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Beautiful Hockey Video

The Lower Mainland of British Columbia rarely gets snow at sea level usually we have a pineapple express for Christmas.

Having said that, the least storm stops the city. This last storm they effectively shut down the buses when we got about 4 inches. The city is all hills and shoreline, we don't own snow specific equipment, the best they can do is move it around and wait for rain, which is happening now.

Snow/ice shuts down Austin TX for the same reasons but, it very rare except for ice on elevated roadways about 2 or 3 times per winter. Austin proper has never had a white Christmas.

Cedar Park [just north of Austin] has the Dallas Stars farm team.
 
I'm not into watching team sports but if I have to watch one I would prefer to watch hockey.
 
Snow/ice shuts down Austin TX for the same reasons but, it very rare except for ice on elevated roadways about 2 or 3 times per winter. Austin proper has never had a white Christmas.

Cedar Park [just north of Austin] has the Dallas Stars farm team.

The greatest cost in these last two storms has been to wind shields blown out by falling ice of the suspension bridges. Vancouver is surrounded by ocean on three sides. Insurance BC had to wave deductables and pay out more than two million on that problem alone.

The question I have is how long will they be the Dallas Stars, before becoming Quebec Nordique or a second Toronto team.
 
I'm not into watching team sports but if I have to watch one I would prefer to watch hockey.

Ever been to a live game?

There is a HUGE difference. The speed of the game is astonishing to newcomers.

I like to sit at ice level where you can feel the hits along the boards.
 
The greatest cost in these last two storms has been to wind shields blown out by falling ice of the suspension bridges. Vancouver is surrounded by ocean on three sides. Insurance BC had to wave deductables and pay out more than two million on that problem alone.

The question I have is how long will they be the Dallas Stars, before becoming Quebec Nordique or a second Toronto team.

Lots of yankees moved down here so, probably forever. My Wife and youngest daughters were regular fans when we had the Austin Ice Bats.
 
Ever been to a live game?

There is a HUGE difference. The speed of the game is astonishing to newcomers.

I like to sit at ice level where you can feel the hits along the boards.

No I haven't. Sounds like fun.
 
IF anyone wonders what is the attraction for hockey for Canadians, take a look at this video.

This a lake that rarely freezes enough to support the weight of a person, and frozen pristine without a snow cover this makes for a beautiful video


https://youtu.be/OrIMBG5E9Bk

Hockey was my first sport. We had a local outdoor rink where I learned to skate at about 4 or 5 years of age--even before learning to ride a bike. Eventually, my folks enrolled me in an organized hockey league. I think I was 6. I loved playing on those teams.

I played through high school, but slowed way down after age-16. Girls, cars, and other pursuits ate up my time by then. I haven't skated since probably age-30, and haven't played hockey at all since my late teens. Basketball was my sport in college. We played every afternoon. I played full court ball until almost age-40: pick up at the Y and church leagues mostly.
 
Hockey was my first sport. We had a local outdoor rink where I learned to skate at about 4 or 5 years of age--even before learning to ride a bike. Eventually, my folks enrolled me in an organized hockey league. I think I was 6. I loved playing on those teams.

I played through high school, but slowed way down after age-16. Girls, cars, and other pursuits ate up my time by then. I haven't skated since probably age-30, and haven't played hockey at all since my late teens. Basketball was my sport in college. We played every afternoon. I played full court ball until almost age-40: pick up at the Y and church leagues mostly.

I told my gym teacher that Basketball was for sissies. If there's no body contact what's the point?

I moved to the US at age 9, and no one knew how to skate in my circles. I damned the creek next to our house and made a smooth surface 200' long and wedge shaped and taught some kids how to skate, shoot, pass. Junior high came along and suddenly we had a team of around two dozen kids, 14 Canadian born. High School they started a seven school league. Throughout 4 years we for some reason maintained a majority of Canadians. Looking back, none of us was a great skater, probably mediocre over all....but we went without a loss the first two years.

One day as the Buffalo Sabres, then the Bills were eyeing the NHL, some scouts came to see us play.


They left after the first period.

"Great" is relative
 
Why are they playing in the middle of the lake? Back when we played on a lake (pond, actually) we stuck primarily to the edges because chasing an errant puck halfway across the ice got old really quick.



That's how you learn to play....

A few times going a mile to get the errant pass you missed teaches you not to miss passes
 
IF anyone wonders what is the attraction for hockey for Canadians, take a look at this video.

This a lake that rarely freezes enough to support the weight of a person, and frozen pristine without a snow cover this makes for a beautiful video


https://youtu.be/OrIMBG5E9Bk

Very neat video!

I have skated once on a frozen lake many, many years ago of all places in Arizona.
The lake was Lynx Lake near Prescott, Az. We set rocks for the goals and played a little pick-up hockey.
Just a blast as we were used to rink skating only in the Phoenix, Az area.
I have been a hockey lover for many years. Played a couple years in a kids league and later in an adult league.

For a few years we were able to attend Navy Hockey games at the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland.
At the time the games were played at the Old armory building on the Naval Academy grounds. When Maryland
came to play it was a wild time!
 
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