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One team I'm on remedies this by charging those who wanted to be "subs" $100 up front. That guarantees them 4 games during the season, and priority on the list. But if we call for a sub, and you turn it down, that counts as a game (with one freebie). This way you're really only charging that money to a couple guys and will get coverage for most games. If for some reason those guys still don't fill the roster, we'll go to individuals, but those guys probably aren't going to get many games, if any at all. We find that guys will show up if they have skin in the game. (just like how guys who are good enough to not pay to play won't show up if they find literally anything better to do). Another team goes by the 3 strike rule. If we call and you don't play 3 times, you don't get called again until everyone else does the same and list comes back around to the top.

I'm a little concerned about this myself. I just got an awesome deal on a used Sparx and I'm hoping I'll be ok with the Fire cut. I think I'm going to drop down in sharpness to 1/2F from 95/75 FBV (5/16 eq.) to try and maintain the glide. I figure the ability to keep the edges consistently sharp will offset the slight loss in bite. A fresh 1/2F *should* have the same bite as a 95/75 after 3 or 4 skates.

Awesome, thanks! It's not perfect yet, because a lot of the content still requires a tv provider. But I'm sure it will get there sooner or later.

It does? I asked the people at the Apple Store and they said not yet.

Yeah, I figured. No worries, that's why I clarified it. This is exactly where I'm at. I watch maybe 20-25 channels, plus the movie channels. I would very happily stop paying $200+ a month to drop the 500+ channels I don't watch and go to streaming services. But I'm a browser, I just flip on the guide and find something that I want to watch. Mostly, I don't want to have to invest my attention or time into something either. I watch a lot of syndicated sitcoms and Food/Cooking network because it's mindless entertainment. As it stands right now, there is no way I know of to compile the content from all of the various streaming services into one menu. I have less than zero interest in having to go in and out of each individual service app to have to pick something. I currently have subscriptions to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon and don't use them because the process of filtering through everything is tedious. When AppleTV can pull all of the content out of the apps and put it in one list for me to scroll through, and all of those apps possibly add live tv streaming, I'll cut the cord. Until then, I'm stuck paying for satellite.

I'm not necessarily talking about piracy. I'm talking about things like sports highlights, or Hulu/Netflix, or youtube. As was posted in this thread - why pay to watch an NHL game when you can get highlights for free online? Why pay for cable when you can pay a fraction to get a streaming service? As the owners of the content lose revenue they will start getting it elsewhere. That means no more free highlights, or third party content on streaming services. If you want NBC content, you're going to either use an over air antenna or pay for NBC's streaming service. By the time you add up the cost of all of the individual services, you're going to have been close to better off sticking with cable. And cable rates will go down, possibly to include streaming only service, to make sure that's true. Heavy users like you may find ways around it. But for the average consumer who has cut the cord because the cost has outweighed the difficulty finding and compiling content, the total cost for all the a la carte services will exceed the cost of the package they were getting before.

I'd argue that the opposite is true. People cut the cord because they are receiving the content for *mostly* free elsewhere. As the content creators and providers lose revenue from traditional sources, they will start charging more and more for that content through non-traditional sources.

I'm similarly confused by this. OP- If you've played with this same group of people for 4 years, then why didn't you know that you don't do that in this group? And if it's never come up, then why did the guy who runs it say WE don't do that? If everyone is playing the same way as you were, then surely it would have happened before. It doesn't mesh. The bottom line is that you know that you did something that group doesn't want, and looking on here for us to tell you how wrong they are. You're continually trying to justify it, but everyone else paying at the same speed an intensity as you seem to avoid it. Even if they didn't care doesn't mean that they don't know not to do it. It's their ice, their rules. If the guy who runs it tells you that you're in the wrong, you're in the wrong. Period.

Let me guess, you always "play to the whistle" too.

Yay! Mild/moderate MCL tear last night! Puck battle in the corner, guy goes down, gets up pissed off, and cross checks me from behind awkwardly into the boards while I was battling his teammate. I bounce off the boards and go down with my foot under me. POP! No penalty because the ref didn't see it because he was "looking out for himself". Luckily it doesn't appear to be a grade 3, it hurts but I can still stand on it on one foot and bend it and there's no weakness . No pain anywhere except on the inside of the knee when bending, twisting, ot walking, so likely no other structures are damaged. Treatment is RICE until the pain goes away. If it's not marginally better by Friday, I'll go to a doc.

That's a common issue also. Typically, the guy paying for the whole team gets players well above the correct level because those players are good and won't pay to play. There's enough demand for them that they'll just find the best team that will let them play for free. The two players I mentioned that came from other teams left because of that. The problem with this is that because they didn't pay, they have no skin in the game, so they aren't committed and don't show up.

