good young guys that have played together for awhile, and they are quick lil bastards! Even with my head on a swivel, they still are over my right shoulder one second, then I look again and they are gone! Last week we only had 7 guys, so I skated almost the entire game, had one break per period. My D partner iron-manned it, no breaks!

I've been subbing (playing D) pretty regularly on a team one level below in the Copper Division (mainly Saturday evenings) and that has been pretty fun. The level of play is a little slower, but there are a couple teams that could easily be in Bronze. It's been nice to get on the ice twice a week, or in some cases just once with this team if I missed my Wednesday night games. The captain is really cool and I'm only paying $20 to play, so its way better than paying the $40 that the rink charges (if the team didnt pay the team fee).

Mrs. Beedee's team has been killing it and is in 1st place in the Tin South division. She had her first goal and multi-point game last week (1 goal, 2 assists) she was stoked to say the least!

Just skating in our friday night skates and dropping in on wednesdays this summer. The guy who runs it has been cool and let me bring Mini a couple of times when we were short. Did a Father Son camp with Mini. It was amazing. They even had some daughters there. Hockey and Sons Camp Was great but grueling. 3 ice sessions per day from sunday through tuesday and then weds morning was the kids vs parents. Mini is a bantam now and it's pretty much the only "competitive" game if the dads really want to push it. By the time they're midgets the dads are getting slaughtered. One of the dads in the mite game was a former college player and actually pulled a lacrosse goal from behind the net. Still it was so much fun. There was one dad there that flew in his 4 kids from Florida for it. The rules for the dads are that you can have all the fun you want, but you are expected on the ice with your kid. They also had the college training room open for ice and treatment. I was living in that thing. Great experience. Coach Constantine told great stories about Jagr and what he was like to a coaching staff, along with stories about Ian Moran who was his bottom pair team guy. Kids were eating it up. In any case tryouts for mini are in three weeks and my beer league starts back up in Oct.

I also didnt know this but they have a camp for dads and daughters too http://www.hockeyanddaughters.com/

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I also didnt know this but they have a camp for dads and daughters too http://www.hockeyanddaughters.com/

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dang....I'm gonna be pretty old before I can do the "grandma & granddaughter camp"....might not make it.


My team is off to a better start than last season (2-3 so far....we went 1-14 last season). Got a couple more good players this time....let's see how we fare tonight against a team we should be able to beat.

Our team finished 4th out of 8 this season and last night was our first playoff game. We knocked off the first place team in our first playoff game last night, we were seeded 4th. Score was 6-1, everyone played great and we actually played with some structure for once! It feels good to be heading to the championship game (can't even remember the last time I was on a team that played for it).

League sent out the email about next season, of course it went up another $20. When dividing it by 13 full-time players, it is now $498 for 15 games. :pfft:

We lost in the championship game, 2-0. I didnt play though, unfortunately my surfers ear was acting up, causing me to feel "off" and a little nauseous.

Decided to take this season off and get in on some organized pick-ups here and there. I just don't find any value in a $500 season at this point.

So I just ponied up my $500 for next season, 20 games plus playoffs. Really hoping I get to play at all. I have a drs appt on Friday to get cleared for an MRI. Been doing physical therapy for the last 6 weeks and while those guys have been great at giving me exercises that show just how out of balance my legs are and getting it more even, they also have discovered my range of motion that my body won't do. The easiest way to to describe what hurts is I can't step up a staircase sideways on my right side. The leg can't bear the weight to load like that. Basically when I'm turning right on the ice, I can only load my left leg which is a problem in competitive skates. The PT guys are also concerned that its only a matter of time before I blow my left knee out from the strain its taking to hide what's wrong with the right.
True to form right after my drs appt on friday I'll be going to a lunch skate because hockey.

