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    Does anyone have any goss. on the teams entering the Easton Cup this weekend?

    I received the following schedule via my team manager, but I’m assuming that’s just some sort of provisional one as it’s not posted on the DIHA site yet.

    [b:24q4t5yy]Time[/b:24q4t5yy][b:24q4t5yy]#[/b:24q4t5yy][b:24q4t5yy]Home[/b:24q4t5yy][b:24q4t5yy]Away[/b:24q4t5yy][b:24q4t5yy]Duty (2 goal judges)[/b:24q4t5yy]

    [b:24q4t5yy]Saturday 8 May[/b:24q4t5yy]

    9301CH RangersDN Women Penguins

    10452DN PenguinsDN SK8DN Women

    12003CH Jagr BombsMackenzie BullsDN SK8

    13154DN PenguinsCH RangersCH Jagr Bombs

    14305Mackenzie BullsDN SK8DN Penguins

    [b:24q4t5yy]BREAK[/b:24q4t5yy]

    18156DN WomenCH Jagr BombsMackenzie Bulls

    19307DN SK8CH RangersDN Women

    20458DN WomenMackenzie BullsCH Rangers

    [b:24q4t5yy]Sunday 9 May[/b:24q4t5yy]

    9009CH Jagr BombsDN SK8DN Penguins

    101510DN WomenDN PenguinsDN SK8

    113011CH RangersMackenzie BullsCH Jagr Bombs

    124512CH Jagr BombsDN PenguinsMackenzie Bulls

    140013DN SK8DN WomenCH Jagr Bombs

    151514CH RangersCH Jagr BombsDN Women

    163015Mackenzie BullsDN PenguinsCH Rangers

    Cost/team $750
    Games are 3 x 15 minute periods running time.
    2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.

    From what I’ve heard, the Mackenzie Bull Tahrs are short a few players but are looking to recruit some imports from other clubs to bolster their ranks and the Christchurch Jagr Bombs are apparently made up of a large proportion of the Christchurch Red Devils squad.

    I also heard a rumour that Steve Jackson was forming a team and I’m guessing that’s the Dunedin Penguins.

    It’s pretty clear what the Dunedin womens team is and the Dunedin SK8 team is run by Callan McLauglin (and is the team I’m on). I’m guessing those will be the two weakest teams in the tournament.

    I haven’t heard anything about the Christchurch Rangers.

    #15329
    Kyle
    Member

    Ah yup, thanks for the reminder. Schedule is on the web site.

    Penguins is a quasi-Thunder team. Tom Wilson is organising it. Has a few players from out of Dunedin (possibly NZ U18s?).

    Dunedin women is mostly Dunedin women, some women from elsewhere.

    #15330

    Sad to see Gore not fielding a team. A Queenstown team would be nice too.

    The standard sure has shot up somewhat from the last time I competed.

    "Kyle":ct61pe94 wrote:
    Ah yup, thanks for the reminder. Schedule is on the web site.[/quote:ct61pe94]

    I considered putting it on myself but decided not to since I wasn’t sure if it was the official one or not.

    #15331
    Azzy77
    Moderator

    Word on the street is after the Capitals got knocked out of playoffs, Ovechkin inquired about playing on the Tom Terrors team. But being a lifelong Crosby fan tom rejected him outright.

    #15332
    Active
    Member

    Stefan was looking for a team to play in

    #15333
    Kyle
    Member

    Stefan needs to talk to the teams. There’s no club constructed team of randoms, so teams need to accept a player for them to find a slot.

    (Also, he’ll need to cough up some money that he owes the club <img decoding=” title=”Tongue” />)

    #15334
    Rhys M
    Member

    Maybe if easton cup was advertsied more in advance like it has been in previous years you wouldve had attendances like a few years ago,

    #15335
    vpatrol
    Member

    I’ve known about it for many weeks now due to the advertising plus its an annual event so that makes it easy to remember when its coming up

    #15336
    Paul Roth
    Member

    People I’ve talked to have no idea who is organising the various teams or who to contact in order to play, so they don’t know how to participate in this tournament.

    There might be wider participation in this tournament if it was known in advance what teams there are, or who is organizing a team. As it is, it is who you know (or who knows you?)

    A call for teams isn’t the same as a call for players.

    I guess it is a chicken & egg situation: Easton goes by team entry, but if a player doesn’t know of any teams, they aren’t going to end up playing.

    So is there some central information point where one can find out what teams need players? Not that I plan to play, but I there are about 6 players I know of looking for a team…

    #15337
    Kyle
    Member

    They need to contact Larry, adult@dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi. And two days before the tournament is leaving it a bit late, entries closed last week.

    And six players is the basis for another team, no one is going to take that many players. But Larry will put their names around the teams and if one wants another player or two they might find a slot.

    We need to remember that Easton Cup isn’t a social hockey league like DIHL where we will organise people into teams. It’s a competitive SNC tournament. People need to enter their existing teams or build an Easton Cup team themselves. For that very reason there is no individual entry form and no call for players, just a call for teams.

    If someone from Dunedin had offered to put together a team of randoms and manage it, that would have been good and the club would have advertised that fact and sent people their way, but people need to take some responsibility for themselves if they don’t want to miss out.

    #15338
    Paul Roth
    Member

    My post might be two days before the competition, but even last week, two weeks ago, three weeks ago, etc no one out of the loop knew what teams were being organised or who was organizing them. Anyway, it wasn’t up here or on the DIHA website.

    As for entering existing teams, SK8 was an existing team in the prems, but it seems the SK8 Easton Cup team is differnet from that team (or at least not all SK8 players were informed there was to be a SK8 team in the Easton cup).

    #15339
    vpatrol
    Member

    I agree with Kyle.  Team entries are not obligated to solicit spots to casuals.  If casuals want to play, they should be pro-active and ask questions.  The forum would have been a good place to start.  Or they can organize their own team.  It’s not up to tourney organizers to form a team and place casuals on it. 

    #15340
    Kyle
    Member
    "Paul Roth":218kc6b2 wrote:
    My post might be two days before the competition, but even last week, two weeks ago, three weeks ago, etc no one out of the loop knew what teams were being organised or who was organizing them. Anyway, it wasn’t up here or on the DIHA website.
    [/quote:218kc6b2]

    It was posted to the DIHA web site here on 8 April: http://dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi/easton-cup-2010/

    All members should have received the April newsletter on 26 April (which mentioned it), which is also reposted here: http://dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi/april-2010-newsletter/

    (The prems teams only existed for the length of the competition, though again, anyone from one of those teams could organise one of them into the Easton Cup, the SK8 team in the Easton Cup doesn’t really relate to the prem team).

    #15341
    Paul Roth
    Member

    But “casuals” are only casuals because no one asked them to play on a team and they didn’t know who was organizing a team.

    As so with so much else in life, I guess it is who you know …. if you’re in, you’re in, and if you’re not, you’re just a “casual” …

    #15342
    vpatrol
    Member

    Why do they need to be asked?  Why do they need to have their hand held?  I’m sure there are easily accessed email addresses on the DIHA website that they could have written to.  I’m sure Kyle would not have ignored emails if they were sent to him.  I have a feeling they weren’t sent to him or others.

    So if someone wants to claim they are being marginalized for not being in the right circles but made no attempt to let their availability be known, then their problem. 

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