The fix, you ask?
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Well, the Icelandic Hockey League has some unique aspects. This is due in large part to the teams in the League. When I came here, I thought there were three teams. I was sort of right. Here are the three 'main' teams:
1. Skautafelag Reykjavik (hereinafter "SR");
2. Skautafelag Akureyri - Vikingur ("SA");
3. Bjorinn (the "Bears")
As it happens, for the 2011-2012 season, each team was supposed to field a 'baby squad'. Indeed, two clubs, have done so: SA has the "Jotnar" ("Giants"), and the Bears have the "Baby Bears", making for a five team league. All teams play 16 games. But, in a surprising twist, the teams play each other! In the same league! They can even share as many as six players a game. So, what this means, is when the Giants play, say SR, they get loaded with Vikingur players, generally the six best. This is done to try to steal points from SR, which would ultimately help both the Vikingur and the Giants. But especially the Vikingur, because only the top 2 teams play for the Championship, which is a 5-game series.
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Runar & Siggy Sigs--the fellow who cooked the Reindeer a couple of weeks ago.
Incidentally, these shots were taken from a Vikings v. Giants game last year.
Now, where I come in...Josh told me this morning he 'wanted me in the lineup', instead of refereeing...which was kind of too bad--the refereeing is good money. But, I played for the Giants...against the 'A'-squad, the Vikings. Now, to show how ridiculous this game was, some of the guys in our room were smoking cigarettes before the game. Think Vancouver Canucks against the Manitoba Moose. We knew we were going to get shelled. Vikingur lent us zero players. They had 'stuff to work on', and we were to be the guinea pigs. They also had a full contingent of four lines and six defencemen...we had a total of 11 skaters. Ouch. We were given two cases of Powerade...and that was also consumed before the god-damn pre-game warm-up. Guys were snuffing tobacco at the intermissions, whereas we could hear the other team riding exercise bikes. Just a joke. Anyhow, the final score was 15-0. I had one shot on goal (one of our seven), and was 'only' minus three.
Now, where I come in...Josh told me this morning he 'wanted me in the lineup', instead of refereeing...which was kind of too bad--the refereeing is good money. But, I played for the Giants...against the 'A'-squad, the Vikings. Now, to show how ridiculous this game was, some of the guys in our room were smoking cigarettes before the game. Think Vancouver Canucks against the Manitoba Moose. We knew we were going to get shelled. Vikingur lent us zero players. They had 'stuff to work on', and we were to be the guinea pigs. They also had a full contingent of four lines and six defencemen...we had a total of 11 skaters. Ouch. We were given two cases of Powerade...and that was also consumed before the god-damn pre-game warm-up. Guys were snuffing tobacco at the intermissions, whereas we could hear the other team riding exercise bikes. Just a joke. Anyhow, the final score was 15-0. I had one shot on goal (one of our seven), and was 'only' minus three.
All told, we took our lumps for the good of the club...except some younger guys had a tough time taking said lumps, so they started hitting or doing dumb things, like laying down in the penalty box, and Josh came into our room after, and laced into those wankers. Laying down in the penalty box, incidentally, is really pointless, because our penalty kill was good for about ten seconds, tops.
Needless to say, the Giants are never going to beat the Vikings, just as the Baby Bears could never conceive of beating the senior Bears.
The guy in the pink gloves is Steinur.
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Most of these guys grew up together...so things are rather incestuous.
Reykjavik, or SR, incidentally, never developed a baby team, and this, amongst other things, irks Josh & the rest of the Akureyri guys to no end.
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