Spider Monkeys vs the Tribe this Sunday in Volume 2 of the new Sunday Night Hockey Series. Keller has been solid for a long time now, and are always at the top of the standings. The Monkeys are fresh off an overtime win over the reigning champion Killer Bees, so expect a good one here.
The Spider Monkeys have been at the bottom of the standings for a long time, however last season they did log a playoff win, and they have already knocked off the mighty Bees this season. The team is under new management as of last season, and really showing signs of life.
The Tribe is a staple in the Bronze League, always solid, always a winning organization, and always difficult to beat. Netminder Kacy the Birdman Bird has had time to figure things out back in net, and is turning into one of the best goalies in the league.
I think the overtime madness continues and this one goes all the way to a shoot out with the Monkeys coming out on top.
The question here really is how many Keller High School players will the Indians bring? It is still a developmental league, but not to the indians who most all play in the silver league except maybe one or two people.
ReplyDeleteI concur...those guys will throw down a ringer or two or three almost every given game. Could be a massicure in the making.
ReplyDeleteis a massicure as bunch of killing and having your nails done all at once?
ReplyDeleteWell as expected the Indians brought out many of the Silver League team. Don't believe me, just cross reference a box score from the two and see the names in common. The Monkeys were out shot by a 4-1 margin as the puck stayed in their zone most the game.
ReplyDeleteLet me ask the question, how does bringing in a bunch of skilled players make instructional league better? How can one feel good about winning that way and how good can a team feel playing against it?
And don't give me the BS line that "we are not taking shots, just helping out our begginers". Well when your picking pucks away from true newbies to the sport and not it's taking away from the flow of a true intructional league game. Not to mention the game went run clock so to add insult to injury your robbing a true I league team of precious ice time that is needed to get better. When are advanced players going to be shamed enough to sit on the bench and coach players versus going out and controlling a game meant for begginers? I guess staring in your own show is justification in itself. Shame on all the Silver leaguers who turn this league from giving begginers a chance to robbing true I leagers of playing the game at their own level with like players.
It is funny how high the Spider Monkeys were after beating the Stingers but they come crashing back to reality when they get beat. To put it frank, the Spider Monkeys were simply out played and out hustled in every aspect of the game. Don't give me the crap about cross referencing the two leagues, the bulk of the players on the Indians bronze league team belong in the bronze league. The ones that play on both teams are getting better because they aren't afraid to play competition at a higher level. They routinely get beat but they keep coming out for more. If you want to go one further, there are a number of Indian players that play in the over-35 league, are you going to bitch that they don't belong because they play in that league as well? Tonight was all about winning the battles in the corners, puck control, and all of the Indian players stepping up. This team is comprised mainly of parents both moms and dads of Keller students, the youngest player is 25ish with the vast majority in their 40's-50's. Again, the vast majority are newer players to hockey with a couple of years experience playing. The difference is they come to practices, they play in advanced leagues, and they all play together. Tonight the Spider Monkeys got beat by a better team. If you take a look at the stat sheets, you will see that the goal scoring was spread pretty evenly across the board with both moms scoring goals as well. Please don't come on here bitching when you lose, especially after gloating about beating the Stingers last week.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall a lot of gloating from the Monkeys about beating a Stingers team who to their credit re-booted the team with true begginers. A advanced level player playing bronze is like a High School baseball player going back to jump in on a T-ball game. The guy who doesn't have self esteem and micro-penis issues would simply decline saying ..been there done that..and watch and cheer from the stands. Everyone starts at the lower level, it's the ones who hang on too long for what ever self serving ego reason that taint the instructional league.
ReplyDelete"the difference is they come to practices and play in advanced leagues". If they're playing in advanced leagues why do they need to play in the bronze league. Not the best argument.
ReplyDeleteA hockey player should be able to play in only one league (Bronze or Silver or Gold) at Nytex and that is it. The skill level to be determined by hockey director where he or she plays. This would put a stop to the ringers in each league.
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ReplyDeleteSit'n on a toilet!
ReplyDeleteFrom what I have heard the jump from Bronze to Silver is huge. So while one might be considered a ringer here I can see why they don't want to move up. I wouldn't want to pay money not to touch the puck. This thing needs to be revamped on all levels and then nobody will have a problem competing where they belong.
