You Know What Really Grinds My Gears....The Sequel!

[undercoverbrother]

Tiering in hockey grinds my gears.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by fotze

What does that mean?

My daughter's team is the lowest tiered team in Sylvan, tier 5.



We arranged a mini-tourny with 3 other Calgary teams, that were low tier. It was a year end event. Their tiering was lower than ours, but before I have seen Sylvan tier five teams play Calgary tier five teams and get fed their lunch.

The 3 teams we played were well below us. We killed them, and looked like a bunch of #######s. We wanted all the teams to be close, and for the kids to have fun and have close competion. Luckly, the organizer and other coaches were understanding of the mistake.

In short it is tuff to figure out where rural teams match up with city teams.

[Table 5]

5th-tier problems.

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by 4X4

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My sis is scouring dollar stores right now, but no luck. Basically looking for a Crown Royal bag, but white.

Inside Avenue Antiques on Blackfoot Tr. had pretty cool ones for $15 a week ago.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

My daughter's team is the lowest tiered team in Sylvan, tier 5.



We arranged a mini-tourny with 3 other Calgary teams, that were low tier. It was a year end event. Their tiering was lower than ours, but before I have seen Sylvan tier five teams play Calgary tier five teams and get fed their lunch.

The 3 teams we played were well below us. We killed them, and looked like a bunch of #######s. We wanted all the teams to be close, and for the kids to have fun and have close competion. Luckly, the organizer and other coaches were understanding of the mistake.

In short it is tuff to figure out where rural teams match up with city teams.

We had the same problem except reverse. A Calgary Bantam Div 1 (below AAA and AA) team went to Sylvan in a Bantam A tournament and destroyed all the teams. The Sylvan team was coached by the school principal. He screamed at my coaching partner and myself in the middle of the ice after the game. Called us f*gs and homos and tried to fight us in the parking lot.

Stay classy Sylvan Lake.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by MattyC

We had the same problem except reverse. A Calgary Bantam Div 1 (below AAA and AA) team went to Sylvan in a Bantam A tournament and destroyed all the teams. The Sylvan team was coached by the school principal. He screamed at my coaching partner and myself in the middle of the ice after the game. Called us f*gs and homos and tried to fight us in the parking lot.

Stay classy Sylvan Lake.

pm'd

[J epworth]

Originally Posted by MattyC

We had the same problem except reverse. A Calgary Bantam Div 1 (below AAA and AA) team went to Sylvan in a Bantam A tournament and destroyed all the teams. The Sylvan team was coached by the school principal. He screamed at my coaching partner and myself in the middle of the ice after the game. Called us f*gs and homos and tried to fight us in the parking lot.

Stay classy Sylvan Lake.

Ya I found back in Bantam 1 that it's a weird level of competition compared to the rest of the country. Had the same experience sort of as you, we had a winter tournament where we played Bantam A teams in BC, destroyed them all, so then did a AA tournament out in Maple Ridge BC in Spring and I think we won 1, lost 3, and were for the most part out of our league.

Bantam 1 is a weird level of hockey in Calgary since they stopped having Bantam AA club teams, you get some great 1st year players and also bubble 2nd years, mixed in with kids who back in Atom and Peewee never even sniffed at division 1 hockey before.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by J epworth kendal

Bantam 1 is a weird level of hockey in Calgary since they stopped having Bantam AA club teams, you get some great 1st year players and also bubble 2nd years, mixed in with kids who back in Atom and Peewee never even sniffed at division 1 hockey before.

It's actually changed now as each quadrant has 3 AA clubs and one AAA. But we find that when we cut a kid from AA they often end up playing div 2 or 3 in their community. Telling us there is a host of kids that could be playing higher levels and just dont.

[2ArmBands]

Originally Posted by MattyC

It's actually changed now as each quadrant has 3 AA clubs and one AAA. But we find that when we cut a kid from AA they often end up playing div 2 or 3 in their community. Telling us there is a host of kids that could be playing higher levels and just dont.

Yep... I can confirm that as well. I officiate hockey from the Bantam AA to JrB levels on the rural side of things. Same can be said outside of the city where I notice Tier 1 players could easily make the AA team. A lot of kids at this age start to play other sports and have other interests. I think for at least 1 kid on every T1 team (AA cut) is unfortunately on the wrong side of the politics game.

Tournaments can be very difficult to gauge when you have teams and associations with completely different populations and have no way to gauge competitive level.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by 2ArmBands

Yep... I can confirm that as well. I officiate hockey from the Bantam AA to JrB levels on the rural side of things. Same can be said outside of the city where I notice Tier 1 players could easily make the AA team. A lot of kids at this age start to play other sports and have other interests. I think for at least 1 kid on every T1 team (AA cut) is unfortunately on the wrong side of the politics game.

Tournaments can be very difficult to gauge when you have teams and associations with completely different populations and have no way to gauge competitive level.

There is also the cost issues. There are kids that could play AA, but the parents can't afford it.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Shaw gatweway crashing on us GMG....just in time for a show that i've been following series finale. YAY!

[MrMastodonFarm]

Cameron Diaz.

[jayswin]

I don't know how people are able to make a scene over certain things in public. I picked up water on the way home at Petro Canada, and a lady comes storming in, flailing her arms and saying...

"Please CANCEL my fill up! Your sign is just being changed from $1.19 to $1.24, and when I got to the pump it was already at $1.24. I specifically stopped in here because of the $1.19!

