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A friend of mine who is a retired pro use to do this to kids just starting out. He would take a stick and put it on the ground and tell the kid to just go pick it up without thinking about it. However they picked it up was usually how they felt most comfortable holding it. One of the things you don't see anymore for kids just starting is a straight blade. We use to get kids just starting to use them so they could figure out what felt the best. If you want to see how ingrained your stick hand is with your skating, grab the opposite hand stick and play that way (right plays left, not right plays right with a left stick). I have seen a lot of high level players loose most of their senses trying to do this. Everything goes. Try it sometime and you'll be amazed.

don't just work on skating and stick handling. Learn the game and rules before you get on the ice. Watch as much hockey as you can to see what is happening. If you can watch games with someone who has knowledge it really helps because they can answer questions, show you things you missed or tell you why something happened. When you start to play you will have a good idea where to line up, where to be and what to do. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do it. I've seen a lot of newbies play their first games and it is always fun to watch and help them progress.

Had a great 50th birthday on Wednesday; Dinner at home with the wife, watched the Wings beat the Hawks then had a game that night (I play with my 21 year old son) and smoked the other team. What more can you ask for!

a unicorn would have looked better

do the jerseys have rainbows on them? Nothing wrong with it...just wondering

Young entertainers could learn alot from Shirley Temple. She always conducted herself with grace and worked hard to make this a better place. From helping the US get through a depression as a child to all of the charity work she did as an adult.

ohhh you would be surprised! Or I should say wouldn't be surprised if you ever came in contact with my wife's mother and oldest sister.

I watched it also, hope he does well in Edmonton.

After 27 years of marriage and 30 years being together I might have to argue that...Same crazy, just different things now

At our last game one of our players who wear his helmet really loose with no shield had some minor contact and his helmet somehow got spun around backwards. We were yelling from the bench Kyle Daddy Goes Jump Jump...seamed appropriate.

Chrissy Amphlett of The Divynlys, age 53, breast cancer and MS. Who can forget her singing and the video "I Touched Myself"

I thought it was to make ugly women pretty

Ohh...excuse me...had mexican for lunch.

You forgot to add the guy saying "Dude you were in the crease...I had to clear you out"

4 penalties (hooking, holding, slashing & interferance) are lazy penalties that the Pens took because they were being outskated and outworked. The goalie interferance call was legit, if you are going to complain about #96 before the game then the same rules need to apply to your team. The high stick to #40 was also a good call. Even the penalty on Crosby at the end of the game was right, he should have been called for cross checking at about the 19:50 mark. Yeah the refs missed some calls, both ways, but it always happens. The Pens just got outworked last night and Crosby's actions at the end of the game showed the teams frustrations.

Yeah, most folks are absolutely shocked at just how much body contact is actually allowed under the rules..... Kinda why I hate it when I see other schedulers assigning kids to officiale mite and squirt games. They can barely get icing and offsides correct and they're expected to decide if the kids ran into each other or if it was intentional... add to that, the parents and coaches scream for a penalty every time they bump together..... But I digress... the rules for this are written.... and mis-understood. thats why you have to pair a QUALIFIED veteran ref with a new ref regardless if they are kids or not. The kid has to learn sometime and I would rather a ref learn correctly on a mite or squirt game than a rookie adult learning in a checking PeeWee or Bantam game. You should also have to have a few seasons under your belt before reffing an adult game.

Well if you don't have video cameras it would have been real tempting to beat his ass, call the police and say that you were defending yourself while trying to get your merchandise back. I'm not a violent person but a guy like this needs an ass whoopin'. There is very little worse than a thief.

You park yourself in front of the net at pickup/shinny??? never said it was pick up or shinny. It's a mens league.

He should get a match penalty for intent to injure (603a) and be suspended until he goes before your ruling disciplinary board or at the very least a major plus a game misconduct (616c)

can't forget about the guys who think they are tough because of thier size. I'm about 5'10"/190lbs, last week the other team had a Dman about 6'4. I play alot in the front of the net and don't mind taking a beating as long as it's honest. I pull up in front to get position and this guys starts laying into me good and saying "you gonna try and out muscle me in front of my own net" like it was suppose to intimidate me. So I respond with Yep and change my position. Next thing I know this guys starts butt ending me in the side of the head. After about 3 wacks I had enough and retaliated with a good solid cross check. One of my team mates comes in to pull me out and the guys starts in on him with a week cross check to his face. I get 2, he gets a game. Completely uncalled for. If you can't play the game or don't have skills then practice instead of trying to hurt someone.

It would have been better for them to put the puck deep in the zone and play it around the boards without really trying to shoot than to just toss it back out of the zone and play keep away. That way you would have felt like you were still competing. I would call it being douchey. There is alot more ignorant things they could have done.

Cyndi Lauper videos will means so much more now to watch.

They are also in a lot better shape than us and their bodies can handle it. There's also a large degree of "we've always done it that way" attitude involved in the way athletes prepare for games. Even if you could prove that it was going to do them harm, it would take a while for many of them to change their habits. Mario use to say about what the difference between his training during the off season and during the season was that he didn't order fries during the season. that was the mentallity of alot of players 15-20 year ago, now players train and mantain thier eating habits year round. You have to change with the times

To each his own, I guess. When I was younger, I had groin issues from time to time, and it was when I didn't stretch before-hand. <_< All pro sports teams still stretch before a game or practice, so it can't be that bad, can it? These teams have the best of the best as far as fitness personnel is concerned, right? I'll keep strecthing until they all stop. :P they warm thier muscles up by doing various things prior to stretching. If they go directly to the trainer for strecthing the trainers usually do a good massage to the area to get the blood flowing.

I think taco bell is killing off spokespeople. Billy mays, 1 week before he died, signed a deal to sell taco bell items through infomercial style commercials. it's probably thier food