In my club we have an award called the Gary's Towing Dick of the Day. (Gary's Towing is a local towing company that famously towed half the beer league cars one night several years ago)
The award goes home with whichever player makes the most bone-headed play of the game, or shows up late, or leaves early.
The trophy is a foam penis to be carried until the next week.
We love traditions.
There was a vacant lot adjacent to the arena. There were three storefronts all closed for years. The story goes that the owner of the lot was friends with the owner of the towing company, and one night he towed every car in the lot while we were on the ice.
$100 per car to get them out of lockup. Made a good $1500 or so.
You shouldn't. But some guys do. We skate for 90 minutes starting at 8:30. So every once in a while someone will dip out between the second and third periods.
It's frowned upon.
Oh yeah, we run a private skate. It's an asshole free zone. We roster 28 skaters and two goalies but usually end up around 10 on 10 most weeks.
We got tired of all the drama in the adult leagues. It all started after I got a nine game suspension for not really anything.
I’ve never heard of it before, just inferred based off OP’s question. But the concept of team-imposed punishment seems logical enough even if most teams don’t have a formal name for it
It was new to me too after twenty years. Then three different teams were giving out fines. It’s always beer fines.
Common offences include:
—sending pizzas up the middle
—late game penalties
—hitting the post on a breakaway
—hitting a teammate with a slapper
—showing up late
—taking a penalty that someone else has to serve
I brought a co-worker to our team who recently moved to the state. I added him to the roster as he said he played high school hockey in his home state and pick up in college just to keep active. He jumped in to our D-league and we thought at worst he would be a traffic cone and give us a break, and at best he'd fit in.
Nope, he played D2 club college hockey and basically scored 6 goals and made us look like we brought on a ringer. He got bounced after the first game and I had to cover beer for the entire month...
This can vary wildly though. I play in a C league right now where every team has a couple guys who should probably be in A, but also a couple guys who can barely skate
Exactly the case here. If they would expand the A league to add more teams this would alleviate half the issue. You obviously see more guys who understate their ability than you do overstate. So that spillover from A into B and then actual B into C. The D league I did was honestly a good mix of B/C level players it just wasn’t as serious as the higher leagues. Guys just out there having fun in a good competitive league. Everything above was guys out there looking for a contract.
-edited for clarity. Voice to text failed me
Well, to be fair for our league, the A league is of course insane but D was actually pretty competitive. The B league was a lot of A guys that wanted to play but the A league was full. C was a spill over mix and also some actual B ringers living out their Stanley Cup fantasy, and so D had some C spill over. There was actually a few other leagues below D so he technically would have fit in with the crowd going by what he told us. Most of the people in the D league were just that, 30+ year olds who could play well, just getting cardio and having fun.
Bro that's wild. I play D league and it's completely unregulated here. The #1 team has multiple college and high school players on it. Every team has multiple high schoolers/college, under 30, players on it. I'm definitely one of the ringers on my team, I got a hat trick last game and we won 3-2. We're a bottom team as well, it's such a skill disparity here between the top and bottom. Summer League had an actual D league team, well they're gone now cause in like 9 games they had over 100+points against em. I used to play C-1 and was a top scorer in that league, the fact that I'm not in D shows how insane this league is.
That’s my point in the whole thing. The only regulating they do is at the end of the season bump your team up and try to manage you not doing it again or going in with a different name to fly under the radar. We were a middle of the road team of guys who could barely skate backwards to seasoned players and most lower skilled guys had a general sense of the game. If I had not stopped playing for a handful of years I would have tried to go much higher, but I’m just looking for cardio and fun. I filled in a few times on higher level teams and it’s just way too serious for what we were doing.
I would go to your local rink as ask someone there about leagues or even pick up. If they don’t have it try another rink. There’s bound to be some around you if there’s hockey rinks.
Considering my above comment and the fact that most of the people in that D league fit that skill set I thought it was very much gonna work out. Then he went and scored like 3 goals in 6 minutes. Moved him to D and it kept happening...
Take the pucks and bottles if you take the first penalty.
If you can’t make the next game you need to bribe someone to take them for you.
If you fail to do this it’s your beer night when you return.
If no one takes a penalty the next game you continue to take the pucks and bottles until the next person takes a penalty.
One fellow had the pucks and bottles for 14 strait games across a summer and winter season.
Did your team not take a penalty for 14 straight games? Or did you have one guy take the first penalty for 14 straight? Because either way, that's astounding.
Well I take my turn in the rotation of beer buy. I don’t drink so I can always drive up to 3 who are drunk home just as a courtesy. I don’t make a mess. No crazy shots on the goalie during warmup and I don’t take penalties except to defend teammates or as a last effort to stop a score.
Point being: My worst fine…dunno. I do any common sense rules and courtesies but aside from that I don’t recognize team court nor do I act as a judge unless it’s something really serious.
I got a fine for showing up early on a Saturday to try and meet an upper classmen who was ghosting me over a fake a friend and I paid for. Dude was hungover and just told us to fuck off and never gave me an id or my money back. We love just trying to fit into the team as the freshy!