So I've played 2 of the 3 games to start our season. Both games against C2 teams (we play C3) and they were tough. The first game we didn't have a scorekeeper so it was running clock. We were down a goal late, pulled the goalie with about 1:45 to go. The ref whistles us for too many men, then realizes we don't have a goalie. Clock is running the whole time and we don't get the puck drop until 30 seconds to go, half our team still arguing to put time on the clock (it was a 9:30pm start time, I was like fat chance guys). Anyway the knee held up but oh man was I sore after in my glutes and calf trying to compensate for my knee.

Game 2 was last night at 1030 start time but we had a scorekeeper. 10 skaters and they needed me at center which I tried. It's hard to take faceoffs when you can't bend your knee. Anyway had a couple breakaway opportunities but their goalie got me. End of the game I stole a puck behind the net and made a pass to the front while tangled up and went down hard on my knee. It SUCKED. I could barely get off the ice to the bench. Sat out the last 4 minutes. After about 20 mins I could put weight on it again but i'm pretty convinced this is my meniscus and cant wait for my MRI next week (insurance has been postponing me). On the plus side the rest of me is not nearly as sore.

How ironic that you posted an update! Glad to see you back on the ice JamDawg! Hopefully your knee isn't feeling too wrecked this week!!!

I played for the first time in a couple months yesterday afternoon. The team I sub on from time to time needed the D, so I got a text mid-morning asking if I could play. Since we didnt have anything going on as a family, said F it, and played.

Little bit of rink-rust, but not nearly as bad as I anticipated. We only had 3 D, but we all managed our shifts accordingly and were too overly gassed, sans the 2nd period with the long change. I got a few shots on goal from the point, and also had a few blocked shots, luckily they hit me square in the shins, and one glanced off the mid-foot area skate eyelets, outer shell so no pain felt! I was feeling it though cardio-wise after making a rush from the top of our circles deep into their zone for a decent shot on goal. Told myself Im not doing that crap for the rest of the game!

We were up 3-1 in the third and they found their mojo, scoring 3 goals in the final 4 minutes of the game! One came on a result of me turning the puck over as I got hooked at our blue line and pulled down to the ice, no call!!! Anyhow, it was fun to be back out there and I had to renew my USA Hockey membership so that means I'll be subbing for the rest of the season on my normal team, including this Weds at 9:30pm!

I dropped out of my beer league for this season....too much going on for me in the next few months, and the 2-13 and 4-11 seasons we just finished were disheartening. 2 guys having babies in the next few weeks, so they're out for a bit, and a couple other guys who had said they were in for the full season last season but never showed up. So, it was becoming very frustrating to be the team captain.

I'll still be doing clinics - there is an awesome adult clinic at Pano now on Mondays - and then my ladies pickup on Tuesdays at Simi.

Gotta keep skating so I don't turn "old"!!

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I dropped out of my beer league for this season....too much going on for me in the next few months, and the 2-13 and 4-11 seasons we just finished were disheartening. 2 guys having babies in the next few weeks, so they're out for a bit, and a couple other guys who had said they were in for the full season last season but never showed up. So, it was becoming very frustrating to be the team captain.

I'll still be doing clinics - there is an awesome adult clinic at Pano now on Mondays - and then my ladies pickup on Tuesdays at Simi.

Gotta keep skating so I don't turn "old"!!

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I remember those days when only like 3 people would show up... it's rough. That said, I gotta get back into it haha.

Subbed last night on my full-time team from last year. We didnt have a goalie, and the other team was the first place team. They were cool though and took it easy and did a lot of passing before finally putting the puck in the net. I think the final score was 6-2? It was a fun game though, kind of a good way for me to ease back into the swing of things. The game had a very low-key feel to it, which was good, but then also kind of bad because I found that I didnt really care as much as I would have if we had a goalie....guessing most felt that way.

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Subbed last night on my full-time team from last year. We didnt have a goalie, and the other team was the first place team. They were cool though and took it easy and did a lot of passing before finally putting the puck in the net. I think the final score was 6-2? It was a fun game though, kind of a good way for me to ease back into the swing of things. The game had a very low-key feel to it, which was good, but then also kind of bad because I found that I didnt really care as much as I would have if we had a goalie....guessing most felt that way.