Are you going to cancel it, I've already got it set up, and you'd BETTER be able to cancel it!"

Just making a total scene, and trying to bring some other guy in on it.." That guy out there is also coming in to demand the same thing (Guy's just out there pumping his gas, as he likely just nodded his head so she'd stop talking to him).

Just embarrassing, making a total scene and shouting. The immigrant lady at the till, who can only kind of speak English is just all polite and not getting upset or anything. Probably just thinking "****, another psycho white woman who can't control herself over the littlest thing. Give her one year in home country and she'd pray for the day when this was the worst thing to happen in a day".

I don't get public outbursts, I honestly don't. I understand a little arguing or putting your foot down when service is bad. But acting out like a teenager (and not trying to be that guy, but more often than not it's middle aged women involved in these embarrassing attempts at publicly humiliating and berating another human being) is just so odd.

[Minnie]

It really rather grinds my gears when an old fart driving 20 km under the speed limit on Hwy1 eastbound , in the right hand lane, decides he's going to suddenly turn at an intersection (just past the last turn at Chestermere, where you turn to get to Kinniburgh), and drives across the left lane to get into the west bound lanes of traffic.

No signal, nothing. Just "oh I think I'll go westbound back toward the city now, so let's just try to kill ourselves and possibly others, by driving in front of the rest of the traffic going highway speed, across 2 lanes of traffic - la la la la la" - 2 lanes of traffic trying to do a brake stand at highway speed, so much fun. Guy didn't even look at the east bound traffic he'd just given heart attacks to, as he meandered across the 2 lanes of traffic.

Jeebus, pull into the Kinniburgh turn out, turn around safely in someone's driveway entrance, then cross the east bound lanes of traffic when it's safe to do so, to return west bound. Everyone that had to jam on the brakes just kind of looked at each other and shook their heads and away we all went again.

[Sr. Mints]

When old people stare at you while you're eating at a restaurant with the judgmental eyes of senility. They just STARE, then they look away for a second when you meet their eyes, then their staring returns as soon as you look away.

[J epworth]

Originally Posted by Minnie

It really rather grinds my gears when an old fart driving 20 km under the speed limit on Hwy1 eastbound , in the right hand lane, decides he's going to suddenly turn at an intersection (just past the last turn at Chestermere, where you turn to get to Kinniburgh), and drives across the left lane to get into the west bound lanes of traffic.

No signal, nothing. Just "oh I think I'll go westbound back toward the city now, so let's just try to kill ourselves and possibly others, by driving in front of the rest of the traffic going highway speed, across 2 lanes of traffic - la la la la la" - 2 lanes of traffic trying to do a brake stand at highway speed, so much fun. Guy didn't even look at the east bound traffic he'd just given heart attacks to, as he meandered across the 2 lanes of traffic.

Jeebus, pull into the Kinniburgh turn out, turn around safely in someone's driveway entrance, then cross the east bound lanes of traffic when it's safe to do so, to return west bound. Everyone that had to jam on the brakes just kind of looked at each other and shook their heads and away we all went again.

Better yet, just turn at the highway 9 overpass and you don't have to worry about crossing the Trans Canada. That would infuriate me as well, it's not like their isn't any options to safely turn around on that section of highway!

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Just making a total scene, and trying to bring some other guy in on it.." That guy out there is also coming in to demand the same thing (Guy's just out there pumping his gas, as he likely just nodded his head so she'd stop talking to him).

That's usually the worst thing about these types of people. They always look around and try to bring others into their melodrama.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by flameswin

I don't know how people are able to make a scene over certain things in public. I picked up water on the way home at Petro Canada, and a lady comes storming in, flailing her arms and saying...

"Please CANCEL my fill up! Your sign is just being changed from $1.19 to $1.24, and when I got to the pump it was already at $1.24. I specifically stopped in here because of the $1.19!

Are you going to cancel it, I've already got it set up, and you'd BETTER be able to cancel it!"

Just making a total scene, and trying to bring some other guy in on it.." That guy out there is also coming in to demand the same thing (Guy's just out there pumping his gas, as he likely just nodded his head so she'd stop talking to him).

Just embarrassing, making a total scene and shouting. The immigrant lady at the till, who can only kind of speak English is just all polite and not getting upset or anything. Probably just thinking "****, another psycho white woman who can't control herself over the littlest thing. Give her one year in home country and she'd pray for the day when this was the worst thing to happen in a day".

I don't get public outbursts, I honestly don't. I understand a little arguing or putting your foot down when service is bad. But acting out like a teenager (and not trying to be that guy, but more often than not it's middle aged women involved in these embarrassing attempts at publicly humiliating and berating another human being) is just so odd.

Why do they have to change prices in the middle of the day causing an innocent cashier to have to deal with situations like this? It RGMG that they can't do this in the middle of the night. I've talked to more than a few gas station attendants who think much the same. It's a hassle for them to find a slow period where they can make the change without ticking off the customer.

[ken0042]

Or at the very least change the sign first. When I was pumping gas I only ever had one person complain that the pump price was lower than the sign price. (Owner of a competing gas station, I'd change the sign facing his station first. He'd raise his price, and people seeing we were cheaper would come into our station.)

That was back in the 80s and we knew hours ahead of time of price increases coming. It wasn't hard to change the sign at 1:00, then change the pumps at 2:00.

[justkidding]

Why not change the sign first when the price goes up and then the pumps? Customer happy.

Edit:
Beaten to it!