Dear Student, On behalf of the Bakersfield Condors I would like to 33Matt thank you for coming out to the Condors eigth annual Keetley Field Trip Day Game. We hope you have as much fun watching us as we do playing. Be sure to cheer for us WelcomeLet’s get to knowKids hockey as loud as you can. The Rink: A hockey rink is a large rectangle with Players: Teams are allowed to dress 16 players As a professional hockey player, our bodies have to be rounded corners. The ice surface of a standard and two goalies, unless prior arrangements have in good shape, so we practice a lot, exercise and eat NHL rink is 200 feet by 85 feet, but dimensions been made. Teams generally have five skaters and right. But what you might not know is that hockey is can vary. one goalie on the ice. Exceptions occur when the as much a mental sport as it is a physical sport. goalie is pulled in favor of an extra attacker. The Markings: The rink is divided in half by a red Hockey, just like school and work, requires line that is used in determining icing. The rink is Officials: The game is officiated by a referee and intelligence and thought to be successful. That’s also marked with blue lines, which designate two linesmen. The referee has an orange stripe on why this day isn’t just about getting out of school offensive and defensive zones and are used in his sleeves. He calls most penalties. The linesmen to watch a hockey game, it’s our hope that you determining offsides violations. The goal line is the call offsides and icing. The linesmen also break up learn some important things today that will be red line at each end of the rink that is used in fights. useful to you. determining icing and whether a goal has been scored. The rink also has two faceoff circles at Goal Judge: He is stationed in a protected area All of us on the ice hope you have a fun and each end and another at center ice. The dots behind each goal and is responsible for verifying located just outside the blue lines at each end of each goal scored. exciting day here at the rink and make sure the rink are also used as faceoff locations. you take what you have learned today and Penalty Timekeeper: He ensures that all penalized apply it in the classroom. There’s is no limit Team Benches: They usually are on one side of the players serve the full time they are assessed. to what you can learn or even teach rink, between the blue lines. yourself, so continue to work hard and Official Scorer: Keeps score during the game and The Boards: The rink is surrounded by dasher push your limits in everything that you records the names of the goal scorers and those boards that are four feet high. Extending from the do. Listen to your parents, teachers, credited with assists. boards are plexiglass panes, or “the glass.” These and coaches, and always do your best! panes generally extend four or five feet above the Timekeeper: He starts the clock at the beginning boards behind the nets. The boards are also used of the game and stops it when he hears an official’s as adverstising billboards. Your Friend, whistle or a goal is scored The Red Light: When a goal is scored, a red light is illuminated behind the net. The light is operated by a goal judge who sits in a glass booth directly behind the net. Penalty Boxes: They are directly across the ice from the team benches. This is where players go to serve penalties. This is The Nets: The goal nets have openings that are four feet high by six feet wide. The Crease: The area shaded blue in front of each goal area is the crease. TABLE OF CONTENTS No player from the attacking team is allowed inside the crease Mathematics..... 3 unless the puck is there. Fun & Games..... 5 The Puck: A four-ounce The Team..... 7 vulcanized rubber disc that is one Player Roles..... 9 inch thick and three inches in diameter. Pucks are generally Geography..... 11 frozen to prevent them from Hockey 101..... 13 bouncing on the ice. www.bakersfieldcondors.com FREEMAN FREEMAN LEVESQUE, O’CONNOR, BAKER LEVESQUE ABNEY KEETLEY KEETLEY MARQUARDT Matt Kevin O’Dette Barrett 2011-12 Head Coach Assistant Coach Born: 11/09/79 Born: 11/03/70 BakersfieldCondors Toronto, Ontario Winnipeg, Manitoba 236 8 9101112 Erik Joe Matt Parker Matt Michael Scott Kevin Burgdoerfer Loprieno Campanale Stanfield Sisca Gergen Freeman Lohry Defenseman Defenseman Defenseman Forward Forward Forward Forward Forward Height: 6’2’’ Height: 6’3’’ Height: 5’11’’ Height: 6’2’’ Height: 5’8’’ Height: 5’11’’ Height: 5’10’’ Height: 6’0’’ Weight: 210 Weight: 225 Weight: 201 Weight: 180 Weight: 175 Weight: 195 Weight: 180 Weight: 185 Born: 12/11/88 Born: 10/08/86 Born: 02/14/88 Born: 01/26/88 Born: 10/30/90 Born: 02/17/87 