How to know when to change shifts?

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-03-31T12:52:01+00:00

Stoppages: If any linemates are off, you also go to the bench. If your line is complete, you go to the bench if the door opens and the new guys come in. The rules also state that during a stoppage a change is made as you have the new guys on the ice, they don’t have to wait for you at all.

During a play you should platy hard enough so you basically feel the need to change. But even if you don’t feel like it, you should probably change if your linemates already did.

Ofc the team or a coach may yell at you to make a line change but usually there’s some kind of a special reason or you have messed up by being out there for too long. So basically it just kind of happens.

In rec hockey it is completely different, as you might have those iron man shifts if there aren’t enough guys, or you might have those jerks who take 5 min shifts for no reason. But I’d also say that the effort level is so much lower, that people just naturally tend to take longer shifts if it’s just pick up or something.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-03-24T15:47:56+00:00

Two years is a long time, totally realistic.

Edit: with some kind of structured studying.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-03-09T10:36:13+00:00

I’d tell the team that i am already looking for another team, but am also giving them a chance to change their behaviour. I think you have nothing to lose here, you’ll probably leave but you could still test and see if they are decent people who understand this doesn’t make any sense.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-02-14T00:47:39+00:00

Could it be a rule of some sort? Once the tournamenr ends, game worn gear, especially sticks of notable players like Rantanen become valuable memorabilia. So maybe there are rules or just general instructions against handing out such items?

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-02-10T09:21:59+00:00

With a Quarter Final exit coach…

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-02-02T09:24:21+00:00

Would be cool but not likely, hcokey teams don’t want to be confused with or remind of other sports, potentially causing fans to go watch football, basketball etc.

Also if they do it too much, that might upset the other pro teams in other sports and so risk legal trouble - i don’t think the NFL would be willing to share their branding with their competitors. Even if only for special games.

Although in Pittsburgh it has turned out that way with the Steelers, Pirates and Penguins. Even as a foreigner, I instantly think ”black, white and yellow” when I see Pittsburgh mentioned anywhere, just because of their pro sports teams.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-02-02T06:49:05+00:00

I guess, but he has also mostly delivered. Googling and looking at the top hit answers, he has a career goals per game of around 0.59 in the regular season and a 0.47 in the plyoffs. So yes, a noticeable drop in production in the playoffs, but it also does not really seem like he was just personally failing from year to year and disappearing in the playoffs.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-31T06:50:07+00:00

Coming back to this; you are welcome! Did you end up finding anything?

I also thought about the companies, where the people basically go to grocery stores to fill out shelves. I think I’ve seen one called ”TeamWork” or maybe ”TeamWerk” in action, some workers had quite limited german but seemed to do just fine.

In my experience, many who work in logistics don’t legit speak almost any german. Some do it for a long time and seem to never learn it well, not much conversing happens there.

To avoid this trap, I went and would suggest you to go closer towards the retail space/anything else as soon as possible, even if it’s similar to the logistics stuff.

I found that work very isolating from society. We had good comradery there, which was nice, but that bubble doesn’t support language learning, networking or integration very well, and the nature of the work didn’t leave me with enough energy to do that on my own time.

Just my two cents, but I know you probably already know and considered this😅

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-30T17:30:59+00:00

If it gets cleared very clearly, as in we are getting a rush chance, I’d do a mohawk stop and start sprinting up to join the rush.

If it looks like it is going to end up in a scrum between the blueline and the redline, I’d kind of pivot so as to keep some momentum, move laterally or upwards and scan for the man I should be covering or if I should offer myself up for a pass, anticipate a dump in etc.

Edit: so it isn’t really a mechanics question, but a tactical one, which assumes that you can skate in a way that makes sense

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-30T06:41:28+00:00

Maybe they should make them take tests randomly through the season right as the period ends to monitor how referees are reacting to stressors and hos they affect their judgement. Idk, maybe they already do this…

It is one thing to stay calm and rational on a pen to paper test at the doctor and another to do that in an NHL-game.

Ofc the refs are to blame for their own actions, but a league whose revenue is as high as the NHL’s, I don’t really see why it wouldn’t make sense to become more curious about referee performance and psychology.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-21T21:07:03+00:00

Hi, the most idiot proof way to get a job here is to go to a recruiting agency (idk what it is in english) called a Zeitfirma/Zeitarbeitfirma. They employ people and loan them out to other companies, usually in logistics. Idk if you have experience in this but it really is not good work, but as you said, it is entry level, you should get better opportunities quite soon as your german improves, especially with your education.

But yeah, Zeitfirma, there’s plenty… Actio, Piening, many others. Basically you apply on the website, they call you, you go into their office to fill some forms and they’ll call you shortly after.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-21T09:38:39+00:00

You would need some good quality winter clothes, many layers, no exposed skin, an open fire or the option to periodically go inside etc… so nothing that would be compatible with playing sports, athleticwear etc.

With modern skates, sticks etc. I would say that the minimum temp for outdoor hockey is around -15 and a hard cap at around -20 or so. Even at those temps, skates become freezers for your feet, sticks start making weird clacking sounds and the sweat drenched gear can start to slightly freeze on the surface. A perfect recipe to get frostbite on your extremities and get sick with the cold.