ReplyDeleteAll the complaining aside and I know everyone has heard it before but Sunday was my last game at Nytex. My wife and I are moving back home at the end of the week. I've really enjoyed playing with everyone in both the Silver and Bronze leagues.
ReplyDeleteTake care,
Kacy
Kacy I enjoyed playing games against you and i enjoyed playing games with you. I never got a goal on you though as the Indians netminder. good luck back home. Sorry i could make it there friday for you send off.
ReplyDeleteBrandon
#10 jets
Kacy:
ReplyDeleteWe have heard this story before about you moving back home to Iowa. Then you continue to play hockey at Nytex.
Kacy:
ReplyDeleteWe have heard you before saying you are moving back home to Iowa. Then you say last minute you are staying and continue to play at Nytex. Just a way to get attention.
Nytex only has two leagues currently Bronze and Silver. Gold folded not enough teams. There is no instructional or developmental league. I know that I play Bronze because I like helping other learn and I am willing to help any one who asks for help. I am not out to live any so called glory years (there really were none to relive)and any signs of me having skill are kind of like when Frank the tank blacked out during the debate in Old School. ha ha. So put the complaining away and take advantage of the fact that you are playing against more experienced players and learn from them. Ask them how do they control the puck or improve their skating and so on. That is how you get better. Have a good one folks.
ReplyDelete#23 Whalers
Hmmm, so playing with more experienced players helps your game...so why don't those ringers go to Silver and Gold to help their games. Better yet, a person who has never played should just go straight to Gold league and really learn quick!
ReplyDeleteJesus, guys, it's not hard o figure this shit out.....
ReplyDeleteAs long as there is 3 leagues at any rink in any city, you will have this problem.
The only way to fix it is to have 4 leagues and 2 sheets of ice. How many times does this have to be brought up?
On the flip side, NYTEX is doing what they feel is right from a business standpoint. Does that always work out to the consumer's advantage? NO, as we have seen.... Still the fact remains, until the management of this rink has a clear cut indication that they can support 4 leagues, they won't pull the trigger.
In the end, it is up to each of us as players to see this and do the right thing. Will that happen? I seriously doubt it. As long as there are those who feel the need to play below thier means, we will have this. It is simple ego stroking. But, we can feel comforted in knowing those who feel the need to get thier weekly fix of ego stroking, probable go home at night and stroke something else, too.....
I look forward to the day when we can sign up for a league we belong in and play against others of equal talent and all have a good time doing it!
So far, it has only been a pipe dream.
Whne will someone in a position of power and authority figure this shit out?
Just sayin'........
Blackhawks #9
ReplyDeleteYou really are a douche bag.
Kacy:
Good luck back home, have some taco johns for me.
The Bronze League is the best adult hockey league in the state of Texas. 12 teams all with unique identities from the money traders of TD Ameritrade, Pilots of the Puddle Jumpers, Air Traffic Controllers with Severe Icing, Keller Parents, youth of the Sens and rampage, to the mysterious MIB, this league has more to offer than any other adult league in the Lone Star State. Four leagues sounds amazing, and will someday come to life. But for now enjoy the Bronze League, the Stanley Keg, and harrassing each other on the blog.
ReplyDeleteSame shit different day.
ReplyDeleteIt's Nytex's own fault for encouraging this behavior, or allowing players that ware far too talented to play in either league. Obviously, when they combined the Gold and Silver Leagues, it was a business-related decision for the front office, but it damned the Bronze League into another few years of players like those high-schoolers and Ryan Kelly from the Indians, #23 from the Whalers, who so eloquently dodged the fact, or perhaps blocked from his mind, that not letting your teammates touch the puck as you score several goals in a game helps your teammates less than it helps the other team, and anyone else that truly doesn't belong in the Bronze League to stick around, make life miserable for the majority of the players in the Bronze League trying to get better by playing hockey, rather than get better by watching 2-3 people who are already fantastic play hockey by themselves and call it "helpful" to their teammates. Most of us have been on a team with someone who doesn't deserve to play in Bronze before. There has been so many, there's no denying it. But it's how a team deals with it that develops character. I know not everyone on the Indians, the PJs, the Whalers, the Sens, etc. is delusional enough to think that they need the example of a ranger or three playing nearby them to get better. Yes, it will likely make those honest, few teams lose some games, but that's how you start to play a team-game, and that's how you get better --not by having 1 or 2 guys come out for every game and score all of your teams' goals, make every good defensive play, rarely, if ever, pass the puck, and pick up their play when the chips are down, regardless of whether their team can/should actually win a game.
