Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
British Columbia Sport & Outdoor Lounge => Sport Chat => Topic started by: THE_ROE_SLINGER on December 05, 2004, 07:43:58 PM
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Hey just wondering if any of you guys play hockey and if you do for who.??
I play bantam AAA for the Burnaby Winter Club
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I am 30 years old now so I play a bit of pickup with some other ex-junior players.
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44 lol are you refing one of my upcoming games??
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And that fact that he's blind ! ;D
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They say that the only good ref is a bribed ref, any truth??? ;)
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We have a family Friend Kelly Sutherland which is a Referee for the NHL now, I also use to play street hockey with Jason La barbra who last year was the LA Kings backup goalie
Was he the first guy you scored on??? :D :D
couldn't resist...
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Only been playing a couple years, mainly drop in. Wish I could have started earlier. I've been playing soccer and ski racing year round for the past 30 years and never got exposed to hockey.
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Only played pickup hockey after I stopped speed skating with the national team. I could out skate anyone on the ice until I got the puck.
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coquitlam 2nd year bantam C. hate rep cause its gay :P
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Surrey Eagles old timers, till I blew out my shoulder..(2nd time)
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Only played pickup hockey after I stopped speed skating with the national team. I could out skate anyone on the ice until I got the puck.
YOU were a speed skater for Canadas national team!!? :o wow
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coquitlam 2nd year bantam C. hate rep cause its gay :P
Thats what all the kids say because they are not good enough to play rep LOL. Played rep all the way from Atom up, always A. We didnt have the triple "A" in my day it was just A,B, and house.
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coquitlam 2nd year bantam C. hate rep cause its gay :P
Thats what all the kids say because they are not good enough to play rep LOL. Played rep all the way from Atom up, always A. We didnt have the triple "A" in my day it was just A,B, and house.
no. there's no time to do anything. it's always hockey hockey hockey. i prefer to play hockey twice a week, and have some time to at least wet a line ::)
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It's true Bryan, the kids playing now a days in rep have no life outside of their hockey and its all politics surrounding whos on what teams.
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It's true Bryan, the kids playing now a days in rep have no life outside of their hockey and its all politics surrounding whos on what teams.
Its no differnt from when I was a kid. I had no life outside of sports either when I was a kid. PLayed hockey 3-4 times per weeks and tons of tournaments. Also their was a TON of politics when I played as well. For example. My coach had his two twin sons playing on our team which sucked and should have been playing B or even house but since he was the coach his sons got to play A. Also we had to wear a tie to games and nice clothes.
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Only played pickup hockey after I stopped speed skating with the national team. I could out skate anyone on the ice until I got the puck.
YOU were a speed skater for Canadas national team!!? :o wow
Yup and you guys that play rep think that you have no life. At least your school is at your local high school. Mine was all over the country either in a board room of a hotel or in some strange school ( if I was in that town for 2 or more weeks). I would go to my school for two days to get home work then jump on a plane and be gone for a week or more. When I was home I had to train for 1 to 2 hours before school and 2 to 3 hours after school. My training schedule was 9 days on and 1 day off. If the month had 31 days I got 2 days off in a row at the end of the month.
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Birdman, are you saying Practice 6 days a week or playing games 6 times a week? Cause if you guys are playing 6 games a week, well..... that is in my humble opinion, just to much. ???
When I played, we practiced as a team 4 times a week, but the keeners would be doing hockey of some sort 6-7 days a week. Whether it was street, ball or pick up games. Usually only had a couple GAMES per week. That was until we hit 16-17 year olds, then it was up to 3-4, not including tournements. Mind you this was manitoba, where unless you want to cross country ski, :P you played hockey!! ;D
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bbronswky2000 where did you play your minor hockey ?
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Well If you the love then practing lots is ok. Right now I play 5 times a week and go to the gym 2-3 times. My goal is to get a scholorship for hockey
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I'd just rather have some time than spend 4-6 days a week playing hockey. I would say the average high school student, gr.9-10 gets about at least 1hr 30mins of homework each night and weekends. Add 6 days of hockey to that huge @$$ homework load and you get=no time. When your playing rep, whether it be B2 or AAA, your always travelling out for games. Where will you have time to do anything else other than hockey? To me, hockey 2-3 times a week is good enough. Then of course theres time for street hockey, fishing etc. etc.
Those are my reasons ;)
Oh and the flames and leafs suck ;)
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I played in the WHL but I am 30 years old now so I play a bit of pickup with some other ex-junior players.
Who did you play for in the WHL ?
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If there's any advice I can give you is pace yourself. Take school, living life, family and God (not necessarily in that order) more seriously than sports. Otherwise, the sport you love to play the most now, will most likely not be all that interesting when you get old. I see a bunch of old timers coming to play drop-in with us and the story is almost always the same. They played 24-7 all through highschool and college then hung it up. They couldn't stand the thought of playing until now when they're almost too old to play. They also missed out on a lot of good things along the way.
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That is exactly what happened with me and my sport. At the end I wanted nothing to do with it. In fact I still don't and have not even introduced it to my kids. It consumed so much of my life growing up that that was the only thing that I had time for. When my friends where hanging out I was working out or a sleep because I had an early training session in the morning that is if I was home and not traveling around the country living out of a suit case and going to school in a board room.