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Cross-ice hockey is coming!Registration Atom & up
Early registration has come and gone. Don’t miss out on savings. Our next registration deadline is Aug. 1st when costs go up again.
Senior/Junior Novice
Rates have now been set and registration is open. Early registration ends on Sept. 17th.
Registration forms are available at www.gtmha.com. Contact our registrar at [email protected] with questions.
Interested in Refereeing?
The West Kootenay area is in desperate need of qualified
referees. It is a great way to earn some extra cash.
Interested? Please contactDyllan Lenarduzzi
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Want more? Watch these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhxNq59pWg http://www.usahockey.com/news_article/show/472676?referrer_id=752796 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6d2hCAkHq0
Is your son/daughter trying out for Major Midget this season? MML players need signed approval
prior to attending MML tryouts and the Bantam Wildcats need to get a registration waiver from WK signed (Dara will be at registration for both
MML camp).. Remember you must be registered with GTMHA in order to have approval.
Trying out for Major
Midget? Bantam Wildcats?
What is it? In Cross Ice teams play the width of the ice instead of the length, allowing for more chances to pass, shoot and stick-handle and less time spent chasing the puck up and down the entire rink. More time playing – and less time waiting for the next shift – organizers say, will improve players’ skill and increase their enjoyment of the game.
Benefits... One sheet of ice is temporarily turned into three, with up to 24 kids on the ice at once – eight per game – during each 30-minute playing session.
10 Indisputable Statistics Proving Cross Ice is Better Than Full Ice for Young Players:
1. 6x more shots on goal/player 2. 5x more passes received/player 3. 2x more puck battles/player 4. 2x more puck touches/player 5. 2x more pass attempts/player 6. 2x more shot attempts/player 7. 2x more change of direction pivots 8. 1.75 shots/minute vs 0.45 shots/
minute playing full ice 9. Turns out the actual stats of the U8
game resemble those of an NHL game.
10. Simply put by Bob Mancini, Manager of USA Hockey Athlete Development Model, ” The numbers show what is good for a
Concussion Awareness Training Tool (CATT)
Mandatory for all team officials
before stepping on the ice.
This resource tool is now available for all players, parents & coaches. In less than half an hour, coaches, parents and athletes can be ready for the impact of a concussion.
http://www.bchockey.net/RiskManagement/riskmanagement.aspx
BC Hockey has approved a new Initiation program that all minor hockey associations in BC will
implement for the coming season. This includes Cross-
Ice Hockey!
Financial Assistance
Greater Trail Minor Hockey is committed to supporting children to play hockey. Recognizing that financial barriers do not always allow a child to play in a recreational activity, GTMHA is dedicated to removing some of these barriers. GTMHA will consider financial assistance to those families in need. To access support, families will need to first apply for funding consideration from the Canadian Tire Jump Start and KidsSport program. Please drop off all completed KidsSport applications to Trisha at Trail Aquatic Center. For Jump start applications, drop off to Kelly at the BV arena & Lisa at Trail Aquatic Center.
If you have any questions or require assistance please contact [email protected]
Hockey Swap Warm weather is here, so before you head off to enjoy please check your Hockey equipment and see if you have anything you would like to sell, trade or give away and POST. Happy Summer Everyone!!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/199322230128461/
Rep Try-Out Info... Coming Soon... watch the website for more information.
Tournament Schedule
GTMHA will be hosting the
PeeWee Tier 2 championships this
coming season! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Interested?
Contact [email protected]
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GTMHA PLAYERS - CONGRATULATIONS GTMHA would like to congratulate the following teams for their banner wins in the 2015/16 season and players for their participation in BC hockey high
performance programs.
Thank you all for representing our association with class on and off of the ice.
The GTMHA Executive
Male U-15Anthony WilliamsMale U-16Ethan JangFemale U-18Kendra Waterstreet
MAKING UP FOR LOST TIMEWe all have friends who say they wish they had put their kids in hockey or our kids have friends who say they wished they played. It is never too late. See this article on Nick Greer who didn’t get involved in minor hockey until he was almost a teenager. Hockey Canada’s Skills Academy gave him the opportunity to try out the game.
https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/HCSA-helps-make-up-for-lost-time-for-Nick-Greer
J.L. Crowe offers Hockey Canada’sSkills Academy. Many kids who
have never even put on skates havebeen involved.
