MYHA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2016-2017

Brian Stavenger

President

Executive Committee - Facilities

Mike Simonich

Vice President

Facilities - Equipment Co-Chair

Executive Committee

Anne Norris

Gaming Manager

Rob Gramer

Executive Director

Board Secretary, Office Manager

Dennis Bushy

Arena Manager, Scheduler

Rachel Alderson

Membership

Sara Owen

Fundraising

Josh Krieg

Membership

Mark Hendrickson

Fundraising

Chad Marsden

Executive Committee

Treasurer - Facilities

Equipment Co-Chair

Tim Kolehmainen

Corey Delorme

Tournament Co-Directors

Jeremy Gregoire

Hockey Director

Jon Ammerman

Hockey Committee

Emily Sell

Hockey Committee

Terrence Fogarty's collection of prints is more than just

a nostalgic remembrance of the roots of hockey in Minnesota. His collection is also a reflection of the joy and wonder kids across the state experience when they meet their friends at the park, clear off a pond, or start a street hockey game in

a snow packed cul-de-sac.

The "pond hockey" experience of playing outside is a big part of the fabric of community based hockey

and MN hockey culture.

Have a Safe and Happy Holiday Season!

Rob Gramer

Executive Director

Office Hours 8:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m.

Monday-Friday. Phone: 218.233.5021

Fax: 218.233.4504

The Official Scorecard of Moorhead Youth Hockey

Volume XIV • Issue 3 • November, 2016

RECYCLING NOTICE: You are welcome to bring your aluminum

cans to Minnkota Recycling and tell them

they are for Moorhead Youth Hockey.

Moorhead Youth Hockey will receive the

rebate check back from the cans.

Thank you!!

DON’T THROW THOSE DEAD

INK CARTRIDGES! Please turn in your used printer ink cartridges to the drop off box in the MYHA lobby. We earn cash for each one we turn in for recycling/refilling so it's an easy way for us to make money for our organiza-tion! Accepting small and large cartridges! (sorry, no toner tubes or tanks) Lisa Schmidt

Ink Recycling Coordinator

Mark your Calendar:

Check our website for exact

practice/game times and

more info!

Dec 9-11..12UB Tater Tot Classic Tournament

Dec 16-18….Bantam B Potato Classic Tourney

Dec 19……………...….MYHA Board Meeting

Dec 26…..… Office Closed Christmas Holiday

Dec 30-Jan 1...Jr Gold Golden Potato Tourney

Jan 6-8……15U Sweet Potato Classic Tourney

www.moorheadyouthhockey.com Click on Association Events on the left

for the yearly MYHA calendar

Parents!

Out for a relaxing evening? Stop by one

of the MYHA supporters and have fun playing

bingo or pull tabs!

Gaming is a vital component to reducing costs of youth hockey for the members of

Moorhead Youth Hockey Association.

Please consider patronizing one of our MYHA gaming sites:

Mainline

Red Hen Tap House

Dave’s Southside

Tap

Moorhead Billiards

OFFICE HOURS

8:00 am to 3:00 pm

Monday through Friday

Closed Monday December 26th

MEETING NOTICE

The Board of Directors of Moorhead Youth

Hockey meets on the third Wednesday of each

month. At each meeting the financial records of

the association and its gaming subsidiary are

available to review by the members of the associ-

ation. All members are invited to attend. The

next scheduled meeting will be held on Monday,

December 19th at 7:00 pm in the MYHA

Board Room. If you would like to be added to

the agenda please contact Elli Laurila at 233-

5021 or email adin@moorheadyouthhockey.com

at least one week prior to the meeting.

6 Life Lessons From The Cubs in the 2016 World Series

By: David Jacobson

David heads PCA's marketing communications and content efforts. David has coached his children and many others from elementary school into high school in baseball, softball and basketball and has officiated baseball, softball, basketball and flag football. Culture eats strategy for breakfast is a mantra at PCA, driving the way we build and maintain our organizational culture and the way we help school and youth sports organization leaders do the same. Culture is key for the Cubs – from the Ricketts family ownership team upgrading facilities for the players, to the patience with Theo Epstein’s five-year plan to the hiring of Joe Maddon, who creates the Cubs’ clubhouse culture. “Pressure is a privilege” – a phrase coined by Billie Jean King – morphed into Maddon’s “Embrace the target.” In the wake of the Cubs’ surprise 2015 playoff success, Maddon’s take on King’s quote echoed from day one of spring training, emphasizing to players that they were in position to achieve greatness and should not shy from the challenge but run toward it. Keeping it fun is another key. Maddon did. Right down to scheduling travel and workouts after Game 5 in a way that let players go trick-or-treating with their kids and encouraging the players themselves to wear costumes for the flight to Cleveland for Game 6. You never know who will come through. So keep the Miguel Montero on your team engaged and ready to contribute (maybe with a grand slam). And find a role on your team for a Grandpa Rossy, who may not show up in the box score every day, but who helps your Anthony Rizzo mature into a team leader, who then sheds tears of gratitude for his mentor in front of five million fans. Anyone can lead. Even a Jason Heyward, batting .150 in the World Series, may have the right stuff to step up – say, during a rain delay – and make a speech that galvanizes your team. Sports are joyous. Don’t you hope every youth athlete during every play every day in youth sports wears the same goofy grin as Kris Bryant as he fired falling down over to first base for the final out?

