Hockey Trash Talk & BS thread

see what I'm saying Booteen

 

I've never played hockey on a frozen lake, so no.

 

or something

 

I think Kesler is in Anaheim and Hansen is in San Jose now

 

done it once it is badass.

 

I've played lots outside on dug outs but those aren't lakes.

 

dug outs?

 

I have played more frequently on rivers on surfaces that a well flooded and smoothed out. I have played many times out at the cottage in winter, but playing Loogan style ; In boots, with a tennis ball and a few wobbly pops in the snow banks

 

City boy?

I'm guessing even @OZ-T doesn't know what a dug out is without a Google search lol.

Basically on farms people will dig out a hole until they hit the water table and then fill the hole with water for watering the grass and for their animals. Some people even keep drinking water in them though that is very rare now.

 

Naturally formed ice wrecks skates. I keep an extra set of blades for my Bauer skates just for outdoor ice. Here it's mostly for flooded backyard rinks and dugouts though with the way the weather is going we don't get to play outside on skates much anymore.

 

oh a pond ....

 

Wrecks skates? Hard on blades you mean? Perhaps the holders get stressed? Can't say I have noticed, but I do sharpen my blades quite frequently in the winter months when regularly outdoors. Replacing blades isn't a big deal . The only holders I have replaced were cracked from being nailed by a shot.

 

Too clarify I did mean the blades. Most people have cheap holders which have a tendency loosen up after blade replacements, I'm looking at you CCM, Graf, and Reebok. Those brands use screws which wear the plastic every time you remove them which leads to them loosening over time. So yes, if you own a pair of those skates the harder ice will wreck your skate holders if you keep changing blades. Of course you can always get new holders but on cheap skates the holder is worth almost as much as the skate so, yeah, it wrecks the skate most people use. Before someone gets upset about saying harder ice, remember arena ice is held at a constant temperature where outdoor ice here can be as cold a -20 c which causes the semi melt layer that skates actually ride on to be much thinner. That means you have more blade contacting the ice itself and when you add on that outdoor ice is rarely as smooth as zamboni'd indoor ice you will wear down your skate blade much faster and usually unevenly which causes performance issues. Just ask any skate sharpener, don't use your blades outdoors if you want to keep them in good shape. That, or do what I did and by the new Bauers with the newest trigger version of the Tuuk blade system which uses zero screws so the blades always stay tight no matter how many times you change them.

Being a ref for higher level minor hockey I've seen a few comical skate holder failures, and 90% of the time it's on one of the brands I've mentioned where a screw managed to come loose. Some people have tried loctite but since some of the force keeping the screw in comes from contact with the plastic holder it doesn't work nearly as well as you'd think. I know several people with higher end Grafs that ended up redrilling the skates for Bauer Tuuk holders after blowing out a blade in a game that mattered.

 

No, a pond is not man made. It's like calling a canal a river in some ways, you'd understand that I'd hope.

 

Ice outside? Isn't that supposed to be in the freezer?

 

I don't think anyone would mind if a few of you went and hung out in your freezers with the door shut for a few hours.

 

Except ponds can definitely be man made lol

Silly Canadians

 

True. We just don't call bodies of water created for irrigation and domestic use ponds. No one wants to drink from a Tailings Pond for example lol.

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