Daily Cupcakes - January 19th, 2012
by Sandie Gauthier on Jan 19, 2012 4:00 AM MST
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An update about a hazing scandal. The coaches will no longer be allowed to coach any team that Hockey Canada oversees.
The Manitoba Junior Hockey League is trying to crack down on something it’s having a hard time even defining – hazing.
The league has been reeling from a hazing scandal that occurred last October when a group of players with the Neepawa Natives forced a 15-year-old rookie to perform a "tug" – tying a water bottle to his scrotum and dragging it across the floor. The incident, one of several hazing initiations that occurred on the team, initially resulted in the league handing out multiple game suspensions for 16 players. The league also suspended Natives head coach Bryant Perrier for three games and fined the team $5,000. Assistant coach Brad Biggers also received a five-game suspension.
An interview with Colby Armstrong - he talks about his concussions and the tests he has to go through to be able to play once again.
Do you have to pass a test before they let you back?
"I did already. (smiles broadly) First test I’ve passed in a while. It’s like shapes and crazy stuff. Yeah. I did good."Finger painting, too?
"Well, you know, that’s on the side. They made me do that just because they thought I was really skilled. It was weird. I drew a picture of a naked lady. With my fingers."How was she?
"She was good."
Aside from world-class skill and athleticism, there’s one thing nearly every player in today’s NHL has in common: they wear something made by Bauer Performance Sports. In recent years, the hockey equipment maker that pioneered modern skate technology has become an industry behemoth, controlling 49 per cent of the global market for hockey gear. "We are number one in every category," boasts president and CEO Kevin Davis.
Roughly 90 per cent of NHL players wear at least one piece of Bauer equipment. Seven out of 10 wear Bauer skates. As the puck dropped on the current NHL season, Bauer was the top hockey stick provider for the league’s players—beating out rival Easton—thanks in part to the introduction of the new Vapor APX model. Meanwhile, Bauer says it has surpassed legendary brand CCM—bought by Reebok in 2004—to become the leading seller of sticks, helmets, skates and goalie equipment.
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Yes, they still make wooden sticks but they are a small selection now. Sherwood closed down the last wooden stick factory in Canada last year and moved their plant overseas. They tested the market with their first one piece composit stick last year which was simply the best bang for the puck in the market. $125 for a pro composit stick. With the success they had, they went all in on composit and now those twigs are $195 for the new model.
I'll keep this brief.
Players Bench recommended me to use a wooden one as a beginner. Basically, learning with a heavier stick will polish my fundamentals more, and it’s cheaper for if some reason I don’t enjoy hockey I’m not out as much money.
I think it’s pretty clear that I got bad advice because my shot is so terrible.
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Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Jan 19, 2012 8:28 AM MST up reply actions
A real craftsman does not blame his tools.
OK Shermie, time to be the shepherd
by Busted Twigg on Jan 19, 2012 8:47 AM MST up reply actions
I got the same advice and learned on a wooden stick for about a year before switching. I thought it worked well for me
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by Cole D Hamilton on Jan 19, 2012 9:02 AM MST up reply actions
I’ve had one lesson, so blaming my tools is still allowed
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Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Jan 19, 2012 9:23 AM MST up reply actions
Yep, probably the best choice for a first stick. A lot of rec league guys never leave the wood stick. The two piece stick is a good compromise later if you like the sport.
I'll keep this brief.
I disagree that wood is a good starting point. I don’t think the composite vs. wood is as important for learning as 1) the curve of the blade and 2) the flex. Someone should start with a nearly flat blade in my opinion as it teaches you the physics of shooting and passing and the flex teaches you both whip and force.
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
Well, you’re talking $25 vs $100. Obviously (or maybe not) a new player shouldn’t start with a Coffey curve and most wood sticks are the same flex anyway. Most of the curves for public sticks are muted curves too. I mean, Matt Duchene’s Reebok curve sold to the public is not as agressive as his real curve. The Sakic, Zetterberg, Malkin curves etc… are all pretty simular.
I'll keep this brief.
I’m still rocking a composite easton 2-piece from the early 90’s whenever I skate out.
I churn through wooden goal sticks at the rate of about 6-8 a year at around $80 a pop.
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
how do you go through so many goal sticks? Are you seriously breaking that many against the pipes and crossbar?
Avalanche Hockey: egressing to the mean
He takes them to Arby’s Sandwhiches like an executioner
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Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Jan 19, 2012 12:59 PM MST up reply actions
I liked my wood stick when I started out. But once I started using the composite, I could never go back. I always bring the other one with me as a backup, but mostly it sits in the corner of the bench
Goalie coach? We don't need no stinking goalie coach!
but mostly it sits in the corner of the bench
McLeod Stick?
