Date: Saturday, December 17th

Time: 10:45pm-12:15am

Where: Aston Ice Works

Rink #: Go in to the entrance for Rink 1 & 2, look at the sheets, look for the name Brielle or Aram for 10:45 and it should be listed. If you're lost look for a guy with a blue hat with "CFC" on it, I'll try to wave people down. Check back to see if I can get a definite answer by Saturday, if not, it should be easy to find if you follow what I said to do. At the very least I'll bring a pen and write BSH on the sheet.

Cost: ~$15 cash.

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Date: Saturday, December 17th

Time: 10:45pm to 12:15am

Place: Aston Ice Works in Aston, PA

Cost: ~$15

More details after the jump.

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Hey everyone, we only have 4 days before our open ice game arrives, and I want to get everyone confirmed below. The game will be at 10:15pm at Aston Ice Works this Saturday night on Rink 3. The cost will be about $15-$20 per person depending how many show up. Please bring cash, we will collect and pay before we start playing.

For those of you wanting to meet up before hand and watch the Flyers game, we will be meeting between 6:45 and 7:00pm at Cocco's in Aston for dinner and drinks. If you google directions, please use "2430 Dutton Mill Road (Corner Dutton Mill & Concord Roads) Aston, PA 19014". 2430 will not show up, you have to have the corner location for it to work.

Please Rec this so it gets promoted so everyone see the update.

Also, Aston Ice Works just got their liquor license. This means we can't bring in beer to the game. Please respect the new rules.

Please bring both a white and black jersey (or some color). We will play white jerseys versus color jerseys, and if the teams aren't even, we'll adjust as we go, so please have both choices if possible.

If I do not have you confirmed by noon on Saturday, I will assume you are not going to make it, and will fill the spot with someone else if we are short players.

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We will be having a BSH pick up ice hockey game at Aston Ice Works on Saturday, February 26th thanks to the very gracious Brielle. The ice time is at 10:15PM on Rink 3. The cost should be roughly $300, or about $15 per person for 90 minutes.

The Flyers have a game against the Senators that night, and we are going to try to meet up before hand for some food, drinks, and Flyers.

Head Count Definites: Ben and Geoff M's friend will be in the pipes, skaters follow.

1. Don
2. Brielle
3. Jenn
4. Travis
5. Shaun (KreiderDesigns)
   
6. Chris (VanSteel)
7. Wilkey
8. Geoff M
9. Matt (flyguy11589)
10. ddrums
11. vmp85
12. powderice
13. robrovsky
14. Dan (sjuhawks42)
15. mandershockey
16. jMm8_
17. beatniche
18. Geoff M's friend
19. ddrum's brother
20. Chris's friend

Maybes:

1. robrovsky's bother

Important: If we get more BSH members, and the number gets too high, I'm going to cut friends to be fair to the members of this site. I don't think we'll need to do that, but I just wanted everyone to be aware.

Also important: I need to know if people are still definite or not, or if maybe's become definites. Please let me know so I can keep this post as accurate and up to date as possible. I don't want Saturday the 26th to roll along and only have 10 skaters.

Meet Up Options:

Cocco's (address is actually 10 West Duttons Mill Road) or Applebees (4301 Pennell Road, Aston, Pa.) Both have TV's food, and alcohol, and there are also both within 2 minutes of the rink. Vote below.

Side notes:

1. My friend Brielle is helping us with this, and she is awesome, so no one can give her crap for being a Devil's fan. I also was going to collect a couple extra bucks from everyone (about $1) so she can play free since she set this up for us.
2. This will be for fun, don't worry about your skill level, you just need to be properly equipped.The game will have both females and males, I believe my fiancee is even borrowing equipment and playing, which will be the first time for her...so no one should feel embarrassed about their skill level or gender.
3. I can fill out the rosters and goalies, so please don't promise players that aren't reliable to show up.
4. Shaun has already claimed my extra set of everything. I do still have extra sticks, gloves, jerseys, and socks. If you have extras of things, let people know in case they need something equipment wise to be able to play.
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After reading Stephen Whyno's grades today, and seeing the plus/minus stat being reference again for grading I decided to take a look at something. We all know defensive pairs face different levels of competition, and have different team on ice shooting and save percentages (luck), but we never really try to calculate their effects on +/-. The advanced stats fans on this site are always quick to point out if a player is getting lucky or unlucky based on above or below average shooting % or save % compared to their teammates, but I haven't seen any of us try to quantify that number for comparison. Below is an extremely simple math exercise in a crude attempt to normalize the effects of competition and luck on a the defense's +/- per 60.

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So I wanted to write something, and hear thoughts from everyone on what the best way to use the $10.6 of Cap space left (according to CapGeek) for this year. I know there is a lot revolving around an individual each time we acquire rights to somebody, but I wanted to take a look at what our needs are on a whole, and how the Flyers can fill them with their own RFA's and UFA's, and what will be available league wide July 1st. I think we spend too much time thinking about this 1 player, when there still are other needs the Flyers should be addressing, and this is my feable attempt at sparking some conversation about the subject.

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Okay, first things first, please rec this so I don't have to make more fan posts as these get lost in the shuffle of trade discussions, cap debates, and the like. We can use this for all the planning of the pick up ice hockey game. Details after the jump.

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Okay, so I know I've brought up the idea a few times now, but I've finally gotten around to wanting to organize something since the season is over and most of my depression has subsided. This poll is just to figure out interest in having a pick up game on ice, no definite plans yet. If I had to venture a guess at specifics, I would try to get ice time at Aston Ice Works, probably late on a Friday or Saturday night b/c ice time is cheapest then. If you would love to do this, but have some issues with equipment etc., just post a comment and we'll see if we can figure it out. If we don't get a ton of interest, but you still would like to get in some open ice hockey with a few people on BSH, let me know, and I'll give you a heads up when I put together a pick up game with some team mates and friends of mine. Skill level isn't too important here, this is more so to have fun. Also, goalies should not be an issue, I have at least 4 guys to run through asking if no one here plays goalie. Let me know...

So after reading the Puck Daddy article about Pronger and the Conn Smythe, and then ranting about being sick of only seeing stories and posts of Chicago's arrogance today, it was kindly suggested to me to post something on the Conn Smythe. It's a pretty interesting topic b/c no player has been consistantly dominate for the Hawks, outside of maye Keith, so I really wanted to see what Flyers' and Hawks' fans thought about this topic. If you are interested, I'll put the scenarios with my thoughts after the jump, hopefully this will create some interesting dicussion, and I won't have wasted everyone's time. Excuse the lack of stats, I just don't have a ton of time to research a lot at work.

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