Bruce Wagner (Max’s Dad) & Raffle Madness
Bruce sits on the NCYH board of directors and represents the DNHL players, coaches and family. Bruce says: “It looks like there might be a special board of directors meeting regarding the mandatory raffle. I’ve heard from many families that they don’t like the mandatory nature of the raffle. The Board will likely be discussing the mandatory nature as well as the ability of people who sell more than the required number to apply money to their decrease their fees. The raffle does provide benefits for the organization in terms of helping fund some team equipment, scholarships and Sunday night skill clinics. I would appreciate hearing any comments from DNHL families by no later than 5:00 pm Thursday on their feelings about the raffle.”
Bruce can be contacted via:
Email – bwag@lamar.colostate.edu
Tele – 970 223-2956
This just in…Stick and Puck at Providence Ice Center
Date: Thursday November 16th
Either we are playing better or they made us look good. Coaches Jim and Flash bring home new methods from NCYH coaching Seminar. Was it just us or did the guys look better spread out in general? We felt positions were being much better attended to. OK, so there were a few odd man rushes. We’ll talk about that next week.
Best game so far. We coaches would like to think it was our new plan. You see, Coach Jim and I attended the NCYH Coaching Seminar in Greeley prior to this game where we were council by Coach Paul. Paul has been around the coaching block; served under notables such as Herb Brooks, Scotty Bowmen and others (If you don’t recognize those names just ask your kid). Paul suggested we get wingers more involved in the game by having them take face-offs in the offensive zone and allowing them to play down around the circles in the defensive zone. To adjust for this we moved our centers around. The end result (besides some confusion here and there) was more puck possession thereby increasing our chances for good things to happen. Considering we put in six goals from five different players with six assists in the offing may be evidence to conclude we are on to something. Either that or the other team just made us look good. Anyway one looks at it winning is still more fun than loosing.