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Those games are always the worst when you're on the other side. I mean there's no honest way to play the game, but you still want to have the win. So you risk getting it testy by pumping in a few quick ones to build a margin? Take it easy thinking you can turn it on? Even just holding possession is rubbing it in the other teams face. I wouldn't read too much into the emotions, there's competitive beer hockey, and then there's too competitive for your own good if you thought being on the other side of one of those games said anything about your competitiveness.

So last week we were the team WITH the goalie, and the other team didnt have one. They started with 6 and we took it easy, tried to make that extra, extra pass before putting the puck in the net. That didnt work out all that well and I think we were tied 1-1 after the first period. However, we decided to let our goalie play for them in the second so we could shoot on a goalie. This was a lot of fun actually, we had one shift where we kept them hemmed in their zone for what felt like two minutes (clock was on the wall behind me), no joke, I must have had at least 5 shots from the point on that one, including another two shot passes. I managed to fire a nice one-timer from my left point to the far post area in which our goalie made an amazing blocker save, pretty much fully stretched out (he is "full-right", a la Cal Peterson). I gave him crap for making that save! :ouch: I forget what the score was, but we kept leap frogging each other. For some reason some guys on our team thought that they had forfeited since they didnt have a goalie, thus pretty much just messing around the entire game with the goalie switch, etc. The ref came over late in the 2nd period and told us that it was a "real" game, d'oh. Granted, it was the first consolation playoff game of two for us, and they were the last place team, and we were second to last. As you can see, the F's were not really given my us, we just wanted to go out and have some fun. Third period roles around, and someone decides to have our goalie get back in net for us, we were bummed. Prior to that, the other team started shooting on the empty net from just inside the blue line (classy move) and scored a few on us. At that point we didnt want to douche it up and decided to try to just play keep away from them and work on passing, which was fun.

So we took the L, but even they said they had a lot of fun with playing the game in the fashion that we did. Next game is tomorrow night at 9:30, then the new season starts up after the new year I think? I'll be back full-time.

Oh yeah, over the weekend I got my skates profiled. I had never had that done before. Basically I wanted them to take some steel off the toe, since I found myself toe-picking still (taller steel). They recommended I go with a "Zuperior S" profile (my skates are a size 7), so I did. I public skated Sunday afternoon on them and there certainly is more forward pitch than before. I got used to it, but then it was reminding me of why I wanted to get out of my Grafs many years back because I didnt care for the forward lean of those...even after 3 years, it still bugged me. So we will see how it goes tomorrow night, but since I play D and am skating backwards a good amount of the game, I'm not so sure that I want to be on my toes quite as much as this profile puts me on them.

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I loved the pitch of my grafs, but yeah its a workout playing D with them. Gotta really squat. That ellipse profile looks like you better have your skates sharpened at all times or you're going to need it with no margin for error.

I'll be on the shelf for a while, got the results back from the MRI and they are not good. First things first have to calm down the bone bruise in the knee. Then its off to Mexico where they will shoot shark piss up my nose or something.

Welp, we finished the season with a bang, 7-3 win! The game was back and forth up until late in the second when we blew it open. It was a fun one, not chippy at all and we could tell the refs just wanted to get the hell out of Dodge. Many icings waived off, etc. Our goalie had three friends that joined/subbed this season that I'm hoping return for next season, as they do add the punch that this team is missing. They all play pretty high-level ball hockey together, and have played ice hockey as well. It is obvious by watching them that they have chemistry out there together, so next season should be exciting. They also did a great job at feeding me at the left point many times throughout the game, which meant more shots for me! (selfish I know, hehe). No goals for me, but plenty of shots of all varieties. Two apples though, both secondary assists on the breakout and/or stretch pass from our zone. Gosh it feels great when the team can connect two or three consecutive passes and finish with a goal!

