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Post by coloradoflyer on Jun 17, 2014 11:30:08 GMT
end of the day if you want bad enough you will give up free time to train and become a better player
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Post by coloradoflyer on Jun 17, 2014 11:49:49 GMT
jings that boy has a shot on him
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Post by jamestkirk on Jun 17, 2014 13:30:07 GMT
end of the day if you want bad enough you will give up free time to train and become a better player That is a fair point - if they prefer a night out with their mates on a night perhaps the only ice is available then are those the kind of players you want in your team anyway? |
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Post by jamestkirk on Jun 17, 2014 13:36:06 GMT
jings that boy has a shot on him Some quality EPL goaltending on show there  |
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Post by coloradoflyer on Jun 17, 2014 14:01:55 GMT
lol lol that is what i was thinking
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flyers4eva
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Post by flyers4eva on Jun 17, 2014 15:50:58 GMT
jings that boy has a shot on him Some quality EPL goaltending on show there Have you ever watched any EPL hockey Ronnie? You seem to put the league down an awful lot for someone who doesn't watch it regularly! |
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Post by jamestkirk on Jun 18, 2014 0:33:27 GMT
Some quality EPL goaltending on show there Have you ever watched any EPL hockey Ronnie? You seem to put the league down an awful lot for someone who doesn't watch it regularly! Never watched it, rarely comment on it but I do know dodgy goaltending when I see it! |
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spudeeelad
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Post by spudeeelad on Jun 18, 2014 8:33:05 GMT
As always they are ludicrous. Most rec teams, like mine, do our training at 11:15pm on a Friday night and it is our only ice slot of the week. Can you really, honestly, see a bunch of 18-20 year olds giving up their Friday nights to train? If they require more than the one ice slot, then taking time off rec teams won't do anything. In other words, as usual, it was nothing more than a typical Simmsy comment that has no purpose other than to ruffle feathers. Obviously not training at Kirkcaldy then - as that is when the Kirkcaldy U20s train - followed by the Kestrels - So they do give up their Friday nights! Indeed I do not train at Kirkcaldy. I train at Blackburn. If you ever went skating there on a Friday night, there is only ever about 50 people on the ice on a Friday night and after 9:30pm, there is only ever about 15 people, so would be easy enough to argue that you could fit an extra session in for an u20 team between 9:30pm and 11:00pm. But then this varies massively from rink to rink. Go to my local rink, Altrincham, and it's absolutely rammed to the brink every Friday night. |
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spudeeelad
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Post by spudeeelad on Jun 18, 2014 8:38:04 GMT
end of the day if you want bad enough you will give up free time to train and become a better player That is a fair point - if they prefer a night out with their mates on a night perhaps the only ice is available then are those the kind of players you want in your team anyway? It's not necessarily a night out. Some weeks, in fact most weeks these days, it is simply the timing of it that makes me not want to train. After a hard week at work, I simply can't be bothered to drive 45 miles, train for an hour, shower etc then drive the same back and then get home around 2am? If I was a student who was going to be out partying instead, then I would train, because I've had all week to party - argue about students working hard all you like, every student I know has told me you mess around 95% of the time, cram all the work into 1 week towards the end of semester. |
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Post by jamestkirk on Jun 18, 2014 11:02:48 GMT
That is a fair point - if they prefer a night out with their mates on a night perhaps the only ice is available then are those the kind of players you want in your team anyway? It's not necessarily a night out. Some weeks, in fact most weeks these days, it is simply the timing of it that makes me not want to train. After a hard week at work, I simply can't be bothered to drive 45 miles, train for an hour, shower etc then drive the same back and then get home around 2am? If I was a student who was going to be out partying instead, then I would train, because I've had all week to party - argue about students working hard all you like, every student I know has told me you mess around 95% of the time, cram all the work into 1 week towards the end of semester. All still comes under the 'if you want it badly enough who will make sacrafices' scenario! "Can't be bothered" is not perhaps the best way of selling your argument! |
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spudeeelad
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Post by spudeeelad on Jun 18, 2014 15:40:03 GMT
It's not necessarily a night out. Some weeks, in fact most weeks these days, it is simply the timing of it that makes me not want to train. After a hard week at work, I simply can't be bothered to drive 45 miles, train for an hour, shower etc then drive the same back and then get home around 2am? If I was a student who was going to be out partying instead, then I would train, because I've had all week to party - argue about students working hard all you like, every student I know has told me you mess around 95% of the time, cram all the work into 1 week towards the end of semester. All still comes under the 'if you want it badly enough who will make sacrafices' scenario! "Can't be bothered" is not perhaps the best way of selling your argument! I'm not making an argument as such and you're spot on. I'm a rec player and realistic that my chances of ever getting anywhere with ice hockey other than a hobby are close to zero. However, my only point is that if the training times are at silly times like the above, it's not necessarily an argument of "can't be bothered", it's more a case of "simply do not have the energy to do it", but I figured it easier to just say can't be bothered. Like I said, I started rec hockey when I was 18, so young enough to be in the u20s league and it was still hard after a hard weeks work to find the energy to do it every week - by that time on a Friday, I am thinking more about bed than playing hockey most weeks. Bare in mind that younger people tend to study as well and have part time jobs like on Saturdays/Sundays, so getting home at 2am when you're in work at 9am the next morning is not a good idea, regardless of how badly you want to progress in ice hockey. |
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spudeeelad
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Post by spudeeelad on Aug 1, 2014 11:48:46 GMT
Re-vamped cup confirmed a few days ago with 6 NIHL teams involved.
Games vs your own league will be under your own rules.
Those that are cross-league will be played under NIHL rules with extra stipulations that the EPL teams can only ice an equal number of imports to that which the team in the lower league ices.
So if the NIHL team ices 2 imports, the EPL must play 2 imports and replace the other 2 vacant slots with u21 players, typically from their own NIHL affiliate.
I think it's pretty cool, I look forward to playing some teams I haven't seen us play before.
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