As STMHA is 99% run by volunteers we will utilize our website to communicate any further information.
Here is some helpful info.
Coaches : You are more than welcome to plan your first practice, otherwise a practice plan will be provided for you. Team lists and contact information will be provided to you Saturday morning.
Parents : Please have your players ready to go for the start of practice. This can be a very chaotic time.
Just a quick reminder of the things that are needed for the first day
-Hockey Socks,
-Water Bottle with water,
-Mouth Guard (fitted to the players Mouth)
PLAYER WILL NOT BE ALLOWED ON THE ICE WITHOUT A MOUTH GUARD
-Full hockey equipment (with Skates),
-A taped Hockey Stick cut to the proper height, and
-A back-up jersey (In case our Jersey’s are not ready for Saturday)
Dressing rooms = please try and limit the number of family members you bring into the dressing as there is not much room after getting 16 kids and their equipment in there. Please also consider and respect that other children are getting changed and may prefer privacy.
Team Lists will be posted on the dressing room doors to get you to your teams room. As indicated the IP2 program is for experienced players. If you feel after the first couple of practices your player need more development we can move them to the IP program.
The practice and game schedules are posted and updated on our website. This is how we communicate. You will note that there are some weekends that there is no hockey. This is what we call " Black outs"
BLACK-OUT WEEKENDS
Each May St.Thomas Minor Hockey submits to the City of St.Thomas an ice time request for the up coming season. As we are not the only user group the City sets aside, and does not allow us to book ice time on certain weekends. This ice time is set aside to allow for tournaments, events, etc. These are what we call Black-Out Weekends. You will find that through-out the season there will be weekends where there will be no Development Review/Game Day sessions due to these Black-outs. This ice time has not been taken awayfrom the program, it was simply never our ice time in the first place. These “Black-outs” are taken into consideration at the start of the session when the schedule is made to ensure each team receives their full allotment of ice time.
BLACK OUT DATES
October 10 - Thanksgiving, Rink Closed - ice time has been moved to Sunday October 9th.
October 21-23 – STMHA Major Tournament
November 3-6 – Figure Skating Competition
November 18-20 – STMHA AE Tournament
December 2-4 – Panther’s Tournament
January 13-15 – Kettle Creek Tournament
Additional Scheduling Info
Start date – Oct 1
Last Day before Christmas holidays will be Dec. 20
House League Christmas Tournament Dec 27-29
2nd half of the season starts back up Jan. 2
Final Day – March 3rd.
Players : Come ready to have fun!
Again please utilize out website for information and you can even subscribe so that you receive updates via email or text meassage. You can do this by going to your teams page and then on near the bottom left hand corner there is a box titled manage subscriptions. Follow the instructions from there.
See you all Saturday!
Troy Carlson
Director of Development
STMHA
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