Now regarding my steel. Granted this was only the second time I've skated on them since getting them profiled, but I'm not so sure I'm liking it. As my other post mentioned, I'm a bit more pitched forward and it has forced my toes a bit more forward in the boot too. Causing them to slightly more than feather the toe-caps. A feeling that I don't like. Not only that, I felt myself consciously noticing that I needed to be leaning back a bit more on my heels or I felt off balance, too far forward. Sharp turns felt a bit better since I could lean on my heels a bit more when apexing a turn without feeling like I'd loop out backwards. But other than that, blah. No toe-picks happened though!

I think the new season starts next week. :drunk:

Game 1 of the Winter BHL Season is in the books, 2-1 win for the good guys!

We got off to a quick start, our younger "ringer" scored on the first shift of the game, sweet! Not much longer after we scored again, were I was given the second assist. The final score definitely didn't reflect the effort and amount of SOG's we had. Their goalie was solid, a big guy who knew the position well. Granted we didnt have much traffic in front for many of our shots from the point, and our forwards weren't able to finish a handful of golden opportunities. It was a really fun game in which we controlled most of the play. Again I was able to get quite a few shots off, our new guys are really good about controlling the puck and keeping their heads up so they fed me many pucks, including a few where I was able to cut in from the point towards the high slot for a quick feed and shot. Unfortunately none went in, but we had a good thing going.

Late in the third I was squaring up to block/challenge a shot towards the middle of the circle and I m use have barely turned or the D changed the angle and I took a lazy writer right off the inside of my right knee. The area of the shinguard still has plastic with padding there, but not as much as taking one square. My knee instantly went numb and I immediately fell to the ice. It was almost like getting hit in the "funny bone", but in the knee. Refs blew the play dead and after about a minute or so I was able to skate to the bench under my own power. There was about 5 minutes left, I took one shift and it wasn't too bad, but since we were only up by one goal I didnt want to be a liability out there and just sat the rest of the game out. I got home and iced it off and on for an hour, and luckily this morning it doesn't feel too bad, just a bruise!

And my steel felt much better to me since I got them re-profiled. They no longer feel too pitched forward and I dig it!

We won last week, 9-0, but I didnt play since my knee was still jacked from the shot I took to it the previous week.

More importantly I just scored some Bauer Nexus Pro-Stock Washington Capitals pants! These things are tanks, the padding is ridonkulous, especially the thigh pads! Can't wait to wear them Thursday night! I'll hand down my Bauer S29's to my wife. Hopefully someone on my team will want the Caps pant shell I wore.

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Caps win, 5-0!

Wow, what a game we had last night. The final score finally indicated how well we were playing all game long, but we didnt blow it open until the third period. It was 1-0 after one, then 2-0 after two. We came out of the gate hot, firing on all cylinders. Our first shift was dominated by us pinning them in their zone for close to two minutes. Their goalie was hot, and made at least 5 saves during our barrage, I was able to get 3 off from the point, two through traffic. Our goalie was equally as hot and we even though we had a full bench, we rotated 3 D, which was fun. I did get gassed a couple times but managed to pull through. They had a couple quick guys including two brothers that play extremely well together. I will say they are both predictable with their toe-drags as they try to cut to the middle upon zone entry. I did go fishing once, but still managed to stop the puck with my feet. It felt great to shut those guys down all game.

No goals for me but I did pick up an apple. And I have no idea what has happened to my slap shot, it is muffin city! My buddy fed me a beautiful pass for a one-timer as I pinched diagonally from the right point to the high slot, he was near the lower left face off dot, so it was prime since I'm a lefty. I'm not sure if I'm not holding my bottom hand firm enough or what, but I feel like my blade is opening up upon contact and I shot the most classic knuckle-puck you have ever seen. Fluttered about crossbar height and I guess they can be tricky, but the goalie saved it easily, we all had a laugh. But I need to work on it, I have zero confidence with it. My snaps and wrist-shots are decent enough though, much more reliable to say the least!