ReplyDeletePeople are dumb. Especially in this league. Ringers won't go away as long as the other people on their teams don't ask them to. If you spend all your time on this blog flaming other teams with ringers, you're wasting time that could be spent practicing hockey to make yourself better. If you're not willing to practice, alone if you have to, then you have no right to complain about anyone else being better than you anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe large number of players in this league that don't deserve to play in it, skill wise, make ringers a necessity. If every team asked its overly talented few to leave, the league would be a more wonderful place for all true Bronzers. Of course, people are too fond of winning, even if not by the virtue of their own play, to do that. Time and time again, those same, exact ringers show up and dominate games because their teammates are too scared not to have them every night, which is sad.
Moral of the story; name me one team that has never called out a ringer for a game. Better yet, name a team that hasn't had that same ringer out for multiple games. You can't. Other than the brand new teams since, say, last season, that haven't had a chance to yet, every single team has done it, though some more than others. And it seems like those that have done it more keep winning the Cup... Hmmm...
Yay Nytex for encouraging such a retarded idea as a two-league system where players can keep playing over and over, ruining gameplay from game to game for otherwise satisfied, paying customers.
Lots of ideas floating around on this thread. Why doesnt one of you guys with enough time on their hands to post these long diatribes about fairness in the league take a copy of the rules and modify it to how you think the league should be then send it in to Knute or Faye or Chad.
ReplyDeleteLast I checked, there is no drug testing in the league. Why don't all of us non-ringers get jacked up on Steroids and HGH. Then, that would even the playing field and we would all be equally wonderful and live happily ever after. All games would end in ties and no one would get their feelings hurt.
ReplyDeleteWhalers #6
You must be joke of a high school player to be in i-league...maybe Keller should invest in some duct tape for it's army of benders
ReplyDeleteYeah and President Obama is going to fix everything wrong with this country by turning it into a Muslim nation. Get used to this shit fuckers.....
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I don't want to use steroids. I like my balls too much...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I like your balls too much, too. So nice and round.
ReplyDeleteSomeone above mentioned Sens and ringer in the same sentence yet they haven't won a game yet.
ReplyDeleteFor the gent that wrote... #23 from the Whalers, who so eloquently dodged the fact, or perhaps blocked from his mind, that not letting your teammates touch the puck as you score several goals in a game helps your teammates less than it helps the other team,... I know that I have scored goals but not many are of the rushing up the ice variety I think you have me confused with some one else on our team. Yes I handle the puck a lot because I like to try and set up my teammates for goals, I am pretty sure that if you ask any one on the team I pass too much they want me to shoot more. the brutal truth is I have a very weak shot so I don't like shooting. I was on the team when we we only won 1 game as well so it was not due to my arrival that the Whalers are winning. Our team has been working together as a whole every one is familar where each other are and supporting one another.. They are playing positional hockey and that is what I was talking about having experienced players on a team really helps. Thank you for the pat on the back suggesting that I personally step it up when the chips are down and carry the team on my back. I really don't More Game winners and tying goals have come from my teammates than myself. So thanks for the input and feel free to let me know who you are and I would be happy to help you out on anything you need help on in hockey if I can. I am serious my name is Bill.
ReplyDelete#23 Whalers.
The reason the Whalers turned their ship around and went from a one win team to contenders for the Keg is simple, they practice. At least five of them have enrolled in stick and puck sessions at Nytex to work on their skills, they come out to open hockey sessions, and they listen to their coach. Not to mention they all work together so they are constantly talking about hockey and improving the team and what have you.
ReplyDeleteStingers recipe for success was that they kept the team together, rarely adding in new players, and always having a core group show up for games and practices. They understand each others rolls with the team, and work together better than any other team out there at Nytex. Now the recipe has been changed, they formed a Silver team, and brought in a whole new cast of characters so the odds on them winning the Keg this season are slim to none.
