#roller hockey

[chrissy-kaos]

Let's goooo.. gotta get them reps in before the season starts Monday. I'm pretty excited to be back.

[incidentale]

heatwavearena : Elvis Merzlikins hit the “Texier Fire Poker” during a penalty shot. One handed, just over the goalie’s stick

[whyisit4am]

LET'S GO AUSTRALIA

[icm-art]

URGENT: Our rink lease is under attack from a competing bid! The showgrounds go against their mission to provide mutli-use community spaces in favor of the highest bidder. We may lose access to the only derby-friendly rink Fri, 6/30. PLEASE SIGN & SHARE https://chng.it/sfBDZxbY42

[heartbreakshot]

The 1994 Roller Hockey International. Part 3 of 3: My personal favourites.

Vancouver VooDoo has been intentionally omitted.

[stonerskeletor]

i was complaining about this on bsky earlier but i am so jealous of sports fans who are into like,,, normal and popular sports

trying to explain quad hockey to ice hockey fans feels like trying to explain quantum physics to someone in grade 5

i bet it is so cool to have your favourite sport regularly represented at the olympics and/or have a league that is well-known

i know the easiest solution is just "try to find a popular sport to get into" but unfortunately i don't think anything will replace my love of quad hockey

[rollerhockeytalk]

https://www.rollerhockeytalk.com/best-roller-hockey-wheels/

[coachchic]

I just finished a post that will both help a lot of #hockey friends with their gear, and show some strangers what it's like to be a member of my site... https://coachchic.com/jerry-zs-new-stick/

[fcpforever]

Helder Nunes is back!!

[incidentale]

heatwavearena : Elvis rips the game winner in 3v3 OT to bring the Worms to the Championship🫡🔥

[overtake]

This is a super short (550-ish words) snippet from the maxiel hockey au I got 30k into before life got in the way. I’ll probably never finish it, so have this random scene. For context, Daniel is staying at Max’s home because he has an ankle injury and the only bedroom at his own place had stairs.

Daniel hears Max before he sees him. Based on the frantic pounding down the stairs, you’d think Max was being chased by a fucking murderer.

“Daniel,” the shadowy figure in Daniel’s doorframe says in a shaky, frantic voice. Daniel hasn’t kept his door shut since the cats first started scratching at it and demanding to be let in, and he briefly wonders in the recesses of his sleep-addled mind if Max has ever Edward from Twilighted him and just watched him sleep.

“Hmmph?” Daniel manages. His brain is thick and sluggish through the foggy, sleep haze surrounding it. He tries to prop himself up on one elbow and immediately fails.

“There’s a spider in my room,” Max hisses, as if he’s scared the spider might somehow hear him and immediately attack. “Can you come kill it?”

“I am not walking up stairs right now,” Daniel groans. It was a brutal PT session, and he spent half his afternoon with his ankle wrapped in ice and elevated. Plus, he’s not exactly fond of spiders either.

“I can’t sleep in there,” Max says, and Daniel wants so badly to make fun of him, but there’s an edge of real panic in his voice. Also, Daniel is even more scared of far more embarrassing shit, so he’d never win.

“Stay in here,” Daniel says, reaching an arm behind him to flop at the empty space. “Plenty of room.”

Max only hesitates for a second before crawling in. “Are you sure?” he asks, like he isn’t already sticking his cold toes against Daniel for warmth.

“The terrors will probably kill the spider by morning for us,” Daniel says, letting his head drop back onto his pillow.

“Jimmy and Sassy are not terrors. It’s not nice how you talk about them,” Max says primly as a crash echoes from somewhere upstairs. Daniel doesn’t dignify him with a response.

He feels Max’s weight settle behind him, and a hand reaches out as his eyes drift back shut and lightly caresses his exposed shoulder. “Thank you, Daniel.”

In the morning, Daniel wakes up to find Max curled in a ball around a pillow he somehow stole from under Daniel’s head, quietly letting out cute little snores. Sassy is lying content on the floor nearby with half a dead spider dangling out her mouth.

“That’s your problem to collect and throw away,” he tells a sleeping Max. He’s got freckles on his shoulders, Daniel notices, a whole constellation of them decorating the broad, pale canvas.

He fights the urge to trace the space between them and instead collects Max’s morning Red Bull from the fridge. He leaves it to drip condensation on the bedside table closest to Max’s pillow-creased face, next to a little note that Daniel is out for his morning walk.

Max texts him twenty minutes in to his stroll.

Max Verstappen: thanks for the red bull. okay if i stay again if we don’t find the spider? It was huge.

Daniel gnaws at his cuticle, contemplating his response for half a second. It’s not like he has proof that spider was the one Max saw. Sassy probably got rid of the evidence, so he can’t ask. He doesn’t want to make Max sleep in a room that makes him anxious.

Daniel Ricciardo: Of course. Better to be safe. That spider could be deadly.

Max Verstappen: Need your Australian powers to scare it off

Daniel Ricciardo: 🤺🤺🤺

When he opens the kitchen bin later that day, he sees the body of the spider sitting on the top.

“Crazy girl. You learned how to open the bin,” he coos to Sassy, aiming for a head scratch she runs away from and pretending he doesn’t see the very human tissue wrapped around the remains.

[icm-art]

URGENT: Our rink lease is under attack from a competing bid! The showgrounds go against their mission to provide mutli-use community spaces in favor of the highest bidder. We may lose access to the only derby-friendly rink Fri, 6/30. PLEASE SIGN & SHARE https://chng.it/sfBDZxbY42

[heartbreakshot]

The 1994 Roller Hockey International. Part 2 of 3.

Vancouver VooDoo has been intentionally omitted.

[mattiassamuelsson]

Quick Sabres roller skate guard lore:

It was all started during pre-season of the 2017-18 season by Ryan O'Reilly and has stuck around ever since. They use them (not just bc they're fun, though they obviously are) largely because the Sabres' training facility where they practice (Harborcenter) is across the street from the arena and connected via a tunnel over Perry St on the second floor. Therefore, the team uses their main locker room and facilities in the arena and travels between the two places for practice. It's not that far since the buildings are connected but far enough that it takes a hot second to walk between the two especially in skates — hence the convenience of the roller guards which cut down the time and effort needed to travel between the two. For anyone wondering about the escalators: per a video from a few years ago, they really just let them go on the escalators with their roller guards and miraculously no one has died yet ⬇️

[freebooter4ever]

this might be one of those 'it seemed like a good idea at the time' things

[girlactionfigure]

When the Yeshiva University roller-hockey team finished their game against Syracuse University, Sol Feder saw an opportunity. 

‘Cohen’, was the name on the opposing players jersey, and Sol asked if he was Jewish. 

Cohen happily followed Sol back to the opposing locker room, experiencing not just the power of connection with Hashem but also with His children

Am Yisrael Chai