Embarassing/Dick ways to play

[Chadd 916]

Though I also think USA Hockey should establish a mercy rule for youth hockey.

The local organization can define their own mercy rule:

From their Ask The Official:

There is no “Mercy Rule” in the USA Hockey rule book. This is strictly a local modification to our rules in some locations. The goal differential, penalty length, and resumption of stop time are all issues that are regulated locally. USA Hockey provides no guidelines for a non-rule.

It would seem logical to realize from my post stating USA Hockey should have a mercy rule for youth hockey that I am well aware that there is currenly no mercy rule. As such what is the point of the reply?

It would also seem logical from his post that USAH want nothing to do with creating that type of rule. USAH is, quite possibly, the worst youth sports organization in the country.

[jimmy 194]

Personally, I don't think a team or coach is a "dick" for running up the score. Actually I think it's more insulting to the weak team when you do the 3-pass rule or other things like switching hands, etc. Just play hockey. The other team is not going to get better with you "playing around" with them. I hate that even worse than losing 40-0.

[fatwabbit 93]

In the league I used to play in, the stronger teams would run up the score and really humilate the weaker teams, reallllll classy especially since their gfs were there, with everything hanging out (yuck)...

When we played against weaker teams and were about 5-0 up, we'd stop taking long shots, and did more passing and postional play, and practiced getting our line changes right. We'd let the weaker guys play as well... one of our d-guys never scored before and had his parents at the game. We switched him upfront, and when he did score, his parents were at the toilets!...

[All Torhs Team 0]

In the league I used to play in, the stronger teams would run up the score and really humilate the weaker teams, reallllll classy especially since their gfs were there, with everything hanging out (yuck)...

Yea, whenever guys bring some girls, I feel like a dick running up the score, cause I know Id be embarrassed.

[thorpedo26 0]

if my team gets down i hate mercy rules like run clock. thats just me. id rather lose a full game than have most of the third period cut in half

[Cobra2717 0]

We always had the three pass rule. Alot of times we also instated a rule that only the D could shoot the puck...and being a d-man, i enjoyed that :lol:

When we were blowing out a team for high school, which we did alot, we would make the line that just scored change. It would get frustrating, and no one would want to score lol.

I actually had the pleasure of witnessing a unique experience on this topic, though. Back when I played Midget Major AAA, we had a team from Sweden come over to play us. While here, the team played other various teams from the area, and me and a few of my teammates went to go watch. They were a very strong team, and were dominating the other team pretty badly. When they were up by about 5 goals, they respectfully held back and played very defensively. The other team, know for their dirty play, starting running the Swedes, and hacking and slashing, the usual. There were racial slurs thrown, and remarks about the Swede's not so current equipment. So in return, for the last 7 min of the third, the Swedish coach pulled 2 players of the ice, and voluntarily played 5 on 3, and ended up beating the team by 12 goals, not 5.

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[texanhockey 0]

thats awsome! haha those arse wipes deserved it. its so ridiculous how so many kids think the better gear you have the better player. i know a bunch that had vapor XXX's in just fine skating condition who got XXXX's for this season. to bad none of them had the same size foot as me:)

[thorpedo26 0]

We always had the three pass rule. Alot of times we also instated a rule that only the D could shoot the puck...and being a d-man, i enjoyed that :lol:

When we were blowing out a team for high school, which we did alot, we would make the line that just scored change. It would get frustrating, and no one would want to score lol.

I actually had the pleasure of witnessing a unique experience on this topic, though. Back when I played Midget Major AAA, we had a team from Sweden come over to play us. While here, the team played other various teams from the area, and me and a few of my teammates went to go watch. They were a very strong team, and were dominating the other team pretty badly. When they were up by about 5 goals, they respectfully held back and played very defensively. The other team, know for their dirty play, starting running the Swedes, and hacking and slashing, the usual. There were racial slurs thrown, and remarks about the Swede's not so current equipment. So in return, for the last 7 min of the third, the Swedish coach pulled 2 players of the ice, and voluntarily played 5 on 3, and ended up beating the team by 12 goals, not 5.

