You guys have on ice team practices or just games?
Some rinks here offer practice time,' but they generally just turn into a combination of sticks/sessions + a scrimmage. Only like 3 people will ever take drills seriously so it's a fruitless effort when we get the chance anyway. Still, the freestyle/drop-in feel helps for some guys to get out and play without having to worry about an actual game.
I can imagine. We don't have this 'sticks & pucks' sessions available here though, so yeah even that is much better than nothing, can do few skating drills, few passes, shots and some stick handling.
Do your rinks offer public s&p sessions? Those are great for the basics.
For a while I was doing that weekly w/my goalie, which was awesome because I got my time in and everyone loved having him there to shoot on. I often see that goalies (rightfully so) take limited shots at these things, but my guy almost wouldn't stop. We even did breakaway challenge type rills where everyone who wished would line up at center and just run down on him one by one in a row. Great fun for us, great conditioning work for him!
He got mad at you for losing a faceoff?I had a teammate cuss me out for losing a face off that cost us a goal. We tied the game. The guy never demonstrated a bad temper before then so it really caught me off guard but the more I thought about it the angrier I got. He was rage fueled and belittling. I'm angry at myself for letting him get away with it but I was stunned.
I don't know how to approach it now. I'm just gonna ignore him like he doesn't exist. I don't want to shake his hand after the game either but I can see that making a scene if I refuse to shake his hand. He also like to give directives like he's my coach. I can't stand the guy he's a bully.
I'm not sure what to do.
I had a teammate cuss me out for losing a face off that cost us a goal. We tied the game. The guy never demonstrated a bad temper before then so it really caught me off guard but the more I thought about it the angrier I got. He was rage fueled and belittling. I'm angry at myself for letting him get away with it but I was stunned.
I don't know how to approach it now. I'm just gonna ignore him like he doesn't exist. I don't want to shake his hand after the game either but I can see that making a scene if I refuse to shake his hand. He also like to give directives like he's my coach. I can't stand the guy he's a bully.
I'm not sure what to do.
Try to laugh and brush it off as its happening. Sometimes people are having tough days and other crap going on in their lives and hockey is an outlet. If it bothers you just talk to them. Ask them if they're alright. If they say yes then tell them it wasn't cool they cussed you out its just a game and not necessary and not that serious. I've been on both sides of it before and have never had someone tell me off after approaching them or them approaching me. Doing the passive agressive high school crap usually only makes things worse
No **** that, everyone flips but no matter what if you flip (and I've lost it many times) you realize you have said a cutting comment and you go, like a man, and apologize and mitigate the situation so it doesn't fester and promulgate throughout the locker room.
It's called being a man. Bad day, whatever, it can slip you're right but that dude needs to apologize and man the **** up after the game. A faceoff was lost, so what? It happens. So does frustration and so does frustration filled anger. You say a stupid comment go man up and own up to it.
On the other side, I would absolutely confront the guy in the locker room in front of everyone. If he loses his cool so what? Don't ignore it.
That's how it is in the GTA but the convenors take it a step further.Interesting thread.
I played in bar leagues in Buffalo many moons ago.
There would always be a couple teams in our division that were full of ringers. Tough to play against them when we were in a low division so our friends with little experience could play. I mean one team brought in guys from Canada who had played Junior A. Missing teeth, the whole nine yards.
When asked why they brought guys in and played below their level of competition, they would respond it was just practice. Who the hell practices against novices? 14 - 0 scores hardly develop good habits for a practice.
Now my son plays, and it looks like they play a couple games first, and then get placed in divisions; which makes sense to me. Most of the games then are played against proper level of competition.
What are your experiences with this situation in your respective areas?
100%. True North has some horrible refs mixed in with some really good ones.While the ASHL is a "decent" adult league, it's likely the big show for the refs career. They like to leave their mark on games sometimes and are even clearly biased when you have the same ref multiple times a year. So best advice is to butter up to them early in the year and thank them later when they start to favor you
That's how it is in the GTA but the convenors take it a step further.
They observe to see if teams turn it on/tone it down in the "seeding games" which is usually 4-5 for winter and 3-4 for summer. Refs have quite a bit of input on this, too.
This biggest problem here is that A division one night in one league could be C division on another night and definitely in another league.
What are your experiences with this situation in your respective areas?