November 2014 Gerten s & Raffle Tixs Trophy Case Almost time to pick up your Gerten s orders and drop off your Raffle Tickets. Page 3 The virtual Trophy Case is opened! Page 5 Dibs! Did you call Dibs? Page 3 Skate with the Irish November 26 7-8:30pm - Page 9 Page 1
A message from the Board- We hope everyone s season is off to a fantastic start. RAHA teams have opened up the trophy case and we are looking forward to a successful Thanksgiving tournament weekend. The State of Hockey is mourning the loss of a young player. Patrick Schoonover passed away while playing the game he loved due to an undiagnosed heart condition. Our hearts go out to the Schoonover family. Rosemount Area Hockey Association would like to extend its condolences to the Schoonover and Eastview Hockey families. In honor of Patrick RAHA players have been issued Play For Patrick stickers that they will proudly wear on their helmets. Patrick s passing is a tragic reminder that life is far too fragile and we need to be thoughtful and thankful for family and friends who fill our lives. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we want to say thank you to everyone who has contributed in making our 2014-2015 season a successful one. Thank you to our past boards for putting us in the position to continue to expand and offer our RAHA players some great opportunities. Thank you to our corporate sponsors, your donations to our program are not only greatly appreciated, but crucial in our efforts to provide exciting opportunities for our players. To all our great volunteers, Boosters, Concessions, Tournament, Fundraising, and Operations, we could not do this without your assistance, thank you for the help. We are very thankful for all the team managers that keep our teams organized and informed this is no easy task, but your role is one of the most crucial for a successful season. To our RAHA coaches, we can t tell you enough how much you mean to the development of our players, but also the advancement of our program. Finally, many thanks to the parents for allowing your daughters and sons to play this wonderful game of hockey we all wouldn t be here without your kids. We are very proud of our young athletes; they are doing some amazing things both on and off the ice. The true success of our program will not be known for 10 to 15 years, but we can only hope to give our players the opportunities to learn the values of hard work, commitment, and what it takes to be a great teammate. Have a safe and happy holiday weekend and please take every opportunity to let your loved ones know what they mean to you. We look forward to seeing you at the rink. Regards, RAHA Board of Directors 2014-15 RAHA Board of Directors President Vice President Operations/Fundraising Secretary Communications Coordinator Event Coordinator Player Development IP Coordinator Girls Coordinator Coaches Coordinator PeeWees, Bantams, Jr. Gold Craig Nelson Kyle Anderson Tim Roszak Lisa Toll MaryAnn Fox Mike Humble Troy Campbell Andy Proshek David Nygaard Stacy Johnston Coaches Coordinator Squirts, 10U & 12U IP Coaches Coordinator Tournaments Coordinator Equipment Coordinator Registration/Website, Volunteers & Rostering Assoc. Coaching & Education Coordinator Goalie Coordinator Jeff Tuccitto John Debettignies Chris Noonkesser Scott Nitti Chris Kalata Dan Nicklay Tony Hekrdle Page 2
Make Important a Big Fundraising Save With Dates Our Sponsors Approaching Gerten s Product Pick-up Gerten s product pick-up is Monday November 24th at 6-8 pm at RCC in the banquet room lobby. We had an amazing response this year with a record number of families participating this year and over 14,000 in sales. This means greater than $4,700 back to RAHA families for their ice bills. Pick up is until 8. If you are unable to collect your wreaths and plants on Monday night, please ask a friend, neighbor or teammate to help out. We do not have any place at RCC to store any unclaimed product. Many, many thanks to Sandy Lucier for her hard work organizing the Gerten s fundraiser and giving us all the opportunity to cut our ice bills while decorating our home. Raffle Tickets Just a reminder that raffle tickets need to be turned in by 10:00pm on Monday, December 1st at RCC. Tickets should be stuffed in the box hanging beneath the mailboxes by the Zamboni doors. Thanksgiving is a perfect time to sell tickets to the family. If you choose to purchase your tickets outright and go for the big money, printing sticker labels with your contact information is a great time saver. A countdown has been added to the RAHA homepage. Dibs Opportunities The season is finally underway and the RAHA sponsored tournaments are fast approaching. The tournaments are great fund raising opportunities for RAHA and your help is essential help them run smoothly. Your participation is greatly appreciated. The Dibs for the tournaments are almost completely claimed but there are still a few opportunities to fill your Dibs. Thank you to all who signed up. Shifts for the Carbone Classic will be posted in the near future. Understandably, some of the duties may see intimidating so if you are new to the volunteer shift you are filling we have included some definitions of tournament specific duties to hopefully help demystify these jobs. Tournament directors will be available to help answer any questions. Volunteer Duties for RAHA Tournaments Locker Room Attendant: 1) Arrive at your scheduled time, check in with the Tournament Director. 2) Get the keys to the locker rooms, tournament director will have them. 3) Post which team is in which locker room. Tournament Director will have locker room assignments for each game. Each game will either be odd locker room numbers or even, example: Game #1- Home team in locker room #1, Visitor in #3, Game #2- Home team in locker room #2, Visitor in #4 4) When all members of a team have left the locker room, lock the door so their equipment is safe. 5) Stay on the ice level of RCC by the locker rooms, so if any team member needs to get into their locker room, you can let them in. 6) Unlock the locker rooms during period breaks, or at the end of the game. 7) Once the team has cleared out, Post the new team assignments on the locker room doors. 8) When your shift is done, turn in keys to Tournament director. Page 3
