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  1. shoeshine boy
    nope, about as far away as I could be in the USA. I'm in Atlanta
  2. shoeshine boy
    question for you guys that play some form of organized hockey: how long before the season starts does your league release your schedule? back story: our league (independent, not run by a rink) has 9 skill divisions and 70 teams. we have an eval skate for new players between seasons (usually around 3 weeks before we begin) and teams looking for players can draft from that pool though some players are ear-marked for certain teams and must be rated at the proper level. we routinely have 65-70 new players show up at each eval skate. 2 of the last 3 seasons we've had enough players left over to make new teams. because of this sometimes we don't get the first month of the schedule until about a week before. we then usually get the remainder of the schedule a few weeks later. basically players are bitching that they can't set their work travel schedules soon enough causing them to miss games and they want us to figure out a way to release the schedule before we even have the eval skate so I'm curious how other leagues do it. thanks, I'll hang up and listen. 🙂
  3. shoeshine boy
    I was checking these out since my team is looking for new jerseys this year and I find it odd that the width difference between the XL and the XXL is only 3/4 of an inch and still smaller than a 56.
  4. shoeshine boy
    this is true. I'm the head scorekeeper for my league and when I'm working a game I'll only correct the ref if I know for a fact that he got the wrong numbers and I NEVER give them a hard time about it. try watching a game of 2 teams that you don't know and see how often you get that second assist. oh, and be trying to skate and officiate a game at the same time 🙂
  5. shoeshine boy
    so glad LA is going to grey cuffs! I'm so tired of teams having boring black and white gloves. I treasure my yellow outline Bruins gloves.
  6. shoeshine boy
    UMD lowers converted to a shell: my latest addition to my Kovalchuk family: new family photo:
  7. shoeshine boy
    for those of us who can fit into junior skates that is QUITE a price difference between True and the others.....
  8. shoeshine boy
    as much of a fan of that Yotes jersey as I was I was an even bigger fan of this one: and I have no idea why! 😅
  9. shoeshine boy
    appreciate the response. :) I was figuring that it was only counting calories while in the midst of a shift but wasn't sure. the only bad part about that is that even when you go back to the bench you're burning calories that you don't seem to get "credit" for. last night, for instance all rings closed except my Move ring. I was 30 calories short despite playing in a 90 minute hockey game. that doesn't seem right. I will say though, I love the re-design for version 2.0 my first game on 7/1 was using v1.0 which was ok but the new version has a much better design and is so much cleaner. thank you so much for bringing this to beer leaguers everywhere. :)
  10. shoeshine boy
    bumping this topic to ask a few things. I recently switched from Fitbit to Apple Watch and am doing the Hockey Tracker app on a trial basis. for the most part it seems pretty cool but I'm mostly concerned with calorie burn. when tracking on my Fitbit, depending on the game I would average anywhere from 600-800 calories burned depending on how many lines we had. for the Apple Watch's native tracking I was averaging roughly the same amount of "active calories". last night we had 2 lines and as a center I skated a lot. by the end of the game (three 25:00 run-time periods) the Hockey Tracker had only counted 297 calories burned which seems a bit low. is it only counting calories burned while in the midst of a shift? I'm also curious how it detects a shift. I had some shifts that were way too short (25 sec) and others that were way too long (4:11. at 48 years old there's no way I stayed out that long)
  11. shoeshine boy
    either do the Stick Vault (I use one for the same reason that you're looking for one) or do the grocery bag thing. don't be that guy who brings a full length stick bag into the rink like his sticks are made of gold.
  12. shoeshine boy
    I wasn't aware that NYR were having attendance issues. don't they fill MSG pretty much all the time?
  13. shoeshine boy
    I'm not normally into pink hockey equipment but that stick is epic!
  14. shoeshine boy
    thanks! I can't wait to wear them when the Olympics start. :)
  15. shoeshine boy
    spent Friday afternoon turning lowers and pants into shells: Ohio State Buckeyes: University of Michigan Wolverines Team USA 1998 Olympics (these were full pants that I made into a shell)
  16. shoeshine boy
    looks like a motorcross or BMX uni.....
  17. shoeshine boy
    that's how I've been doing it for over 10 years on both my Wissota and Sparx.
  18. shoeshine boy
    never gonna happen but there are a pair or two on eBay right now for reasonable prices.....
  19. shoeshine boy
    I get what you're saying about "feeling the blade/wheel" when using a manual machine but it doesn't mean that you can't tell these things when an automatic machine is sharpening the skates. I have both a Wissota and a Sparx. yes, when I sharpened on the Wissota I could feel when hitting a bad spot but with my Sparx I can hear the difference in the blade. I never simply set it and leave the room. I set the skate in and either pack my bag, tidy up the basement or sometimes just stand there and watch but I'm always listening to how the wheel is hitting the blade. in the year I've had my Sparx I have been VERY impressed with it's ease of use and consistency of quality even edges.
  20. shoeshine boy
    happy early Xmas to me:
  21. shoeshine boy
    I remember when CCM/Koho/Pro Player lost the NHL jersey contract and Value City picked up a TON of jerseys. I got several for the $20 range including several authentics.
  22. shoeshine boy
    do you have a pic of the gloves and shells for those of us too lazy to look it up ourselves?
  23. shoeshine boy
    not bad. I guess it's harder for Adidas to ruin the WC jerseys though. I'm so afraid of what the Pens SS jersey will look like though.
  24. shoeshine boy
    I've been using this one for about a year. it does the job just fine and is much more affordable than most. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hockey-Skate-EDGE-CHECKER-FewOptions-/172349229987?hash=item2820d08ba3:g:I~YAAOSwJ4hY-tgE
  25. shoeshine boy
    plenty and some good ones too. my favorite recent one was the guy who kicked an opposing player in the head, multiple times and then blamed the refs for it.
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