The site was down for a good portion of the week for maintenance. More updates in the future.

Once again, turning left is not my friend - this time I landed on my elbow, dislocating my shoulder in a friendly morning pickup game. Looks like I may be out for the rest of the year, crap. Playoffs? The Ice Pirates were just coming together, too...

Last year I saw Jack pop his shoulder back in during a game and keep on playing. That's old time hockey.

Big thanks to the Bartlett staff who popped it back in. Now to figure out the best way to type...

Reminder that there will be a goalie clinic this Sunday from 1:15pm - 4:00pm with help on equipment, chalk talk, an hour of ice time, and help with any questions you might have. If you're interested, contact us!

Once again a team from Juneau learned where hockey was invented, but we definitely represented well. Kudos to those that made the trip up to Haines Junction this past weekend. How's this for a day in the life:

• Hockey
• Curling
• Super Bowl Party w/ copious amounts of "fire in the corn-hole" chile

It doesn't get much better than that.

Seems like we've been getting a lot of email recently asking this: can we reschedule the games on Sunday so that people can stay at home and watch the Super Bowl game?

Short answer: No.

Long windbag answer: We'll look into it for next year, but for this year, it's not going to happen. So if you have a game on that day, during the game, I recommend that you come to your hockey game (remember: drive safe), play hard, drive home, and have your buddies fill you in on what happened during the last 5 minutes of playing time as well as what happened for the last 10 commercial breaks.

If for some reason you can't make the game, make sure you tell your team representative ahead of time so that they can plan accordingly. Team reps: you can add players up until the 9th skater, as long as it's fine by the other team rep, so you're encouraged to make sure you have enough skaters out there.

The upside to having all of these new-fangled graphite / composite sticks is the decrease in weight, increased stiffness, really seems to help out stickhandling and snapshots. The downside, of course, is that it hurts your wallet a whole lot more when you whack the cross bar after you score on your own goal.

Due to how the website was incorrectly handling Daylight Savings Time, the web schedule block was not showing the correct times. This has been worked around, and should be correct now, as of 11am this morning. Sorry folks!

Another year, another website layout. A lot of new features / improvements found it's way into the new design:

• Ability to post blog entries. This will replace the very static and relatively unused forums of the last site. After logging in, click on the "My blog" below your name on the right side to post an entry.
• The "upcoming games" block has made it's reappearance, due to popular demand.
• Provides a space for the board to keep track of meeting minutes, to-do things, and documents that we have to reference.

In the future we'll be looking into the ability to easily post and keep statistics online, pay for seasons via PayPal online, etc. We'll also love for people to submit photographs, stories, blog entries, etc, for inclusion, to make this a more community based site.

Thanks for checking it out. Let us know what you think.