Ice Information
A Message from the Ice Allocator
The JDF Executive has changed a few things this year as far as the posting of the practice schedules goes. This year each team will be responsible for posting ALL games and ALL practices to their individual websites. The master schedules will be posted on the grid below for all three arenas and may be revised according to any and all changes that may be made. I will notify the individual teams if any changes are to be made and I will amend their websites to reflect the new time for the game or practice in question. Please check these schedules often as many issues that are out of my control do arise and I am forced to make last minute changes to accommodate many teams. I apologize for any confusion or any inconvenience that these last minute changes may cause.
I will email the Head Coach and Manager of each team the schedule as they are prepared and approved by the Ice Committee so that they can post their practices.
Once the game schedules are set for both Rep teams and the House teams in late October/early November I will endeavour to do the full practice schedule up to the Christmas break. Once the New Year hits us and the Rep teams start playoffs, I am usually held to doing the schedule one week at a time due to teams needing or not needing game slots depending on how far they go into the playoffs. Once again this is out of my control and I will do the best I can given the time restraints that I am under.
All teams from Atom and older will be scheduled that lovely 6 am ice during the week that we all love to hate! A suggestion to the House teams since they will share the ice with another team in their division might be to give the ice to the other team that you share with once a month and have full ice. This may get more players out to the 6 am's if they are only once a month instead of twice a month. This will be up to the teams to keep track of and monitor. 6 am's will most likely be every other week for each team and there may be once during the year that you have it 3 times in a month.
Please look at the "BIG PICTURE" as far as ice goes. If you think that your team has been shorted ice in a week, check the week before and after. If I do need to cut back one week due to Grizzlies games, concerts, figure skating etc, I will make it up to teams after. I do keep track of all times and I try to work all Atom and older kids through both Bear Mtn and JDF Arena equally. This is not always possible but I will try my best.
I will try my hardest not have Bantam on the ice after 9:30 pm and I will try to not have the Midget's on the ice for too many 6 am's as they will be on the ice until 10:30 pm in some cases.
I will send out weekly emails to all teams and lots of time I will ask them to forward them to the teams so that all parents can see what we are up against as far as losing ice on different days during the week. Some weeks we have our full ice and others depending on the venue we may lose 10-12 hours in a week. What this means is that EVERYONE will lose a bit during that particular week. Share the Pain - I like to say!!!
If you have any major issues please feel free to contact Mike Hanson or Ken Carson about them. Please remember that I am doing the best that I can with limited ice times. In a perfect world we would all practice from 7-8:30 pm every night but we know that isn't going to happen.
Thank- you,
JDF Ice Allocator
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Ice Allocator
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| Ice Entry |
*Each individual team (practices & games) |
| Ice Committee |
*Ken Carson (President)
*Michael Hanson (Recreation)
* (Representative)
*Harold Bloomenthal (Head Manager)
* (Director)
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