Dunedin Ice Hockey Association

The updated club night schedule for May/June is available here.

Due to the condition of the ice, the DIHL SNC has been pushed back until next week.

There are no games tonight. Please pass this message onto your teammates. 

An updated DIHL schedule will be sent out to all players and uploaded to the site tonight.

Kara

A new rink has been built in Otago. The rink has been constructed in Albert Town, near Wanaka by Dunedin Ice Hockey Association member Keith Dickson. It is an outdoor rink with a synthetic surface rather than ice. It is 30 x 15m in dimensions and is situated beside the Albert Town tavern. Despite featuring a synthetic/plastic surface, the rink can be used with a regular pair of ice skates which glide over the slick plastic surface.

Information about when the rink is available for skating/hockey will be posted as available. To learn more about the development of the rink, check out the ODT article ‘Plastic skating rink gets nod from planners‘.

Message from the Dunedin Ice Skating Club via Callum Wood.

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Hi
Here is the poster. The Show has demonstrations by our top skaters, some hockey, fun programmes from skaters from all over New Zealand.
All in all a great show.
Just $5. Tickets a the rink, door sales and of course .it is all for a good cause to send our first ever NZ SychroTeam to the World Championships.
Sat Feb 28th – 7.30pm Show about an hour long.

Thanks for sending it out Sue

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We have a new videos gallery … http://dunedinicehockey.co.nz/category/videos/. Currently it only contains older archived videos, but we hope to have newer ones uploaded during the 2009 season. If you would like to contribute to the videos gallery, please upload your clips to a video hosting site like Viddler, Vimeo or YouTube and send the embed link to webadmin@dunedinicehockey.co.nz. We are keen to add as many videos as possible, so feel free to get your digital camera out during any of the local games, no matter what level, and start recording.

Notice from Al O’Conner below:

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1) DIHA Registration Sunday February 22nd at the rink 5pm-630pm: fee for the year $100
2) 6 games of Oldtimers Recreational/Social hockey: fee for all 6 games is $75
3) The first game is Wednesday February 25th at 830pm
4) All remaining 5 games will be played on Wednesday nights at 830pm
5) We will form two Oldtimers teams from our A/B level players and play a Competitive Oldtimers Game each Saturday. This Competitive Game will begin Saturday February 28th. Time yet to be announced.

Also Oldtimers, please book your calendars for the first Annual McKenzie District Oldtimers Tournament to be held in Lake Tekapo this winter. Karl Buscher, the owner of the Lake Tekapo Resort has reserved the ice for a 4 team tournament Friday August 7th, Saturday August 8th and Sunday August 9th 2009.

C-ya on Sunday for registration at the rink and on the ice next week!

Cheers Al

Four free hockey camp’s are due to be held at the Dunedin Ice Stadium starting Tuesday February 17th at 7pm. A meeting will be held afterwards to see what is going for the up and come year.

The Ice Blacks are training in Dunedin next weekend 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th February at the following times if anyone is interested in watching the training session and/or game on Saturday evening.

Thursday 4-30pm – 5-30pm & 9pm – 10pm
Friday 10am-11am & 6pm – 7pm
Saturday 9am-10am & 5pm – 7pm (game)
Sunday 10am-11am

There will be some tee shirts and hoodies available for sale as well.

All Stars Team

The All Stars team are made up of a composite of Dunedin, Gore and Queenstown players, including a selection of former NZ Ice Blacks and NZ U20 and U18 players.

1 James Van L- Dunedin
2 Simon Christos- Dunedin
3 Duncan Sykes- Dunedin
4 Phil Canada/ Dunedin
5 Peter Lamb- Dunedin
6 Mark Shearer-Queenstown
7 Simon Glass- Queenstown
8 Bert Haines- Queenstown
9 Joe Bjorkman – Queenstown
10 Simon Wilson-Queenstown
11 Cameron Frear- NZ U20/Qtown
12 Heath Dunlop-NZ U18
13 Dane Dunlop-NZ U18

The AGM of the Dunedin Ice Hockey Association will be held on Monday, 2nd February 2009 at 7.30pm at the Dunedin Ice Stadium.