Born: 01/12/88 Born: 09/03/87 East Setauket, New York Bloomington, Illinois Chester Springs, Pennsyvania Anaheim Hills, California Woodbridge, Ontario Hastings, Minnesota Whitby, Ontario Sioux City, Iowa Shoots: Right Shoots: Right Shoots: Left Shoots: Right Shoots: Left Shoots: Left Shoots: Right Shoots: Left 14 15 18 19 20 22 23 25 Peter Mike Tom Casey Alain Jimmy Dan Adam Boyd Kramer Frazee Pierro-Zabotel Goulet Martin Lawson Ross Forward Forward Forward Forward Defenseman Defenseman Defenseman Defenseman Height: 5’10’’ Height: 5’10’’ Height: 6’3’’ Height: 6’2’’ Height: 6’1’’ Height: 5’10’’ Height: 6’3’’ Height: 6’4’’ Weight: 190 Weight: 200 Weight: 200 Weight: 202 Weight: 205 Weight: 194 Weight: 275 Weight: 209 Born: 02/23/88 Born: 08/28/87 Born: 03/31/90 Born: 10/18/88 Born: 09/22/88 Born: 10/20/88 Born: 06/28/88 Born: 10/15/86 Cambridge-Narrows, NewBrunswick St. Paul, Minnesota North Vancouver, British Columbia Ashcroft, British Columbia Kapuskasing, Ontario St. Louis, Missouri Oak Forest, Illinois Red Deer, Alberta Shoots: Left Shoots: Right Shoots: Left Shoots: Right Shoots: Right Shoots: Right Shoots: Left Shoots: Left 27 31 32 33 36 37 55 100 Ian Bryan Hans Matt Keith Matt Jesse Colonel McKenzie Pitton Benson Keetley Wynn Marquardt Gimblett Claw’d Forward Goaltender Forward Goaltender Defenseman Forward Forward Mascot Height: 6’5’’ Height: 6’2’’ Height: 6’0’’ Height: 6’2’’ Height: 6’0’’ Height: 6’3’’ Height: 6’3’’ Height: 6’1’’ Weight: 236 Weight: 195 Weight: 200 Weight: 200 Weight: 197 Weight: 229 Weight: 220 Weight: 180 Born: 05/23/87 Born: 01/26/88 Born: 09/20/83 Born: 04/27/86 Born: 02/25/87 Born: 07/19/87 Born: 01/04/85 Born: 10/15/98 Weyburn, Saskatchewan Brampton, Ontario Menlo Park, California Medicine Hat, Alberta Orleans, Ontario North Bay, Ontario Newtonville, Ontario Bakersfield, California Shoots: Right Catches: Left Shoots: Right Catches: Right Shoots: Left Shoots: Left Shoots: Left Wingspan: 7’6’’ 13 8 ROSS SISCA LAWSON 11 BENSON 13 GERGENKRAMER& 468 CALIFORNIA ALASKA UTAHGRIZZLIES UTAH ALASKA THE SILVER STATE SILVER THE ALASKA - MT. MMT. ALASKA- CKINLEY 88,579ft CALIFORNIA, NEVADA CALIFORNIA, COLORADO,ALASKAUTAH, Goal: A goal is scored when the entire Power Play: When a team has more puck crosses the goal line. players on the ice than the opposition due to one or more penalties against the Hat Trick: A player who scores three opposing team. Terminology goals in one game achieves a “hat trick.” Hockey 101 Pulling of the Goalie: A team that is los- Body Check: A body check is where you An offside pass occurs use your body against an opponent who Offside pass: ing will sometimes take their own goalie Altercation: Any physical interaction when a member of the attacking team has possession of the puck. Legal body off the ice and use another forward. This between two or more opposing players passes the puck from behind his own checking must be done only with the situation occurs most frequently near that results in a penalty (or penalties). defending blue line to a teammate hips or shoulders and must be above the the end of the game when a team is across the center red line. If the puck Assist: An assist is credited to a player opponent’s knees and below the neck. behind and needs some emergency who helps set up a goal. Assists are precedes the player across the red line, offense. Unnecessarily rough body checking is awarded to the last man to handle the the pass is legal. penalized. Save: A shot blocked by the goalie - a puck immediately preceding the goal. Breakaway: A player in control of the One-timer: Shooting the puck shot that otherwise would have gone There is a maximum of two assists per into the net! goal. puck has a breakaway when the only immediately upon receiving it without stopping it first. A one-timer is an opponent between him and the Occurs after overtime to effective way to beat the goalie before Shoot-out: Attacking Zone: When you are on the opposition’s goal is the goalie (and a decide the outcome of a tie game. Each he can slide from one side of the crease attack, your attacking zone is between reasonable scoring opportunity exists). team picks five players, and each one of your opponent’s blue line and goal line. to another. Breakout: The play used by the attack- them takes a penalty shot on the other Back Check: Forwards in their offensive ing team to move the puck out of its own Penalty: A penalty is the result of an team’s goalie, skating in by themselves zone skate back quickly to their own zone and up the ice toward the infraction of the rules by a player or with the puck from center ice and trying defensive zone to protect their goal and opponent’s goal.