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by Jibblescribbits on Jan 19, 2012 1:21 PM MST up reply actions
No, he gets on ice every once in awhile. The wood stick is lucky to make it out of the car
Goalie coach? We don't need no stinking goalie coach!
The Matt Hunwick
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Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Jan 19, 2012 1:27 PM MST up reply actions
The Matt Hunstick
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
by c6hor8 on Jan 19, 2012 1:27 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
Bingo
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Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Jan 19, 2012 1:54 PM MST up reply actions
Two things:
1. The cross-bar had it coming
2. I have the kryptonite for goalie sticks in my league: fat guys who can’t skate but step on my sticks/crash my crease at least once a night.
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
Hey, you leave us fat guy hockey players alone…at least the ones who never get close enough to the goalie to step on their sticks
Goalie coach? We don't need no stinking goalie coach!
Last week I had a bang-bang play go from my right to my left after a deflection on a shot taken on the rush. I had to lay across the crease and was trying to cover the puck at the left post but I couldn’t move because both of my legs were underneath the forward who had taken the initial shot. He just fell down on his follow-through and laid down on top of my legs. Brutal.
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
What Chia said above, have the same thing in my league with our goalie.
To Mike’s comment, no contact and a for fun adult league or not, you fall on my goalie and I will make you pay for it, at that moment or later in the game, it will happen. Also that would be a guarenteed penalty in my league and probably no goal. Half of our refs play USHL hockey, the other half coach high school players or play on about 4 teams in the various leagues so they know what they are doing.
Avalanche Hockey: egressing to the mean
Haha, a “tug”.
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
I hope that doesn’t give DDC any hints as to how to initiate new members.
The reason I'm in town, in case you're wondering, is because of a Kansas City Shuffle.
Given the gender distribution of the staff at MHH, He’d have to get creative to haze the new-hires.
OK Shermie, time to be the shepherd
by Busted Twigg on Jan 19, 2012 8:49 AM MST up reply actions
Well some one mentioned running around in underwear and jumping in pools…..
Datsyuk may have done it first, but he learned it from Peter Forsberg.
Thanks for everything Foppa!
Footer: We'll miss seeing you clear the riff raff off your lawn.
by Americanario on Jan 19, 2012 9:29 AM MST up reply actions
This ist he poll currently on NHL.com. Does anyone else find this mockingly embarassing and extremely humorous?
Who should be the first pick in the 2012 NHL All-Star Player Fantasy Draft?
- Erik Karlsson (Senators)
- Henrik Lundqvist (Rangers)
- Evgeni Malkin (Penguins)
- Steven Stamkos (Lightning)
- Daniel or Henrik Sedin (Canucks)Other
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
It does suggest a certain Eastern Conference bias. One must ask, where is Toews on this list? The guy is second in goals scored, and is a far better 2-way player than Stamkos. Granted, defense is not played in the ASG, but come on.
OK Shermie, time to be the shepherd
by Busted Twigg on Jan 19, 2012 8:52 AM MST up reply actions
Not what I was looking at.
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
I thought the same thing. It’s hilarious that the sisters are essentially grouped into one person
THE COLORADO AVALANCHE HAVE WON THE STANLEY CUP. RAYMOND BOURQUE: A DREAM COME TRUE!
by Pyotr09AVS! on Jan 19, 2012 10:55 AM MST up reply actions
If Tim Thomas and his stone cold lock on AS wins isn’t taken 1st overall then Chara and Alfie are obviously high.
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
Hazing scandal
I love the shock and feined indignity of some people with these hazing incidents. Initiations have been going on in sports since forever. They always are humiliating and sometimes painful. My favorite was when the highschool girls tennis team had to run around school in their underwear and jump in the school pool. Good times.
I'll keep this brief.
Rights of passage are pretty ingrained in human culture. Obviously hazing can be taken way too far, and those incidents need to be looked out for…
..But my freshman year of soccer I had to push pennies in front of the cafeteria at our HS soccer camp (in front of the girls team). It wasn’t malicious and done in good fun. At the same camp I also had to push a penny around a (cleaned) toilet bowl and if I knocked it in I got a swirly (it’s flipping impossible). It actually ended up a good experience because the older guys took me in because I paid my dues (as they had to as freshmen).
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Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Jan 19, 2012 8:31 AM MST up reply actions
I’ve seen it on my sports teams and in my college the fraternaty. The secret is the ‘older guys’. When young guys run those things they can get out of control. Frats learned that the really hard way.
I'll keep this brief.
