Now is a great time to prepare for our next hockey season, we need everyone's assistance in getting our jersey's back to JAHA!

It would be nice if the sweaters/jerseys are clean but collecting them is the most important thing. Please have them in the JAHA Locker at the rink as soon as you can. Joe Geldof has volunteered to pick them up and clean them. This off season, we will be putting logos and numbers on all JAHA sweaters and storing them in uniform tubs for distribution next season

Here is a list of the JAHA Board positions.
President- expires annually - Open
Vice president- expires in even years (Joe)
Treasurer- expires in even years ( Christy)
Secretary- expires in odd years - Open
Tier representatives - expires every year - Open (A-B-C-W)

If you have any interest in participating on the board please let us know.

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Even though this season still has a bit to go it isn't too early to think about next year.
Turcotte Stickhandling school will have both youth and adult classes next September 11th - 13th .
We suggest you register early .

Planet Ice International Easter Coed Hockey Tournament

April 10 - 12, 2009
Coquitlam B.C. Canada
(Vancouver area) Registration is attached

Three games guaranteed
Divisional and MVP prizes
Fees: $675. Canadian includes tax.

Last year 28 teams participate in 5 divisions.
Web site www.planetice.ca

Hotel Partners: http://www.planetice.ca/coquitlam/hotelpartners.cfm
For more information contact me at emarshall@planetice.ca

Mark your calendar for the 2009 Fools on Ice Women's Hockey Tournament April 3,4 and 5 at the Subway Center in Anchorage. Registration fee is $800.00 per team, 4 games guaranteed, minimum age is 21. Registration deadline is March 1, 2009, spots are guaranteed for returning teams whose registration is paid by February 1, 2009.

Check out our website for information and registration form.
http://www.alaskafoolsonice.com/

D.J. Webb
Fools on Ice Committee
(907)277-6605 / (907)250-4914
info@alaskafoolsonice.com

The Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Tournament is coming up on Feb 20th to 22nd. Team entry deposits are starting to roll in. It looks like we will limit out this year with available ice. The tournament is capped at 20 teams (16 men's teams total in 2 divisions, 4 women's teams). We have had more than 20 teams indicate that they want to register a team. Money talks. The only way that we can finalize ice, schedule, refs, timekeepers etc.. is if we have a deposit; and that's the only way to secure a spot in the tournament.

Attached is a tournament information sheet.

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.

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.