Surprise, surprise - the two teams in my league with all the players that don't beling will play in the Championship on Wednesday. One of the teams started the season 0-5, added 5 D2 players, and have now gone 9-0 since. The other is a new team that never belonged in this league, and went 11-3 with their losses coming early, going 9-1 to finish the season with the loss coming to the aforementioned team. The captain is a Johnny Tries Too Hard who thinks he's a good player (he isn't). He told everyone who would listen that he was starting a team of his friends and they would suck and he didn't care if they won a game at all. Then he proceeded to to "pay" for the entire team (you know what happens with guys like that) and loaded it with the highest level players we have (there's no D1 here), including stealing the best players from two other teams in the league. Unlike you, I have no faith that the league will do anything about it. For starters, as of the end of the season they still had an unpaid balance, which is why I put pay in quotes above. If you're going to allow a team to stay in the league when they haven't paid, I doubt you'll do anything about their talent level. Secondly, when we asked about the two teams with all the players that don't belong, the director said he was going to wait for the captain's meeting to see what they say. That was after telling a teammate from another league that he "f'in hates Wednesday nights because he keeps getting 3 page emails from captains". Well if you hate it that much, you probably wouldn't be taking a wait and see approach to resolving the problem. Last season, there were 5 teams and the difference between the first and last was 5 points. That indicates it was a really even league, especially since we finished first but picked up a ton of points because we didn't lose many games in regulation. In terms of straight win-loss record, I think one win separated all the teams. This season, the top team had double the points of the last. And the team that finished out of the playoffs last season is the one that added all the ringers in the middle of this season. It's clear what the issue is, but the director seems to be unwilling to fix it. What's worse is that it's just going to hurt the only league below us. Guys from this league that are too good for D6, but not good enough for the way D5 is shaping out, are going to play down, and make it tough for the beginner players that have no where else to go. And D6 is already too good to begin with, so this will make it even worse.

Does 2 or 3 shitty players mixed with a group of D2 guys make a D5 (with D6 being the lowest) team? Because that's what I have in my league.

Is there mention of a smaller sized (33/34") 1X locker bag in there?

Yes. Especially in IMAX. Fun fact: The character of Mr. Dawson was based on Charles Lightoller, the highest ranking officer to survive the Titanic sinking.

Have you done any testing about the longevity/durability of the edges with your Fire to a FBV to ROH? I find that my FBV doesn't seem to last as long. Using the math behind it, I'd suspect that's because the "fangs" are particularly thin on any FBV that starts with a 95 or 100. I had been using 100/50 but went to 95/75 to get a little bit stronger edge. So since the fangs are so thin, they wear out quickly. Since the Fire has a shorter "flat" and therefore thicker fangs, does the edge last longer? How does the Fire differ from FBV so that you can maintain the combinations of glide and bite when you have a shorter flat? How is it different than going to FBV 85/*, but having to go to a "1" depth, which would greatly sacrifice glide for bite?

No way! You'll be disappointed to hear that they are in the process of changing the roller rink over to ice. When you played they would have had just the roller rink, that they later converted to ice. Then they built another ice sheet and a smaller roller rink. It will be 3 ice sheets by sometime next year. I don't play roller anymore. But it's too bad because this is the only indoor roller hockey rink in all of southeast Florida.

Where down here have you been? It's the rink in Lake Worth - SkateZone.

It's pretty impressive. The two entrances of the rink are at the inner corner of the L-shaped building, so the turn in the parking lot is pretty wide in that area particularly if there is no one parked in the handicap spaces. It's not necessarily four abreast, but rather staggered head to tail from cars coming in from two directions.

If your teenage child can not carry their own hockey bag and walk all the way into the parking lot by themselves (even in the *gasp* rain), then you probably have failed as a parent. Every time we have the early game, right after the junior kids practice (which is even worse because these kids are good hockey players), You can't get around the parking lot because all the helicopter parents are double, triple, even quadruple parked at the entrance, and carrying the kids' gear to the car.

This is why I want one. Too bad they are way out of my price range.

Generally, rotating when you push is a sign of improper weight placement. Inability to do it from a standing position confirms it. Your weight should be over the push leg. That gives you a stronger push and less friction on the lead pad, meaning more and faster distance. When you push left to right, your weight is in the right place, over your left leg, and you can slide. When you're pushing right to left, your weight is still over the left pad. So you don't get good leverage, and the mechanics of it make you push backwards. Your weight on the lead pad creates a pivot and you just spin around it. From a standing position, it doesn't work because with your weight on the lead leg you can't push and drop at the same time. You'd just fall over. If you watch your videos, you can see that very often you drop onto your left knee regardless of the situation. It's just your natural instinct. That is likely contributing to your problem.

I can tell you exactly what happened on that goal. You got up on the wrong foot. You are to your right, puck goes to your left, meaning you have to go to your left. But you get up on your left foot, meaning you can only go to your right. Then you know you want to go to your left and start to push as you are still getting up, that's why you have that stumble - your left skate is perpendicular to the way you want to go, so the push tips you over it and you lose your balance. Then by the time you are up and stable, you're way late and off angle. So you just throw yourself over in desperation because you think the shot is coming. But it doesn't come right away and you're off angle for an easy goal. So it's a chain reaction of things happening quickly that were all caused by something as simple as using the wrong foot to get up. You always, always want to get to your feet using the leg opposite the direction you want to move.

I hate incompetent rink managers. Last night was the third time in the last 3 or 4 years that we had games cancelled because the ice was unplayable. It happens nearly every year at this time because there are camps all day and they run the ice literally down to the floor. There was sand coming through yesterday. The coaches don't care, they just want to push through all the sessions as quick as possible, and don't want to slow down for trivial things like, you know, proper ice maintenance. And the rink managers are so worried about making a couple hundred dollars that they won't cancel non-camp sessions, like private figure skating lessons or classes, to maintain the ice inbetween camp sessions. So the ice was heavily used all day, with no more than simple cuts every hour. Then they didn't tell everyone there an ice problem and adult league teams come and sit there while they tried to fix it. I showed up to my 10:30 game at 10:15 and they were still trying to decide if they were going to cancel the 9 pm game.

Thanks. We'll definetly give a good home to a dog that needs it eventually. This guy was a stray I picked up one day. I know that one will cross my path at a rescue or on the road sooner than later. My dad won't get another though. He still has one and is getting too old to handle 2 dogs. At least it'll be quiet and he'll be able to sleep.