TABLE OF CONTENTS Chair of the Board Report .................................................................................................................... 2 Operational Report ............................................................................................................................... 3 Standing Committee Reports: Conduct .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Finance................................................................................................................................................... 4 Governance ............................................................................................................................................ 5 Hockey Development .............................................................................................................................. 7 Human Resources .................................................................................................................................. 7 Nominating ............................................................................................................................................. 8 Risk Management ................................................................................................................................. 10 Work Group Reports: Truth and Reconciliation Work Group ................................................................................................... 10 Divisional Committee Reports: Adult Male ............................................................................................................................................ 11 Junior ................................................................................................................................................... 12 Minor .................................................................................................................................................... 14 Minor Hockey Coordinator and Task Group Reports: Championship ...................................................................................................................................... 14 Discipline .............................................................................................................................................. 16 Operations ............................................................................................................................................ 17 Relations/Communications ................................................................................................................... 18 Program Coordinator and Committee Reports: Coaching .............................................................................................................................................. 18 Female High Performance .................................................................................................................... 20 Female Midget AAA .............................................................................................................................. 21 Female Hockey Development ............................................................................................................... 22 Male High Performance ........................................................................................................................ 23 Male Midget AAA .................................................................................................................................. 26 Officiating ............................................................................................................................................. 28 Safety ................................................................................................................................................... 35 School Programming ............................................................................................................................ 37 APPENDICES BC Hockey Program Attendance Statistics ......................................................................... APPENDIX A Incomplete Suspensions ..................................................................................................... APPENDIX B Registrations ...................................................................................................................... APPENDIX C Championship Reports ....................................................................................................... APPENDIX D BC Hockey Awards ............................................................................................................. APPENDIX E 1 Chair of the Board Report Randy Henderson At times when I consider the tremendous number of hockey opportunities in our branch, it almost appears wondrous to me at times. We have over 45,000 players on the ice, backed up by thousands of coaches and officials that keep us in operation. Supporting these on ice operations are casts of thousands of volunteers who give their time to a game that provides children, adolescents and adults with the ability to enjoy the greatest game on earth. My sincere thanks are insufficient for the gratitude I feel. There is no more noble calling than to give to your community and our youth. Across our branch and the country, there has been the recognizing that we are losing too many players as they play through our system. From Hockey Canada to local Minor Hockey Associations, all those involved recognize the fact that we must put the player’s needs first. The game must be fun or they simply will not return. From Hockey Canada to the branch, we are working diligently to improve our opportunities and programming for players, coaches, officials and volunteers at the local level. Recruitment and retention of these key individuals requires a more scientific approach than we have used historically. We must listen to professional experts in the fields of child development; physically, emotionally and psychologically. We also need to ensure that we continue to strive to produce long term player development plans that are age appropriate for our players, coaches and officials. Most importantly, parents and the adults in the game need to be educated on why changes implemented are better for the player. I do not know a parent that doesn’t want the best experience possible for their player. Key to these improvements is having research, knowledge, and the ability to listen to the needs expressed by minor hockey associations and supplying the tools they need to do strategic plans that outline the association’s future direction, the roles and responsibilities we share and how we measure our progress. Our new Governance Model has certainly moved us toward more efficiencies within our operations and allowed people who have passion in a particular area of the game to engage in making the experience better in that area. We all need champions; people who will devote themselves to different components of minor hockey that make it great. We are still young in our time with the model and we are all adapting to the nuances of dealing with a system different from one we used for nearly 100 years. This change comes with bumps and challenges that I can assure you your board are working hard to make adjustments and refinements as we travel on. At times, BC Hockey kind of reminds me of driving a school bus and when you notice you have a flat you must fix it while keeping the bus going down the highway. Personally, and on behalf of the board, I want to thank all of you for your commitment, passion, and enthusiasm for our great game. We will all keep working together to make BC Hockey the envy of the country. Our successful bid to host the 2019 World Junior Championship is a great testimony to the confidence Hockey Canada holds for branch. 2 OPERATIONAL REPORT Barry Petrachenko, Chief Executive Officer The summer of 2016 had a major effect on the future of hockey in British Columbia and the Yukon. Work began in earnest toward the goal of securing the bid to host the 2019 World Junior Championship, the BC Hockey Board directed a mandate of cross ice play at Initiation and Novice levels for the upcoming season and set priorities for the organization as follows: increase and retain numbers, increase BC Hockey’s support of our members and to increase our ‘Speed to Market’ of developing and developed technologies from both inside and outside current technology partners. I am pleased to be able to report our progress in each of these areas has provided us with great learning experiences and has set us up for tremendous success in coming years. I certainly hope you are aware that the world’s best will in fact be coming to BC again over the 2018-2019 holiday season, and want to highlight the tremendous impact that will result from the legacy left by the World Junior Championship in Vancouver and Victoria. BC will be the place to be during the event, and our delivery of our game to the youth of BC will be enhanced for years to come through the program improvements that will be made possible by this tournament. The implementation of our cross-ice policy certainly highlighted the need for improved collaboration on program delivery with our local associations, and over the course of the winter we have taken steps to ensure that in the future our minor hockey associations will be provided with the level of communication