Tales from the beer league part 2

I tried full sleeve compression tops once and I hated it. My elbow pads were sliding around all over the place. I couldn't imagine doing that with the shin guards. I pull out the liners and wash em every time I wash my gear instead (I also shower immediately at the rink, i'm not taking that funk home or in the Mrs car).
 
jammer06 said:
I tried full sleeve compression tops once and I hated it. My elbow pads were sliding around all over the place. I couldn't imagine doing that with the shin guards. I pull out the liners and wash em every time I wash my gear instead (I also shower immediately at the rink, i'm not taking that funk home or in the Mrs car).
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I have a couple shirts from Under Armor that have this sticky grip stuff on the sleeves, supposed to help hold the elbow pads in place and keep them from slipping. Works pretty decent. I haven't had any problems with either, in fact I rarely even use shin tape. Definitely a personal preference thing.
 
So you guys know I play roller and usually it's pretty warm but the last couple weeks were pretty chilly. I got myself a fitted long sleeve from Under Armour. Compression is too damn tight for me. My head won't even fit through the hole (that's what she said). Anyway the shirt has been great for the colder nights. Haven't had problems with the elbows slipping off. Normally I wear the fitted sleeveless shirt.
 
jammer06 said:
I tried full sleeve compression tops once and I hated it. My elbow pads were sliding around all over the place. I couldn't imagine doing that with the shin guards. I pull out the liners and wash em every time I wash my gear instead (I also shower immediately at the rink, i'm not taking that funk home or in the Mrs car).
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I bought some STX elbow pads and so far so good. They are easily the beat fitting elbow pads. Elbow pads are not easy to find when you have scrawny arms.

I also wear a long sleeve undershirt w/o the grip. Not too tight too. And the pads don't slide. That STX.
 
I think I'll try out the STX elbow pads. The CCM's I have now are getting pretty worn. I'm pulling a pad back up my arm every shot it seems.

For the record, I use a lot of tape on my shins. Landing on a pad when it's shifted a bit and you're over 220lbs is the worst.
 
Luc SkyBomba said:
So you guys know I play roller and usually it's pretty warm but the last couple weeks were pretty chilly. I got myself a fitted long sleeve from Under Armour. Compression is too damn tight for me. My head won't even fit through the hole (that's what she said). Anyway the shirt has been great for the colder nights. Haven't had problems with the elbows slipping off. Normally I wear the fitted sleeveless shirt.
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I always wore the "Long Sleeve Blue Underwear" when I played, indoors or out.
 
Looking for a set of the purple gloves used this week during the game vs the B's. 13 or 13 1/2. Anyone here have an in b4 they end up on the open market?
 
Well this past weekend I partook in the 6th Annual Ducks Throwback Classic Presidents Day Tournament. The games started on Friday, and end later today. There were 8 divisions, with 8 being the lowest, and the one I was playing in.

Our schedule and win/loss:
Friday, 7:45pm, 7-0 win
Saturday, 7:00am, 8-1, loss (I didn't play)
Sunday, 2:05pm, 7-3, win
Monday, 7:00am, 5-3, loss (I didn't play)

Our first game was a snoozer, I think I literally saw no more than 7 SOG the entire game, the other team was very green, and was made up of all women. The highlight is when I was hollering for a D on our team to cover the wide open girl in the slot. Here is what she said to me, "STFU, You guys are up 7-0, and I have never scored a goal in my life!!!".....at first I thought she was joking, but she wasn't. As she skated away, she flipped me off! I was dying and just put my arms in the air in a shrug motion, it was amazing!

Second game, wife had to work so I couldn't make it. But the team we played I guess had played together a bunch and probably should have been in a higher division....then again, I think our team should have been too.

Third game, again another team comprised of all women and one dude. This was also a snooze fest for the most part, but it was fun because many of the opposite team play at Lakewood in Rookie and Copper, and some guys wives and girlfriends were on that team. Not much action for me, however late in the third my shutout was cracked on a nice backhander, spinner from the dude on the team. Kind of a scramble int he low slot, I went butterfly and paddle down but it squeaked through and in, just inside the far post. The next goal was the WORST GOAL I have ever given up. A medium powered shot along the ice from my stick side face off circle, the top of it. Instead of dropping and redirecting it into the corner (like I always do) I decided to just stay standing, and square the puck up with my blade....oops. It hit my blade, bounced up and over in slow motion, through my legs. I actually had time to turn around and try to snatch it before crossing the goal line but failed to do so. My wife happened to catch this on camera, it is pretty funny! See the pic below. The third goal was another slow-mo back door play that I read well, but almost over committed in my butterfly push and it went in-between my arm and torso and I slid over to make the save.

