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Maine Hockey 2013-2014 Part 1: Red Dawn

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gscott13 said:
USM. We're are a fledgling program at best. Last year I had 14 kids total and only 3 kids with any amount of talent... only won two games...
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Hey, when we started out we didn't even have an arena, we played outdoors :p
A dozen or so years ago Don Skillings coached at Skowhegan and they practiced in a barn. Not figuratively. They literally flooded a barn and practiced on it after it froze.

I'm sure eventually you'll have a quality team. Hockey has really opened up since NYA went the prep route (Biddeford? State champs?)
 
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Priceless said:
Hey, when we started out we didn't even have an arena, we played outdoors :p
A dozen or so years ago Don Skillings coached at Skowhegan and they practiced in a barn. Not figuratively. They literally flooded a barn and practiced on it after it froze.

I'm sure eventually you'll have a quality team. Hockey has really opened up since NYA went the prep route (Biddeford? State champs?)
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When we started out we didn't even have a rink. We had to bring ice cubes from home and lay them out together like we were laying a brick sidewalk. Sure the surface was a little uneven. It's called "home ice advantage." Sticks? Ha! We used whatever we could cobble together. One kid had his grandfather's nine iron. Old Sear's catalogs for shinpads. Helmets? Pffft. Even the girls were too tough for stinking helmets. We'd wear whatever sweater our fathers left kicking around and used duct tape for the numbers. And we'd wrap a can of tuna with electrical tape for pucks. We had it tough. Not like you coddled, prep school nancy-boys.
 
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UncleRay said:
When we started out we didn't even have a rink. We had to bring ice cubes from home and lay them out together like we were laying a brick sidewalk.
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That isn't that far from the truth. And it was 1961...I don't think anyone wore helmets :p
 
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gscott13 said:
USM. We're are a fledgling program at best. Last year I had 14 kids total and only 3 kids with any amount of talent... only won two games...
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Just think, when you get 20 guys with talent, you'll win 15 games. Math is simple.
 
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UncleRay said:
When we started out we didn't even have a rink. We had to bring ice cubes from home and lay them out together like we were laying a brick sidewalk. Sure the surface was a little uneven. It's called "home ice advantage." Sticks? Ha! We used whatever we could cobble together. One kid had his grandfather's nine iron. Old Sear's catalogs for shinpads. Helmets? Pffft. Even the girls were too tough for stinking helmets. We'd wear whatever sweater our fathers left kicking around and used duct tape for the numbers. And we'd wrap a can of tuna with electrical tape for pucks. We had it tough. Not like you coddled, prep school nancy-boys.
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Chit, thats nouthinig. We skated in boots on bare pavemnt.
 
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all bear said:
Chit, thats nouthinig. We skated in boots on bare pavemnt.
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True story: it rained and then froze one year when I was a kid. Turned the driveway into a skating rink. We made our parents park across the street so they wouldn't ruin the ice and used the garage door as a backstop.

And what you're talking about, AB, is called "street hockey."
 
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Is there any information regarding tix for the "Battle of the Bears" at the Lewiston Colisee on Oct. 5th?
 
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MaineHockeyMom said:
does anyone know if there's going to be a lobsterfest this year?
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No. I just checked with the Friends of Maine Hockey, and the answer is not this year. They're trying to come up with an alternate fundraiser and then have that and the Lobsterfest every other year. FOMH needs volunteers and board members, and my guess is that board membership will be more fun that it was earlier in this decade.
 
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Mr Mustard, in the hall with the candlestick.
 
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