DID YOU KNOW
Banner WinnersAtom AAtom BBantam Rep
Represented WK in BC ChampionshipsPeeWee RepBantam Rep Midget Rep
GTMHA Bursary Nick Doskoch
West Kootenay
Minor Hockey is looking for a
secretary. If you are interested,
please contact Suzanne at
Welcome to the 2016/17
Representative Coaching Staff
PeeWee - Jim Maniago Bantam - Darcy Martini Midget - Lyle Frank
Thank you in advance for all that you do for our young hockey players.
How does GTMHA Select it’s Coaching Staff?
1. A call for coaches is put out in the newspaper and on social media. This includes an application deadline. Applications are to include the coach’s proposed year plan.
2. When more than one applicant has applied for a position, the Coaching Coordinator sets up times for formal interviews and selects a committee of executive members (minimum 3) to participate. If one applicant, then a candid discussion with the applicant occurs.
3. Questions are developed based on the direction that Hockey Canada, BC Hockey and GTMHA are looking to take for the upcoming year.
4. During the interview, the committee members take turns asking questions and applicants are given unlimited time to answer.
5. Following the interview, each committee member scores each question and gives and overall score for each candidate.
6. When/if candidates are close in final scores, references/previous coaching staff may be contacted.
Sometimes we need to see ourselves in action in order to learn to do things differently.
Take 2 minutes to look at these videos and ask yourself: If someone videotaped me at the rink, what would I look like on that screen?
Would I look and sound like that coach?
Do I talk about the refs like the kid in the backseat?
Do I parent like either of them?
Let's challenge ourselves to do it differently this coming season.
Relax, It’s Just a Game!https://www.sportsleader.org/video/hockey-canada-psa-relax-its-just-a-game-cop
Hockey Canada, its member Branches, Major Junior and registered Junior Hockey Leagues in Canada are concerned with the proliferation of leagues that operate outside the auspices of Hockey Canada.
Hockey Canada offers the best development programs worldwide. It has invested significant resources in the development of officials, coaches, administrators and players countrywide. We have a committed strategy toward a cohesive long term athlete development model.
These non-member organizations do not support the development of these programs. Further, they operate in a vacuum, with no consideration to the impact of their programs on minor, junior, senior, adult recreational hockey, female hockey, officiating development, coaching development or administrator development in Canada. These non-member leagues instead choose to utilize the resources already developed by Hockey Canada and its member Branches. The teams who make up these "leagues" operate in this fashion because they do not agree with the existing overall vision of Hockey Canada. They profess to have a better program yet often operate without a constitution, by- laws, create their own rule book and may not provide adequate insurance for their participants. Further, they offer the lure of "Rep" or "Junior" level competition when this is clearly not the case.
Hockey Canada, its member Branches, Major Junior Leagues as well as registered Junior Hockey Leagues wish to be exceedingly clear with our response to these programs.
Definition: Hockey Canada and its member Branches view all leagues that operate outside the auspices/sanctioning of Hockey Canada programs to be classified as non-member leagues. This currently does not include summer hockey leagues/teams, adult recreational hockey leagues/teams, high school hockey, and/or hockey schools.
Sanctions
. 1) Any individual who participates (knowingly or otherwise) in non-member programs after September 30 of the season in question ("the Cut-Off Date") will lose all membership privileges with Hockey Canada for the remainder of that season, and may only reapply for membership with Hockey Canada after the end of that season. "Participation" in an non-member program will be considered to have occurred if the individual takes part in one game (including an exhibition, tournament, league or playoff game) after the Cut-Off Date. If a participant makes the choice to participate in these non-member programs, they must understand the ramifications of that choice and that the sanctions described in this paragraph will remain in effect even if the league or team folds, or the individual is released, suspended or fired.
. 2) Hockey Canada and its member Branches across the country will make every effort to ensure that local minor hockey and female hockey associations in areas where non-member leagues exist are not supporting these leagues in any manner whatsoever. For greater certainty, "supporting" includes, but is not limited to, assisting an non-member league directly or indirectly through advertisement, promotion, ticket sales, volunteer activities, assigning Officials, sharing resources or enabling such a league to participate in Hockey Canada sanctioned activities. We will withhold tournament sanctions and will preclude such associations from benefitting from any Hockey Canada/Branch/CHL sanctioned event by whatever means necessary, including the withdrawal of any such event from any community within the geographic boundaries of that association if need be to stress this point.
This policy is aimed at those leagues that choose to operate outside the hockey structure established by Hockey Canada, its member Branches and the Canadian Hockey League.