All in all it was a good time. I wish I could have played this morning but like many others on our team, I had to work.

Here are a few pictures my wife snapped.

Ohnoooo, the worst goal ever!
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Just sitting here, bored.


Some Reverse VH.


And our team photo after our first game/win.


Our regular league game was cancelled because they tried to reschedule it from last weeks cancellation, but so many people from both teams were playing in this tournament that neither team had enough people that would be able to play....so it was rescheduled again.
 
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Saturday night was out last regular season game. We won 4-1, I had a shutty going until about half way into the third. The guy sniped me top blocker corner, it did glance off my shoulder though, but it was a great shot, no denying that! Our team dominated the play overall and I'm surprised we didn't have more goals than 4. A handful of easy tap ins were missed, but whatever. I stopped 18 of 19 according to the scoresheet, seemed about right. There were a few breakaways that I stuffed too. The team we played had some people on it from my Throwback Classic team, including the guy to the left of me in the pic above (african american dude). He is really fast, and has a great shot, he is the one that beat me for the goal. Early in the second he had a somewhat breakaway but I remembered he liked to shoot high, so I was ready for it, and sure enough, high snapshot to the glove side, boom, save!

The "oh *****" moment came midway through the second where a hard shot came from just inside the top of the left side circle. It caught me in the chin (see pic below) and ended up blowing out a screw on the opposite side of the mask! Talk about energy transfer!!! Luckily I was able to find the screw and nylon spacer/washer and upon further examination, the female portion of the screw actually broke. I played the remainder of the game with only 3 of the 4 screws holding my cage in place.

Playoffs start this coming Saturday, we finished in a solid 2nd place, going 10-4-1.

Here is a pic of my mask, you can see where the puck nailed me in the chin.
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After a lengthy hiatus, we returned to the ice yesterday and held on for a 4-3 victory after having 4-1 lead in the third period. We had a substitute netminder who did truly great work to help us get there. As for me, I had a couple of open shots on the rush that I sailed well wide of the net (I guess I know what I'm working on next :ko:). The good news about those two shots is I was in the right place, collected the puck and didn't get caught by any backcheckers; for me, that's a minor victory. Also, as hard as I skated each shift, I found another gear entirely in my final shift. I'm hoping that knowing what that feels like helps me set that as a starting point my next time out, or at least my goal for each shift. I love to play this game!
 
I got on the ice last night with my lower level team possibly for the final time as a regular roster player. Due to some upcoming trips and a move I'll sub but then its off to a whole new world. Anyway there was no pregame speech or anything, lost 4-0 and some tempers flared mostly due to it being a close game (we pulled the goalie 2-0 with 2 to go). In general though I wasn't pushing it much even though I had a couple rushes up the ice. I did have a few shots from the point on net that definitely made the tender work. One was a great glove effort on his part just to fight it off and even though he left the juiciest rebound in front nobody could get a stick on it.

Maybe they'll go on a run in the playoffs and I'll get another game out of it, but probably not.

The higher level team I do get to play a game for in the playoffs and then I'm off to parts unknown. Hopefully I'll come back to the championship game for them.
 
Saturday night at 1020pm the puck dropped for our playoff game. We finished in 2nd place and were playing the 3rd place team. This team was in the higher level of our league, and dropped down after getting waxed the first 4 games of the season. The last time we played them it was close, but I think they edged us out 5-3, ironically, that was the score this time around too. They had one ringer who definitely should be in Silver, not Copper. I was happy to have stuffed him on multiple occasions Saturday night, he ended up with goals 4 and 5, both of which were garbage goals...i.e., I made one or two initial saves, no one cleared him or the puck and he banged them in.

Overall the game was a blast, I saved 27 of 32, and as usual, the scoresheet doesn't indicate the types of saves I made. Many two on ones, a couple two on 0's and even 2 breakaways, all were stuffed by me. (humble brag) The game was back and forth, they went up first, then we tied, then they went up, then we tied, then we went up, then they tied, then they went up late in the 3rd and that was it.