I think that takes us to 3-2 on the Winter season. Two teams up top have 8 points, third team has 7, and we have 6. So, maybe we are in 3rd, or is it 4th?

P.S. The pro stock Caps pants have been amazing!

Getting ready to get back in the game! Didn't think I would be getting back for this season because my company wanted to start a basketball team. That's likely not happening so back to the NoHo rink for me!

We won, 2-0 last night, two shut outs in a row! It was a fun game, tad chippy but nothing crazy. Feel like I started coming down with a little cold or something last night. Had that weird scratchy feeling on one side of my throat when I swallow, ugh. Did a test to be sure no 'rona was present, all good. But just didnt feel my best out there on the ice, kind of head'in'the'clouds type of feeling. We rotated 3 D again, which was fine, at first I was dreading it but then just took it easy out there, no end to end rushes and only pinched once or twice. Our sub goalie was a buddy of our regular goalie and did fantastic, shots were fairly even throughout the game, their goalie did great too. Scoring didnt come until mid way through the third. I managed to thread a stretch pass from our goal line to the neutral zone to our newly acquired "ringer" whom split their D and went top corns. I did take two penalties, one in the first period, a half-ass slash on a guys stick as he went behind our net, nothing malicious, but just lazy on my end. And then one with :24 left on the clock in the third, it was the softest "cross-check" ever, guy took a total dive and I didnt even have two hands on my stick. I more or less gave him the Matt Greene forearm shove on the lower back to move him out of the crease and he went down. Dude had about 6" on me, he was soft. It was the same guy that held me a couple minutes earlier in the period as I took the puck into their zone and was cutting across the slot. It was a blatant hold and our bench was all like WTF was that?!? I politely asked the ref why a call wasn't made and his rationale was; well, its a 1-0 game, it really didnt take you out of the play, and you didnt fall down, even though he held you, and due to the game circumstances I didnt want to put them down on a call that could have gone either way. So I next time I guess I'll have to make sure to fall when I get held, SMH! But he had the audacity to call me for the cross-check a minute or so later. :ummmmm: And for the record, I never go off on refs, im always sure to talk to them like an adult, in a calm manner.

Anyhow, it was a fun game, hoping this stuffiness I now feel passes soon. Been drinking a lot of water and taking the ol' vitamins.

Well im back on the ice! Well will be tomorrow. Im already sore thinking about it but excited. Its been awhile. Still over at The Rinks cause they have saturday schedule which is the only day i can play.

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We won last week, 9-0, but I didnt play since my knee was still jacked from the shot I took to it the previous week.

More importantly I just scored some Bauer Nexus Pro-Stock Washington Capitals pants! These things are tanks, the padding is ridonkulous, especially the thigh pads! Can't wait to wear them Thursday night! I'll hand down my Bauer S29's to my wife. Hopefully someone on my team will want the Caps pant shell I wore.

https://i.imgur.com/AAzYQXZ.png
https://i.imgur.com/tlSvLBw.png
https://i.imgur.com/XDT477U.png
https://i.imgur.com/I2bnnyu.png

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**** these are sweet Beedee!

8-0 win for the Caps last night, we now have a 3 game shutout streak, crazy!

Fun game, had a very full bench though. So full that we had 5 D on rotation, meh. We kept our shifts pretty short so it wasn't too bad, but still, meh. Felt out of the groove per say. I was using my new stick, and I weighed it back to back against my CCM Jetspeed FT3 Pro P90TM and it was about 70grams heavier. Believe it or not, that extra weight made a big difference when maneuvering it with one had, was much more difficult and took more effort. Poke checks and other stuff just were cumbersome. I took as many shots as I could in warm-ups with it to see how it was, at first I was pushing my shots wide, I left the stick an inch longer than my others, and it is a low kick-point stick, my other CCM's are a Hybrid Kick. Anyhow, I eventually adjusted and my shots started getting better as the game went on. I had a ton of shots, I feel like the puck was zinging off the blade faster with this new stick, the low kick-point and it being stiffer (since I cut 6" off, putting it around 80flex from its original 65flex) may have had something to do with it. Hopefully the more I use it, the less I'll notice the extra weight of it. NO goals for me, but two assists and one at the end which was almost a goal, I carried the puck in along the left wing boards and took a good wrister from just inside the circle, above the pad, beneath the blocker and it squirted through his equipment and our center was there to tap the rebound in.

