What Gear Will Get You "Chirped" At? (Part 2)
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robmneilson
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No idea where the link is, but I remember watching a short doc on youtube following a couple of players in that league. Seemed like its the closest thing to a modern day Slapshot.
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Uh, why do you include wearing #0? That's my favorite sports number and my hockey number. Everything begins and ends with 0. It is nothing, yet it is everything. I agree about wearing 87, 99, 66, 68 tho.
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Martin Riggs
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Terry Yake
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Remember these lids? I remember a few guys showing up with these about 10 years ago.
the nike quest helmet. how could i forget those
man those things were hideous and super heavy from what i remember
i did like those old nike quest sticks though. used a few of them back in the day
Martin Riggs
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I'd rather wear one of Stan Mikita's old helmets than that goofy thing. I remember Lemeiux wore one of those briefly.
I'm not a chirper. I feel no need to have others conform to my or anyone else's style rules.
One woman at ladies' shinny wears mechanics' overalls and carries her shinny gear in a canvas sack - she is my hockey hero, basically. And cool as a cucumber.
When I do notice something outlandish, I either chuckle and shake my head quietly if it's dumb, or compliment if it's hilarious, then promptly forget about it and focus on the game.
One thing I will "chirp" you for - not passing when you really should have then blowing a chance. Another - going for my hands. Go for my body all you want, but let's be civil.
Maybe it's a guy thing - I heard guys tear tear each other down to help them check their egos or something, and maybe bond? I don't need all that fluff to bond with others and most of the girls I play woth have no ego to start with. Any girls chirp, and why?
Even when I was in jr high and high school I hardly noticed what other girls wore, so I certainly care less now, 15 years later. Jersey in/out? Ovi style, or pink laces? Who gives a rat's tail. I'm there to improve my game and help total newbies, now that I'm a relative newbie.
Now, I only play with friends for full-equipment games, and the locals at ladies'/mixed outdoor shinny, not in a league, and maybe if I played competitively I would feel the need to demoralize my competition? Or tease my friends lightly? Maybe if I were more confident around random local guys at the rink? Doubt it tho. Maybe if I played when my friends and I were teens, I'd have teased them... We were a sarcastic bunch, with each other.
Oh one young guy was wearing like safety green coverall pants to shinny. Surprised he didnt get chirped. If only for his end to end dangles. I cared for like 1 minute then adjusted my attitude.
One woman at ladies' shinny wears mechanics' overalls and carries her shinny gear in a canvas sack - she is my hockey hero, basically. And cool as a cucumber.
When I do notice something outlandish, I either chuckle and shake my head quietly if it's dumb, or compliment if it's hilarious, then promptly forget about it and focus on the game.
One thing I will "chirp" you for - not passing when you really should have then blowing a chance. Another - going for my hands. Go for my body all you want, but let's be civil.
Maybe it's a guy thing - I heard guys tear tear each other down to help them check their egos or something, and maybe bond? I don't need all that fluff to bond with others and most of the girls I play woth have no ego to start with. Any girls chirp, and why?
Even when I was in jr high and high school I hardly noticed what other girls wore, so I certainly care less now, 15 years later. Jersey in/out? Ovi style, or pink laces? Who gives a rat's tail. I'm there to improve my game and help total newbies, now that I'm a relative newbie.
Now, I only play with friends for full-equipment games, and the locals at ladies'/mixed outdoor shinny, not in a league, and maybe if I played competitively I would feel the need to demoralize my competition? Or tease my friends lightly? Maybe if I were more confident around random local guys at the rink? Doubt it tho. Maybe if I played when my friends and I were teens, I'd have teased them... We were a sarcastic bunch, with each other.
Oh one young guy was wearing like safety green coverall pants to shinny. Surprised he didnt get chirped. If only for his end to end dangles. I cared for like 1 minute then adjusted my attitude.
There are lots of "Senior" leagues here in Manitoba. Basically full contact, open age leagues, but no pay.
Pretty good hockey with lots of ex junior and minor pro players.
I played until I was 30 or so, but as my career progressed it became harder to explain why I was coming into the office with stiches or a black eye.
Goonzilla
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Don't think they warrant any comment or chirping, but gotta say I find those skates that have the holders with the circular holes in them and make the bottom of the skate look like a knuckle duster a little irritating. They just look damned silly.
Think you are talking about T-Blades? Siedenberg from the bruins still uses them i think.
jnk96
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They make a lot of sense if you don't want to spend millions of dollars on skate sharpening. Pros generally don't use them because they have their very own ways how they want their skates sharpened, and they get whatever they want as often as they want. T-blades are also a german invention, which may be another reason why you don't see them much in NA, but Seidenberg uses them.
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Didn't realise they were an optional fitout or blade system.
What would Don Cherry think of them? They are from Europe after all.
What would Don Cherry think of them? They are from Europe after all.
