Informer. Omaha Hockey Club. Check out our sponsors. Board Meetings. Letter from the President Neal Krauss. We need your input

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1 Omaha Hockey Club Informer Board Meetings We need your input January 2011 January Board Meeting Our January Board meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 18 th at 6:00 pm at Moylan IcePlex. Missed the Board Meeting? Minutes are available on line for each meeting once approved by the Board. ***We will keep the Web site updated, as well as announce any changes in the newsletter. Enjoy getting this newsletter; join the OHC Mailing List on our website, I NSIDE T HIS I SSUE 2 UNO Season Ticket Special 4 5 High School Stats Lancer Raffle Information 6 Schedule for Lancers and Mavs 8 Apparel Information Check out our sponsors. Letter from the President Neal Krauss Happy New Year! May the coming year bring you and your families much happiness and prosperity. I have always liked this time of year because I can take time to look back at the past year and evaluate the good and bad then start anew again was definitely an eventful year for youth hockey in Omaha and hopefully one that will be remembered as a successful year for years to come. In my mind the biggest hockey news story was the merger of the two programs into the Omaha Hockey Club. But there were many other great things that happened as well. Who will forget the Bantam AA team winning the National Championship? I m sure those families will remember 2010 fondly for years to come. What about watching the OHC Initiation Program stepping on the ice for the first time, all 150 of them? What a site that Continued on page 2 OHC 1

2 OHC is in urgent need of used hockey equipment! We continue to have new players start IP each week and we have run out of rental gear. Additional sets will not be available for order until spring. We want to continue to offer an affordable way for families to get started playing hockey and we need your help. Please consider donating your used equipment to the club. We will sell each item for $5 and put the money toward the hardship fund. Items needed are: Very small youth equipment for players ages 3-8 (Shin guards, elbow pads, shoulder pads, breezers, gloves, skates, straight blade sticks and especially helmets). Please bring your items to Moylan and leave them with Gilinda, a board member, commissioner, team manager anyone and they will get to the right place. UNO Season Ticket Special University of Nebraska-Omaha is offering the Omaha Hockey Club discounted and prorated season tickets for the remaining WCHA hockey games. Beginning Nov 7 th Omaha Hockey Club participants and families will receive a 20% discount off season tickets (offer not valid for existing season ticket holders). To order season tickets, contact Nate Neufind, Director of Ticket Operations at Jim s I Do The Work Lawn Care Mary s Home Care Firewater Grille Walnut Ridge Family Dental, PC Continued from page 1 was to see. Hopefully it is the first year of a lifetime of hockey for all of them. What about the first Nebraska Hockey League games against Lincoln, Fremont or Kearney? Not much like playing for club and city pride. It was a great year in so many ways. But wait, it is time for 2011! We have Midwest League and Tournament Championships to win on the travel side. We have Nebraska Hockey League games to play and a tournament to compete in and win as well on the house side. We have Mites and IP s honing their skills weekly to prepare themselves to continue the OHC tradition of excellence. On the administrative side, as a board we have our work cut out to make OHC even better than it was in We must learn from our failures and improve on our successes. We must continue to grow the game and to work on keeping players on the ice from IP through High School. We will possibly be saying goodbye to 6 board members and welcoming 6 new board members and with them they will bring new and exciting ideas I am sure. In short, 2011 holds all kinds of exciting possibilities and I can t wait to see what it delivers. Happy New Year! Neal Krauss President Omaha Hockey Club OHC 2

3 Carter s Heating & Cooling The High School All-Star Game is set for Saturday, January 29 th, 2011 at the Qwest Center Omaha. Discounted tickets for the Alabama Huntsville vs. University of Nebraska- Omaha hockey game will be available. Game tickets will be allowed for double entry to both the All-Star Game and the WCHA UNO hockey game. The teams have been selected and are posted. Please check the website for more details. T & T Custom Cabinets Heartland Glass Double D Excavating Kirk Goodnight-State Farm Crown Point Storage, Inc The Strike Zone, Inc. Jordan Michael Homes Old Mill Toyota Darland Properties Stenstrom Services, Inc. Midlands Auto and Truck Service Premier Countertops Charlie s On the Lake The High School Club will be selling t-shirts to help raise funds to cover the end of the year banquet. If you are interested, please contact Lisa Leary (puckstoppersmom@aol.com) or any other High School Club committee member. High School Steering Committee Meetings Are held the 2 nd Thursday of each month from 6pm- 9pm at Sam & Louie's New York Pizzeria 7641 Cass Street If you would like to attend please Lisa Leary at so we can make sure we have enough seats available. Please remember to check the website if you have any questions about practices or games being cancelled. OHC 3

