Paul Roth

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  • in reply to: Dunedin Ice Hockey League 2007 #2266
    Paul Roth
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    There’s probably a need for the club and rink to decide how to prioritize use a bit better. The club is one of the 3 constituent bodies of the rink organisation (the others being ice skating and curling). The leading priorities of these bodies is (1. looking after their own club activities, and (2. maximising money brought in for the common good of the rink. Everything else follows on from these basic principles.

    On these principles, when one is talking about available ice times, the following are the current priorities for the DIHA

    1. Club practices, SIHL games, and getting more people to take up ice hockey as a sport (kiwi hockey, beginners sessions, etc — especially for younger people, since they will grow up to become the backbone of the club going into the future)
    2. DIHL games
    3. High School league

    Currently, the high school league has most of the usable times on Wednesdays. I’m not sure how much the rink is making out of this (I think it is probably a loss leader), but there is probably not much call for this to be placed in “prime time”. It is viewed more in the nature of “community service”. Perhaps it should be moved or restructured next year so that these games are spread out a bit at times other than the evenings, eg, 3 to 7 pm on school nights. But then there will be clashes with kiwihockey and learn-to-skate sessions, but maybe it could be worked in with that. With the curling season about to begin, the other rink won’t be available to take over these activities. Personally, I think any room for reorganisation of ice times should come there for next year.

    Anyway, this is just to give everyone a little insight as to how things are more or less organised. Obviously, things can be changed for next year if people get organised and issues get worked out with competing interests from the other clubs and the rink.

    If you want change or a different arrangement for various activities, the thing to do is to bring it to a DIHA meeting (meetings first mondays of each month at 7:30 at rink) and we can work on it for next year. Because hockey brings in a lot more money than figure skating, we have more leverage (with ice skaters currently consigned to the more unsociable times — ie, the early a.m. every day)

    in reply to: Dunedin Ice Hockey League 2007 #2236
    Paul Roth
    Member

    Looked like a prayer meeting to me.

    in reply to: Dunedin Ice Hockey League 2007 #2182
    Paul Roth
    Member

    Har har, very funny.

    Let’s see you laugh next time you need a lawyer.

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