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Hey! Irondale players & parents!
This is just a pre-reminder about the summer parades!
It's a great way to show your support for your IYHA association!
The kids have a GREAT time and it's SO MUCH FUN!
KIDS OF ALL AGES/LEVELS ARE INVITED!
 Please come walk a parade this summer- (or all 3!)
 
I need lots of kids to throw candy & hand out fliers while we "Rock Out"
at the parade. The bigger, brighter & bolder we are, the better!
This is how we advertise our love of hockey and get
MORE PLAYERS!
 
Parade Information:
St. Anthony Village Fest
Friday, July 31 @ 7 pm

New Brighton Stock Yard days
Thursday, Aug. 6 @ tbd

Mounds View Festival in the Park
Saturday, Aug 22 @ 1 pm 

More e-mails to follow mid July thru August. Please be on the look out!
Also, I will need a few more parents to chaperone these events!
Especially if you have younger players! THANKS!
 
Please support your association and your hard working parade coordinator!

    

Dining For Dollars KNIGHT OUT event schedule:

    

A hockey clinic opportunity is available called D-1 Development for the week of August 3-7 at the New Hope Ice Arena in New Hope.  This is a very fast past program with a low player to coach ratio which has been offered to boy’s & girl’s over the past 5 years in the south metro area of the Twins Cities and they are trying to expand to other areas this summer.  The clinic staff is led by Pat Madigan who is a former Division I hockey player at Providence University and has coached hockey for over 15 years at many levels.   He has had very good reviews and has coached many of the top Minnesota high school players during those five years. This year he has also assembled a very impressive staff of instructors that includes Nick Oslund and Chris Hepp from the SCSU Huskies Men’s Hockey Team.  

This link provides more information and registration information

Thanks for your time!

Steven H. Ellingson

Athletic Supervisor

City of New Hope

This is an offer through the City of New Hope.
This is not an endorsement of the program by the Irondale Association.

    

BUZZHOCKEY'S 2009 SUMMER HOCKEY TRAINING BEGINS JUNE 8 with a staff that is excited and geared up to help our skaters and goalies develop to their personal best this summer. In addition to our head coaching staff of John Bazzachini, Chris McKelvie (Irondale alumni), Steve DeBus and Kevin Gorg, we will be having some additional coaches dropping in as their schedules permit.

One coach in particular that all the kids love is Zach McKelvie (Irondale alumni) who graduated from West Point in May after being honored with the prestigious Army Athletic Association Trophy which is awarded to a male or female cadet who displays the "most valuable service to intercollegiate athletics during a career as a cadet."  Zach will be home for a couple of weeks in June and will be coming back to work with some of our skaters. In addition to Zach, our skaters and goalies will be seeing Josh Harding from the Minnesota Wild who will be coming out in July; Ace Gregg and Joe Vannett of Concordia College in June.

Sessions 2, 10, 11 are filled and closed, however, we still have a couple of openings left for some age levels in our program. We also have limited space in our 3 v 3 leagues. Also, for those new to our program, don't forget that your skater can make up any missed ice times in any other age appropriate session throughout the summer. No need to worry about scheduling conflicts or vacations. Those missed ice times can be made up. Good for your finances and good for your skater's development!

You can still register today by visiting out website at www.buzzhockey.com  or giving our office a call at 763-509-0951 for more information or availability.

See you this summer on the ice!


This is an offer through the Buzz Hockey.
This is not an endorsement of the program by the Irondale Association.
 

    

Greetings from the President – Kevin Bourassa

 I am honored to have been selected President of the Irondale Youth Hockey Association.  I look forward to the opportunity to serve you over the next two years.  We have a wonderful group of athletes, coaches, and parents. The time is now to grasp the opportunities we have before us and make this organization grow and succeed.

I would like to thank the outgoing board members Tom Lucarelli, Jean Aukee, Bob Gabler and Jeanne Falconer.  Your service to our organization has been great.  I would also like to thank the current board for their continued commitment to IYHA.  Lastly, I would like to thank everyone else that makes up our association from players, parents, and volunteers.  We need EVERYONE to make this association successful.

The theme I used during the campaign was EXPECT MORE AND DO MORE.  I think we can increase our expectations of everyone within our association.  With increased expectations we all will need to pitch in and DO MORE.  If we want to see improvement in the association there is plenty of opportunities for EVERY family to pitch in and make it successful. 

Our goal is to create the best hockey association that we can.  To be the best that we can ON the ice, there are opportunities for everyone OFF the ice to participate.  We need to create a strong support structure for our players to compete at their highest possible level, we need people helping with coaching, fundraising, securing sponsorships, volunteering, working parades, at schools, or whatever your skills can provide.  In these times we need to use all of our resources wisely.  Think about were you fit within the association, and DO MORE.  Let’s leave no stones unturned for our players.

Finally, over the summer get the kids outside playing, rollerblading, skating when possible, shooting and stick handling and they will be able to have more success on the ice come the fall.

With EVERYONE'S help we can accomplish our goals as an association.

Feel free to contact us with where you feel you can fit in and help out or with your concerns.

Sincerely,

Kevin Bourassa

President IYHA