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  1. 18 minutes ago, Devron44 said:

    It’s hard to like anyone in a Flames jersey. I like Marky but hate the Flames more so I guess I hate Marky now too lol

    It's pure logic:

    All Calgary Flames are hated,

    Markstrom is a Calgary Flame,

    Therefore, Marhstrom is hated.

     

    Just like: the following (cat = normal cat)

    No cat has two tails,

    One cat has one more tail than no cat.

    Therefore, one cat has three tails!!

     

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  2. 39 minutes ago, ShawnAntoski said:

    For example: Brady or even Steve Nash - they both were not the most talented players but (perhaps) they were the most prepared player when they step on the field/court and both are HOF.

    Had to comment here, I agree on Nash maybe not being the most talented, but it would be hard to find a more versatile athlete. I watched him play in high school in basketball. I watched him the BC Championship Rugby game, playing fullback. He was also the team's kicker and could placekick with either foot. He was a very good soccer player. Won the Victoria area long jump and triple jump. Also played some hockey and baseball, and many said that his best sport was lacrosse!  On top of that, his coach Ian Hyde-Lay at St. MIchael's was almost as good an all rounder as well.

  3. 35 minutes ago, Wayne Glensky said:

    I assume you got 7th place ribbons as a kid ?

    I have to chime in here on this. 6 years, grade 1 to grade 6 before I got a ribbon (3rd place in a relay race that had only 3 entrants!). Another 5 years before I found my event (pole vault) and began to get ribbons. Cut from about 5 different teams from grade 3 to grade 9 before I found my team (rugby, because they had a 2nd team)). 5 years of 2nd division, before I made 1st division (UVIC tour of Great Britain 1969). The same sort of thing happened in education, 2nd to lowest of 5 grade 7 divisions. Two years later, up to the 1st division or 4 in grade 9. One of top students in school by grade 12. Eventually taking honours courses in 4th year Math.  If I had been given a participation ribbon, I doubt that I could have done this. I still have ALL my ribbons and awards because they were so hard to get.  I even have my Dad's track ribbons and school rugby photo from North Vancouver High School in 1924.  What we are witnessing in schools now, is students, and parents, are expecting an "A" or a "B" for just showing up.Sorry for the rant.

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  4. 1 hour ago, AbrasiveAjax said:

    I mean, he wasn't a very good Dman when he played, why is he coaching?

    My favourite book growing up was 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bench Warmers!  I played rugby for 35 years, most of it at div 2 and div 3. I had a few years at First Division (what is now called Premier league), but when I had a bad game, I'd be dropped. I loved the game, and 4 of the players in my position who played ahead of me, played for Canada or BC teams. I trained with them and against them, I analyzed what they did that I didn't (quite a bit!), so gradually I learned strategy, and training techniques. Same when I pole vaulted. I became an okay coach of over 80 teams in basketball, rugby and track, although I was never very great at any. So Baumgartner is in the same situation.

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  5. Back to basketball. You teach the players in defence to form a triangle between their check, and the ball and the player. Draw an imaginary line from ball to check, move about 1/3 of the way to you check, them drop a bit towards the hoop to form the defensive triangle. This stops players from just watching the ball or watching their check. Develop their peripheral vision by staring into the space between check and ball and use peripheral vision to see both their check and the ball at the same time.
    I have never played hockey, but would it work?  Then maybe we wouldn't see this sort of defense.

    Bad defense.jpg

  6. 2 hours ago, debluvscanucks said:

    My daughter had a terrible teacher through one of the most difficult times in her lives at school and she did give up.  Not because of a flaw in her...but a flaw in him.  He didn't understand how to motivate her...to support her. 

    Hi Deb:  This is an interesting point. As a teacher and a tutor for over 50 years I have really got to know a bit about teaching. I have always thought of myself of a learner, just a bit further ahead IN SOME AREAS, as my students. During a typical year I would see about 200 or so different students with 7 classes with around 30 students in each class. As a tutor, I see one student at a time. Somewhere, in between those extremes is a sweet spot that works with the budget of the school system. I have also taught in 5 private schools where the class sizes were from 5 to about 24 students. There is a difference. I would love to be able to get to each student, how to motivate them, what interests them, what type of a learner are they.  I know nothing about the "terrible teacher" above, but I will say, that this is an important job and a difficult job to be successful at.

  7. I've never played hockey but watched it since the early 60's. But I have coached basketball for over 20 years. When we came up with a dominating player on the other team (like McDavid), we used to go into a "box and one" zone defence. Here one player would shadow the dominating player one-on-one, while the other four players ran a zone defence in the shape of a box. Hockey teams play a zone defence on the power play, would this work in hockey??

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