Dek Hockey

[JTully317 11]

I play dek hockey in a men's league on Sundays and haven't seen any talk about this type of play on the boards at all. I have been playing dek for about 4 seasons now and was wondering if anyone here plays, as well as trying to break the ice a bit by seeing if there is interest to expand topic.

[mirm 0]

I started playing this summer (played in a trny with my cousin) & would like to continue, but getting on a team/in a league around here is harder than getting playoff tickets.

[shotty 7]

what the hell is dek hockey?

[MyBoxersSayJoe 133]

Floor hockey? I'm assuming hockey on feet. We used to play it in gym class in middle school and high school. It was a ton of fun.

[General 0]

Ya Dek hockey is hockey on feet. I refuse to run to play hockey. I like watching the Dek hockey games when I'm at tournaments though. They get pretty physical and fights break out all the time.

[JTully317 11]

We play on a regulation hockey rink. The ice was obviously melted down and they put a rollerhockey floor down. Boards and glass are still up. Great exercise and a lot of fun. There are quite a few fights if game gets out of hand. Skeptical at first to start but the more I played the more I enjoyed it. Look forward to it every week.

[mirm 0]

The rink we played on in Ocean City, MD was almost square - 90'x110' - it was weird.

[Chadd 916]

. They get pretty physical and fights break out all the time.

That's pathetic

[zachary 2]

I played Dek Hockey from when I was 4-6 out in Philly and then I started played ice. I know my buddies in Pittsburgh who never played hockey as a kid play Dek now and I guess it's pretty big.

[General 0]

Every tournament I go to in Pittsburgh always seems to have a separate dek hockey tournament on a different rink.

[JTully317 11]

That's pathetic

Not saying there is fights during every game, but at least once or twice throughout the day of games on Sunday while im there. If it gets choppy things tend to escalate quickly due to a lot of people playing not being used to the physicality of hockey (many people have not played ice hockey that play). Great workout though none the less.

[stuie7 6]

I can't see why ball hockey would ever result in a fight; I would say from the start that the sport is not something that interests me at all (I don't want to run and I enjoy playing a physical game on the ice - so let's just say ball hockey would not quite be my forte..), but those who do play it seem to be one of two distinct categories; good players who use ball hockey as fitness to supplement their ice/roller and those which don't have the ability to play ice/roller. Either way, between those two groups the emphasis seems to be on recreation or fun, leaving me puzzles as to why things would get physical..

[nickyb13 9]

I was a scorekeeper for one of the Mark Madden tournaments in Pittsburgh and there were scuffles on average twice a period of every game. To me it seemed that since most players didn't wear helmets and only wore soccer shin guards and what looked like gardening gloves, they would get pretty pissed when they would they would take an errant stick or elbow to a relatively unprotected area.

[JTully317 11]

I am on the using ball hockey more for a fitness supplement for ice hockey, but you did hit it on the head by breaking it into those two groups. Half of our team has never played ice and most likely couldn't.

[regularjoe 1]

I can't see why ball hockey would ever result in a fight; I would say from the start that the sport is not something that interests me at all (I don't want to run and I enjoy playing a physical game on the ice - so let's just say ball hockey would not quite be my forte..), but those who do play it seem to be one of two distinct categories; good players who use ball hockey as fitness to supplement their ice/roller and those which don't have the ability to play ice/roller. Either way, between those two groups the emphasis seems to be on recreation or fun, leaving me puzzles as to why things would get physical..

Coming from a background where I primarily played street/dek until I took up ice several years ago, my observation is that a lot of the folks play that way b/c that is their perception on how the game needs to be played. Hockey of course is a physical sport but everything has a context/time/place and the dek only crowd don't seem to have the pulse on that IMHO relative to ice hockey players.

Heck, even for beer league ice hockey, a lot of folks get a lot more worked up than they ought to.

[JoeyJ0506 192]

Almost embarrassed, I will say that I played a ton of organized dek hockey in Pittsburgh all through high school and into college. And, I never really could understand why people would get so bent out of shape over a recreational ball hockey league. I always felt that anyone that played true competitive sports at the varsity level in high school or college were more likely to just be there to mess around and have some fun. On the flip side were the guys that only played dek hockey once a week, it was their "thing" and they were usually pretty good, it was their chance to get the experiences that high school and college sports give those that participate. These were usually the people that would hook, hack, slash, check, and throw gloved punches at the drop of the hat. Too often games got "chippy" which prompted me to get out of it altogether.

[badger_14 601]

I haven't played in any of the street hockey leagues around here (Boston) because they've struck me as being very cutthroat. People are always on craigslist asking for players/goalies, but qualifying it with 'you must have played ice/played hs/played college/score [x] goals/etc', that sort of thing. Street hockey at the BSSC is serious business, apparently.