LarryO
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I've had T-Blades, and you spend more money periodically changing the disposable runners than you would spend on sharpenings. I liked how light they were, though. I eventually went back to regular blades when I got new skates. But unlike another poster, the sight of them does not irritate me at all. I guess I'm not that sensitive.
In fact, I like it when opponents wear them because they make so much noise that they can't sneak up on me from behind.
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LarryO
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Once, Don saw that Ron MacLean skates on them. I think he just mentioned that they were funny-looking. But I doubt he even knows where they're made.
T'blades do the chirping for themselves. Every turn and stop was accompanied by a loud squeal, my goalie was in tears laughing at them my the end of the game.
I spent way more on replacement blades (at $20/pair) than I do on sharpening and I skated a lot on dull blades because the t'blade edges only stayed really good for one game.
I did think they looked cool though!
I spent way more on replacement blades (at $20/pair) than I do on sharpening and I skated a lot on dull blades because the t'blade edges only stayed really good for one game.
I did think they looked cool though!
LarryO
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My experience with them was similar. But mine gave a loud hollow crunch sound rather than a squeal. But that was years ago on Kevlar Tacks before they had composite outsoles. The first time, I used them in an open hockey session and was taken by surprise by the loudness, which also turned a few heads.
I get them after being on indoor ice, never from outdoor roller hockey. I usually get an aura 1st in other situations and I know the feeling too well. Anyways, proceed with the chirping
I get migraines routinely and have for nearly 30 years. Most of the time (but not all) I get an aura in advance, but I have found that I often get exercise induced migraines after playing hockey. The frequency seems to vary. Since I picked up hockey again in adulthood I have gone through stretches where I got a migraine 80% of the time I played (which is a treat). But sometimes I might go 7 or 8 games without a single post game migraine.
I don't know about you, but for me it is almost never immediate. Usually it will come up 2 to 8 hours after I play, and most of the time without an aura as a pre-cursor. So a lot of the time I wake up at 4 AM with a migraine.
I have been to neurologists and had CAT scans and MRIs and never revealed any specific cause. I have tried prophylactic medications but they never worked out that well and I didn't like the side effects. I find the triptans very effective as acute medication, and so would treat a migraine with Zomig which at least makes things functional.
I do find that it typically has to be strenuous activity to act as a trigger.And it is more common if I am just playing hockey one night a week and not getting much other exercise. If i am playing twice a week, and swimming once, and working out at the gym another, it seems less common to get the post exertion type migraine.
People's migraine triggers tend to vary a lot. Some people cite chocolate or caffeine, but those are things I crave when migrainous. I am not at all triggered by light, so the visor would never have occurred to me as a migraine thing. I have never heard anyone give that reason but it has given me reason to think.
Prior to this, the tinted visor would have been just about the only chirp-worthy thing I would ever see on the ice. Empirically, I think that at least 95% of the tinted visor wearers I have ever played against would have been in the "dick" category. Usually in the "not as good as he thinks he is" or "believes there are NHL scouts in the stands of this beer league game " categories.
So, maybe I will dial back my assumption about tinted visor wearers. But then again, most of them overlap with "coloured lace wearers", "#87 Jersey guys" and "complains to the ref about every call dudes".
Full disclosure: I have been known to wear a navy Montreal Canadiens turtleneck during games as an homage to my favourite current NHLer Tomas Plekanec. But it is kind of a meta riff on something he himself treats with levity. I am a bit too old to have played against all the 80s and 90s kids wearing Gretzky turtlenecks. Basically I did not play hockey between 1977 and 2000 so I wasn't bothered by that. I do recall being enormously contemptuous of kids in high school football who wore white turtlenecks just like their favourite Dallas Cowboy players.
AND I just discovered today on this board that apparently hockey bags with with wheels are chirp worthy. So what do I know?
But, glass houses and all...
Goonzilla
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I've got no qualms matching jerseys and socks, but clean jerseys only. At 41 I'm not ever gonna be caught with a 25 year old's name on my back. A Jagr..or maybe a Neely or something though ..maybe?
Head to toe black with a Malkin shirt on is overdoing it a little though.
Believe it or not, it's against NHL Rules to wear 0 or 00. So you don't see a lot of it...
mikitas donut
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Some of my friends and I will wear NHL jerseys or funny novelty jerseys if we rent the ice out and have a private pickup game. We all chirp each other anyway. If it's drop in with strangers, then just a black or white jersey.
nystromshairstylist
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Perhaps looking into your sensitivity to the unique elements of an indoor ice rink that could be triggering the migraines, such as the:
- chemicals used to freeze the ice
- rink colors, such as a lot of white on the walls/celing
- air quality: stagnant zamboni exhaust/CO2 gasses in the rink not being released out
- rink temperature
- concession stand exhaust / chemical vapors
These are top of mind, but there might be other factors exclusive to the indoor ice rinks you play at.