Edit: Grammar

awsome

[TBLfan 25]

I can't stand teams that play dirty, especially taking cheap shots. Last week we had a 3 goal lead late(with about 5 left) in the game and they started taking cheap shots. We scored a couple more goals and the goalie started taking cheap shots. One of our players got tripped, chased the puck into the corner and the goalie slammed his stick to our guys abs. They called the game with about 45 seconds left and like 4 of their players just skated off the ice, including their captain. One of our guys said, "very respectful not shaking out hands captain." And he took a run at him, another guys sucker punched another one of our teammates. I can't stand crap like this.

What's great(sarcasm) about this was a few weeks ago(against the same team) we were up by 1 goal with like 35 seconds left and they pulled their goalie. We had a defensive zone faceoff and we ended up with the puck and got a 2-on-1 when the whistle blows... The score keeper forgot to start the clock. We had a neutral zone faceoff(no time taken off the clock) and they took the puck down and scored with about 6 seconds left, they beat us in a shootout... We shook their hands, all of us.

[biff44 0]

I agree with the above, teams do not want to be played down to. My kid was once on a really poor team, where sometimes only 7 guys showed up for a game. The score would inevitably be 5-0 or 11-1, or some other blow out. But when they DID score that one or two goals, it was like a gift from heaven. The kids battled all game long and DID have something to show for it. I talked to him a lot about it back then, and everyone on the team would (except possibly the goalie) would rather see a score of 20-1 played fairly over a score of 10-0 played with some chicken sh*t.

[wallin2199 0]

My personal favorite to see while reffing is the guy who just absolutely dominates Men's League C and acts like a jackass. Going down alone and doing absolutely worthless moves and then the team complains when somebody comes up and lays into him. But somehow, its always the refs fault for that guy acting like a jackass.

Anyways, blowing teams out is always an awkward position. I have always felt that at competiitve levels such as AAA or Juniors you continue to score. You never know who's watching and if the other team isn't competitive that isn't neccesarily your fault.

At lower levels the passing/switching D to Forwards/Trapping are all effective ways to keep scoring lower. It is just unfortunate in those games because nobody wants to be there.

Also about USA Hockey's position on the mercy rule. A ref I know has actually been suspended for 15 days because he ended a game early when the game was a blowout and was getting extremely vicious. The losing team complained that they were not given a fair shot and since the official ruling is that you cannot end a game early, the ref was suspended which I find ridiculous, but an interesting story nontheless.

[biff44 0]

The losing team complained that they were not given a fair shot and since the official ruling is that you cannot end a game early,

Exactly! It is one thing to get your butt kicked. It is a completely different, and much more dastardly, thing to be treated as a joke.

[Powerfibers 8]

I agree about the running clock. We got schooled last week by a much younger and more talented team. Score was like 20-0, although the board only said 12-0. The ref asked us whether we wanted the running clock for the third, and we said "Hell no, we're here for the ice time." How can we improve if we don't get to skate? Thankfully, the other team were being pretty cool about the game, and they were passing a lot but in a classy way. I have been told that after a few weeks, the great teams will be placed in a higher division. I think the arse kicking will help us, especially the ice hogs on our sorry squad.

[nafe 0]

whenever we were up by more than 5 we would put in the less experienced players/goalies and only take one touch shots/passes.

although if a team is getting rough/ being a dick then it feels good to completey smoke them

[wickedlite44 0]

A bunch of guys I know were playing an iron man tourney and they were in the semi's when they were about to face the last place team, they were the best team out there by far, roller btw. So anyway, since this was an adult tourney, the last placed team decided to have some beers prior to the last game that they would play, so in other words, they were tipsy. So, the guys i know were up about 8-0 going into the third and decided to play "header" with the goalie. Who ever hit the goalie in the helmet the most in the final period won.