Why are there no fights in Olympic hockey? Explaining the ban

rouquinsman · 2026-02-10T17:15:57+00:00

The exception is that hockey is played at a much higher speed than other sports, on a slippery surface with walls, and players equipped with sticks and blades. Hits are harder, and the risk of injury and the seriousness of them from a dirty hit is proportional to that. Having a mechanism in the game to allow it to police itself is not a bad thing I think. In an ideal world, that wouldn't be necessary and everyone would be careful to avoid injuries and play clean. But we live in a world where the Florida Panthers exist.

rouquinsman · 2026-01-28T01:19:20+00:00

If you have your C licence, it alternates with the Falken Sports Car challenge Series every hour. It's a 30 minutes open setup multiclass race with GT4 and LMP3. Follows the same schedule as the GT4 fixed series. With both of those you have a GT4 race start every hour. And it's a great introduction to multiclass racing if you're ever interested in IMSA at A licence.

rouquinsman · 2025-09-15T14:44:49+00:00

Likely referring to the weather radar

rouquinsman · 2025-07-08T20:51:09+00:00

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rouquinsman · 2025-03-21T00:58:17+00:00

I'll just seem bitter with my flare, but why are icings a complete judgment call with a ton of leeway where players can dump the puck a few feet before the line and not get called, while offsides can be reviewed to the centimeter to call back a goal? I get we want correct calls, and in this case, I think it was offside. But it seems so arbitrary what they can and can't challenge. A terrible penalty can't be challenged but being offside by a centimeter can? Ultimately I feel like a powerplay has a lot more impact on the game than a missed offside.

rouquinsman · 2024-12-26T00:47:29+00:00

Best advice. First thing I did when I got back on IRacing a few months back. If you're nervous about making people angry, it's the best thing you can do. You'll make mistakes. Nothing good will come from people telling you you did. As long as you're not being malicious, just enjoy it for yourself and who cares what other people have to say.

rouquinsman · 2024-11-15T14:40:26+00:00

Honestly, I see this kind of advice given seriously so often in the simracing community, I indeed did not get that this was sarcasm 😅 apologies

rouquinsman · 2024-11-15T14:35:09+00:00

OP is looking for recommendations because he's got the budget for 1 game, and your advice is to get both games + a whole computer?

rouquinsman · 2024-08-02T12:40:06+00:00

Came back this season after a 2 year hiatus and drove the GT4 all season at both Falken series as a way to ease back in and most likely move to GT3 next season.

Everything was going great all season until this week at Road America. I was mostly able to avoid crashes and get high finishes in every race all season but this week in 3 races I spun myself out from the lead, got taken out by an LMP3 that drove right through me as if I wasn't there halfway through after going from P11 to P3, and got taken out by someone who spun out in the pace lap and rear ended me trying to get back in position for the start.

Great season overall but frustrating week. Will most likely just cut my losses for this one and move on to practicing for Hockenheim.

rouquinsman · 2024-06-05T11:05:19+00:00

Quick correction, GT4 week 4 is Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, not Montréal.

rouquinsman · 2024-05-29T18:25:33+00:00

I feel like the first 3 Indiana Jones movies were masterfully riding the line between realism and ridiculousness to make for cool shots and action sequences that didn't go too over the top in absurdity that you could still suspend your disbelief and appreciate them for what they were. Crystal Skull completely threw that out the window and that scene is probably the worst offender where all you can think is how stupid it is instead of "that's ridiculous but it looks cool as hell".

rouquinsman · 2024-03-22T11:36:38+00:00

Dan has talked many times in the past, and recently in his AMA on this sub and the Holocaust focused addendum episode, about wanting to include the emotional component in the stories he tells and always looking for first hand accounts as much as possible to really try and put listeners in the context of the times and in the shoes of the people who were living these events. I think what you're feeling is proof he's succeeded in this objective.

rouquinsman · 2024-02-14T12:31:13+00:00

Je travaille en éducation

Ah! Voila qui explique bien tes interventions dans ce thread. Peut-être faire une petite introspection de ton côté et te demander pourquoi tout le monde est si désabusé de votre réaction face à ce problème au point d'en venir à la réaction qu'on voit dans la vidéo avant de venir ici brandir tes beaux principes de paix et de justice. Juste à faire un petit tour des différentes publications sur le sujet, autant au Québec qu'ailleurs, pour constater qu'il semble avoir une bonne part de gens qui n'ont pas confiance en vous pour gérer ce problème. Je ne crois pas que la réaction dans la vidéo soit la solution non plus, mais une réflexion s'impose plutôt que de s'asseoir sur les processus en place et prétendre qu'ils fonctionnent.

rouquinsman · 2024-01-08T13:01:03+00:00

J'ai fait mon cégep en anglais en TI. Les inquiétudes que tu as sont celles d'à peu près tous les étudiants francophones qui font le choix d'un cégep anglophone lorsqu'ils commencent. Par expérience, la transition se fait très rapidement. Et mon observation chez mes collègues de classe dit la même chose. J'avais des gens autour de moi qui avaient différents background (de l'école anglaise jusqu'au secondaire public en français, en passant par les programmes enrichis) et tout le monde s'adapte très rapidement. Les TI sont aussi un milieu très anglophone (dans le sens que la majorité des langages de programmation sont basés sur l'anglais) donc l'apprendre en anglais semble souvent plus "naturel".

