Tales from the beer league part 2

8-4 loss last night in Lakewood, somehow we scored two goals in the last two minutes, so it was 8-2 for most of the 3rd. I had two apples, and a handful of SOG. One of our defensemen reaggravated his groin, and left 2 minutes into the third, so we were back to our usual 3 D. Nothing else to really report other than they were simply better than us, connecting passes on the fly with centers and wingers moving up through the middle of the ice, something that has been tough for us to do. I'd say many of their goals came on 2nd chances, rebounds that we couldn't clear. Including one that I somehow whiffed on at the top of our crease and their player was right behind me to knock it in. :sigh:

Next game, 10:30pm on Saturday, can't wait for that one. lol.

Lil beedee completed her Learn to Play classes (4) last Sunday, got her certificate and starts her first day of Little Ducks this Sunday, we are pumped for that!
 
Make sure she wears her Kings jersey to the Lil Ducks class. mhihi: When Jr was taking hockey lessons at Lakewood Ice I made sure he wore his Kings jersey every lesson.....mhihi:
 
4-4 tie last night in Artesia. After being down 4-1, we scored three in the third to tie it! Went to a 3v3 5 minute OT and both teams had some chances but couldn’t convert. I got out there for the second half of the OT and had a rush from our blue line, cut inside at their blue line, then toe-dragged back outside through their lone D-man. Got off a wristlet from inside the dot, trying to high glove as I was cutting across the slot. Got the goalie moving to his right but he managed to get a piece of it with his glove and it went over the crossbar. :(

Oh yeah, had 8 skaters, 10:30pm start, it was a bit rough. I think there are four teams tied for 2nd place now with 15 points. Talk about parity!

Next game, Wednesday night at Lakewood.

Lil beedee had her first Little Ducks session today and did great. They did a lot of similar drills as last weeks Learn to Olay session, so that was cool. I counted and it looked like 23 kids were out on the ice. Pretty cool because they divide them up into groups of 6, and they went to 4 different “stations” on the ice, each doing different stuff. It’s neat watching her skate now as she seems to pretty much have it down without looking like she is thinking about it.
 
Wife got me a pair of hockey skates for my birthday! But she bought em in my shoe size and not skate size haha. They were way too big. So I went down to Pure Hockey this weekend to get fitted and turns out... my feet have shrunk a size and a half since the last time I measured my feet, which has been a couple years ago now. Still got the super width tho so they got me in a Vapor x2.9 Fit 3. I remember Beedizzle, you were saying Vapor is a narrower boot, but in Fit 3 it's actually perfect. Can't wait to get out there! The little one wants to stick with figure skates for now though. *toe pick!*
 
Luc SkyBomba said:
Wife got me a pair of hockey skates for my birthday! But she bought em in my shoe size and not skate size haha. They were way too big. So I went down to Pure Hockey this weekend to get fitted and turns out... my feet have shrunk a size and a half since the last time I measured my feet, which has been a couple years ago now. Still got the super width tho so they got me in a Vapor x2.9 Fit 3. I remember Beedizzle, you were saying Vapor is a narrower boot, but in Fit 3 it's actually perfect. Can't wait to get out there! The little one wants to stick with figure skates for now though. *toe pick!*
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Thats great, glad you got some new skates! FIT 3 is actually the widest/most volume fit, and is supposed to mimic a "Nexus" like fit, but in a Vapor and/or Supreme boot. So they kind of did a mash-up of "fits" if that makes sense. I have been looking at picking up a pair of the Vapor x2.9 since they are clearing them out now. But I still have plenty of life left in my current Vapor X500's.

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Forgot to update the thread last week, got spanked 10-4 in Lakewood on Wednesday night, one assist for me. Lost in OT on Saturday night in Artesia, 9-8....1 goal (clapper from the blue line), two assists. Other team had two young ringers that were hot-dogging in the first period, but we bodied them up (as legally as possible) to shut them down a bit for the rest of the game. Of course one of them scored the GWG in OT. :/
 
Our Friday nigjt academy had a good skate. Got to play forward which was good since my knee was in terrible shape after being at the beach all week before. Something about flip flops and beach sand which just was not a good combo. Anyway the first few shifts we sucked and I was having a heck of a time. But then the floodgates opened for us. Got my far side winger a natural hatty and I collected the three primary apples. Then I got on the board with a backhand tip from an across the crease pass top corner. Finished the night with a partial break goal where the blue line jumped up and bit the dman in front of me and sent him flying. The rink let us go long so I was out there for almost two hours and after I got home I regretted it immediately. Knee was throbbing tired. Still was a lot of fun.
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beedee said:
Thats great, glad you got some new skates! FIT 3 is actually the widest/most volume fit, and is supposed to mimic a "Nexus" like fit, but in a Vapor and/or Supreme boot. So they kind of did a mash-up of "fits" if that makes sense. I have been looking at picking up a pair of the Vapor x2.9 since they are clearing them out now. But I still have plenty of life left in my current Vapor X500's.

