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Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:56 pm**

Time to get rid of them or accept them for what they are?

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:09 pm**

If you want to get rid of the blue puck, convince USA Hockey.That is where the mandate is coming from.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:41 am**

I think the Russians are big promoters(sp) of the blue puck.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:05 am**

Blue pucks are for Mini mites...thats it. Any other use should be banned!

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:07 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:38 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:36 am**

Blue pucks????

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:00 am**

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

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:17 am**

elliott70 wrote:Blue pucks????

They go well with clear boards. How 'bout them Minnesota Fighting Saints!

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:42 am**

Chuck a puck? I wonder where you're from?

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:02 pm**

BoogeyMan wrote:Chuck a puck? I wonder where you're from?

What's your point...

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:39 pm**

Can't Never Tried wrote:
BoogeyMan wrote:Chuck a puck? I wonder where you're from?
What's your point...

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.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:42 pm**

tomASS wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote:
BoogeyMan wrote:Chuck a puck? I wonder where you're from?
What's your point...

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:44 pm**

elliott70 wrote:
tomASS wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote: What's your point...

sorry elliot - all these buttons and thingamajigs on my computer confuse me from time to time

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:31 pm**

tomASS wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote:
BoogeyMan wrote:Chuck a puck? I wonder where you're from?
What's your point...
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.

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 ???

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:00 pm**

I hate th blue pucks, kids learn that they can hit the upper corners with them and next thing you know, that's where they always want to shoot.

I love watching the kids move to the standard puck and not be able to shoot worth a darn.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:25 pm**

Can't Never Tried wrote:
tomASS wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote: What's your point...
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.
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.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:43 pm**

elliott70 wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote:
tomASS 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.
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.

We are a friendly bunch!!

But it must be your younger brother

as we are still a young growing community

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:17 pm**

Can't Never Tried wrote:
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.
We are a friendly bunch!!

But it must be your younger brother as we are still a young growing community

Yes, younger; but I am better looking, smarter, tougher...
need I continue.

(And ain't everybody a bit younger den me.)

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:42 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:10 am**

elliott70 wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote:
elliott70 wrote:
My brother lives in Rogers, he's kinda slow, also.
We are a friendly bunch!!

But it must be your younger brother as we are still a young growing community

Yes, younger; but I am better looking, smarter, tougher...
need I continue.

(And ain't everybody a bit younger den me.)

Yes I believe you probably have a few years even on Moses

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:13 am**

Are you saying elliot was on the ark ???

Very cool .........the first cruise line vacation

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:29 am**

tomASS wrote:Are you saying elliot was on the ark ???

ON IT!
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.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:32 am**

if you string them together, they go nicely with the blue lights and are the perfect adornment to the Hanukkah tree

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:58 am**

tomASS wrote:Are you saying elliot was on the ark ???

Very cool .........the first cruise line vacation

No cruise for me, I was on animal duty, back-end duty.

But if ya'll want da see da boat.......

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