SPRING 2018 2018 YEARBOOK EDITION GOLD MEDAL WINNING TEAMS FROM 2018 INSIDE: QUIKCARD EDMONTON MINOR HOCKEY WEEK Contents Ellerslie Road 780-486-5100 VOLVO OF EDMONTON & 101 Street volvoedmonton.com Contents5 Message from Hockey Edmonton 100 Things to Love 18 About the NHL Right Now Message from the Publisher 7 Spotlight on an Official 23 ASHWIN KAUL 9 Wayne Gretzky Award Winners Arena Locator Map Edmonton Oilers Community 26 10 Foundation Honours Dave Semenko Memories Montage from 2018 Harbin Hockey Association 28 Quikcard Edmonton Minor Hockey Week 12 UNLIKELY COUNTRIES GAIN INTEREST IN HOCKEY Gold Medal Winning Teams from 2018 30 Quikcard Edmonton Minor Hockey Week 14 The Hockey Conference Featured on the Cover: ETHAN BARICH AGE: 10 SCHOOL GRADE: 5 CURRENT TEAM: Braves Athletic Club NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: 7 HOCKEY EDMONTON MAGAZINE | SPRING 2018 FAVOURITE NHL TEAM: Edmonton Oilers FAVOURITE HOCKEY PLAYER: Connor McDavid ROLE MODEL: Connor McDavid FAVOURITE HOCKEY MEMORY: Scoring a goal when two players were slashing and hacking me. Ellerslie Road 780-486-5100 VOLVO OF EDMONTON & 101 Street volvoedmonton.com Message From Hockey Edmonton 10618- 124 Street Edmonton, AB T5N 1S3 Ph: (780) 413-3498 • Fax: (780) 440-6475 www.hockeyedmonton.ca I would like to thank all those who contribute to this magazine and To contact any of the Executive or Standing the valuable information that’s shared. In this edition we salute the Committees, please visit our website champions of Minor Hockey Week. Congratulations to those teams and to the teams, who won silver medals. Finishing with silver is no Hockey Edmonton | Executives small feat and you should be proud of your achievements. President: Mark Doram This season has seemed to roar by. I would like to thank the volunteers First VP: Darcy Wiltse Second VP: Joe Spatafora and staff for their countless hours of work that make our season run Director of Elite Hockey: Will Jang so smooth. We always experience a few hiccups but when we step Director of Community Hockey: Kevin Humphrys back and look at the big picture, over 8,500 athletes hit the ice and Director at Large: Ed Croken played a solid seven months of hockey. Director at Large: Bruce Howlett Treasurer: Berry Bentz Next year, the 2018-19 season will see some significant changes as Past President: Betty Chmilar we align with Hockey Alberta’s “Alberta One” concept. This will mean we’ll have six tiers of hockey, along with Elite in the case of Bantam Board of Directors and Midget. What will this look like? When you’ve registered for a tier 3 tournament you will be closely matched with other teams in the Knights of Columbus EFHC: Marc Aubee province and we won’t experience these huge gaps in team talent. NE District: Darlene Hein NW District: Myles Diamond Hockey Edmonton will begin the roll out of Hockey Canada’s novice SE District: Gerald Kruhlak program, which may see age range hockey. Development will be a SW District: Larry Shaben key component with this program. The goal is to grow better skilled EGHA: Bryan Toles | CAC: Richard McAdie MLAC: Neil Brown | SSAC: Ted Boomer players, who can compete and play at higher levels especially when Knights of Columbus AA: Bruce Fitzpatrick they hit pee wee, bantam and midget. Junior B: Larry Lepine | Junior C: George Metez Local associations will have standards they will be required to meet Standing Committees as an organization when it comes to governance and reporting. This falls under Hockey Alberta’s “Ideal MHA” program. Ice Allocation: Bernie Coderre Ice Management: Pat Elliott We continue to grow our relationships with local, provincial, national Minor Hockey Week Chair: Joan Kirillo and now international organizations such as Harbin, China. Hockey EOCF 50-50: Sam Gaekle Edmonton hosted the Harbin China Girls Team in late November. Referee Representatives: We’ve opened the door for our teams, both male and female, to visit Herman Costa (AA) & Duncan MacDougall (Federation) China for future tournaments. League Governors Hockey Edmonton is working on a possible leadership conference for pee wee, bantam and midget team leaders; we