Oh yeah, there is always a lot of potential for them to get really out of control. I understand why schools are banning it, because it devolves into the ol Prisoner-Guard Psych experiment really quickly.
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Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Jan 19, 2012 9:25 AM MST up reply actions
That would be like the wrestling team here in Iowa. Their idea of hazing was two seniors hold down a freshman on a bench while a third senior puts balls and penis all over the freshman’s face and slaps him back and forth with it.
No worry the principal and superintendent took care of it though. The whole team had two practices and one meet cancelled. Then back to business as usual.
The parent of the freshman didn’t quite feel like that was enough however and has requested the police file sexual assualt charges and has contacted lawyers for a civil suit.
Avalanche Hockey: egressing to the mean
A basket ball team here in Las Vegas lost their season after reports of hazing that included sodomy.
Datsyuk may have done it first, but he learned it from Peter Forsberg.
Thanks for everything Foppa!
Footer: We'll miss seeing you clear the riff raff off your lawn.
by Americanario on Jan 19, 2012 10:59 AM MST up reply actions
I think I remember that. I think there have been 5 or 6 incidents like that in the last year or so where teams have had there seasons ended and individuals have faced worse.
I thought it was pathetic that these school officials basically suspended the team for 3 days and gave no further individual punishment to the guys that participated.
Avalanche Hockey: egressing to the mean
Not nearly as bad as sodomy, but when a friend was rushing for a fraternity at USC, the guys had to stand around a pizza and jack off. The last guy to cum on it had to eat it…all…with the other guys’ “contributions” all over it. I’d already vowed I’d never spend time with fraternities or sororities, so when I heard about that, I considered it a very very smart move. Ew.
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by Cheryl Bradley on Jan 19, 2012 11:40 AM MST up reply actions
I’ve heard of the “ookie cookie” but a whole pizza? Wow. Why can’t we just do the blood brothers thing anymore?
"In my experience, there's no such thing as luck" -Obi Wan Kenobi
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ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Well because that's gross
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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by A.J. Haefele on Jan 21, 2012 9:22 AM MST up reply actions
Sure is product placement in here >_>
At exactly what point do you start to realize that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
by SteveHouse on Jan 19, 2012 9:00 AM MST via Android app reply actions
It seems Yip has been claimed.
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
Yup, by the Predators too.
It's all about Winnik
by Sandie Gauthier on Jan 19, 2012 10:33 AM MST up reply actions
another Terrier bites the dust
DDC is deeply embedded throughout this blog. For better or worse, his taint taints us all.
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jan 19, 2012 10:39 AM MST up reply actions
I was wishing he would have gone to the East. The Avs don’t need another curse running loose in the West.
4th biggest pessimist of MHH.
"There's always next season." -- Jimmy Howard on not winning the Calder Trophy.
I’m not too worried about this one
DDC is deeply embedded throughout this blog. For better or worse, his taint taints us all.
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jan 19, 2012 10:55 AM MST up reply actions
But now Nashville gets Crosby…
THE COLORADO AVALANCHE HAVE WON THE STANLEY CUP. RAYMOND BOURQUE: A DREAM COME TRUE!
by Pyotr09AVS! on Jan 19, 2012 10:57 AM MST up reply actions
Not sure the Preds can afford Crosby’s salary. Plus they don’t like guys that can score a lot and only play offense.
Datsyuk may have done it first, but he learned it from Peter Forsberg.
Thanks for everything Foppa!
Footer: We'll miss seeing you clear the riff raff off your lawn.
by Americanario on Jan 19, 2012 11:00 AM MST up reply actions
I’m not the least bit surprised.
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The Hockey Writers - Avalanche Correspondent
by Cheryl Bradley on Jan 19, 2012 11:03 AM MST up reply actions
i am the least bit surprised
didnt think it would be nashville
Cap Floor Team = Cap Floor Results
by Cole D Hamilton on Jan 19, 2012 11:08 AM MST up reply actions
I thought an East Coast team, like Montreal, would pick him up.
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
I thought Anaheim or maybe Dallas
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by Cole D Hamilton on Jan 19, 2012 11:35 AM MST up reply actions
#winnipegjets F Blake Wheeler on what it feels like to take a slapshot to the throat: “It feels like a slapshot to the throat.”
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
NONONONONONONONO
These were so ugly when the leafs did em, there are better ways to do a military night.
From the Avs FB:
stay tuned
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by Cole D Hamilton on Jan 19, 2012 11:49 AM MST reply actions 1 recs
Duchene will be happy...