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Yeah the x2.9 Fit 3 actually fit better than the x2.7 EE in the same size. Pretty gooooooooooooooooood
 
10-7 loss last night in Lakewood. We were down 8-2 going into the third, and we scored 5 goals in the third, pretty crazy! I scored a "Jim Fox" on a slap shot from the point in the third (over the pad, under the blocker), and assisted two of the goals, one being a redirect off my snap shot from the top of the circles. Can't wait for this season to be done at this point, we are 1-7. I think there are 12 games in this season?
 
And two more Lakewood losses to report, 7-0 last week, and 6-0 last night. One game remaining. (1-9 on the season)

And two more Artesia wins to report, 5-3 two Fridays ago, and 8-3 this past Friday. Two games remaining, one point out of first place. (9-3-1-1 on the season)
 
Last game of my miserable, zero-wins season tonight at 10:15. Will the Riptide actually win a game this season?? We have a couple of subs coming who should be helpful. We have a chance....only lost 5-4 to this team last time we played them....I'll post the update later!
Astoundingly, my team seems like it wants to stay together for more brutalization in the future. (hopefully the league will get a bit more balanced)
 
We won!! 5-1! No goals or assists for me, but a pretty good game for me at forward. I've been playing D all season. (Which is part of why we lost all those games, lol). The subs we brought in were definitely ringers, but we deserved a win!
Also, my teammates informed me we actually won another game way back the 2nd game of the season. That's like a lifetime ago to me, as I have become a grandma in that time span and have no memory of pre-grandma life.
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Last game of my miserable, zero-wins season tonight at 10:15. Will the Riptide actually win a game this season?? We have a couple of subs coming who should be helpful. We have a chance....only lost 5-4 to this team last time we played them....I'll post the update later!
Astoundingly, my team seems like it wants to stay together for more brutalization in the future. (hopefully the league will get a bit more balanced)
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1-1 tie on Saturday night, the team we played had played right before us too, d'oh! Nothing notable to report. We are still in 4th, and they are still in 3rd after the game (we both have 21 points). One more game remains, then the top 4 will have playoffs.
 
The Friday night edition of our skate was a rough one for me. First week without the knee brace, but I wore it on the ice. Felt relatively comfortable although I had two moments where I blew out and went down, but in a good pushing the edge way not a hurting myself way. Still it was the first skate in a long time where I felt like I wasn't driving any offense. Hit a couple stretch passes but that was about it. Defensively had a couple one on one moments where I felt proud but there were more moments where I lost a dude behind me in coverage than I care to admit. Tough skate overall. Now I'm off the ice after Wednesday for two weeks. Hope I remember how to hockey
 
My Login finally worked!

Season was decent but terrible.

I played better felt better and played D for most games! Holy **** do i love playing that position more than winger. Went 1-10 lol our goalie which is an awesome lady! Just couldn't keep up even though she plays rookie cause of her age 65! It really made it hard to win when she couldn't get up.

Starting new season this week and finally got this thing working.
 
Fall season about to start...

So for rookie they have a Draft clinic instead of a scrimmage to gauge peoples playing level. Its kinda fun not required but I usually go since its a clinic and they have coaching going on.

Anaheim Ice has usually had a decent turn out of players but it being rookie league they limit it to 4 teams. Explanation we got was because they only want to limit 2 time slots for Rookie League. Usually dont mind it cause it averages to about 12 players max. Still plenty of ice time...

Not this season we have 74 players and 4 teams! When they told us it was about 18 players per team!
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i couldn't believe it. They ended up offering people refunds after the clinic since people complained. I might have to take that refund an look for a new home. But we'll see how man players dropped whenever they send out teams. No way am i getting decent ice time playing with 3 lines.

Im sad.

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