As the season approaches, we need to inform you of a change to how locker rooms are handled at the rink and present you with proposed changes to JAHA’s internal rules.

LOCKER ROOMS
To help prevent vandalism and ensure the safety of folks’ belongings at the rink, locker room doors will be kept locked going forward. This is standard practice at many rinks outside of Juneau.

As you show up for games, the first arriving player for your team will need to trade their car keys to check out the key for your team’s assigned locker room. It is your responsibility to keep the locker room locked while you are on the ice and to lock it as you exit. If the player who turned in their car keys isn’t the last one to leave, they can trade their keys for another player’s at the front desk. The idea is to minimize the risk that the locker room key goes home with someone. Again, this is standard practice for many rinks outside of Juneau.

If you have questions or concerns, please let us know at info@juneauhockey.org.

PROPOSED RULE CHANGES
See the document linked to this announcement for the full text of the proposed rule changes described below. The rule change process is pretty straightforward: we are presenting these proposed changes out to you, our members, for your thoughts and feedback. You have until September 15th to consider these proposed changes and get any questions, suggestions, or concerns to us at info@juneauhockey.org. If a proposed rule needs more work or simply doesn’t have support, the JAHA Board will either revise and restart the 10 day notice period or withdraw the proposed rule altogether. Each of these proposed rules were voted on independently, so if one rule doesn’t appear to have support, that doesn’t stop the others from going forward.

Please review the attached document so you are fully informed of the proposed changes! In a nutshell, the proposed changes are:

• Allow full slapshots instead of waist-high only slapshots in Co-Ed Tier B. (They are already allowed in Co-Ed Tier A.)

• Revise the way we verify eligible players to move away from stickers and instead rely on a list of current players available to the on- and off-ice officials and pre-populate scoresheets with JAHA-vetted roster labels.

• Move from a four week roster freeze date to a four game roster freeze date to ensure teams have played an equal number of games, allowing for a more even comparison when looking at trading players to maintain competitive parity.

The timing of this notice does mean that these rules will become effective after a handful of games have been played. We will work with JHO to ensure they are applied at the correct date.

Note regarding the elimination of helmet stickers: Because this is a marked efficiency and actually improves the ability of officials to verify players quickly, we did not order new helmet stickers for this season and so none will be distributed. Instead, we will begin piloting the official player list immediately and make it available to officials at the beginning of the season. The rule change will simply formalize this test period.

Again, please send any questions, comments, suggestions, or concerns to info@juneauhockey.org by September 15th to ensure your voice is heard on these proposed changes.

Thank you all for being a part of JAHA and we’ll see you on the ice soon!

— Commissioner Soza

See below for the Winter 2019 JAHA Playoff Schedule.

All championship games will happen on Sunday, April 7th.

Disclaimer: We’re including the schedule IN this announcement so you don’t have to download a separate document, but there’s no way to test how the formatting will look as an email without actually sending the email! If the spacing and such looks goofy below, you can grab an image of the schedule from our public JAHA Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/JuneauHockey/

Tier A
Tier A 1 Sunday 24-Mar 7:45 PM Rank 2 vs Rank 3
Tier A 2 Thursday 28-Mar 8:00 PM Rank 1 vs Winner Game 1
Tier A 3 Sunday 31-Mar 9:00 PM Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 2
Tier A © Sunday 7-Apr 4:00 PM Winner Game 2 vs Winner Game 3

Tier B
Tier B 1 Sunday 24-Mar 4:00 PM Rank 2 vs Rank 3
Tier B 2 Sunday 24-Mar 10:15 PM Rank 4 vs Rank 5
Tier B 3 Tuesday 26-Mar 8:00 PM Rank 1 vs Winner Game 2
Tier B 4 Tuesday 26-Mar 9:15 PM Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 2
Tier B 5 Sunday 31-Mar 5:15 PM Winner Game 1 vs Winner Game 3
Tier B 6 Tuesday 2-Apr 9:15 PM Loser Game 3 vs Winner Game 4
Tier B 7 Thursday 4-Apr 8:00 PM Loser Game 5 vs Winner Game 6
Tier B © Sunday 7-Apr 6:30 PM Winner Game 5 vs Winner Game 7