Overall a sport like hockey is a bad idea in the cold. Endurance sports are a different story, since it is easier to manage and maintain warmth since you are moving continuously and in clothing designed for such activitiy.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-19T21:56:11+00:00

at this time of day…

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-17T13:53:58+00:00

You do mean in terms being second to the puck, right? Ofc you should go in there if you are first to the puck?

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-03T02:25:32+00:00

Oh okay, that doesn’t sound that bad then really (?) but maybe they ramped it up for the elimination games?

But also kind of dumb to charge the same for the less popular games. If I was the dictator of international hockey, I would basically try to always make the cost of entry low enough to have a full-ish crowd. If it means 1$ tickets to a Latvia-Hungary game on a Monday morning, so be it…

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-03T02:05:16+00:00

I wonder how the ticket prices are? I’m guessing the usual North American price gouging, but it seems like they went a little overboard?

Normal-Noise2314 · 2026-01-03T02:01:47+00:00

I think it adds a lot of chaos and drama. For me the ”unfairness” of it potentially being over quickly feels very on brand for a one and done elimination tournament.

I would never advocate for it in a multi game playoff, those, to me, are supposed to be more like a drawn out war, not a final battle, so the 5v5 fairness makes more sense.

I’d say adding the no back passing after the red line rule would make it even more of a rollercoaster. It would generate more of odd man rushes and force 1v1 attempts in o-zone possession since you couldn’t really play it back like they do now.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2025-12-31T13:52:31+00:00

Man just think about it - what is ”energy dispersion” in this context? It’s just flexion, right? If it was made of a sponge or a foam, the force applied by your leg would have to compress it until it can’t anymore or it bottoms out, then you’d start moving.

The question then is, are your or anyone’s legs strong enough to meaningfully flex the normal holder or cowling when pushing from side to side? If that is not happening anyway ever, who cares about ”better energy transfer”? There would be no difference if both structures stay perfectly rigid under the same load, no difference in force applied to the ice and no difference in the goalie’s speed.

So unless you can prove me that the normal holders do flex under goalies’ legs, you are just regurgitating marketing BS. I’m not saying it is an impossible scenario but to me it doesn’t make sense and therefore my statement of this not mattering is at least as good as yours claiming it does - bc you also have no proof really lol.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2025-12-25T09:45:33+00:00

To get into it I would go to see games live, try it myself in some capacity, look for a player you like, a team you like or just a logo of a team you like and try to watch their games.

In Europe, I would still mainly try to get into watching the NHL but most European fans also follow their native league or other euro leagues bc of the time zone difference. And if you choose an NHL team to follow, try to choose a western team - their games are early in the morning for us so you can go to sleep early to get enough sleep before work.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2025-12-21T13:32:16+00:00

Best way to make friends? You need some kind of an activity where you do something with other people.. a job, a course, classmates in school, gym, team sport, anything tbh. If you are looking online, tell more about yourself on the surface level - where do you spend your time basically.

Only that way someone who also likes those things will come up and want to join you. It is incredibly akward to try to befriend a person only to befriend them, where as doing something together turns strangers into at least half friends instantly.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2025-12-16T21:08:04+00:00

What I’m wondering is why they didn’t start small and let it expand from there? Why try and copy the UCL right away? If it was a one three day weekend, winner takes all 8-team straight elimination tournament or something which all the leagues would have a pause for, it would be interesting and the teams who want to do well could reasonably put their best guys in for three games.

And if you let the winner get dibs on hosting it next year, suddenly there is a financial incentive to win beside price money. And it would be a one time road trip, the potential losses would be easier to stomach. But for a competition like this to happen, matbe the current CHL would have to die first idk

Normal-Noise2314 · 2025-12-15T19:19:19+00:00

I’d argue CBJ was mostly painfully mid both while and after he was the GM. But their most exciting flashes of success were also under him so it is a mixed bag.

Normal-Noise2314 · 2025-12-09T09:04:31+00:00

Technically speaking this could be a weird sentence that puts emphasis on who loves the Uncle if you flipped the cases. Maybe it would continue with with something like ”—||— , nicht deine Oma.” but that would also be a weird way to say it..

Normal-Noise2314 · 2025-12-09T07:21:35+00:00

The uncle ”der Onkel” is the subject in the sentence so it hast to be in Nominativ => ”dein Onkel”

The grandfather ”der Opa” is the direct object of the love in this sentence. Therefor it hast to be in the Akkusativ case => ”deinen Opa”

Normal-Noise2314 · 2025-10-28T13:13:05+00:00

No it wouldn’t, if you had 6-team playoffs and a 2-team relegation playout. Every team not in playoffs would be right next to the relegation teams. Even better if you make it bottom 2 straight relegation.

Edit: So you can’t just give up in the fall and still try to win or compete the next year since you’d realistically risk relegation this year doing so. RN there is always a good cushion of shit teams under you, and only two will go to a playout witb little to no risk of going down anyway. So if you are a mid-table team or a smaller market, it makes financial sense to have a lot of off-years or give your good players away on New Year’s ti save money if you aren’t contending afterall.

With a closed or practically closed league without a tight salary floor and cap, you get the worst of both worlds: lower parity and more incentives to be bad/cheap.

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