First goal- bang bang bang passing play, it was a beautiful goal, not sure any goalie would of had a chance. the final bang was on the back door and i had no chance.
Second goal- we were short handed, i dropped and saved a clapper from the point, directed the rebound towards the corner....where someone was on the backdoor, and he had the easy tap in...again, no D there on the guy
Third goal- my BIGGEST pet peeve, our winger flung a no look pass across the middle from deep in our zone...right to the stick of their center, he promptly fired a wrister from the top of the slot (which i didn't see at all), it went wide right but the rebound came out on my glove side...i didn't even see the shot released due to traffic, by the time i saw the puck, it was out of the corner of my eye on my glove side and a guy was shooting it in the net, i didn't even move. :(
Fourth goal- garbage rebound after making first initial save
Fifth goal- see above.

All in all I had a blast, it was much more fun to play in a tight game that was back and forth. I saw a TON of action and came up big many times, my team and the other team would give me props after making a big save. This coming Saturday is our consolation game against the team we blew out last week, it means nothing. It should be fun though, as I have a few new acquaintances on the team.
 
Played out upper level playoff game last night, short run this playoff. Sometimes the stars are aligned against you and this was one of those nights, lost 4-1. Personally it sucked bad to be responsible for 2 goals against. The first I had tied up the man in the crease, a rebound popped out and I cleared it off his skate right to his stick for the easy tap in. Super frustrating. The second we were on the PP and the puck hopped my stick at the point and it was off to the races, I harrassed the guy into an early shot but the rebound came out 3 feet from the goalie and I'd taken an outside line to get on his stick for the shot, he shielded me and chipped in the back hander. Still it was inexcusable to start the whole play with a point play like that. Their goalie played a great game, I had an easy tap in rebound sitting in the crease where he thought he'd covered it and it was to his side. I got to the puck but I was cleaned out when I did and I think he either gloved my push or I shot it right into his glove. All night close in scrambles he just managed to find it even though we had more than enough chances.
 
Had our consolation playoff game last night, won 2-1. Much too close for my comfort, especially since we beat them 14-1 last time. Our team was playing down to the other teams level big time last night. It was a little frustrating, as we had many turnovers in our zone, leading to scoring chances and flurries. And once again, these came as a result of the D trying to make bad breakout passes through the middle, instead of along the boards.

Nothing too exciting to report, I had a couple "oh shiz" moments, one was in the first with a high wrister from the point. Made an easy blocker save, but the deflection popped straight up, and I didn't know it at the time, but it bounced off the backside of my shoulder, then off the crossbar and then behind the net! Then with under 5 seconds left in the game, I thought it would be easy enough for our team to get the puck out of the zone and that would be it. Again another failed clearing attempt lead to a snapshot from the top of the circle, one of our D tried to stop it, it redirected low glove-side and I was able to make the glove save......with .3 left on the clock!!!!

Oh well, we still won. Our captain mentioned an allstar game coming up, each team gets two players from it. She said that the goalies are "voted" on by the league, but since I was a full-time sub more or less for the team, I'm not sure I will get a chance. I was 11-4-1 with the team...and the first place team had dropped down from a higher level, so in reality we were in first. Next season starts this Friday.
 
We got absolutely destroyed yesterday by a team that came down from a higher level. That was frustrating. For my part, I skated as hard as I could, forechecked hard, backchecked hard, broke up a few plays, and made a pass I thought would lead to a sure goal but was broken up by a defender going flat on the ice and stretching the stick to the max (if only I had some sauce to put on it, oh well). Even more frustrating than being totally outmatched was catching myself a few times letting fatigue and frustration get the best of me and not getting the motor going again fast enough on the backcheck a couple of times; to me should be instant and no internal questions asked.

I keep telling myself that someday putting in the max effort will be good enough to produce the right result, and, you know, I still believe that is true.
 
We kicked off our new season on Friday night with an 8-1 win. Two guys on our team had hatties and the third guy had two goals. I had a shuttie going until about halfway through the 2nd period, fairly easy shot from up high came in, dropped into butterfly and made the easy save, but instead of softening/killing the rebound I kind of flicked my stick and shot the rebound out to the left side of the slot. They had two guys right in the slot, our D had one tied up and of course the rebound went to the other guy, whom buried it just inside the far post, out of reach of my left leg that I kicked out, it was a good shot.

According to the scoresheet, I stopped 17 of 18. I will be out of town for this weeks game, which is against my former team.
 
Last game of the season was Sunday... damn we all played like **** after the time change. And what's worse, the other team only had five players and we were only missing one. Ugh... We made the playoffs at least so hope we don't come out flat again.
 
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