Hi JAHA,

Teams and schedules for the winter season have been uploaded! You should have received an invite via email to join your team. If you didn’t, you still likely have an invite waiting for you on Teampages. To find it first sign in, click the inbox icon at the top of the screen, and then select “notifications”. If you don’t have any pending team invites for a tier you should be in, or have an invite from a tier you shouldn’t be in, reach out to us at juneauadulthockey@gmail.com. Additionally, if you notice any issues with the schedule let us know as well.

See below for a list of other updates or things you should be aware of in no particular order:

1) We will be leaving registration open for AB, women’s, Intro to hockey, and D tier for a while longer as there is still a large amount of space in those tiers. However, the c40 tier is full at this point.

2) Due to the continuing referee shortage, JAHA is offering financial incentives for players who are looking to referee. Any new referees that sign up will receive a $100 rebate on their JAHA registration fee upon refereeing their 5th JAHA game for the winter season. Any level 2 or 3 referee who referees a game will receive a $10 rebate per game up to a $100 cap. If you are interested in signing up as a referee, please reach out to JHO at JHOinc17@gmail.com.

3) We currently have an empty board position. Rick Driscoll has resigned from the board as a member at large and we are looking to fill his position. He has served on the JAHA board for the last 8 years and I’m sure it isn’t the last that we’ll see of him at the rink. Thanks Rick for all of your work as a board member! If you are interested in a seat on the JAHA board and serving the rest of Rick’s term, please email us at juneauadulthockey@gmail.com. The board will be voting on this issue at our board meeting next Tuesday, so get your name in before then.

4) We are looking for someone to coach our intro to hockey program (ice times will begin at the start of February). If this is something that you would be interested in, please reach out to us!

That should do it for updates, looking forward to seeing you all on the ice!

-Andrew Dimond, JAHA President.

Hi All,

After some deliberation we have decided to again combine C tier and 40+, as well as combining tiers A and B. If you want any changes made to your registration, please reach out to us at juneauadulthockey@gmail.com in the next 2 days as we are beginning to assemble teams.

Thanks,

-Andrew Dimond, JAHA President

Hello all,

Given the number of people who missed the deadline or had issues registering, we have opened registration back up until Wednesday Night (12/22). For those of you who missed the deadline, please take advantage of the next day and a half and get signed up!

For those of you who ran into the “we are temporarily unable to validate your USA hockey number”, please try the following fixes.

1) selecting any other variants of your name that exist under the “person” menu, or selecting the “new skater” option.
2) switching devices/browsers.

Almost every person who has had this issue has been able to circumvent it with one of these 2 fixes. If you are still unable to get your USA hockey number verified, please reach out to us with your USA hockey number and the tier you would like to play in at juneauadulthockey@gmail.com

As of right now, we are very close to have enough skaters to have regular tiers across the board, though we will reserve making any final decisions until registration closes as there are still quite a few people waiting to register.

Thanks, and get signed up!

-Andrew Dimond, JAHA President

HI All,

As I’m sure a rather large handful of you are aware, we’ve run into some issues getting players USA hockey numbers verified. The specific error was “we are temporarily unavailable to verify the USA hockey confirmation number. Please try again later.” However even after multiple days this error wouldn’t resolve.

So far, two workarounds have been found:

1) selecting any other variants of your name that exist under the “person” menu, or selecting the “new skater” option.
2) switching devices/browsers.

If you ran into this error, would you mind providing me with the following information

1) Which one of these steps did you take to remedy your issue? If you found another way, let us know
2) If you switched devices, what device did and didn’t work (i.e. pc didn’t work, but phone did)
3) if you switched browsers, what browser worked and what didn’t (i.e. internet explorer worked but chrome didn’t)
4) Any other info you think might be relevant.

I’d like to provide feedback to Active about this and have workarounds ready for next fall’s registration.

Thanks!

-Andrew Dimond, JAHA president.

Hello D tier players,

After some issues came up during the fall season, the JAHA board has voted (8-2) in favor of putting a new rule in place for D tier. Pursuant to our bylaws, the new rule will be submitted to the affected tier for a 10 day comment period. After the 10 day period expires, the board will consider any comment and the rule will either be modified and resubmitted for another comment period, withdraw the rule, or have the rule go into effect immediately upon the end of this comment period.

Notice of this rule change will be posted at the rink tomorrow evening and as such, this rule change will be slated to go into effect next Wednesday (so it won’t affect any of you until winter season begins).

Please submit your comments via email to juneauadulthockey@gmail.com

Thanks,

-Andrew Dimond, JAHA president.

C.4 – Substitutions

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When substitutes are required for the beginner tier, and no substitutes are available from that tier, players that substitute from higher leagues will be ineligible to score goals in this game. Referees will be informed before the start of play who these substitutes are, an indication will also be included on the scoresheet, and in the event that a goal is scored by one of these players, play will be stopped and a faceoff will occur at the nearest faceoff circle.

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Explanation: The skill gap that exists between C tier and D tier combined with the lack of pool of substitutes for D tier games given the tier often has exactly 2 teams, there has been a repeated issue of D tier players feeling like they have a lack of agency in their own games when C tier subs are involved. Similarly, there are very few concrete guidelines that exist for these players to follow when subbing down. The aim of this rule is to specifically discourage these players from attempting to score goals and instead facilitate play for D tier players. We want to foster an environment where C tier players still find some benefit in subbing down for D tier games while also continuing to involve D tier players in play rather than dominating and attempting to score.