Indians are the same way as the Stingers. Plus they add in high school varsity players and players like the Kelly Boys who should stay up in the Silver/Gold.
Jets and Sens seam to always be changing up their teams.
Rampage, Icing, and Average Joes are too young to really know what they are capaable of yet.
MIB is probably another Stingers in the making, watch out for them.
Bandits could be another stingers in the making. As long as they keep their strong defensive core together they should be a threat in the league.
And OW MY BALLS is a genius idea for a show
There are 3 leagues still. Bronze, Silver, and Over 35 league. Take your pick.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't handle any of the above. There is always "Basket Weaving"
Many novels being written in this blog. The Bronze League bitching continues. It will never quit. The ones that can't get better do the most bitching.
ReplyDeleteBlackhawks # 9...
ReplyDeleteYou are a fucking idiot.
What the fuck do you want? I can't figure your pretzle logic out....
You are a wishy washy as a newcomer to the Oak Lawn area. On one hand you seem to have a grasp of the obvious and on the other you seem to have grasp of your dick. I guess it is better than having your hand on someone else's dick, but I wouldn't put it past you. Damn, son, make up your mind.....
Open the West rink and field 4 leagues. If you build it, they will come....
ReplyDeleteFellas I wish that I could be opened up. Its hot in the texas summer, and I miss my nice cool ice top. Plus all the soccer players running around after eating beans and tacos smell real bad.
ReplyDeleteThe rink could support four league if they would open me, but its just not that simple.
Hey West Rink! Unfortuantely you were built in Texas where the bad smelling taco and bean eaters are the majority. So the "nice cool ice top" are out of the question. Let's focus our energy on your friend next door before he too is covered in artifical grass.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Knute will allow that to happen as he does not play soccer.
ReplyDeleteWhen #99, #66, #9 post on blog it always seems to stir up things on here. Why is that?
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's about what he plays. I am assuming he does not play volleyball either. But two rinks were replaced by other sports. I think everything is fine at NYTEX but I don't see more ice anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteGoing back to the fifth post on this thread...
ReplyDelete"It is funny how high the Spider Monkeys were after beating the Stingers but they come crashing back to reality when they get beat."
Please give specific examples of SM players "gloating" or otherwise smack-talking that they are now hockey God's. You can't gloat too much when you consistently give up leads and have to win in the last seconds of OT. Had the game gone to a shootout, Stingers would have won - no question.
"To put it frank, the Spider Monkeys were simply out played and out hustled in every aspect of the game"
I have to agree with this statement, as Keller overall is a tighter team with a concept of position play and flow. However, there were two players, who coincidentally DIDN'T have K.I. jerseys who could do whatever they wanted, at will, at any time. The shorter guy with Leafs socks and a bigger guy with no face protection. Don't know their names, don't care. The Indians didn't need to bring them out to win that game against a true I-League team. (I make that comment with the support of the fact that the Monkey's are never mentioned or accused of bringing ringers to the table. Even the post from Jacob above omits them from the discussion). Yes, the Monkey's beat a short-handed PJ's in the tournament, and beat the revamped Stingers in a close game between true I-Leaguers. But to continually justify using over-skilled players in Bronze as "teaching" is just denial that you know you're doing anything than ego-stroking.
Personally - I don't care who teams bring to the table. If we're getting killed, then I look to make it one-on-one battles when I'm on D, or challenge myself to beat them when rushing the puck. Some days I win, some I don't. Would I like the Monkey's to be better than 1-2 wins a season, hell yes. Some of them put in a lot of hours at open hockey or puck and stick, but not everyone can. They are a fun bunch of guys to skate with and I get a lot out of seeing individual improvement from season to season.
The sad reality, and it's stated by many people on this thread and others, is that it's never going to change unless NYTEX steps in with some kind of unbiased rating system and dictates what leagues people can play in. I can't control who my opponent brings to play, so my philosophy is come out, skate hard, try to have fun, help the weaker players, and get a good workout. Anything beyond that is wasted energy and detracts from the fact that every time I step on the ice is a blessing and I feel that is how everyone should look at it.
Monkeys #24
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