WELCOME TEAMS!!!!!!!!

 

Ready for some Classic Oilsands Hockey??? We hope your team has a wonderful weekend and enjoys some great hockey action!

 Agenda for Weekend events:

 

-         Friday Feb 12 Player Tournament bags can be picked up at the Frank La Croix Arena. Send a team rep to collect all bags starting Friday Feb 12 @noon.

-         Saturday 6:30-8:30 skills competition at the Thickwood Arena.

-         Saturday $10,000 shoot out @ Skills Competition (Thickwood arena)

-         Sunday Banquet 6:00 doors open 6:30 supper.  (MI)

-         Monday: FORD Shoot out 11:00 @ Frank La Croix Arena

-         Monday: Final Game 1:30 @ Frank La Croix Arena

 Volunteers!!!!!!  WE NEED YOUR HELP THIS WEEKEND TO MAKE THIS A SUCCESS…. PLEASE EMAIL US TO LET US KNOW WHAT TIME YOU CAN HELP OUT!!!!

 Please call us if you have any questions!!!

Kathie 780 881-2953

Tammy 780 792-8857

Mark 780 799-5225

Click here for the Tournament Flyer

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

All goaltenders registered with the Fort McMurray Minor Hockey Association are invited to register to a Goalie Camp that will be held in Fort McMurray on February 20 & 21st. Depending on space availability, the camp may be opened to goaltenders from other Associations.

The camp will be provided by instructors from Gold in the Net and will include more than six hours of on-ice instruction.

The camp is provided free of charge but participants must register in advance by e-mail to fmmha@telus.net before February 15th. A similar camp in other Associations would cost participants as much as $250 to $300. .

Once again the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is hosting the Shootout on the Snye this year on the weekend of March  5, 6, and 7 2010. This is a great event and a lot of fun for players of all ages. There are divisions for Initiation, Novice, Atom, and Peewee along with 4 open divisions that our Bantam and Midget players can form teams and play in.

Just in case  your friends arent able to play, you dont have to register as a team, you can register as an individual and the organizers will place you on a team. Send your name to mark.humeniuk@woodbuffalo.ab.ca and he will place you on a team.

If you are worried that you will be missing any games for Minor Hockey, that has already been thought of and taken care of. Minor Hockey's and the Shootout on the Snye's schedules will be worked so that teams can participate in the tournament.

For more information on how to register and about the Shootout on the Snye go here.

 

Coach Mentoring January 27-31, 2010

Bjorn Kinding will be in Fort McMurray again in the New Year to work with our coaches and we are trying a new format yet again.

Bjorn will be presenting “Planning Your Practice” which is based on a video that he did for Hockey Alberta with Clare Drake.  The seminar “Planning your practice” will now be held from 5:45 pm to 7:15 pm in the Multipurpose Room at the Casman Centre (Thickwood arena).    This presentation will cover warm up, shared ice, station training, and half ice. This presentation will be great for all of our coaches no matter what division.

As for the ice time for the week, Bjorn will be doing the Prep and Practice format again this time, but instead of him just being assigned to teams, we are letting teams sign up to work with him. We will have 5 ice times in total for Saturday January 30th and Sunday January 31st at MacDonald Island, so up to 10 teams can get this opportunity. This is a great way to get different ideas on practice structure, concepts, and designs to meet your team’s requirements. This is a great opportunity that shouldn’t be missed out by any teams in Initiation, Novice, Atom, and Pee Wee.

 If you want to sign up for this, please email me, Roland, at hockeyops.fmmha@telus.net and we will assign you a time once we have filled all 10 spots. If the demand is there we might be able to arrange this for Friday night as well.

Please email me by December 18^th if you are interested in this great opportunity so we can get everything in place.

Prep & Practice is full

Thank you!

2010 Telus Minor Hockey Week

 

Schedules:

• Initiation         
• Novice         
• Atom         
• Pee Wee         
• Bantam         
• Midget

Here is the Flyer for this years Minor Hockey Week

Please join us for the 2010 Telus Minor Hockey Opening Ceremony on Saturday January 16th at 5:45 PM with Hall of Fame NHLer Bryan Trottier.   You can meet Bryan from 3:30 to 5:30 PM on Saturday at FLA for an Autograph Session. 

Open the Minor Hockey Week Brochure for more information the 2010 Telus Minor Hockey Week, great hockey, activities and prizes.


See attached the TIE BREAKING RULES for the 2010 Telus Minor Hockey Tournament

January 28, 2010 Dryland for Bantam/Midget is cancelled. Sorry for any inconvience.

When we set the date of November 8th, 2009 to get the team orders in due to the late start of the Initiation Division, we were already behind the ball. By the time the orders were completed by the teams, organized, and double checked and submitted, it was closer to the 15th of November. We placed the order with our supplier and CCM and with the huge demand for suits in the YXS and YS sizes, we had to source out suits all over Canada and even in the USA. We found enough suits to fill the order through the great work of our supplier and CCM and they were sent to the embroider.

The embroider received the suits from multiple sources and put the team orders together to only run into their own complications. They had mechanical failure on some of their machines and then they were hit with the H1N1 and had a large number of staff out ill for up to 2 weeks. Basically they were running at ¼ to 1/3 of capacity so needless to say we are behind the eight ball. Then of course the holiday season, they were closed from the 24th till the 4th. They are now running at full capacity trying to fill our order and others that they have that they are behind on as well.

We have to remember that we have 34 teams ordering tracksuits (around 600 suits) with 5 to 7 different embroidered spots on them, it takes time. We should have a batch of suits here this week or early next with another batch following shortly.

Please understand that many of these issues have been out of our control and we are doing our best to resolve them as they arise. Thank you for ordering through Minor Hockey and I want to thank you for your patience! Believe me I wanted this taken care of a long time ago. 34 teams was a great response to the tracksuit program, and with that many track suits, around 600, things take time. I will keep everyone up to date with information once I get that information.

Once again sorry for the delay and thank you for your patience!

Teams have been sent invoices so we can pay the supplier once they come in. Teams will be contacted when their suits are in.