Tier C
Tier C 1 Sunday 24-Mar 6:30 PM Rank 2 vs Rank 3
Tier C 2 Wednesday 27-Mar 9:00 PM Rank 4 vs Rank 5
Tier C 3 Thursday 28-Mar 9:15 PM Rank 1 vs Winner Game 2
Tier C 4 Sunday 31-Mar 10:15 PM Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 2
Tier C 5 Sunday 31-Mar 6:30 PM Winner Game 1 vs Winner Game 3
Tier C 6 Tuesday 2-Apr 8:00 PM Loser Game 3 vs Winner Game 4
Tier C 7 Thursday 4-Apr 9:15 PM Loser Game 5 vs Winner Game 6
Tier C © Sunday 7-Apr 2:45 PM Winner Game 5 vs Winner Game 7

Tier W
Tier W 1 Sunday 24-Mar 5:15 PM Rank 1 vs Rank 4
Tier W 2 Sunday 24-Mar 9:00 PM Rank 2 vs Rank 3
Tier W 3 Tuesday 26-Mar 10:30 PM Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 2
Tier W 4 Wednesday 27-Mar 7:45 PM Winner Game 1 vs Winner Game 2
Tier W 5 Wednesday 3-Apr 7:45 PM Loser Game 4 vs Winner Game 3
Tier W © Sunday 7-Apr 7:45 PM Winner Game 4 vs Winner Game 5

Tier 40+
Tier 40 1 Monday 25-Mar 7:45 PM Rank 1 vs Rank 4
Tier 40 2 Monday 25-Mar 9:00 PM Rank 2 vs Rank 3
Tier 40 3 Sunday 31-Mar 7:45 PM Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 2
Tier 40 4 Sunday 31-Mar 4:00 PM Winner Game 1 vs Winner Game 2
Tier 40 5 Wednesday 3-Apr 9:00 PM Loser Game 4 vs Winner Game 3
Tier 40 © Sunday 7-Apr 5:15 PM Winner Game 4 vs Winner Game 5

See attached for FINAL teams and schedule for the upcoming JAHA Holiday Jamboree season!

We ended up with six teams, each getting five games between 12/2 and 12/16.

Team names are subject to change as we confirm sponsored teams, but the team rosters and schedules are set.

Once team names are confirmed, we’ll do our best to get teams and schedules loaded into the website, but to be sure you don’t miss any games you should save the attached document and mark your team’s games on your calendar!

See you on the ice!

Did you miss the first round of pickups for the 15th Anniversary JAHA t-shirts?

No worries! We’ll be doing it again for the start of the Holiday Jamboree this coming Sunday, 12/2.

Swing by the rink between 5pm and 7pm to pick up your gift. If you can’t make it, send someone on your behalf, just make sure to let us know who it is at info@juneauhockey.org.

Remember that we only ordered enough for those who signed up by 9/2. T-shirts that are leftover after this Sunday will be re-distributed to those who signed up later in the year and/or didn’t select a t-shirt size at registration. All other leftovers will be given out as banquet prizes next spring!

So if you want your shirt, please make sure to pick it up or make arrangements to have it picked up.

If you do NOT want your shirt, please let us know at info@juneauhockey.org so we can get it to someone who does.

Dear JAHA Player,

In celebration of JAHA’s 15th year in existence, we have a gift for everyone who registered for JAHA before the Fall games started on September 2nd!

If you signed up by then AND entered your t-shirt size at registration, we will be handing out special JAHA shirts at Treadwell Arena tomorrow, 11/18, from 5pm to 9pm, as Championship Games are going on.

There is only ONE shirt per person, regardless of how many teams/tiers you registered for.

If you need to send someone else to pick up your shirt or you do NOT wish to claim your gift, please let us know at info@juneauhockey.org.

Thanks and hope to see you tomorrow!

— Commissioner Soza