20 Skaters Blog

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Brydon Gilliss

· Product Updates

A Skeery Weekend for Updates

Over the past few months we’ve been busy rearchitecting our game management and message scheduling area. It’s been a massive amount of work that puts us in a great position moving forward. It should quickly eliminate any anomalies in our game related...
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· Gear

Make Your Own Pickup Hockey Shoulder Pads

I know we all want to have shoulders like Shanahan right? As compared to a lot of pro players today, Shanahan and others appeared to not even be wearing shoulder pads. They were but they wore low profile shoulder pads that were hardly noticeable....
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· Main

You Can Always Return to Hockey

Here in Canada, most of us start to run out of youth hockey leagues in our mid-teens. Unless you’re playing high level hockey, the available house leagues start to dry up around the age of 16. I played some rep level hockey growing up but I stopped playing cold …
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· Organization Tips

How Much Do I Charge For Pickup Hockey?

The short answer is just assume you are NOT charging your skaters enough! While we have a lot of financially healthy games, the majority are not breaking even when they start with us. That stresses me out. For games that use our system, we can reflect some...
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20Skaters League Champions

Yes we’re all about pickup hockey, however, so far in our history every men’s team we’ve ever sponsored has won their league! Sure we’ve only ever sponsored one team but stats are stats. The 20Skaters team in Guelph’s NCWHL league won the B division and …
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Everyone Hates Skater #21

When it comes to pickup hockey, no one wants to be skater #21. The perfect number, as we all know, is 20 Skaters. Ten per bench, two full lines. Currently all our games are soldout once we reach 20. Done, closed for business, no others allowed in. All of our …
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Pickup Hockey All-Stars!

In case you didn’t know, we work out of the ThreeFortyNine coworking space. That means we work around other awesome folks all day long. One of those folks is Matt Sharpe of DaringBoy and DesigningSport fame. We briefly discussed the idea of doing something...
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Dark or White Sweater Only for Pickup Hockey!

I posted a somewhat pissy update on twitter yesterday before our pickup hockey game last night.... View this post on X/Twitter Maybe it’s just a personal pet peeve but if you know you’re playing pickup hockey, leave the yellow, reds, and grey’s at home. Make sure …
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We Have Pretty!

We have a new logo! You can see it on our main website. We’re also working on getting some sweaters made up. We’re planning on offering them in a pair of home and away. Then you’ll be set to play for either side when you show up …
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What have you LOST organizing hockey?

We’re working on a LOST ad to put up on rinks and hockey shops. The goal is to emphasize that we help you organize pickup hockey while losing less of your personal time and money. What’ya think? If you live near Kitchener Ontario, Eric is running a game …
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