It's all about Winnik
by Sandie Gauthier on Jan 19, 2012 11:49 AM MST up reply actions 1 recs
i just wish they’d put time into making jerseys that dont suck
Cap Floor Team = Cap Floor Results
by Cole D Hamilton on Jan 19, 2012 11:51 AM MST up reply actions
A-fucking-greed
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by MalachiConstant on Jan 19, 2012 12:02 PM MST up reply actions
HA! If they actually wear those in a game, I will cheer. Seriously, that is pretty awesome. Not necessarily in a good way, but awesome.
When does the hurting stop?
by BraxtanFILM on Jan 19, 2012 12:04 PM MST up reply actions
Well, you see, there was a game played in the Eastern Conference….
2011-2012 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl: Vyechnaya Pamyat!
2011-2012 Colorado Avalanche: Chances are rapidly diminishing that this will not suck.
Beauchemin was second star with 2 goals and an assist. And he hasn’t missed 18 months with a concussion.
Mueller looked happier than any Av I’ve seen since Craig Anderson shut out the Sharks in the playoffs. It was great to see.
When does the hurting stop?
by BraxtanFILM on Jan 19, 2012 12:09 PM MST up reply actions
He had the same amount of points as a guy who’s team won 6-2… and more points than the third guy who won 6-2 , talk about mailing it in.
Paul Stastny did, what Paul Stastny does. Score big goals.
Yeah, that’s just plain ridiculous.
When does the hurting stop?
by BraxtanFILM on Jan 19, 2012 12:11 PM MST up reply actions
He did get on the “Wednesday’s Best” highlights. That’s at least something.
Duchene may be the face of this franchise, but O’Reilly is the heart. - Guitarpick8120
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The Hockey Writers - Avalanche Correspondent
by Cheryl Bradley on Jan 19, 2012 12:36 PM MST up reply actions
Bed time calls. You can’t worry about games in the conference that doesn’t exist when you need your beauty sleep.
OK Shermie, time to be the shepherd
by Busted Twigg on Jan 19, 2012 2:44 PM MST up reply actions
Some need that beauty sleep more than others.
2011-2012 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl: Vyechnaya Pamyat!
2011-2012 Colorado Avalanche: Chances are rapidly diminishing that this will not suck.
Avalanche Cheering Guide for Thursday
Games that matter:
NSH at CBJ – It may not be realistic, but we should light a candle for the Blue Jammies to win this.
EDM at STL – Two teams that are far enough above and below us that it doesn’t matter much. Go Oilers if for no other reason than that Frankenstein gash in Taylor Hall’s forehead is wicked.
DET at PHX – Pinch your nose on this one. It is to the Avs benefit if the Wings wi..wi..wi..prevail. I feel like I need a shower after typing that.
CAL at LAK – Kings are 3 points ahead. Flames are 4 points back. I’m leaning Calgary, but please make it a 2 point game.
OTT at SJS – Just for the form of the thing we should go with the Senators. San Jose is 5 points ahead with 5 games in hand. Not a terribly meaningful game overall.
OK Shermie, time to be the shepherd
I want the Kings to win and push the Flames so far down that Cerberus deals with them. The Avs are not catching the Kings. The best hope is take the 8th spot from Minny and Dallas.
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
I can imagine a scenario where the Avs catch the Kings. 3 points, 1 game in hand, and 1 ROW isn’t that much. They are playing well right now, but there’s no guarantee that the Sutter message doesn’t wear thin.
When Duchene returns, and assuming all else stays about the same, the Avs offensive production should improve. I could see our boys keeping pace even if LA stays hot.
OK Shermie, time to be the shepherd
by Busted Twigg on Jan 19, 2012 4:38 PM MST up reply actions
DET at PHX –Pinch your nose on this one. It is to the Avs benefit if the Wings wi..wi..wi..prevail. I feel like I need a shower after typing that.Go meteor! Make sure you get that douche Torres!
FTFY
2011-2012 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl: Vyechnaya Pamyat!
2011-2012 Colorado Avalanche: Chances are rapidly diminishing that this will not suck.
HAHAHAHA. The Wild suck.
A man who stole my whisky used the defense that no one could resist a bottle of Scotch. I had no choice but to testify on his behalf.
Regressing?
Just a Colorado girl in Montana who ♥s the Avs and writes for Mile High Hockey.
by andidee15 on Jan 19, 2012 10:43 PM MST up reply actions 3 recs
I will rec this every time you post it
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Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Jan 19, 2012 11:40 PM MST up reply actions
HE'S SO GUNG YEO
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
Mile High Hockey : Where B- is different than C+
by A.J. Haefele on Jan 20, 2012 3:36 AM MST up reply actions
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