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1st practice is Wednesday September 11. 2nd practice Tuesday September 17.
See the rosters below for your practice team and time. If you have told me you can’t be there, your name will not appear on the first practice roster. For these sessions your practice team will scrimmage against another practice team for 1 hour. No officials, no timekeeper, no stats. During that time, the Team Captains will scout and evaluate players for skill level so that we can put final rosters together where the teams will be fairly equal in hockey and skating skills (or at least attempt to do this). Wear a jersey in your team color, or try to bring both light and dark colors. Be aware that the team you practice with may not be the team you practice with on September 17 or play with during the regular season. The Captains will meet on September 18 to hold a draft and final rosters will be announced before Game 1. It’s also possible for the Captains to meet during the regular season to make roster adjustments (trades).
There is a lot of renovation activity going on outside and inside the arena. Everyone may still use the southeast (handicap) entrance and use the skate room and visitor locker room. It’s a long way from the parking lot, but you may also use the security office entrance on the west side of the building. The Zamboni is working and the ice looks good (considering the September humidity).
Before each practice session I will need a few minutes to check attendance and collect your size and favorite number for your jersey. I already know this information for many of you. The League will be ordering jerseys quickly but it will still probably be several games in before we receive them.
Stormont Vail Events Center (SVEC) is very firm about players being registered before they may step on the ice. Don’t bring your friend or relative, they can’t play if not registered. If you haven’t made it in to the SVEC office, I can take your registration form, printed USA Hockey receipt and payment. In this case, payment must be in the form of cash, money order, or personal check for all or half of the total fee. I cannot take credit cards. If plastic is your only option, you must contact the Expocentre office before practice.
We have a lot of regular players who like to aggravate me by taking their sweet time about getting registered, so I don’t know yet the number of teams we will have.
For the first practice at least, we will field 4 teams.
The game date schedule is posted. However we are at the mercy of the SVEC and they always have changes depending on their use of the venue. I will update this as we go.
To say “Thank You” to our sponsors we like to get together between games a couple of times at each sponsor’s business. Please watch for these announcements and join us for a little extra fun with league mates.
Don’t hesitate to contact your captain or me with questions. My contact info is below. In fact, please reply to this email so that I can determine the effectiveness of all the email addresses. I spend a lot of time putting them in each year, and I am already getting bounce backs.
If you wish you may practice both sessions as long as the assigned players get their full ice time. If you registered today, or will register tomorrow, you name may not appear below. Show up to play with your former team, or just show up at either time, but see me first. I am the really young-looking guy with big muscles and carrying a clipboard.
If you are out of shape, no barfing on the ice or player box. Unattended barf will be checked for DNA.
Goalies – please let me know if you plan to scrimmage on Wednesday and next week. Depending on who can be there we may need your services throughout the evening.
Team Color White (Captain Jacob Vickery) – Practice Time 7:00 PM
Ryan Eldridge
Jordan Irish – A
Brock Roehler
Nate Rowe
Marcus Clements
Michele McCaffrey
Jacob Vickery – C
David Stevens
Mike Stevens
Jacob Vickery
Skyler Stevens – Goal
Team Color Black (Captain Ian Buckland) – Practice Time 7:00 PM
Peter Leibfarth
Mike Macphee
Scott Gilchrist
Jared Houghtaling
Dustin Ensley
Jeff Grimm
Josh Hypse
Josiah Jackson
Mike Rodriguez
Kyle Garcia – Goal
Tre Burkett – Goal
Team Color Red (Captain Kevin Drewelow) – Practice Time 8:30 PM
Glenn Kipp
Alex Symsek – A
Chris Kastelic
Brock Roehler
Nathan Chute
Aurora Barrett
Robert Forbes
Adam Levesque
Daryl Ludolph
John Moes – Goal
Team Color Green (Captain Matt Hodges) – Practice Time 8:30 PM
Matt Hodges – C
Kaleb Murdoff
Mike Eichten
Chris Fisackerly
Ryan Forster
Aaron Baker – A
Derek Burkett
Samantha Baker
Kerry Bence
Donald Nakelski
Alex Cole – Goal