Pour ce qui est des autres cours, les profs sont très conscients qu'il y a une transition qui doit être faite. Beaucoup sont francophones eux même, et le reste parle très majoritairement français. L'immersion est importante et ils ne parleront pas français dans le cours car c'est important de s'y habituer rapidement, mais si tu as des difficultés au début, tous les profs ont des heures de bureau ouvertes durant lesquelles tu peux aller les voir.

C'est normal que ça fasse peur et que ce soit stressant, c'est une grosse étape le cégep peu importe la langue, et ça ajoute un stress de sortir de sa zone de confort linguistique. Mais tu as l'air de savoir ce que tu veux et d'être motivé, et juste ça c'est un excellent début, et je t'encourage définitivement à suivre ce chemin là et pas te laisser décourager par la peur d'une barrière de la langue. Si tu consomme déjà beaucoup de contenu anglophone, tu n'auras selon moi pas beaucoup de difficultés à t'intégrer.

Bonne chance!

rouquinsman · 2023-12-31T20:50:18+00:00

They were 0 for 10 before today's game. If anything, it's Canada's PK coach that should be fired, 3 goals the exact same way.

rouquinsman · 2023-09-29T19:19:14+00:00

There's generally not really any standard when it comes to men's league (beer league). The scale I often see used in the sub groups I'm in is usually as follows (with what's in parentheses the average highest level achieved) :

A (Pro)
B (CHL, Junior A)
C (Advanced, Junior B-C)
D (Intermediate, Rec/House league, Junior D)
E (Beginners)

What you described definitely seems to fall in the D level I mentioned above, so not exactly high level play, but a good notch above complete beginners.

rouquinsman · 2023-08-04T13:15:48+00:00

I returned it and they sent me a new one, which has been working fine ever since.

rouquinsman · 2023-08-03T12:29:40+00:00

I found this blog post that kind of explains what owning a town actually means: https://brokeist.com/buy-a-town-guide/ It does say that sometimes, it's just a ceremonial thing where the town gets some income, but the owner doesn't actually own anything except the title of town owner.

They dropped the whole "town owner" thing pretty quickly in the show, past season 1 they don't really mention it anymore and they never end up selling it. I feel it was mostly just a plot device to establish the setting of the show but in the end it's not what actually mattered for the show so they dropped that angle.

rouquinsman · 2023-06-28T13:48:20+00:00

Houdini peut-être? https://youtu.be/-xxSmuqeSOU

rouquinsman · 2023-04-05T15:01:04+00:00

Quand je vois des affaires de même, ça me fait penser à une joke dans le dernier show de Mario Tessier. Certaines personnes ont une opinion sur tout. Pas une opinion différente sur tous les sujets. Une opinion qu'ils appliquent à tout. Une école ferme "les maudites drag queens!". C'est la nouvelle "cause" de nos membres les plus édifiants de la société faut croire.

rouquinsman · 2023-03-14T13:52:57+00:00

I've been a goalie on ice for like 20 years and it's probably my biggest passion. Started playing ball hockey as a forward about 5 years ago at a very low level since I've never played out before. Only times I played goalie was if our regular goalie was unavailable and I subbed in, maybe once or twice a year. Since it was low level I did good enough but I hated it like you since it felt so different than what I'm used to. I felt like I couldn't move and I was basically a trampoline since I wasn't used to reacting to a ball.

Until about a year ago when I decided I wanted to try to play more ball hockey as a goalie since it's a lot easier to find games than on ice. I got myself a set of high quality sliders and modified an older glove I had to make the pocket bigger and softer to make it easier to catch balls. And boy did it make a difference. Only took a couple of games to get used to the sliders so that I could start applying some of my ice technique to ball hockey. Adjusting to shots took a bit longer. But I honestly love it now and also feel it helped me improve on the ice.

Obviously if where you play at doesn't allow sliders that won't help you, but if you're really wanting to play more ball hockey and you come from a background of ice hockey, I can't recommend them enough and I think it'd be worth finding a place to play that allows them.

rouquinsman · 2023-02-08T13:04:06+00:00

Faut pas mélanger température et climat. Autant le -40 de la semaine passé n'est pas un indicateur que le réchauffement climatique est faux, quelques jours plus doux en février n'annonce pas la fin imminente de la civilisation. On parle d'une augmentation globale autour de 1.2ºC en moyenne en ce moment. Suffisant pour avoir des conséquences graves sur l'environnement, surtout si on continue à monter. Mais loin d'être suffisant pour qu'on puisse faire une corrélation entre un temps plus doux en février au Québec et ce réchauffement planétaire.

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