Displaying boxscores for Vancouver Roller Hockey in 2010.
December 05, 2010
Today’s session wasn’t fantastic, or epic, or bathed in glorious sunshine. It was marked by ailing ankles, broken balls, and mangled masks, as well as the absence of several notable skaters. The first game saw Eric, Sam and Dom square off against Rob, Vince, Ryno and Alex in some ...
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Comments (5)November 28, 2010
With VRH's longest absence in nearly half a year, things were once again not looking good as blizzard hit the Lower Mainland on the Thursday prior, dumping nearly a half-foot of snow. Luckily, the intense coastal system also brought warmer temperatures and a plethora of rain which worked effectively ...
November 06, 2010
Despite the ground being a little wet, today's session would see the return of the intensity/defensive play that VRH has grown used to. The first game in fact, would last almost an hour and see both goalies face close to 50 shots each. Both goalies were exceptional today, ...
October 30, 2010
With Bron out and an unresponsive Alex, goaltending once again became an issue for this session. However, Sam saved the day by first getting Nick to come-out, and then when Nick didn't show, by strapping on the pads himself (thereby forfeiting his perfect 1.000 save percentage).
Despite the forecast of ...
October 16, 2010
With 2 goalies, decent numbers and a forecast of glorious sunshine for Saturday, the session was confirmed late Thursday night. After a couple more confirmations and a couple surprise shows, by the time Saturday afternoon rolled around, the numbers had ballooned to a massive 11 skaters. The only ...
October 02, 2010
This session would see our 2 regular goalies back in action on an unseasonably warm sunny day in October. A variety of 3-on-3 games were played (you can find full teams and scores in the game analysis section) until Marcus and Tony had to leave. Though we ...
September 25, 2010
Barely an hour before this session was set to start, it was teetering dangerously on the edge of collapse. With a nice break in the weather and enough players for a full session, only one element was missing: a second goalie. A couple people did volunteer to play ...
September 11, 2010
For the first time in a very long time we had a session without any of our dedicated goalies (Dom, Alex or Bron); we can only surmise that they were too busy burning Qu'rans on this particular day (Note: this is a joke in reference to a radical pastor ...
September 05, 2010
This session began with a bit of scare, with everyone having arrived and no Alex in sight, we began to get a little worried. Then Stefan received a phone call from Al saying he had only just seen the confirmation e-mail and was currently busy with something else. ...
August 29, 2010
The day began with a thick cover of dark ominous clouds, but with no precipitation falling and the ground dry as a bone, hockey naturally was on. Ironically, we were soon wishing for some more of those thick clouds, as the sun’s heat would scorch us for most ...
August 22, 2010
VRH’s longest absence in many a month was finally broken on this day; not without a few hurdles though. As has been too common of an occurrence lately, the weather forecast a couple days beforehand was absolutely wrong, calling for showers on what turned out to be clear sunny ...
August 02, 2010
This day started out with a bottle of Tequila…and I do say “day” because it was literally the next day by the time the first phase of the beer brewing process was completed and Rob began to pour us shot after shot. Naturally, once the bottle was done ...
July 25, 2010
Today started differently than any other VRH session before. For the first time ever there were no ex-BUSH players involved with the session at the beginning. The first 4 games saw Pat, J-Bo, Sam and 2 new players named Andrew Lee and Nickita Dempsyanev play in some Pat-dominated 2-on-2 ...
July 07, 2010
Today was relatively new territory for Vancouver Roller Hockey: an attempt at a weekday session. Even with a 6pm start time, it still had potential to be a decently long session thanks to the long summer evening. Certainly, even at 8pm, it was sweltering summer heat. Turnout ...
June 20, 2010
Call Sunday the wedding session. It was the continuation of Tony's
stag, which featured the to-be-newly-wed playing in a dress. As well,
Pat and Alex were a little worn thin from celebrating their brothers
wedding the night before. Despite the celebrations, everyone showed up
to play, and those who you thought would have lost ...
June 06, 2010
With three of our mainstay regulars (Klopp, Ollie & Barlow) out of town, it was no surprise that this would be the most difficult session to get going in ages. With spotty showers around the Lower Mainland Sunday morning, an e-mail was sent to see what the conditions looked ...
