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Your ice hockey fun begins here!
The 2022-2023 EHL Season is a wrap. BC Heating earned the championship.
Other prizes were handed out as is the tradition:
Thank you to all who participated this season.
I’ve waffled on the league setup for next season. While I enjoy the Monday night draft league and feel that a draft done correctly creates the most parity, we are not going in that direction. It comes down to time and energy, which I’m in short supply of lately. The easier path is to keep our format, but we will return to 40+ with no exceptions.
So far, teams in for next season include Frozen Wings, Budtenders, Marauders, and Gooners Dogs.
It was fun watching Marauders come together toward the end of the season to capture third place! Well done guys.
Enjoy your summer. The league will be back in September. I’ll have a manager meeting in August.
Dave
It is likely a condition of being over 60, but I’ve not been in a good state of mind these last few months. My tolerance level is at zero and I just don’t have the desire to put in the type of effort I have in the past. I’m not throwing in the towel, but I’m ready to remake things so the fun is back.
The Friday skates are now out of my responsibility. I will continue to skate and will help as possible, but it won’t be a weekly obligation. For over eight years I’ve felt the pressure to organize a skate each week. For a long time, it was twice a week. It really is easier than the beginning, but it is one responsibility that I was ready to shed. Brandon Wescott Kevin Hale has stepped up to run the Friday night skates. Our next skate is March 3rd at 7:30 pm.
Thanks to Nutrien and BC entering the league we got to six teams. That might not have been the wisest decision in hindsight, but it is what it is. Playoffs are similar to the regular season schedule as we work through a round-robin tournament during the next five weeks.
Frozen Wings will be skating with an ineligible player and will forfeit. Ty and I have spoken about it and it was his decision to skate with his friend and not be concerned about the championship. The player has been skating but missed the necessary 8 games to health reasons.
The rosters of eligible players have been sent to each team manager.
Jeff will be out for the balance of the season. Please work with the scorekeeper prior to the game to check in your players. While all but one team routinely checks in with Jeff, I felt that we were adults and could manage to make it to our locker rooms and police our rosters without Jeff’s help. Giving him a break.
Big thanks to Jeff and his hard work in keeping us organized. I will still have his help with some details and he will be involved.
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It takes a crew of about eight guys for at least three or four sessions to put up and take down the rink. All that work is worth it for the magic of a few skates.
We got busy on December 14th to roll out the new tarp and put up most of the boards. Getting that monster rolled out and flat is a project. More work to put up kicker boards, lights, and nets and we are ready.
The ice was finally ready Tuesday, Jan. 31st for a nighttime skate. Charles Partridge and Lars Patterson played goal while Jim Doan, Cooper Partridge, and I skated around with some back-and-forth offense/defense until Steve Ragge showed up and we played two-on-two until we couldn’t.
A serious cold snap hit the northeast for a couple of days leading up to Saturday, February 4th making the ice hard, ready for some ice hockey.
Eighteen skaters and three goalies showed up early Saturday morning for ice hockey.
Each year we attempt to rank skaters and perform a blind shuffle to make even teams. It never works.
I asked for help and got none, so the blame is on me for the draft. I thought that this was as equal as I could make it. So, I miss calculated a litter perhaps as my team went undefeated. To be fair, Larry O is over 59 and I’m over 60 – not like I was a decision-maker! But if we score teams based on age we would certainly top the scale.
Look at the team pics and rosters below and let me know how you would stack it up different. You might get a job next tournament:)
Stout Bros (1) played Team Porter (4) the first game. Porter won.
Doan’s High Life (2) played Lagermen (3) and Lagermen squeaked out a win.
Lagermen then beat Stout Bros.
Team Porter then beat Doan’s High Life.
By now the legs are warmed up but the food and beer are looking good.
Lagermen vs Porter for the championship.
Lagermen wins the 2023 Doan’s Winter Classic Championship.
So, volunteers are needed to help draft teams next year:)
Jim Doan
Cooper Partridge
Tom Hall
Tom Murray
Mike “Eddie” Edwards
Tim Bartlett
Scott Polisky
Sean Fountain
Larry O of All Black Hockey Sticks
Rob Bartlett
Sean Robinson
Steve Topoliski
Dave Crabill
You connect with your youth when you step on that hard ice with the chill of the air. The sound and the sight are all different. Nighttime is a blast under the LED lights with the stars shining down on a crisp clear night.
Thanks to BC & Nutrien joining the league, we have six teams this season. Ideally, we would have eight teams. Help get the word out for next season.
A big thanks to the team managers. It takes time, patience, and money to run a hockey team. Ty Burt, Chris Green, Eric Schauwecker, Jeff Rouse, Tim Jankowski.
Next week is the final week to get the annual fees paid to avoid penalties. Big thanks to Ty of Frozen Wings for paying the fee off at the start of the season. Gooners Dogs is fully paid and the other teams are very close to fully paid.