Good Day,

 

I have been receiving notes and phonecalls with regards to the website.

 

On December 10th Sportzone (who runs our website as well as other hockey leagues in the city) suffered some type of hacking which caused a slowdown in accessing there website. I do not know if this issue has been totally resolved but by the amount of time it still takes to access the admin side (where we input scores, gamesheets, suspensions, etc.) I doubt it as it still is not up to the speed that it has been in past seasons. A quick example is that when scores are phoned in to me I usually can update 14 scores in around 10 minutes – two weeks ago this took me about 75 minutes. When a gamesheet used to take 5-10 minutes to enter this is no longer the case. This is not an excuse but rather an explanation of what has occurred. If you look at how quick scores and gamesheets were entered prior to Dec 10 you will see that gamesheets were entered within 48 hours (if not sooner). I still enter the scores the evenings which the games are played but it usually takes longer.

 

As for the standings – 8 of the 10 divisions were to be reset back to zero. This was done. In the past two weeks players and team reps have contacted me indicating that the standings are not correct. Once again this is a Sportzone issue. Sportzone has been contacted about this and I am waiting for them to let me know when that has been cleaned up.

 

As for the schedule for round robin 4 – we are working on that right now. The holdup right now is that I am waiting for Winsport COP to let me know what icetimes are available at there facility in March and April as some of the minor hockey league user groups have started to return iceslots.

 

As always if you have any questions feel free to contact me.

 

Fred Z.

Hey Guys,

 

John is posting the first games for the next round robin on the website as you read this. He will still need to do his cross-referencing to make sure that no errors have been made so you may wish to check again tomorrow morning.

 

I will be changing the teams to there new divisions over the next few days.

 

Here are the changes from the first (and hopefully last) realignment:

- no changes in Div A

- Kings (Puffalt) drop from B to C

- Dragons drop from B to D

- Fighting Saints up from C to B

- Optiema Kings up from D to B

- Cow Punchers drop from C to D

- Chivas up from D to C

- Bullets drop from E to G

- Brewhouse Bullets up from F to E

- Wolverines down from F to H

- Tools down from G to H

- Calgary Phantoms up from H to F

- Puck Pimps up from H to F

- The Horsemen drop from H to J

- Pylons up from I to H

- Lucky Pucks drop from I to J

- HK Croatia drop from I to J

- Wolfpack drop from I to J

- Glory Hounds up from J to I

- Iceholes 2 up from J to I

 

Division I will now consist of 7 teams. If after this round this division stays the same size teams will have a choice to play 6 game rounds robins and get a refund for the missing game or to play an unbalanced schedule which will make up these games.

 

Cheers,

Fred Z.

 

Thank you for your interest in joining the All Cal Hockey League. 

Here is some background about the All Cal Hockey League and other information that you may be interested in.

For the 2011-12 season the All Cal Hockey League will be expanding to 72 teams (9 divisions of 8 teams) from 56 teams (7 divisions of 8 teams) due to the fact that we were able to obtain some additional ice last season at the new Winsport/COP facility. This means that I will be accepting at least 16 new teams.

NOTE: currently 9 of the 16 spots have been filled.

Each team will play 28 regular season games (1 round robin of 7 games for the seeding round followed by 3 round robins of 7 games for the completion of the regular season – you will play each team in your division 4 times). The top 6 teams in each division will qualify for playoffs (double-knockout format). The division champion will have a choice of $500 cash or a $1000 credit with Tradewind Promotions (they supply hockey jerseys, golf shirts, sweatshirts, etc.) Note that because of the expansion there is a possibility that there may be a realignment after the second round-robin as well.

The All Cal uses a seeding round format. The seeding round is the first round robin (7 games) that each team will play. This seeding round will determine if any teams (being too strong or too weak) should be moved into other divisions that they may be more competitive in for the remainder of the season. The seeding round record of teams does not count. This is because the teams that start 7-0 may move up into a stronger division and qualify for the playoffs because of their quick start in a weaker division. On the opposite side, teams which start 0-7 and are moved into a weaker division may not qualify for the playoffs because of their poor start. By “zero-ing” team standings after the seeding round every team will be playing the same amount of games against teams within its own division. 

Current Ice Contracts:

Mondays - 10:00PM - Norma Bush

Mondays - 10:15PM - Father David Bauer

Mondays - 10:15PM - Village Sqaure 2

Mondays - 10:30PM - Westside

Tuesdays - 8:30PM - Shouldice

Tuesdays - 10:00PM - Acadia

Tuesdays - 10:00PM - Bowness

Tuesdays - 10:00PM - Village Square 2

Wednesdays - 8:30PM - Winsport / COP

Wednesdays - 10:00PM - Winsport / COP

Wednesdays - 10:00PM - Acadia

Wednesdays - 10:00PM - Norma Bush

Wednesdays - 10:30PM - Erin Woods

Wednesdays - 10:30PM - Westside

Thursdays - 10:00PM - Bowness

Thursdays - 10:30PM - Optimist

Fridays - 10:00PM - Norma Bush

Fridays - 10:00PM - Optimist

Fridays - 10:30PM - Acadia

Saturdays - 9:15AM - Winsport / COP

Saturdays - 10:45AM - Winsport / COP

Saturdays - 12:15PM - Winsport / COP

Saturdays - 3:00PM - Westside

Saturdays - 9:00PM - Jack Setters

Saturdays - 9:45PM - Murray Copot

Saturdays - 9:45PM - Village Square 2

Sundays - 9:30AM - Winsport / COP

Sundays - 11:00AM - Winsport / COP

Sundays - 12:30PM - Winsport / COP

Sundays - 2:00PM - Murray Copot

Sundays - 7:30PM - Winsport / COP

Sundays - 9:00PM - Winsport / COP

Sundays - 9:45PM - George Blundun

Sundays - 9:45PM - Murray Copot

Sundays - 10:30PM - Winsport / COP

DIVISION B:  OIL BARONS - Runners-Up:  Eagles I

DIVISION C:  FIGHTING SAINTS - Runners-Up:  Eagles

DIVISION D:  KILLER BEES - Runners-Up:  Rustlers