Today I cut the stick down to match the exact height as my other sticks, I felt handcuffed a few times in the game last night since it was an inch longer, pretty sure the lie of it is different too, so that may have affected things as well.

Had my first game this weekend. It went alright won and have a decent team. What I dont like is having 3 full lines and shifts came to about 2-3 a period. By time I got back on the ice it felt like forever.

Im back playing forward this season as we had some skaters that play D pretty good. Played wing and I was having a hard time with the puck. As soon as i got the puck on my stick to break out any pressure i got i instantly looked for the pass. I lost the mental battle everytime. Id over think and wouldnt push the puck up myself. I dont feel like im capable of getting around defenders and honestly dont know what to do in those situations.

Any suggestions on what to work at for puck protection and breaking out from my zone with the puck? I need to let the play develop just a bit before freaking out and looking for the pass which i did into bad situations that lead to turnovers.

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Originally Posted by xLAxKingsx

Had my first game this weekend. It went alright won and have a decent team. What I dont like is having 3 full lines and shifts came to about 2-3 a period. By time I got back on the ice it felt like forever.

Im back playing forward this season as we had some skaters that play D pretty good. Played wing and I was having a hard time with the puck. As soon as i got the puck on my stick to break out any pressure i got i instantly looked for the pass. I lost the mental battle everytime. Id over think and wouldnt push the puck up myself. I dont feel like im capable of getting around defenders and honestly dont know what to do in those situations.

Any suggestions on what to work at for puck protection and breaking out from my zone with the puck? I need to let the play develop just a bit before freaking out and looking for the pass which i did into bad situations that lead to turnovers.

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Congrats on the W! Bummer about then full bench, it is hard as hell to stay in the game when you are sitting so long.

Regarding your questions. Only real thing to help remain calm is to get more experience through more ice time. Pick-Up games, Stick-Times with a buddy, etc. You have more time than you think. Before the puck gets to you, take a look around and see where your team mates are. If you are waiting for the pass along the boards in your end, hopefully you can count on your center hooking back from the slot and heading towards the neutral zone, and you can hit him/her with a pass and then move on down the ice. Also, if you are waiting for pass along the boards, be pro-active and skate to it if you can. I can't tell you how many times I am able to step in front of a lazy forward along the boards and intercept a breakout pass because they stood there waiting, and their D telegraphed the pass.

If you do get a nice clean breakout and you have time and can skate it down the ice a bit, at the very minimum you can make the red line and if you have pressure coming, dump in down deep along the boards, or even better a shot towards the goal. Try to focus on moving north/south. If someone is right in front of you as you are moving north/south, bank it off the boards around them, step inside (assuming they give you the inside) and get the puck and enjoy the unobstructed lane to their zone for a bit.

Another thing you can try is to start by waiting with your butt against the boards, and as your defenseman starts to look for a play, you can then push off and get some movement going to give your defensemen a moving target to hit. When I played winger it sucked waiting flat footed for a pass, and then once you get the pass you have to turn and start going, often times with a defensemen right there.

Puck protection. Watch the pro's, they usually have their arms fully extended with the puck out as far away from them as possible while still being able to have control with their body/arms angled to where the opponent can't reach them. Use your body to lean into the opponent, keep your feet moving (if attacking). If along the boards, same thing, use your butt to keep them away from you, keep your head on a swivel to look for support. Use the boards to chip the puck up and out of the zone, or down low towards the other teams goal if in the offensive zone.