Attached are:

Notice of Meeting
Nomination Form
Revised Constitution

It is intended to adopt the revised Constitution at the AGM.

Subject to the adoption of the revised Constitution, the structure of the Dunedin Ice Hockey Assn will change to a Board of Directors (as set out in the Constitution). Non executive officers will also be appointed from time to time.

A Nomination form is attached for those who would like to nominate someone prior to the AGM. A list of positions (and descriptions) will be circulated in the next day or two to give an idea of what each position entails. The Agenda will also be forwarded in the next day or two.

We look forward to a good attendance at the AGM.

• 2009-notice-of-agm
• 2009-nomination-form
• reviseddihaconstitution

Brochure

Poster

Email from Jeff Bonazzo:

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Hi Everyone

Please find attached & below information regarding the U13 & U16 Ice Hockey Development Camps Jeff Bonazzo (NZIHF National Coaching Director & Senior Ice Blacks Coach) is running in CHCH in January 2009.

These are fantastic opportunities for players & great camps on & off the ice.  My Chris has attended a couple of these camps in the past & thoroughly enjoyed them – also getting to meet NZ representative players who were helping with the coaching.

Make a family holiday in CHCH!  Send your registrations to Jeff now!!

<strong>2009 NZIHF Easton Summer Development Camps</strong>

Yes, there are still a few spaces available in the 2009 NZIHF Easton Summer Development Camps for U13s and U16s in Christchurch in January.

<strong>Here are the details for the U13 Camp:</strong>

The U13 camp goes from Tuesday January 20th till 24th. The on-ice portion of the camp begins at 8am on Tuesday January 20th and will run till 6pm each day from Tuesday till Friday the 23rd. Each day will include three full hours of ice time each focussing on a skill, Small Area Game session each day, an off-ice fitness component and off-ice skills session each day as well as an afternoon fun activity like QE11 or movies etc.

The Saturday the 24th session is a Showcase Full Ice Game with Referees and score bench for where the players will get to wear their brand new New Zealand Ice Hockey Federation jerseys. That final day of camp will be finished by about 10am.

To start the camp off we will have a registration evening on the night of Monday the 19th at Alpine Ice at 7pm where we will give out the practice jerseys and the t-shirts (if ordered for $25) as well as the schedule for the week and all the details. We will introduce the coaches and collect the money at that time as well.

The cost for the U13 Development Camp is just $350 and includes breakfast after the morning ice session, lunch and an afternoon snack from Tuesday till Friday. This is a specially reduced price due to the camp dates being moved.

At the end of the camp, each player will receive a personalized certificate of achievement as well as a hand written report to give analysis of skills and feed back to work on over the season.

<strong>Here are the details for the U16 Camp:</strong>

The U16 camp goes from Monday January 19th till 24th. The on-ice portion of the camp begins at 8am on January 19th and will run till 6pm each day from Monday till Friday the 23rd. Each day will include three full hours of ice time each focussing on a skill, Small Area Game session each day, an off-ice fitness component and off-ice skills session each day as well as an afternoon fun activity like QE11 or movies etc.

The Saturday the 24th session is a Showcase Full Ice Game with Referees and score bench for where the players will get to wear their brand new New Zealand Ice Hockey Federation jerseys. That final day of camp will be finished by about 11am.

To start the camp off we will have a registration evening on the night of Sunday the 18th at Alpine Ice at 7pm where we will give out the practice jerseys and the t-shirts (if ordered for $25) as well as the schedule for the week and all the details. We will introduce the coaches and collect the money at that time as well.

The cost for the U16 Development Camp is $425 and includes breakfast after the morning ice session, lunch and an afternoon snack from Monday till Friday. The cost of the camp has been reduced by $25 from the originally advertised price.

At the end of the camp, each player will receive a personalized certificate of achievement as well as a hand written report to give analysis of skills and feed back to work on over the season.

How does it sound? If you are interested in sending your child to one of the Summer Development Camps please contact Jeff Bonazzo on 021 284 8433 or by email at jeffbonazzo@hotmail.com. Registration to these camps would make a great Christmas Present!

Cheers,
Jeff Bonazzo