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  1. 1 point
    As a single ref, I'd stay in the lane and go from end zone faceoff circle to end zone faceoff circle on one side of the rink. Exit the zone in stages from low to blue line to other blue line to low, staying ahead of the play as it transitions.
  2. 1 point
    Howdy, Glad your kid is having fun playing hockey. That other team/coach sounds like a disaster. Mark
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    So as the season closes I felt I needed to this thread. My son thoroughly enjoyed this season. The team he was on rolled lines no matter what the situtation. All the kids got equal playing time and played all postions. The coach didn't care about the score or rankings. They are finishing up the season with a 9-2 record currently. Win or lose the kids, including mines, attitude a have been great. The parents are great too. Even when they were getting smoked 11-0 in placement games with 4 shots on goal. At times I questioned my family's decision. The other team splits ice with my boys team for practice. I still see the coach making them do push ups or skate for messing up drills. I haven't heard him scream or curse but didn't pay much attention. My son and I went to watch his best friend play on the the other team. He got a total of 4 minutes of playing the whole game. There were several other kids that also saw minimal playing time. A couple kids were double shifted. The shifts for the kids that weren't seeing minimal playing time seemed excessively long compared to 30 seconds or less for those kids riding the pine. One parent i know made the comment his kid was the back up goaltender. Back up at U10. My boys best friends father confirmed that his child has seen approx. 60min of playing in 13 games and has since quit the team. I also witnessed the coach getting in a ridiculous screaming match with the red at the end of the game. I truly hope some of the parents on that team honestly fill out the scale at the end of the season. Once again this is a U10 travel that everyone trying out makes one of the two teams and are placed according to their "skills". No one gets cut as my boys ex coach reminded his whole team when rumors of my boy being cut circulated. The club has an elite team for this.
  4. 1 point
    Hi, we'll see how this goes, feel free to comment if I suck at reviews. My background is if it can't be measured maybe it didn't happen so subjective reviews are hard. I've been skating next to forever, mostly play pick-up games with other old guys now, 6ft about 180lbs, skates are 1x Vapors and steel is 280mm Tydan. Review is after about 10 hours ice time. Acceleration 4,..... it's easy to get up on the toe of the skate and get the first steps in quickly to get moving if you get caught standing still, this might be the biggest plus for this type of profile with the short radius on the front. Maneuverability 5 skating backward and about 2.5 to 3 forward....ok, what the hell does that mean? I'm equating maneuverability with tight turning when both feet are on the ice ( not "running" crossovers to move laterally ) Skating forward I have a tough time in real tight turns, back half of the skate kinda wanted to go straight....really had to work to tighten the turn radius. It could be done but wasn't "clean"....ate the ice and scrubbed speed. Skating backward was great, human tether ball on a short rope great. Stability 4..............really had no issues, didn't feel like balance was off....everything seemed comfortable. Speed 3.................With out making this a long story I did do some laps with a stopwatch and compared them to the 9/50mm/10.5 triple that I now have on. Times were averaged over 10 passes per session on 3 different days averaged within about 1/2 second on the three days. Many years back I spent a few winters on speed skates so I have a clue about this part of the test. For top speed the profile needs more toe left on it, for hockey it feels pretty good. This 3 rating may/likely will change as other profiles get tried. So far I'm really not liking the 9/50mm/10.5 "glide" profile and I suspect I'll be happy to be done with it. Summary ................ I found it very easy to move your feet quickly, made it easy to react to direction of play. I felt it took less effort/strength when accelerating and making lateral moves. Found it to be an easy profile to adapt to, pretty comfortable right out of the gate. If I was going to tune it for myself I'd do a bit more blending or tighten the radius at the heel a bit to help tighten up the forward turns.



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