LOL AIHL in Adelaide

[halfeatenmoon]

I have been in Adelaide this weekend! Among other things, I went to a Melbourne Ice vs Adelaide Adrenaline game with masterpenguin82 yesterday, and it was one of the best days of LOL AIHL yet. There were some impressive antics in the other games this week too (bitter Ice Dogs fans, Mustangs/Knights water bottle shenanigans, Knights/Thunder goalie fight rematch

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[froodiest]

\o/ lol AIHL lol "penalty box"

somehow I can't stop laughing at the dad making the kid throw the puck back. BUZZKILL.

[halfeatenmoon]

It is the best penalty box! It was kinda funny that the dad made him give the puck back, but he seemed happy enough when the game officials thanked him for it. Possibly they were worried that he'd slip it back over and we'd end up with too many pucks on the ice.

[jamethiel_bane]

... I'm sorry, but my first reaction is "BACLIG HIT SOMEONE? HOW?!?"

Clearly I am a bad person.

DOUG WILSON. I am still convinced that 10 minute penalty came from mouthing off to the refs rather than from checking from behind or whatever.

YAY TEAM. I am so glad they won!

[halfeatenmoon]

I KNOW, RIGHT? I thought I missed the hit at first, but if you look at the recap video it's really hard to see how Baclig's hit nearly knocked Rezek out - it was barely even a hit, really.

[highlander_ii]

Is the penalty box actually made of traffic barriers? I ask b/c I don't know what traffic barriers in Australia look like and if the answer is 'yes', I will lol a lot.

The 'no glass' thing seems kinda scary.

And 'boo' on the dad making the kid give the puck back... refs at US games give the 'used' pucks to kids in the stands all the time - players too. Even when doofus adult asshats try to take them instead - the refs just make stern faces and point at the kids and glare down the asshats until they give the puck to the intended kid. XD

[halfeatenmoon]

They're multi-purpose bollards, really, but traffic barriers are one of their uses. Two picnic benches hemmed in by plastic barriers. That's Adelaide's P-box. Awesome.

The no glass thing is actually pretty fine. The stands are set a metre back from the boards and they have floor-to-boards netting. It's just that the netting is only secured at the bottom with about two pins per metre, halfway down the outside of the boards, so if a puck hits the netting it slides down and drops to the floor in front of the stands, not back on the ice. And if a player gets shoved way over the boards, his weight may tend to pull the netting down. But I can't see it being really dangerous.