caveman27

Our hockey league sent out a message to everyone, that the league is going to start up on April 27. At that point, the shut down of non-essential businesses would be lifted. I guess they are trying to be positive, and be prepared to start up if it all dies down in a month.

Didn't know that. The CCM Speedblade 4.0 seem to be okay so far.

When i took my skates to this sharpening place in my home town, the guy would look down the blade and sometimes flex it, as if there were a bend in it. I heard that people who had "lightweight" blades that Bauer made (either thinner metal or perforated with holes) had issues with bent blades.

The physical therapy is actually helping more than I thought it would. The tingling isn't on 100% of the time, like it was in the beginning. It comes back once in a while. I have one more PT session. I went to a second orthopedic surgeon about my shoulder, as the effect of the cortisone shot is wearing away. He said I would be a candidate for ream and run surgery, but elective surgery is not an option with the corona virus thing.

I'm well rested for the most part. I look forward to games and have a positive outlook before every game. I try to stay hydrated all day on a game day, I'll drink a lot of water. Looking back, the teams that put more pressure on me make me rush my passes, make bad passes, flub my pass, or dump a puck away (either icing it or just getting it out the blue line without looking to pass or carry it out). I switch between playing as a winger and defenseman. I seem to do better as a defenseman. When I'm a winger, I'm not always clicking with my teammates and an entire shift was wasted on trying to get out of our own zone. I've not formally played as a forward in a team that was coached. I was a goalie growing up and I played in a minor hockey league in Midgets. Most things I've learned from watching games and tutorial stuff on youtube. Sometimes, I'll forget what I've learned and don't recognize my mistakes until later.

Rink closure extended by a state mandate to April 23.

For non-elite players who play in amateur/recreational leagues, I see that in some of our games, our team performs well and others, our team performs awful. And on a personal level, sometimes, I don't perform as well in some games as others, regardless of the win-loss outcome. If I see myself not playing as well in the first period, that usually continues into the second and third periods. What would be your recommendation to a player (elite or not) who is regressing to making sloppy plays/sloppy passes/throwing away the puck needlessly, i.e. hockey IQ seems to fall off?

PERFORMANCE: Excellent. Provides excellent grip on the stick blade to the puck. Keeps ice shavings off. It makes a difference. If I forget to put it on and I've played about two games, I can feel less grip on the puck, and feels like I have no tape on my stick. I play in senior men's league hockey so the ice shavings build up on the ice in the second to third periods. That all gets on the bottom edge of your blade as you skate around if you don't have stick wax. EASE OF USE: It is a puck-shaped block of wax. It is rubbed on hockey tape that is wrapped on a stick blade. You can put it on lightly or heavily. I rub it on the front, back and bottom edge of the blade. I put it on right after I tape up a blade, and once before each game. VALUE: This is rather inexpensive and lasts a long time.

The public schools have extended their closures from two weeks to four weeks. If the rinks follow suit, then they'll keep the rinks closed for four weeks. That will push playoffs deep into May (for our league), unless they have some midnight games in order to end the season on time for summer league, and who is going to want to play after midnight? I would, but not sure if others would.

25 lbs. That's good.

I had X100 gloves, the flap on the back of the hand was open-cell foam. it didn't provide impact protection, just a tighter fit... so you had to flick your arms twice to throw the gloves off before a fight.

Oh, so you are implying that you have a gut that is pushing the abdominal section of the shoulder pad upward?

Do you have a picture of yourself wearing shoulder pads, no jersey? I can't see how these shoulder pads can even come in contact with your throat.

What usually involves wearing green and other stuff, is just another corona virus affected week day.

There was one game where we had 12 fans. It was like the NHL experience.

I went out shopping on Friday. My wife told me to pick up non-perishable goods on the way home from work. I went to a warehouse club store, and the aisles were packed and the line to the registers were long. You couldn't avoid coming into close range with other shoppers.

You're lucky. A lot of folks are upset the men's league is suspended. Of course, it's a way to prevent possible further spread of corona virus. There are usually 25 to 35 people (players and refs, scorekeeper/timekeeper), with about 0 to 10 fans in the stands. It's all less than 50 people in total, but if one of the players or refs or even timekeeper happens to catch it and bring it to the rink, that would expose it to a number of other people.

Well, he saw some time with Montreal. It wasn't bad considering other issues Montreal was dealing with. Not sure how he is going to affect the Capitals once the season gets underway again.

I don't know if teams would want to shorten the number of games played from a revenue standpoint. The revenue from 12 less regular season games would be a loss, but their salary expenses stay the same. To extend the season wouldn't be unreasonable. MLB is already planning to start later.

I understand why they would want bars and restaurants to close. But, thinking about it, there are no closures of grocery stores. This a place where one must get food, but you don't hang out like at a bar or restaurant. But, there can be a large number of people in a grocery store that would equate to having a lot of close contact with other people like being in a bar or restaurant. When they close grocery stores, that is when the crazy panic will happen.

Well, now our rinks are closed for two weeks. ☹️

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That sucks.

The two rinks in my area are still opened. I have a game this weekend too. How are things in your town?

Decades ago, I played at a pick-up game with multiple local guys playing in NCAA Div I and Div III schools who were back home for Christmas break. I was a goalie. They sniped all corners like it was nothing. I felt like Swiss cheese.