4 Goalie Shut-Out Club Name Team GP SO Brett Prep 13 6 Trecek Blue William Papillion 11 5 Bakke Lucus Mcfarland Elkhorn 7 4 Tyler Fryant Connor Tessier Justin Hoffman Zach Leary Drew Perkins Vanessa Protzman Anthony Anderson Brandon Convey Tanner Osborne Beam Tanner Deiro Prep White 9 3 Prep 6 3 White Lincoln 8 2 SW Elkhorn 8 2 Tri-City 8 2 Tri-City 7 2 Metro North 11 1 Lincoln 10 1 East Westside 8 1 Millard North 5 1 Photo by Chris Woodward League Standings as of 12/30/10 Team PTS GP W L T Prep Blue Prep White Elkhorn Millard North Papillion Lincoln SW Tri-City Lincoln East Westside Millard West Lincoln SE Metro North Fremont/Burke Top Ten Skaters / Points Photo by Chris Woodward OHC 4 Name Team GP PTS Cale Dineen Prep White Scott Millard Sheldon North Ricky Green Papillion Devin Papillion Chmura Connor Prep White Jurgensen Trent Elkhorn Bostwick Tyler Kluza Prep Blue Matt Craig Westside Alex Lester Prep White Brooks Coleman Elkhorn 15 18

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6 Kitchens & Baths by Briggs Duffy Brothers Construction Check out the HS Senior Profiles on the website for: Millard North s: Cody Baker, Dalton Benson, Kyle Lamb, Scott Sheldon and Matt Waldbaum. Papillion s Nicholas Bakke Lincoln SE s Chance Eddings Lincoln SW s Phil Ehrman EDUCATION: MONEY SAVING DISCOUNTS Education Discount Cards America s colleges are increasing tuition each year; our organization is here to help take a bite out of that by providing an opportunity to give out a grant to qualifying graduating high school club hockey seniors. Cost will be $15 for the card. The Education Foundation is in its sixth year providing grants to graduating high school seniors from the club high school hockey league. They have had the support of local businesses, parents and volunteers over that time. Over the past five years the Foundation has provided over $25,000 in grants to help students continue their post secondary education. The Foundation is chaired and run by volunteers from within the community and the Omaha Hockey Club. If you'd like more information about this topic, please contact Michael Hughes hughes.michael@cox.net Upcoming regular season home games: Friday, Jan 7 vs. Des Moines pm Saturday, Jan 8 vs. Lincoln 7:05 pm Thursday, Jan 13 vs. Fargo 7:05 pm Sunday, Jan 16 vs. Indiana 5:05 pm Saturday, Jan 22 vs.sioux City Wednesday, Jan 26 vs Fargo 7:05 pm Friday, Jan 28 vs. Tri-City 7:05 pm Friday, Jan 14 7:37 pm vs. Bemidji State Saturday, Jan 15 7:37 pm vs. Bemidji State Friday, Jan 7:37 pm vs. Alabama-Huntsville Saturday, Jan 7:07 pm vs. Alabama-Huntsville OHC 6

7 Broadmoor Development Deputla Family Center Trophy Company or call Check out the web site for training opportunities available. Harlow Wilson, Inc Robertson Grill & Chill Inc River City Financial Paul Davis Restoration Paragon Dental Patrick M Pinney Contractors Inc Sign It Peto Scio, Inc Industrial Commercial Insulation Bill s Skate Sharpening LLC Nitro Ice Cream American Pride Systems Inc N 120 th St, Suite G-3 (N of Blondo on 120 th ) Store Hours Weekdays: 9 am 8 pm Saturday: 9 am 6 pm Sunday: Noon 5 pm Check out the Moylan Ice Plex web site for a calendar of the many open skates and hockey drop in s throughout the month. OHC 7

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