Jeremy Gregoire

Hockey Director

Moorhead Police Department

11th Annual Cops and Kids

PeeWee, U 12, U 15, and Bantam Players

Watch your mail for Registration Forms

Deadine for returning the form is December 9th

If questions contact Zach Johnson at 218-790-4128 or

zach.johnson@moorheadpolice.com

Giving Tree at MYHA-Let’s Give Back!

This year, MYHA will be giving back to our Moorhead community by having ornaments available for sale in the concessions stand to decorate the lobby Christmas trees. Ornaments can be purchased for a minimum donation of $1 each or 6 for $5. We encourage you to write a special Christmas

message or simply write your name on the ornament.

Free will offering to the giving tree will also be accepted. 100% of the pro-ceeds will be donated to a family or families in need in our community.

Know someone in need this Holiday Season? Please drop off your request to the MYHA office. Check the News Feed or the lobby bulletin board for info!

A HUGE Thank You to all the parents that have come

to Dave’s Southside Tap to support the MYHA

Tuesday Bingo Events.

Several Parent Coordinators have made it a part of their team

bonding experience by organizing BINGO nights out.

This is a great way to get to know your fellow parents and support

our organization in the process.

If you have not made it out to Dave’s yet, it’s a fun night!

And Remember, IT’S FOR THE KIDS!

Finding Your “IT”…..

What an exciting time throughout the community. Teams have been

picked, practices are in full swing, and now the fun begins.

With the Spuds, we try to emphasize getting a little better every day. For us, it is imperative. Like all high school programs throughout the state,

we have a limited amount of time together. As a result, every day is important. Although it seems obvious, it is hard to do. With all that happens throughout a day, it is hard to stay in the moment and take

advantage of every opportunity to be your best.

The most effective people are not only great when they feel 100%, they work through days when they do not seem to have ‘it’. It is really easy

to dismiss bad days and chalk it up as a loss. It is much tougher to take a deep breath, focus on what you can control, and try to get a

little better with every opportunity. The best players and teams find a way to find ‘it’ day in and day out.

In the end, those are the teams that everyone is watching in March.

Jon Ammerman

Boys Varsity Hockey

Save the Date: Spud Buddies are back!

The Moorhead Girl's Varsity Hockey Team and the Youth Girls are teaming up again for Spud

Buddies. As a Spud Buddy, each youth player gets FREE admission to a designated Girls Varsity home game (you will be notified of the exact game), go out on the ice with the varsity team

(after their warm-ups), skate out and be introduced with the varsity players for starting line-up and the National Anthem and participate in the huddle cheer around the net.

We encourage you to stay for the game and cheer on the Spuds!

Schedule:

8U: Tuesday, December 6 10U: Thursday, December 15 12U: Saturday, December 17

Rookie Girls: Tuesday, December 20 10 U: Tuesday, January 3 8U: Saturday, January 7

Rookie Girls: Saturday, January 21

More details to come!

MYHA Skate with the SPUDs We are excited to announce this year’s MYHA Skate with the SPUDs sched-ule for our Rookie, Mite, and 8U teams. This is always a fun night for the kids to skate between periods at the High School games. Teams will skate be-tween the 1st and 2nd periods. Please have your player fully dressed and ready to go with 5 minutes left in the first period. Teams should gather at the East end of the rink by the zamboni door, and coaches will be there to organize the players.

YOUTH NIGHT WITH THE MOORHEAD GIRLS HOCKEY TEAM

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6TH VS. ROSEAU

6 PM @ MOORHEAD SPORTS CENTER

ALL YOUTH WEARING THEIR JERSEY GET IN FREE!

AFTER THE GAME Tour the Locker Room - Treats and Refreshments

Get the Players Autographs!