Dibs Opportunities Announcer: 1) Arrive at your scheduled time, check in with the Tournament Director. 2) Pick up starting line-up cards from the Tournament Director. 3) Pick up full roster from Tournament Director 4) Check in with team coaches or team managers for pronunciation of player names that may be difficult to say. 5) At the start of each game say the following (Tournaments may have other scripts) 1) Welcome to the Rosemount Area Hockey Association (insert tournament name) Tournament. 2) Between the Visitors from (insert team name) and the home team (insert team name). 6) Introduce the starting line up from the visitors first 7) Introduce the starting line up from the home team second. 8) Announce all goals and the assists that go with them ex: Scoring for Rosemount, #5 Billy Martin, Assists to #7 Tom Kelly and #9 Jim Torre, Rosemount #5 Martin, from #7 Kelly and #9 Torre 9) Announce all penalties, how long the penalty will be for and what it was. ex: Penalty, Rosemount #13 Wally Backman, 2 minutes for tripping 10) Announce when the penalty is over ex: Rosemount, full strength 11) Announce when the period has one minute left ex: One minute left in the period, one minute 12) Clean up the announcer/score table. Throw away any garbage and old line-up sheets. Clock Operator: 1) Arrive at your scheduled time, check in with the tournament director. 2) Become familiar with the clock operation. There is a manual in the scorers booth. 3) All tournaments are stop time unless otherwise noted. 4) Read tournament rules regarding run time and goal differential, overtime, in-between period breaks, and warm up time. 5) If you forget to start the clock for a few seconds, DO NOT try to make up the time by running a few extra seconds off after the whistle. Mistakes happen, by running off extra time will cause another mistake. Scorekeeper: 1) Arrive at your scheduled time, check in with the tournament director. 2) Get game stickers from the tournament director, place them on the score sheets. There should be 4 sets of stickers for each game. 3) Fill out score sheet with pre-game information Who is playing Where is the game at Place the stickers in the right spots Have coaches sign the sheet 4) Record shots for each team. A shot is defined as: a shot on goal is a shot that will enter the goal if it is not stopped by the goaltender. A shot on goal must result in either a goal or a save. A puck that hits the pipe is not a shot. 5) Record all goals and all assists 6) Record all penalties 7) At the end of the game, get the on ice officials to sign the score sheet. 8) Give one copy to each team, one to the refs, one to the tournament director. Penalty Box Attendant: 1) Arrive at your scheduled time, check in with the tournament director 2) Open the doors for any player getting a penalty 3) Open the door to allow the player to return to the ice. For squirt or mite games, check with the head coach to see if the player should return to the ice, or go directly to the bench when they exit the penalty box. Page 4
Trophy Case The virtual RAHA 2014-2015 Trophy case has been officially opened. Congratulations to the Bantam C team for winning the Plymouth Sniper Classic and the PeeWee B1 team for winning the Mankato Meltdown! We are looking forward to filling up the trophy case again this year. Watch future newsletters and the RAHA website for updates as the hardware rolls in. 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Consolation 2 0 1 1 CHAMPIONS Bantam C - Wayzata Sniper Classic Peewee B1 Mankato Meltdown Second Place Third Place PeeWee AA Fargo Big Pumpkin Invitational Consolation Champion 12UA-Hopkins Thanksgiving Tournament Traveling Team News The Bantam C boys made it a perfect 5 for 5 in bringing home the Wayzata Sniper Classic championship. The Irish downed Edina 5-2, Ames IA 6-2, Mahtomedi 3-1 and Edina 5-0 to earn a title game match-up with the Skippers of Minnetonka. Two great teams battled back and forth in an exciting title game nail biter with the Irish prevailing with a 4-3 victory. Congrats to all the players, coaches and parents. Your teams stories and pictures wanted! Submit your tournament victories and team news to MaryAnn Fox. Page 5
Traveling Team News Peewee AA -Many of the top Peewee AA teams in the state were on hand for the 16 team Big Pumpkin Invitational in Fargo over Halloween weekend and the boys came back with a 3rd Place trophy. Wins over Eden Prairie 6-1 and Wayzata 7-4 earned a semi-final match-up with Edina. The Hornets would end up on the winning side of a 3-1 defensive battle which setup the Irish and Blaine to battle for some hardware. Another great game ensued with Rosemount winning 4-2. Congratulations to our Peewee B1's for capturing another Mankato Meltdown Championship. The Irish outscored their opponents 23-0 in the quarters and semi's downing Albert Lea 10-0 and Mankato 13-0. That setup a title showdown against St Cloud where a more competitive game would end up in 3-1 in Rosemount s favor. Meltdown championships are becoming the norm as this is the 3rd year in a row that a team from Rosemount has brought back a title. Our 12U A girls brought back consolation hardware from the Hopkins Thanksgiving Tournament. The opening game was against the St. Paul capitals which ended in 3-3 tie after regulation. After two scoreless OT Periods it would go to an exciting shootout with the girls falling short. In game two the girls defeated Hopkins Park 3-1 to move onto the consolation championship where the defeated Orono 4-3 in OT. Page 6
