So can we now talk about the people who have been putting in hours and hours of work for nz hockey for more altruistic reasons?  The people who were here before greasy promoters came and the ones who will be here after they leave?

This feels like a forum topic that is well finished.

I’m glad it’s over, it wasn’t a disaster, and there’s possibly some positive effects for ice hockey in terms of people being interested in watching and playing the sport. It’s been a little divisive amongst the ice hockey community and I really don’t think the conversation needs to go onto further – better to go back to the NZIHL topic, the Winter Games, the Skate of Origin, the World U20 champs – all the things that we do to promote the sport.

We can still bitch about them! Like how, in dunedin, they had the charity auction tucked in a corner no one was walking past and then had their own merchandise stall out the front, even though they broke even in auckland and had made a shit load of profit. or how the “home of the thunder” carpet, which the thunder kneel around before each period was taken from their changing room and run over with a fork lift? or how they never went out of their way to say anything about the fact that hockey was played in new zealnd, despite claiming to want to promote the game here?

Big ups to kerry goulet and the players for caring though, had a yarn to them and they were most keen to promote the nzihl, one even took a thunder hoody home with him and proclaimed that he wanted to return and coach the thunder to victory, though that was  clearly a jest  of the moment

It seems Craig Douglas has been accused of inappropriate use of trademarks in the past too:

From http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic … d=10409665
[quote:25g4avlw]Playboy seeks charity cut

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lawsuit has been filed in the New Zealand courts against Craig Douglas, who organised a Playboy Ball in Christchurch in September that drew celebrities such as All Black Byron Kelleher

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Since then, Playboy had written to Mr Douglas advising him of a lawsuit being brought based on a series of trademark infractions.[/quote:25g4avlw]

Follow up here:
http://www.chinaipr.gov.cn/casesarticle … 331_1.html

I don’t care about the guy himself BUT that was a charity function five years ago and he was told he was trading on trademarks, I understand that you can not apply the rule to all rabbit heads his was not the same as playboy and  he called the BALL the playboy ball, Winston Peters also attended the lawyer that he is??
Craig Douglas does push the boundaires to the limit.

Yeah, hopefully lots of lessons will be learned.

I don’t think any hockey events in NZ (bar maybe this one) have been promoted in a particularly aggressive way before. I recall talking to Kyle about this for the DIHL a few years back, but we never had the funding or time to do something like that.

We need someone to pop out of the woodwork who enjoys doing promotional work like this. This stuff never seems to work very well when it’s the event organisers sending out notices at the last minute because they’re too busy doing a bazillion other things to get the events off the ground. And just creating a role and shunting a volunteer into it probably wouldn’t work either as it would require them having both motivation and skill in that area.

I have no idea what that means.

Pretty cool time lapse video of the rink being put up and down in Christchurch: http://vimeo.com/27707167.

I might need to watch it again – did they put any ice on top of the markings at all? Or was that edited out.