I'm just a BHL schlub, but maybe others here can offer more advice?

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Had my first game this weekend. It went alright won and have a decent team. What I dont like is having 3 full lines and shifts came to about 2-3 a period. By time I got back on the ice it felt like forever.

Im back playing forward this season as we had some skaters that play D pretty good. Played wing and I was having a hard time with the puck. As soon as i got the puck on my stick to break out any pressure i got i instantly looked for the pass. I lost the mental battle everytime. Id over think and wouldnt push the puck up myself. I dont feel like im capable of getting around defenders and honestly dont know what to do in those situations.

Any suggestions on what to work at for puck protection and breaking out from my zone with the puck? I need to let the play develop just a bit before freaking out and looking for the pass which i did into bad situations that lead to turnovers.

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story of my hockey life right here, buddy....I feel your pain. I have started to learn to just keep skating and the D will usually back off. I have a teammate whose job it is to yell at me on the bench to keep moving my feet and to get mad at me when I get back to the bench if I don't - like in a mean way (I can take it...need the motivation....we have an unspoken agreement about this)

side note: when I play against other women I don't have the same issue because am usually on the "larger" side of players in those games so I don't feel as much pressure from the D, BUT - I'm pretty sure it's all just in my head....you have to convince your brain that you are double your actual size!!

Thanks Nyssa and Beedee for the pointers! Ya'll hit the nail on the head for my problems. I def stop skating instead of keeping my feet moving. Which is part of what causes me to panic since im stopped going against someone thats coming towards me. Ill try beedees pointers on having my ass on the boards and using them to push off and keep skating. That is exactly what frustrated me during my game. Id be waiting for the puck facing the corner and would struggle to turn around when i felt the Dman coming down on me.
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So yalls advice worked...

Didnt score a goal but I got a few shots on goal. Anytime I got the puck off the boards my first thoughts were get to the puck dont wait and never stop skating. What a ****ing difference that made. While skating to the puck it made it so much easier to turn and take off on the Dman. It helped so much to create some space and time to let winger and center catch up to get some support. Felt great after the game with my performance. We did lose in a shoot out but it was a fun back and forth game. Pumped for this weeks game.

came across some old pics my first 2 times ever playing after maybe a month of learning how to skate. Anyone still post here from these pics? I know i met nyssa42 at pasadena one of these times.

not sure why they show up small should expand when you click on em.

https://i.postimg.cc/jnXjKtSW/lgk.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/z31SJ7f5/lgk2.jpg

Championship game tonight!

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Championship game tonight!

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Good luck!

Team this season is pretty good 5-1!

I recognize a few people from that TSC skate, I thought i skated with you once one of the times i was there but it mught have been later

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I recognize a few people from that TSC skate, I thought i skated with you once one of the times i was there but it mught have been later

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I believe i went to 2 TSC games i remember it being a midnight game. Thats when i learned adult hockey is usually at terrible times and days haha.

Yep, was definitely midnight skate, i think it was one of the ladies that we had to pay for those. Cant remember the username.

Oh wait that is me in my gang greene jersey, green G

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came across some old pics my first 2 times ever playing after maybe a month of learning how to skate. Anyone still post here from these pics? I know i met nyssa42 at pasadena one of these times.

not sure why they show up small should expand when you click on em.

https://i.postimg.cc/jnXjKtSW/lgk.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/z31SJ7f5/lgk2.jpg

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I'm the furthest to the right in the Canadiens jersey (it was an old beer league team jersey) in the top pic. Don't think I'm in the 2nd pic.

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I'm the furthest to the right in the Canadiens jersey (it was an old beer league team jersey) in the top pic. Don't think I'm in the 2nd pic.

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I think you're in the 2nd picture but this screen shot was from before Instagram allowed you to post pics other than the predetermined size so a few got cut out on the left. Wish i had the original. BOOOOOO