Blue Puck Poll
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skateguymn
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Blue Puck Poll
Time to get rid of them or accept them for what they are?
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greybeard58
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Blue Puck
If you want to get rid of the blue puck, convince USA Hockey.That is where the mandate is coming from.
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Here is an excerpt for you...
"For all teams consisting entirely of youth {boys' or co-ed] or girls' players who are eight years old or under, it is required that the puck weigh between four ounces and four-and-one-half ounces and be blue in color. It is strongly recommended that all teams consisting of youth or girls' players who are 10 years old or under use the lightweight blue puck."
Use of the blue lightweight puck, which is approximately two ounces lighter than the standard black puck, was mandated by USA Hockey primarily because it more readily promotes the development of on-ice skills for younger players. The lighter puck is easier to shoot, pass and stickhandle for players in the earlier stages of physical development.
"For all teams consisting entirely of youth {boys' or co-ed] or girls' players who are eight years old or under, it is required that the puck weigh between four ounces and four-and-one-half ounces and be blue in color. It is strongly recommended that all teams consisting of youth or girls' players who are 10 years old or under use the lightweight blue puck."
Use of the blue lightweight puck, which is approximately two ounces lighter than the standard black puck, was mandated by USA Hockey primarily because it more readily promotes the development of on-ice skills for younger players. The lighter puck is easier to shoot, pass and stickhandle for players in the earlier stages of physical development.
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PanthersIn2011
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Two recollections from my blue puck years:
1) When they're really really cold, I think they do work well for mites ... when they're not really really cold, they stick to the ice or hop, which really undermines their intended benefit. By "really really cold" I mean "leave the puck bucket outside when its below zero" cold.
2) One year (2003?), MH came very close to mandating blue pucks at the squirt level and District 4 actually did use them. One of my sons played in a squirt A tournament in Mankato, which was held at Midwest Wireless. Squirts. Olympic sheet of ice. Blue pucks. It was sort of like watching baseball at the Metrodome ... resembled the game that you knew and loved but only if you took your glasses off and squinted.
1) When they're really really cold, I think they do work well for mites ... when they're not really really cold, they stick to the ice or hop, which really undermines their intended benefit. By "really really cold" I mean "leave the puck bucket outside when its below zero" cold.
2) One year (2003?), MH came very close to mandating blue pucks at the squirt level and District 4 actually did use them. One of my sons played in a squirt A tournament in Mankato, which was held at Midwest Wireless. Squirts. Olympic sheet of ice. Blue pucks. It was sort of like watching baseball at the Metrodome ... resembled the game that you knew and loved but only if you took your glasses off and squinted.
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Can't Never Tried
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I don't think anyone has a problem with the color, or the weight reduction, it's the bounce of the puck, and yes it's rediculus.
I think if they could change the composition (durometer) of the rubber, to say give it less bounce, you could achieve the intent without the frustration.
They do add more challenge to the chuck-a-puck though
I think if they could change the composition (durometer) of the rubber, to say give it less bounce, you could achieve the intent without the frustration.
They do add more challenge to the chuck-a-puck though
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PanthersIn2011
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Can't Never Tried
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1) like the solution offered regarding the make-up of the puckCan't Never Tried wrote:What's your point...BoogeyMan wrote:Chuck a puck? I wonder where you're from?
2) I can't win in chuck a puck no matter what I'm tossing
3) it's call provincialism - me thinkth he believeth that Chaska is the only community to do chuck-a-puck.
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Can't Never Tried
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Yeah, we just heard about it here in RogerstomASS wrote:1) like the solution offered regarding the make-up of the puckCan't Never Tried wrote:What's your point...BoogeyMan wrote:Chuck a puck? I wonder where you're from?
2) I can't win in chuck a puck no matter what I'm tossing
3) it's call provincialism - me thinkth he believeth that Chaska is the only community to do chuck-a-puck.
I hope that helps him figure out where I'm from
I wasn't to obvious was I ???
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My_Kid_Loves_Hockey
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Can't Never Tried wrote:Yeah, we just heard about it here in RogerstomASS wrote:1) like the solution offered regarding the make-up of the puckCan't Never Tried wrote: What's your point...
2) I can't win in chuck a puck no matter what I'm tossing
3) it's call provincialism - me thinkth he believeth that Chaska is the only community to do chuck-a-puck.
I hope that helps him figure out where I'm from
I wasn't to obvious was I ???
My brother lives in Rogers, he's kinda slow, also.
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Can't Never Tried
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We are a friendly bunch!!elliott70 wrote:Can't Never Tried wrote:Yeah, we just heard about it here in RogerstomASS wrote: 1) like the solution offered regarding the make-up of the puck
2) I can't win in chuck a puck no matter what I'm tossing
3) it's call provincialism - me thinkth he believeth that Chaska is the only community to do chuck-a-puck.
I hope that helps him figure out where I'm from
I wasn't to obvious was I ???
My brother lives in Rogers, he's kinda slow, also.
But it must be your younger brother
as we are still a young growing community Can't Never Tried wrote:We are a friendly bunch!!elliott70 wrote:Can't Never Tried wrote: Yeah, we just heard about it here in Rogers
I hope that helps him figure out where I'm from
I wasn't to obvious was I ???
My brother lives in Rogers, he's kinda slow, also.
But it must be your younger brother
Yes, younger; but I am better looking, smarter, tougher...
need I continue.
(And ain't everybody a bit younger den me.)
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WoodStickSniper
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No
Kids need to learn to deal and if mabey they cant lift the puck untill their second year of squirts then so be it. Mn hockey has produced many good players who started playing with a normal puck. or playing on the pond with a 1 pound rock.
We are turning the generation below us into pansies.
We are turning the generation below us into pansies.
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Can't Never Tried
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Yes I believe you probably have a few years even on Moseselliott70 wrote:Can't Never Tried wrote:We are a friendly bunch!!elliott70 wrote:
My brother lives in Rogers, he's kinda slow, also.
But it must be your younger brother
Yes, younger; but I am better looking, smarter, tougher...
need I continue.
(And ain't everybody a bit younger den me.)
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Can't Never Tried
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ON IT!tomASS wrote:Are you saying elliot was on the ark ???
He still uses it when he's crappie fishing, but he did rig it with an old 7hp Johnson sea horse, as the joints aren't what they used to be when it was new!
Better get back to those blue pucks though, I have found they make excellent vibration dampers under my air compressor...and that's about it.
