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Feilan wrote:^^^That was fun to watch: someone doing something beautiful with joy and integrity. I don't know much about rugby except for legendary tales of bruising and that it's played with a ball that looks familiar - I note he 'dribbled' the ball -or- *bounced it* in mid run - is that required or just cool?
**turned off the poxy music in favour of not-poxy options**
82_28 wrote:Yep, it's tonight. The Bruins will come out hard, harder than hard, hard hard hard. I look for a brutal game. The way Vancouver has played in Boston, I just don't know if they'll be up to it. It hinges on Luongo keeping his shit together in the crease and a goal or two on offense to keep things tight to make it winnable. They just can't collapse to the unrelenting attack.
It could also be, it just occurred to me time zone differences could be affecting the disparity in home ice scores. My lady just flew out to Ohio (via Atlanta -- so Seattle-Atlanta-Ohio-work YUCK) yesterday for work and is expected to get up here in a few as she happens to be texting me as I write this. I'm just about to go to bed and she's now having to get up at an abnormal time for her as it would be on the west coast, but now finds herself on the east coast getting up three hours earlier and she don't gotta play no hockey today.
Joe Hillshoist wrote:This game is NOT rugby, not in any form . (Although I think most people know that and keep calling it rugby to stir me. Which is appropriate really given we're talking about sport. There is a notorious rivalry in Australian between Aussie Rules and Rugby.) As far as football codes go, Australian football, grid iron and rugby all use a similar shaped ball. Aussie rules is the only one that really focuses on kicking tho. In the other codes only a few specialists kick the ball - in grid iron they have special players and all they do is kick. Basically its played on a massive field with people all over the place.
Imagine basketball on a field 150 metres long and 120 wide and you get the idea. No line of scrimmage or anything like that. Cos of that there are limits on how far you can run with the ball, 15 metres, if you run any further you have to bounce it like you saw, or touch the ball to the ground. Its not an exact thing tho, usually the umpires will give a player a bit of leeway, so you can up to 20 metres sometimes. The game is 4 20 minute quarters, with time off for most stoppages, each quarter averages half an hour or more, and the stoppage time is usually full or running or wrestling to position. Most players run 12 to 19 km a game, about a third of that flat out. The last quarter ... it can hurt, cos you have to run with your opponent all day. Sometimes you run halfway up the ground and back twice during a stoppage just to tire your player enough to get the few metres head start you need to do the stuff you saw in that video above. If your opponent does it you have to stay with them cos a man loose (ie more than a couple of metres from his opponent) can wreak havoc. And you have to be prepared to go flat outwhen the ball does come not matter how fucked you are. The best things about playing aussie rules are the freedom and the focus on one on one contests.
It'd make more sense to ice hockey players than some sports tho, cos of the way you need to control possession and score goals on an open field.
82_28 wrote:It could also be, it just occurred to me time zone differences could be affecting the disparity in home ice scores. My lady just flew out to Ohio (via Atlanta -- so Seattle-Atlanta-Ohio-work YUCK) yesterday for work and is expected to get up here in a few as she happens to be texting me as I write this. I'm just about to go to bed and she's now having to get up at an abnormal time for her as it would be on the west coast, but now finds herself on the east coast getting up three hours earlier and she don't gotta play no hockey today.
82_28 wrote:I don't know what Van is gonna do at this point. . .
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