Here’s the full list of results.

Christchurch Rangers 3 Dunedin Women 2
Dunedin Penguins 15, Dunedin SK8 0
Christchurch Jagr Bombs 5 MacKenzie Bulls 3
Dunedin Penguins 16 Christchurch Rangers 0
MacKenzie Bulls 4 Dunedin SK8 0
Jagr Bombs 14 Dunedin Women 3
Dunedin SK8 5 Christchurch Rangers 2
MacKenzie Bulls 8 Dunedin Women 2
Christchurch Jagr Bombs 17 Dunedin SK8 2
Dunedin Penguins 12 Dunedin Women 6
MacKenzie Bulls 11 Christchurch Rangers 1
Christchurch Jagr Bombs 4 Dunedin Penguins 3
Dunedin SK8 2 Dunedin Women 1
Christchurch Jagr Bombs 7 Christchurch Rangers 6
Dunedin Penguins 5 MacKenzie Bulls 2

Winner of tournament: Christchurch Jagr Bombs

We’ll probably put all the stats on the web page when they’re done, but we try and allow Joyce to have a life so it might be a few days ” title=”Smiley” /> Because sometimes the teams changed around players, the stats might be a little strange in some games.

Club activities are all listed in the calendar on the front page of the web site. And in the membership booklet, which is also on the web site.

The SIHL schedule, including open grade is also on the front page of the web site. Also here: http://dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi/southern-schedule-2010/.

Thunder managers were asked to remind all of Thunder about Easton Cup while you were filling in some paperwork last week. Some Thunder players have managed to find themselves in a couple of teams. All the premier players are signed up in club hub so should have got the newsletter.

It was on beginning of May last year, it hasn’t been run at Easter for a couple of years now. It was originally scheduled for last weekend, but we changed the date a couple of months ago (to avoid duck shooting weekend).

And Paul said he knew of about six players looking for a team to play for. If they’re looking for a team they must by definition have heard about it. Perhaps they heard only recently, but that must be because they didn’t read the email that was sent to them over a week ago. Like I said, if they email Larry Martin, we’ll try and find them a spot.

Who-flungs who come in for drop-in once a week aren’t eligible to play in the Easton Cup as they’re not a fully paid up member of the club.

We used to do posters (or at least the sponsor did). However we’d much rather the sponsor provided something we could use for fundraising rather than investing in posters. Hence we emailed all the other clubs, and all our members.

We actually were going to do a specific email for the Easton Cup, but the club newsletter was due and it’s not actually the club’s intention to spam your mailboxes. Some people will have got three in the past 10 days (1. newsletter, 2. oi, pay your money, and 3. hey, wanna buy a top?). #3 actually was supposed to be part of #1, but we couldn’t get the prices in time and the newsletter needed to go out so that people had warning about Easton Cup before entries were due.

But yes, the club is now largely run online. It’s actually very difficult to be a club member without checking and reading your emails, as all club communication is now managed through the system. People should start to assume if they get an email from the club, it might be worth reading. I could accept the criticism if we hadn’t emailed everyone about it, but we did and people have (presumably) chosen not to pay attention to that email. At some stage seniors need to take responsibility for themselves.

It’s the same attitude that the club is going to take with money. People who owe money to the club have been emailed and asked to pay their debts or make an arrangement with us. If they choose not to do either of those things then unfortunately we’re going to turn them away from the ice for club events after tomorrow. The club has spent too many years pleading with people to pay money or sign up for teams, when the club is putting these things on for their benefit. If people want the benefits of the club the least they could do is look through the membership booklet that we put together, pay the money when asked, and read the emails that we send to them. We can’t grow as a club if we have to hold player’s hands, there’s not enough volunteers to do that.

Having said all that, I welcome anyone else offering to run Easton Cup for next year, we always want more people to front up and take up roles in the club. Larry Martin and I have done it for the past couple of years (with the help of Walter who designs the form), Larry isn’t even in town this weekend, and I’m only here until lunch time on Sunday. Neither of us are getting to play (this year or last), Larry is off getting his NZIHF coaching certification and supporting the Dunedin midgets at tournament, I’m refereeing 9 games to help make sure the tournament happens, and then heading down to Gore to run Southern Peewee trials (ready to go on ice at 5pm Sunday in Gore!).

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.

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.

There are three here at present. Matt is fast. He’d be one of the quickest players I’ve seen. I saw the other two warming up last night, but haven’t seen them in a game. One is certainly big, if he gets good hits you’ll feel it.