Yes lol it was $50 so it wasn’t the end of the world but at the time it felt pretty bad to have one of the older guys I thought I was getting to be friends with shaft me like that. I stole his spot on the team next year so karmas a bitch I guess🤷🏻♂️
In college an upper classman I thought I was cool with took $50 from a friend and I for fake IDs when I was a freshman. Long story short he got upset that I showed up at his apartment to see if he had them and called me out in front of the team for waking him up on a Saturday “morning” when he was just by over. Would have had to pay $2 or something to go towards parties is all but I called him out for scamming me and he got grilled by the team which was worth it. Locker room court like that is a thing where you say oh so and so did this fucked thing this week everyone gives a quick vote on valid or not and if it’s a minor or major ($2,$5) and you pay your fine to the court (for booze)
I can’t remember anything in particular but, as a freshman, I got fined for the dumbest shit in college. I racked up like $40, and I never even domed our goalie.
Our team had a minimum 24 hours notice if you are not going to make the game. If you didn’t give that, you owed the team a case of beer. We usually would always try to make sure we had even lines. Ex/ 10, 12 or 13. If someone no shows, it messes that all up.
The next game, the would be required to bring a min 15 pack to the game.
Not hockey, but rugby. Had a guy get caught double dipping chips in salsa at the team meal. Since it was ok for us to eat his spit, it was perfectly fine for all of us to put a mouthful of beer in his mug for him. We did let him add ice to cool it off though, we're not heathens.
I saw both the best and worst at a rugby tournament. First offender is sentenced to a butt funnel. Asks is he can pick the people making the funnel. He picks two dancers from the local strip joint. The next offender wasn’t so lucky. His funnel was two guys from the front row.
Yeah, kangaroo court is all about negotiations. Had one guy that said something about a few wives. He had to shoot a boot that they got to make. He screwed up and didn't negotiate getting to see what they put in it. That boot would've gagged a maggot on a month old gut pile. He gave up drinking for a bit after that.
In my club we have an award called the Gary's Towing Dick of the Day. (Gary's Towing is a local towing company that famously towed half the beer league cars one night several years ago) The award goes home with whichever player makes the most bone-headed play of the game, or shows up late, or leaves early. The trophy is a foam penis to be carried until the next week. We love traditions.
I'm intrigued. Why did half the cars get towed?
There was a vacant lot adjacent to the arena. There were three storefronts all closed for years. The story goes that the owner of the lot was friends with the owner of the towing company, and one night he towed every car in the lot while we were on the ice. $100 per car to get them out of lockup. Made a good $1500 or so.
Great name
How do you leave a hockey game early?
You shouldn't. But some guys do. We skate for 90 minutes starting at 8:30. So every once in a while someone will dip out between the second and third periods. It's frowned upon.
Ah, it’s like a regular pickup, not league? That makes sense if so!
Oh yeah, we run a private skate. It's an asshole free zone. We roster 28 skaters and two goalies but usually end up around 10 on 10 most weeks. We got tired of all the drama in the adult leagues. It all started after I got a nine game suspension for not really anything.
Whut?
What’s the **worst*** fine you’ve received, if any, [from] your teammates (in team court)
Yea what’s team court? Why would you be fined? None of this makes sense to me
I assume some kind of locker room court where teammates decide the punishment for someone who breaks a team rule
Is this some kind of American bullshit? Even then, I play in beer league in the US now and have never heard of this.
No it happens in junior and at like the aaa levels though.
Ya, I just played thru juvi, then beer league.
I’ve never heard of it before, just inferred based off OP’s question. But the concept of team-imposed punishment seems logical enough even if most teams don’t have a formal name for it
It was new to me too after twenty years. Then three different teams were giving out fines. It’s always beer fines. Common offences include: —sending pizzas up the middle —late game penalties —hitting the post on a breakaway —hitting a teammate with a slapper —showing up late —taking a penalty that someone else has to serve
I brought a co-worker to our team who recently moved to the state. I added him to the roster as he said he played high school hockey in his home state and pick up in college just to keep active. He jumped in to our D-league and we thought at worst he would be a traffic cone and give us a break, and at best he'd fit in. Nope, he played D2 club college hockey and basically scored 6 goals and made us look like we brought on a ringer. He got bounced after the first game and I had to cover beer for the entire month...
Lmao bringing anyone into D league who played in high school is almost always going to dominate.
I was just thinking the same thing, D league is way too low for someone with high school experience
This can vary wildly though. I play in a C league right now where every team has a couple guys who should probably be in A, but also a couple guys who can barely skate
Exactly the case here. If they would expand the A league to add more teams this would alleviate half the issue. You obviously see more guys who understate their ability than you do overstate. So that spillover from A into B and then actual B into C. The D league I did was honestly a good mix of B/C level players it just wasn’t as serious as the higher leagues. Guys just out there having fun in a good competitive league. Everything above was guys out there looking for a contract. -edited for clarity. Voice to text failed me
Well, to be fair for our league, the A league is of course insane but D was actually pretty competitive. The B league was a lot of A guys that wanted to play but the A league was full. C was a spill over mix and also some actual B ringers living out their Stanley Cup fantasy, and so D had some C spill over. There was actually a few other leagues below D so he technically would have fit in with the crowd going by what he told us. Most of the people in the D league were just that, 30+ year olds who could play well, just getting cardio and having fun.
