Morning, all! I see we're talking booze shopping already...
Morning Joe...meant to ask last time you were on for 30 minutes: Is your son still playing/enjoying ice hockey?
Morning, Scott. He is. We're taking a session off - it's Friday night and by then he's just exhausted from the week. But we've gone to a couple San Diego State hockey games now, and he's still talking about starting back up himself with the next session. He showed a bit of progress by the end of the last session, which was good. He's finally getting brave enough to really try to move quickly on the ice.
That's good, I love that sport. He will progress quickly from there which is fun to watch. It's great when they start to score goals, THEN figure out how to pass. The goals always come first unfortunately but before long they show signs of actually understanding the game
I need to watch more hockey. I don't really understand all the intricacies and rules so there are lots of questions I can't answer at the games. I'm surprised it's stuck as long as it has, to be honest. He liked the guys getting slammed in to the walls at the game, which I thought for SURE would scare him away from ever wanting to play again, but it didn't seem to.
Two simple things at this level:
Offsides: The puck has to cross the opponent's blue line before any offensive player. If the puck comes back out across the blue line during a possession, all offensive players need to exit the zone and start over
Icing: The puck must cross the red line (center ice) before it can be "dumped" or played across the opponents goal line
Those are the 2 reasons for 95% of stopages