will keep everyone Edmonton Federation Hockey League posted on how this is progressing. Midget: Kim Turner (Acting) Your Hockey Edmonton board and executive have been busy over Bantam: Kim Turner the past few months on many projects to improve the hockey Pee Wee: Crystal Feader experience and add positive life lessons to our sport. The young Atom: David Onyschuk athletes we see on the ice are more than just hockey players: they Novice: Amy & Pat London are our leaders of tomorrow. Bantam Female: Justin Kidd Midget Female: James Wilson On behalf of the executive, the board, volunteers and staff of Hockey Edmonton, enjoy the city championships and we’ll see you next season. Elite Hockey Bantam AAA: Steve Lekochinsky Bantam AA: Russ Lukawesky Major Midget AAA: Bob Olynyk Minor Midget AAA: Carrie Aldridge Midget AA: Tracy Orbel Rem 15 Midget AA: Mike Hennessey Yours in Hockey, Staff Executive Assistance: Sharlene Cook Mark Doram Development Coordinator: Joel Lenius President Ice Coordinator: Ray Vigneau Hockey Edmonton Minor Administration Coordinator: Glenn Sommerville Operations Coordinator: Chris March Resource Development Coordinator: Sarah Kennedy Manager of Ice Operations: Dave Linman Executive Director: Dean Hengel Hockey Edmonton Magazine | 5 CATCH ALL 34 EXCITING OIL KINGS GAMES FROM THE BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE... YOURS! Oil Kings Bench EOK365 SEASON SEAT MEMBERSHIP PRICING OPTIONS EOK365 SEASON SEAT MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS • SEATING LOCATIONS FOR EVERYONE & EVERY BUDGET • 12-MONTH PAYMENT PLAN • FIRST ROUND OF THE WHL PLAYOFFS INCLUDED • GUARANTEED GIVEAWAY ITEMS • MEMBERSHIP RECOGNITION • EXCLUSIVE MEMBER EVENTS • DIGITAL SEASON SEAT CARD • DEDICATED ACCOUNT COORDINATOR • MEMBERSHIP SCARF PURCHASE BY MARCH 17, 2018 AND RECEIVE $25/SEAT IN EOK365 DOLLARS TO USE AT ROGERS PLACE CONCESSION STANDS. OILKINGS.CA Message From The Publisher Welcome to our final edition of the Hockey Edmonton Magazine for the 2017-2018 season. CREDITS This is our Yearbook Edition of the magazine, which features President and Publisher | Rob Suggitt the gold medal winning teams from 2018 Quikcard Edmonton Minor Hockey Week. Additionally, we have included a number of Art Director | Christine Kucher “spotlights” of players, who won gold medals during this event. Graphic Designers And in the centrefold, we have a montage of photos taken during Cailey Buxton | Katelyn Suggitt Quikcard Edmonton Minor Hockey Week. Thanks to Ian Jackson and the great group of photographers at Epic Photography for Contributing Writers supplying these photos. Joel Lenius | Paul Gazzola Rob Suggitt | Shari Narine One of the mainstays in our magazine is the “Spotlight on an Official” feature, where we interview a young minor hockey Cover Photo Provided by official. For this edition, we met up with 16-year-old Ashwin Kaul, EPIC Photography who has been officiating minor hockey since he was 13 years old. The officials volunteer their time to help make Minor Hockey Week Copy Editing Shari Narine possible. To put a dollar value on it, the value of donated time works out to approximately $45,000. That’s a big commitment! Photography Credits Including officials, approximately 3,200 people volunteer their Andy Devlin - Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club time to make Quikcard Edmonton Minor Hockey Week possible. Epic Photography Special thanks and recognition to Joan Kirillo, chairperson for SC Parker Photography Sportsnet this event, and her great group for all their dedication! Two Point Photography Rounding out this edition, we have a neat submission from Luke Fox at Sportsnet: His top 100 things he likes about the current Sales Associate NHL game, from the quirky to the cool. Lynn Schuster That’s all for this issue. With the hockey season winding down, we Administration would like to wish all the participants a great off-season, and look Amber Grmek forward to seeing everyone back on the ice in a few short months! The Hockey Magazine is a product of Playhouse Publications Ltd. - an affiliate of Suggitt Ltd. 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