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Women-in-Hockey Digest     Sunday, April 11 1999     Volume 01 : Number 410



In this issue:

   Brampton Tournament
   Re: Brampton Tournament
   "Crashing The Net"
   wih - approach the coach?

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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 07:58:12 EDT
From: email@hidden
Subject: Brampton Tournament

Just to add to the discussion regarding quality vs. quantity.
When you have a tournament this large over a weekend, you tend to compromise 
quality.
This would be in terms of: 
- -quality of officials.  There are only so many referees out there who women's 
hockey on a regular basis. A tournament this size has to utilize referees 
from the OMHA (boys association), who do very few female games.  I hope we 
all agree that there is a difference between the two games.  We see these 
OMHA refs making bad calls, especially in the contact part of the game.
- -time of games.   When you have to run so many games, you tend to have some 
bad times.  Playing hockey at 7:00 am is not fair to anyone.  The extra hour 
(for an 8:00 am start), in my opinion makes a big difference.

Suggestion, run the tournament over a couple of weekends as opposed to one.  
Then you require only half the refs and half the ice for a particular weekend.

Enjoy. 

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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:56:40 -0400
From: Val Schmitt 
Subject: Re: Brampton Tournament

email@hidden wrote:

> Suggestion, run the tournament over a couple of weekends as opposed to one.
> Then you require only half the refs and half the ice for a particular weekend.
> or    

But that, unfortunately, makes it nearly impossible for teams more than a couple
hours drive away to be in the tournament - which would then solve the problem of
too many teams, but I don't think that's what you meant! :)

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   Val Schmitt ** email@hidden          Life is change.
  http://people.ne.mediaone.net/vschmitt       Growth is optional.
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Nighthawks Ice Hockey C Team Co-Captain #22   --Karen Kaiser Clark

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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 19:22:53 EDT
From: email@hidden
Subject: "Crashing The Net"

I just finished reading Mary Turco's new book "Crashing The Net.  The U.S. 
Women's Olympic Ice Hockey Team and the Road to Gold".  It was great and I 
recommend it to any hockey or women's sports fan, player or coach.  It gives 
an up close and personal look at the first U.S. Women's Olympic Ice Hockey 
Team and their "unforgettable journey to becoming gold medal winners".  I was 
most impressed by the psychological preparation made by these 20 athletes and 
their coach and after reading this, I believe that is what gave them "the 
edge" they needed to defeat an equally talented team.  The book is available 
from amazon.com.

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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:33:56 EDT
From: email@hidden
Subject: wih - approach the coach?

While in the locker room getting ready for a game, I realized that I forgot 
my pants!  Knowing that I could not play in a game wihtout this protective 
gear, I went to my coach (this was about 10 minutes before game time) told 
him that I forgot my pants.  His respone  "So. What do you want ME to do 
about it?"  

OK, my timing may have been a little bit off, he was having a conversation 
with somebody, but I think a more appropriate answer would have been, "I'm in 
the middle of a conversation right now.  If you give me a minute, I will try 
to help you figure something out."  

The coach thinks I am way out of line for this.  I think he is outta his mind 
- - it is before game time, and there is a player who may not be able to play 
in the game.  If you can;t go the coach for soemthing like this, what CAN you 
go to him for?  Any thoughts on this?

Thanks.

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