Date and Time Game 1st Intermission

Boys Varsity

Thursday, December 1st 6:00 PM Bemidji Rookie 9 vs. Rookie 10

Saturday, December 3rd 6:00 PM Buffalo Rookie 11 vs Rookie 12

Saturday, December 17th 6:00 PM Bloomington Jefferson Rookie 5 vs Rookie 6

Thursday, January 5th 7:00 PM Thief River Falls Mite 5 vs Mite 6

Saturday, January 7th 6:00 PM Benilde-St. Margaret’s Mite 7 vs Mite 8

Tuesday, January 17th 7:00 PM Brainerd Rookie 3 vs Rookie 4

Saturday, January 21st 6:00 PM Warroad Mite 1 vs Mite 2

Tuesday, January 24th 6:00 PM Roseau Rookie 7 vs Rookie 8

Saturday, January 28th 6:00 PM St. Michael Albertville Mite 3 vs Mite 4

Tuesday, February 7th 7:00 PM East Grand Forks Rookie 1 vs Rookie 2

Girls Varsity

Tuesday, Nov 29th East Grand Forks 8U-1 vs 8U-2

Tuesday, December 6th Roseau 8U-1 vs 8U-3

Saturday, January 7th Buffalo 8U-2 vs 8U-3

MYHA Tournament Worker Requirements Policy 2016-2017 Season

*This policy replaces the former Volunteer Policy and any volunteer hours*

Hosted Tournaments profited over $100,000 over 13 events last season. This season we will host even more tournaments, a total of 16. We host tournaments as a way to keep your registration fees down, as well as providing a weekend at home without travel expenses. Because tournaments are essential to our association, working our tournaments is now a requirement. There are no exempt positions from this requirement. If you have a child playing in Moorhead Youth Hockey, you will work your assigned tourna-ment, or tournaments if you have children on multiple teams. A deposit of $400 will be collected at registration as your commitment to working your assigned

tournament shifts. Your deposit check will be held by Moorhead Youth Hockey (not cashed) until after you have worked your assigned shifts.

The Tournament Director(s) will ASSIGN team member families to adequately cover the shifts required for that tournament. Families can expect to work about 4 shifts, but this will vary based on the roster size of the teams assigned and the needs of that particular tournament.

If you are unable to work your assigned shift, it is YOUR responsibility to find a replacement. If you, or your replacement, does not show up to work your shift, or if you do not fulfill your job

duties, your $400 deposit check will be cashed immediately.

It is not the intention of Moorhead Youth Hockey to cash deposit checks. We would rather have everyone work together to provide a fun and exciting tournament atmosphere for the players.

If questions, contact Corey Delorme at corey@technologypros.us or Tim Kolehmainen at dueling21@gmail.com

Tournament Dates and Team assignments are BELOW!

Mark Your Calendars!!

These are the

dates for

MYHA

tournaments

for the

2016-2017 year. (updated 12/1)

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DATES TOURNAMENT – LEVEL TEAMS ASSIGNED

Oct 28-30 Big Pumpkin – PeeWee AA PWAA, ALL Squirts

Nov 11-13 Spud Shootout – PeeWee B PWB, Mite 1

Nov 25-27 Thanksgiving Mashup – Squirt A/B Mite 2, Mite 3, Mite 4, Mite 5

Dec 2-4 Hot Potato – Girls 12UA 12UA, 8U1, Rookie 1

Dec 9-11 Tater Tot Classic – Girls 12UB 12UB, 8U2, 8U3 Rookie 2

Dec 16-18 Potato Classic – Bantam B BB, Rookie 3

Dec 30-Jan 1 Golden Potato – Jr Gold 18 B JG18B, Rookie 4, Rookie 5

Jan 6-8 Sweet Potato Classic – Girls 15UA 15UA, Rookie 6, Rookie 7

Jan 13-15 Spud Classic – Bantam B2 BB2, Rookie 8. Mite 3

Jan 20-22 Potato ‘Chip Invite – Girls 10UB 10UB, Mite 4, Mite 6

Jan 27-29 Curly Fry Classic – Girls 10UA 10UA, Mite 7

Feb 3-5 SpudTacular – Bantam AA BAA, Rookie 9, Mite 2

Feb 10-12 Golden Spud Invite – Jr Gold 16 JG16, Rookie 10

Feb 17-19 February French Fry – PeeWee B2 PWB2, Rookie 11, Mite 5

Mar 17-19 Metro Championship – Squirt B2 Mite 8, Rookie 12

Moorhead Youth Hockey

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www.moorheadyouthhockey.com

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