Rosemount Youth Hockey Boosters More information Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/rahaboosters Get Involved with the Boosters If you are interested in getting involved with the Rosemount Youth Hockey Boosters, please contact the Booster Secretary Carrie Allen at alleca1@gmail.com to be placed on the email distribution list. The Boosters have many opportunities for you to get involved in your hockey organization! Merchandise Sales Look for the Boosters merchandise table during the Carbone s Classic Tournament December 12-14. Times will be announced soon. Our next meeting Join us at RCC room 212 for our next Hockey Boosters meeting on Tuesday, December 9 at 7pm. 2014-15 RAHA Booster Officers President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Tournament Director Tournament Director Cara Marx Becky Pasch Carrie Allen Elizabeth Hoover Julie Salak Sheila Gullickson Merchandise Manager Merchandise Assistant Merchandise Assistant Merchandise Assistant Merchandise Assistant Stacy Retka Melanie Hekrdle Amy Stenger Karla Blume Karla Kraus Page 7
Rosemount High School Hockey Support the Boys and Girls High School Teams The boys and girls Varsity and Junior Varsity have a number of games coming up in November and December. Come on out to cheer them on at the Rosemount Community Center or follow them on the road with your friends and family. Boys Varsity & Junior Varsity November 25 November 26 November 29 December 3 December 6 December 11 December 13 December 18 December 20 December 22 Dec. 29-31 JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm at Eastview - Apple Valley Sports Arena Skate with The Irish! - 7pm to 8:30pm at Rosemount Community Center JV - 1pm & Varsity - 3pm at Hastings - Hastings Civic Arena JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm vs STA at Rosemount Community Center JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm at Edina - Braemar Ice Arena JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7:00pm vs Shakopee at Rosemount Community Center JV - 1pm & Varsity - 3pm at Farmington - Schmitz-Maki Ice Arena JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm vs Lakeville North at Rosemount Community Center JV 12pm & Varsity-2pm at Apple Valley - Apple Valley Sports Arena JV - 1pm & Varsity - 3pm at Cretin-DH - Highland Arena Schwan Cup-Silver - Schwan Super Rink/Ridder Girls Varsity & Junior Varsity November 25 November 26 December 2 December 4 December 6 December 9 December 12 December 16 December 20 JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm at Hudson - Hudson Sports Arena Skate with The Irish! - 7pm to 8:30pm at Rosemount Community Center JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm at Prior Lake - Dakotah Arena JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm at Edina - Braemar Arena JV - 12pm & Varsity - 2pm at Eastview - Apple Valley High School Arena JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm vs Shakopee at Rosemount Community Center JV - 5:15pm & Varsity - 7:15pm at Farmington - Schmitz-Maki Arena JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm vs Lakeville North at Rosemount Community Center JV - 5pm & Varsity - 7pm at Apple Valley - Apple Valley High School Arena Home games are bold Page 8
Rosemount High School Hockey Skate with the Irish Wednesday, November 26th, 2014 7:00-8:30 pm Rosemount Community Center Come skate with the RHS boys and girls Varsity and JV hockey players. This is a fun event for young skaters to be on the ice with the players. Some other Highlights of the evening: Boys and Girls Locker room tours Autographed team photos Pizza, soft drinks and sweet treats will be sold *Bring a nonperishable food item for the food shelf Proceeds go directly to Adopt-A-Family for Christmas. Page 9
News - Play for Patrick Rosemount Area Hockey Association would like to extend its condolences to the Schoonover and Eastview Hockey families. In honor of Patrick RAHA players will be issued Play For Patrick stickers that they will proudly wear on their helmets. For more information about Patrick and to read the poem by Chris Koenig, Zamboni Driver at the Apple Valley Sports Arena and student at the University of Minnesota visit the Play For Patrick webpage at Eastview Hockey. The Schoonover family. Patrick on far right. Patrick after scoring a goal in Brainerd. #PlayForPatrick96 Page 10
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Support Our Great Sponsors RAHA SPONSOR OF THE MONTH Thank You to The Pond for your ongoing support of Rosemount Hockey! For More info on RAHA Sponsorships Contact Tim Roszak at operationsmanager@rosemounthockey.org Page 12
Check Your Calendar Monday, November 24 Wednesday, November 26 November 28-30 Monday, December 1 December 12-14 Thursday, January 15 Saturday, January 17 Thursday, February 12 Monday s January-December Gerten s Order Pick-up Skate with the Irish Bantam A Thanksgiving Tournament Raffle Tickets Due Carbone s Classic Tournament RHS Boys Jersey Night vs Prior Lake RHS Boys Alumni Night vs Eastview RHS Boys Senior Night vs Eagan Bingo at Carbone s Page 13