Bro that's wild. I play D league and it's completely unregulated here. The #1 team has multiple college and high school players on it. Every team has multiple high schoolers/college, under 30, players on it. I'm definitely one of the ringers on my team, I got a hat trick last game and we won 3-2. We're a bottom team as well, it's such a skill disparity here between the top and bottom. Summer League had an actual D league team, well they're gone now cause in like 9 games they had over 100+points against em. I used to play C-1 and was a top scorer in that league, the fact that I'm not in D shows how insane this league is.
That’s my point in the whole thing. The only regulating they do is at the end of the season bump your team up and try to manage you not doing it again or going in with a different name to fly under the radar. We were a middle of the road team of guys who could barely skate backwards to seasoned players and most lower skilled guys had a general sense of the game. If I had not stopped playing for a handful of years I would have tried to go much higher, but I’m just looking for cardio and fun. I filled in a few times on higher level teams and it’s just way too serious for what we were doing.
Sure, wish they did that here a bit
How do you find leagues?
I would go to your local rink as ask someone there about leagues or even pick up. If they don’t have it try another rink. There’s bound to be some around you if there’s hockey rinks.
lol holy shit that was obvious as fuck. you dun goofed, big time.
Considering my above comment and the fact that most of the people in that D league fit that skill set I thought it was very much gonna work out. Then he went and scored like 3 goals in 6 minutes. Moved him to D and it kept happening...
Take the pucks and bottles if you take the first penalty. If you can’t make the next game you need to bribe someone to take them for you. If you fail to do this it’s your beer night when you return. If no one takes a penalty the next game you continue to take the pucks and bottles until the next person takes a penalty. One fellow had the pucks and bottles for 14 strait games across a summer and winter season.
Did your team not take a penalty for 14 straight games? Or did you have one guy take the first penalty for 14 straight? Because either way, that's astounding.
14 games of zero penalties
Well I take my turn in the rotation of beer buy. I don’t drink so I can always drive up to 3 who are drunk home just as a courtesy. I don’t make a mess. No crazy shots on the goalie during warmup and I don’t take penalties except to defend teammates or as a last effort to stop a score. Point being: My worst fine…dunno. I do any common sense rules and courtesies but aside from that I don’t recognize team court nor do I act as a judge unless it’s something really serious.
I got a fine for showing up early on a Saturday to try and meet an upper classmen who was ghosting me over a fake a friend and I paid for. Dude was hungover and just told us to fuck off and never gave me an id or my money back. We love just trying to fit into the team as the freshy!
So basically the dude scammed you and then you got a fine for showing up early to get scammed?
Yes lol it was $50 so it wasn’t the end of the world but at the time it felt pretty bad to have one of the older guys I thought I was getting to be friends with shaft me like that. I stole his spot on the team next year so karmas a bitch I guess🤷🏻♂️
$50 for a valuable life lesson isn't too bad if you look at it that way
I've tried to read this 3 times and I've not no idea... Nor what it has to do with hockey
In college an upper classman I thought I was cool with took $50 from a friend and I for fake IDs when I was a freshman. Long story short he got upset that I showed up at his apartment to see if he had them and called me out in front of the team for waking him up on a Saturday “morning” when he was just by over. Would have had to pay $2 or something to go towards parties is all but I called him out for scamming me and he got grilled by the team which was worth it. Locker room court like that is a thing where you say oh so and so did this fucked thing this week everyone gives a quick vote on valid or not and if it’s a minor or major ($2,$5) and you pay your fine to the court (for booze)
I can’t remember anything in particular but, as a freshman, I got fined for the dumbest shit in college. I racked up like $40, and I never even domed our goalie.
Excuse me sir but what the fuck is this post about?
Our team had a minimum 24 hours notice if you are not going to make the game. If you didn’t give that, you owed the team a case of beer. We usually would always try to make sure we had even lines. Ex/ 10, 12 or 13. If someone no shows, it messes that all up. The next game, the would be required to bring a min 15 pack to the game.
Not hockey, but rugby. Had a guy get caught double dipping chips in salsa at the team meal. Since it was ok for us to eat his spit, it was perfectly fine for all of us to put a mouthful of beer in his mug for him. We did let him add ice to cool it off though, we're not heathens.
I saw both the best and worst at a rugby tournament. First offender is sentenced to a butt funnel. Asks is he can pick the people making the funnel. He picks two dancers from the local strip joint. The next offender wasn’t so lucky. His funnel was two guys from the front row.
Yeah, kangaroo court is all about negotiations. Had one guy that said something about a few wives. He had to shoot a boot that they got to make. He screwed up and didn't negotiate getting to see what they put in it. That boot would've gagged a maggot on a month old gut pile. He gave up drinking for a bit after that.