May 22, 2010
With many people out of town for the long weekend (aside from Rob who was once again “fixing his fence”) this would be the smallest session in ages. A late departure by the Barlow caravan left the poor goalies sitting alone at the rink for well over half-an-hour wondering ...
May 15, 2010
With the beautiful weather in the Lower Mainland recently we knew we'd have large numbers for the session today, so a larger rink was a must. Rob had suggested a new rink, Kirkstone Park in North Vancouver, which looked to be the perfect size (i.e. small QE rink-size), so ...
May 08, 2010
What an amazing day today was. First real summer-feeling day of the
year, with the temperature pushing easily close to 18 degrees. With a
cool breeze coming off the ocean it was pretty much ideal hockey
weather. We all arrived at Ambleside at 11am but, like most days, things
didn't get going until closer ...
May 01, 2010
With a slightly later start time due to the forecast of morning showers, as well as a late departure (due quite possibly to the numerous chalices of beer consumed the night before), we didn't get started until close to 1pm on this day. Right around that time though, the ...
April 25, 2010
A smaller Ambleside session was played for the first time in a while
for VRH. The day began with hockey being all but canceled. Stefan
looked outside, saw pouring rain, and sent out the cancellation email.
Within 10 minutes he received emails from Alex, Dom, Marcus and Tom
all saying the north shore had ...
April 18, 2010
With the initial estimate of a fairly large session we decided to give Queen E another crack, but we would soon find out that this was indeed a grave mistake. As we arrived, foot hockey players had already taken the small rink, but the large rink was available so we ...
April 11, 2010
During the planning stages it appeared that we'd have possibly our largest VRH session ever. However, due to the Master Bladers rolling through their playoff competition and having a game immediately scheduled the next day (Sunday) our numbers were suddenly in jeopardy. However, to start the session ...
March 27, 2010
Today was the last session for VRH to warm up for the big DecaSession scheduled for next week in Burton. We had a group of 12 players confirmed for the day, and decided it would be best to practice in a larger rink. We decided to go with Queen ...
March 20, 2010
After weeks of incessant rain and 3 or 4 wet, sloppy sessions in a row, we finally had a few days of uber-glorious sunshine, and advantage of it we did take. Initially, with the Master Bladers having league games both Saturday and Sunday, we figured it would be ...
March 13, 2010
What can you say about today? It was wet and sloppy outside, and so
was much of the play throughout the day. Bad bounces, balls breaking
(close to thirty dollars in zero-bounce balls), own goals. It was not pretty hockey in the least, yet despite all the ugliness we managed to play ...
March 07, 2010
Saturday was a glorious sunshine filled day that was perfect for an
all-day massive session. Unfortunately the Master Bladers had a game
on Saturday, and most people couldn’t make it, so we played Sunday.
Sunday was a cold and drizzly, yet typical, March Vancouver day. The
wetness was no deterrent for hockey however ...
February 20, 2010
The day prior, with only 7 players confirmed and the session in serious jeopardy, who would have ever thought that this would turn out to be the most significant session in the history of Burton Hockey? This would be a day that would not only see one or two ...
February 06, 2010
The weather forecast got progressively better throughout the week, and by the time it was hockey day in Vancouver we were greeted with just about the perfect hockey climate (partly sunny, partly cloudy, and about 10 degrees). As we had only 10 people confirmed the evening before, we decided ...
January 31, 2010
There was a very valuable lesson learned in VRH today, namely that our players are willing to play in very dismal conditions, and even when conditions are horrid, they come out in spades.
Today was a colossal session at VRH; maybe not stats-wise (albeit I am sure Pat did very well), ...
January 24, 2010
VRH continues to get games in during this very mild January. As well, it continues to be co-ed friendly, with Shaylin's girlfriend Monika Nymeyer getting into the action today. All in all, we had enough for 3-on-3 today with a sub on each side and a return back to the ...
January 16, 2010
Ed. note: Finally…
Sandwiched in between days of perpetual rain we finally received a gift from the Gods, a gloriously sunny Saturday (the first one in well over a month). Initially the session appeared to be in jeopardy as we had only one goaltender confirmed; luckily J-Bo came through in ...
January 10, 2010
It is usually never good to start the day being woken up by a distress call due to a server failure, especially after being out late the night before at Jordan's place. However, as I crawled into my living room and looked outside, there was a brightness to the dull ...