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In a game the other day our goalie had the puck frozen. However one of the refs kept yelling "Play it! Play it!" and wouldn't blow the whistle. Our goalie had to push the puck to the corner to play it and keep the game moving. There wasn't an opposing player near the goalie (though there were some still in the zone). I've never heard of this rule and can't seem to find anything in the USA Hockey rule book about it. All I can find is rule 632, but it doesn't mention this situation. Is this a legitimate rule? Or was the ref just crazy?

I'm looking for some good solo drills I can do at a stick n puck. I am a low C-level defensemen just looking to improve some of my skills. Most of the drills I've seen usually involve multiple people or even a team. Looking for anything/everything to practice and get better at, but at an individual level.

Started playing the game, but I noticed I die a lot. I'm currently level 22 with all points in body (base 132 + 74 from items). I keep dying in the Industrial Port of Act 2. My resistances are 125, 171 and 136. Are those too low? Am I doing something wrong? I'm trying to follow this build, but maybe it's not a good one?

EDIT: Turns out it was my x config. I have an NVIDIA Optimus laptop (intel integrated gpu and discrete nvidia gpu). It's hard to explain but the x config was correct enough to work. However, my best guess is that winecfg was trying to use a screen that didn't really exist to show the gui. Either way I fixed my x config and now everything works.

Did the big update, but now wine stopped working. Created a fresh wine prefix:

$ mv .wine .wine-old
$ export WINEARCH=win32
$ wineboot    

Then attempted to run winecfg, but it just sits there and no gui shows up.

Doing a bit of snooping with strace and it seems to be hanging on a fd:

$ strace winecfg
read(7, 

Looking at th

What I'd like to do is have two stages, one where the gameplay happens and the player can move around. Another that's "pinned" to the right side of the screen for displaying stats (health, exp, mana, etc.). Basically a game stage taking up 80% of the screen and a hud stage taking up 20% of the screen where the huds camera doesnt move but the game stage's does. I'm not sure how to set this up though because when it runs, the hud stage just renders on top of the game stage. Here is my simple code:

@Override
public void create() {
    // game stage takes up 80% of screen
    gameStage = new Stage(new FitViewport(800*0.8f, 480));
    // hud stage takes up 20% of screen

A lot of the tutorials on making a song don't delve very deep. They show you how to play a simple chord progression but that's it. I'm looking for what's next. I've got a simple chord progression down, what do I do now? How do I turn it into an actual song with a verse and chorus (and maybe a bridge)?

Are there any sites or books that will show me how to do this. I'm the kind of person that learns by example so anything with a step-by-step guide would be great.

So far what I have done is created a simple "song" in the key of G major. Really it's just the same 4 chords and strum pattern repeated ad nauseam ( G Em Am C). How do I turn that into a real song? Or at least something that's not t

I'm wondering how I can clear the crease as a smaller Defensemen in a no-check league. So far I've just been leaning on the opposing player or giving them small shoves. This works OK, but I'm wondering if there's something more effective.

I've only been playing the game for a year or so now, but I decided to move up from a D level team to a C level team this season because I'm a pretty good skater and have positioning mostly figured out. However, I feel like I'm not really doing much on the ice.

I've always played defense and never really had much offense to my game. So far I have 1 assist in 6 games played. I feel like when I'm on the ice I'm not really doing much. I don't touch the puck too much, but when I do it's usually to pass it up to someone else. The times I have tried some offense, I've lost it to the other team. For example, last night I had the puck at the point so I attempted a shot while the opposing player wa

My beer league team is comprised of all beginners (we formed a team after the learn to play class earlier this year) and we are on our second season together. We are thinking of renting some ice nearby, but the trouble is we don't really know what to practice. Individually, we can practice well, but it would be nice to have team oriented drills. I don't think we'll be hiring a coach so we'll be on our own.

I think we could benefit from drills focusing on position, passing, and attacking. Does anyone have some good resources on this? Our strategy for all games right now is that we don't have a strategy, so maybe something that can help there too.

So I was elected captain on my Rec League for the upcoming fall/winter season. We are a team of beginners (all of us started playing this past summer). I'm wondering if we should try and make up lines for us to follow. I'm curious on how to go about actually figuring out who should be playing what position and what other rec teams do. Do they make up lines day of or have set lines/positions that everyone knows? Keep in mind we are in the bottom of the division (filled with teams playing for only 1 - 2 years) and not everyone shows up to games.

We currently have a roster of 17 people (including the goalie) so assuming everyone shows up that's 4 lines and 4 D or 3 lines, 6 D and 1 extra. The

I've been playing defense for a few months now and I have some specific questions hopefully someone can help me with.

• When it's a one on one and the forward is coming straight down the middle, how can I force him to the outside? Right now I just keep skating backward and end up blocking the goalie because I don't really know what to do.
• How do you deal with people who are faster than you and just jump around you? I don't mean learning to skate faster (I've been working on that).
• If my team is in our defensive zone and an opposing forward has the puck and goes outside of my area of coverage, do I follow? Or do I let another teammate pick him up and just stay in my area of coverage?
• I

Occasionally my left skate will start wobbling as I'm skating. What I mean is that it glides in an S shape. It doesn't happen all the time, but frequent enough to make me take notice. However, I am not going all that fast when it happens (I can't skate that fast anyway). Is this happening due to skates not tight enough? Blades not sharp enough? Bad ice? Blades not sharpened correctly? How can I prevent this?

Thanks.