The CMHA Executive and Board would like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year!! Hoping that your Holiday season is enjoyable.

We would like to remind everyone that absolutely no cell phone are to be in the dressing rooms. This policy has been in place for a number of years, and can result in suspensions if it is not followed.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Hello everyone, the following is an excerpt from a New York post article in which Mark Messier comments on the state of minor hockey:


New York Post

Messier, who coaches pee-wees while apprenticing in the Rangers front office, used a 1940s quote from Patrick about the purity of children "learning to play by loving to play, unfettered, uncontaminated by adults" to further that message 70 years later.

"Growing up, I don't ever remember leaving Edmonton to play any games," Messier said. "Tournaments have gone from a weekend to every weekend and you have to be there Thursday.

"More nights in the hotels, more money spent. It's not going to make a difference in a kids' career to disrupt a family life. By putting too much emphasis at too young an age, we are losing players who get cast out too soon, so we have a pool of [fewer] players.

"At what age do we put them the fast track? At 7? Nine? I don't think so."

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Please note with the H1N1 outbreak no players should be removing their gloves for the Hand Shake at the end of the game. Instead they can just touch each others gloves but absolutely no hand to hand contact. Keeping all our players safe is the priority.

The dates for the pictures for all teams will be Monday Oct 19/09 & Tuesday Oct 20/09 at the Rec Plex in the lower lobby. The Schedule of pictures is as follows:

Monday Oct 19/09                                                                                Tuesday Oct 20/09

Pups        Canada Safeway                  5:00pm                         Atom        A&W                         5:15pm           
Pups        MDZS                                 5:15pm                         Atom        Purcell Resourses        5:30pm
Mites       Timbits Black                        5:30pm                        Atom        HSBC                         5:45pm
Midget     Midget Female                      5:45pm                        Atom       West Arm Trucking        6:00pm
Mites       Timbits White                       6:00pm                        PeeWee    Cranbrook Dodge          6:15pm
Novice     Kal Tire                                6:15pm                       PeeWee     Invis Mortgages           6:30pm
Novice     West Clean                           6:30pm                       PeeWee     Culligan                      6:45pm
Novice     Premier Plumbing & Heating     6:45pm                       Atom         Atom Develop 1           7:00pm
Novice     Gold Creek Country Store       7:00pm                       Midget       Midget Tier 2               7:15pm
Bantam    Bantam Female                     7:15pm                       PeeWee     PeeWee Tier 2             7:30pm
Bantam    Bantam Tier 3                       7:30pm                      Bantam      Players Bench              7:45pm
Bantam    Bantam Tier 2                       7:45pm                      Bantam      Emco                          8:00pm
Midget     Midget Tier 3                        8:00pm                      Bantam      Eagle Plains Resources   8:15pm
PeeWee   PeeWee Tier 3                      8:15pm
Midget     A&W                                   8:30pm
Midget     Alpine Toyota                       8:45pm