Can you believe our season is almost over? Honestly I feel like we just started!

But before we move on to summer (and the Classic!!) we have our Championship Night at Cap Ice. Saving the best for last! 
We have a busy night that includes taking our on ice league photo and presenting the ‘MGHA All-The-Way’ Awards.

Here is the schedule of events for the night:

4:20pm – Rink B = MaroonyTunes VS Nightfuries
4:40pm – Rink A = Arrrnge VS Madison Blues
5:40pm – Rink B = Grayzly Bears VS Red Delicious
6:00pm – Rink A = Narwhals VS Snow Witte and the 14 Dwarfs
7:30pm – Rink A = Team photo! Please arrive at least 15 minutes early with your jersey
8:00pm – Rink A = ABBA: Gold VS Dancing Greens

Because of the alternating schedule. our current schedule for scorebox doesn’t really work. To solve this, we are asking for volunteers to work a shift instead. Please, PLEASE sign up for a shift here if you are able! Keep in mind when you are playing before signing up, especially for rink A.
Scorebox

Also, Cap Ice has graciously allowed us to still host our potluck at their rink. Please sign up for a dish to pass in the link below:
Potluck Sign Up

**IMPORTANT REMINDER: We are not allowed to bring in any of our own alcohol into the rink due to the Eagles Nest having a liquor license. Thank you for following their rules!***

Let us know if you have any questions!
See you Sunday!

Hey everyone!

Hope you’re having a fantastic Saturday!

tl;dr:
– New schedules and location for March 31 and April 7 on website and Google calendar
– Can’t sub in overlapping games, alert captains if already subbing for another team
– Scorebox shifts will be adjusted, standby for that email

Full Message:
We’re coming down the home stretch of the season and with Hartmeyer going down early this season, we’re shifting our play to Cap Ice, the same venue that’ll host our MGHA Classic.  This’ll be a chance to check it out before the tournament in about a month.
That said, we’ll have some changes to the schedule and we wanted to pass those changes along to you.

You’ll see the schedule above.  Since Cap Ice has two sheets, our night will be condensed and nobody will have a super-late game.  The games at 5:30, 6:40, and 7:50 PM will play on Rink A.  The 6:00 and 7:10 PM games will be on Rink B.  Rink A is to the left and Rink B is to the right when you enter Cap Ice.

We’re working on adjusting scorebox shifts, so stay tuned for an email about that.
Also notice in the picture that we’ve adjusted the subbing procedure to account for overlapping games.  Notice that I can’t sign up for the 6 PM game because I have a game at 5:30 PM.  I can, however, sign up for the others.  When you are asked to sub by a captain, please be careful not to volunteer to sub in overlapping games.  Let them know if you’re already subbing for another team that day.

Championship night is April 7th.  We’ll also be running on two rinks.  We’ll still have the potluck.  We’ll still have the team picture.  Standby for more information on all of this coming soon.  Here’s a look at the schedule.  This will be based on the season-ending team standings.

4:20 PM	Rink B	9th	10th
4:40 PM	Rink A	7th	8th
5:40 PM	Rink B	5th	6th
6:00 PM	Rink A	3rd	4th
7:30 PM	Rink A	League Picture
8:00 PM	Rink A	1st	2nd

That’s it for now.  Although we’re sad about the season ending, we’re really excited for the next two weeks!
See you at the rink,Tim (on behalf of the Board)

Summary:
Town Hall rescheduled to February 20th, 6:30 PM at the Glass Nickel on Atwood.
Note we plan to go more quickly on the Board topics because of the state of the league summary email.

Previous post:
Hey MGHA!
Hopefully this time we will now have our annual Town Hall meeting! The meeting will be in the basement of the Glass Nickel pizza as usual on Atwood. The meeting starts at 6:30 and we have the room until 10. There will be pizza of several varieties so come grab a slice and check in on how the MGHA is doing.
Please take a look at the agenda as we will be discussing some formatting changes (as part of the meeting we will explain them).

AGENDA
Introductions
Brief board introduction and our acting roles
Presidential Address
NEW BUSINESS
Clarification of new forum for discussion
5 minutes to introduce your topic of discussion and present your arguments
10 minutes total discussion for the topic after introduced, then it becomes old business
Next meeting will have similar format to introduce old business again
Summary of agenda with brief explanation
Conduct form introduction – Maggie
HOps update – Tim
Survey results summary high level, positives and negatives – Witte
Actions taken in response
MGHA Classic Tournament
Cap Ice discussion
Recap of all topics mentioned
Open discussion

Hope to see you all there!

Cheers,
Secretary Witte

Hey everyone! It’s that time again… challenge game time!

This month’s challenge games will take place on February 3rd. The times are a little different than normal due to a conflict at Hartmeyer.

As usual, please sign up for a game where you can learn and play safely. While it’s good to challenge yourself, please only do so within your safe limits. Remember that in the advanced games, skaters do not ‘play down’ in the same way they do during the regular season MGHA games. As always, HOps reserves the right to shift players if we feel you have signed up for an unsafe level.

You may sign up for one game right away. On Saturday, February 2nd at 2 PM, you may sign up for a second game if there are spaces available. We’re also looking for a few bench coaches for the beginner game. If you feel you have sound hockey knowledge and can help our beginners, feel free to sign up!

The night will be scheduled as follows:

5:45 PM – Advanced Game
6:55 PM – Beginner Game
8:05 PM – High Intermediate Game
9:15 PM – Low Intermediate Game

February 3, 2019 Challenge Games

You must log in to sign up.

See you on the ice!
-HOps (Tim, Brian, k8, Mark, Ashleigh, Sara, John)

We’re postponing the Town Hall tonight due to the possibility of slick roads, dangerous temperatures, and potential lack of attendance. A successful town hall meeting requires people and we’re worried we won’t have a good attendance. We’ll work to reschedule for later in February.

Thank you for your patience and stay warm!

Based on the NWS Forecast (check the snow entry – blue bars) , 
We are cancelling the last three games tonight. The schedule tonight looks like:

Narwhals vs Dancing Greens at 4:50pm

Arrrnge vs Madison Blues at 6:00pm

Grayzly Bears vs Snow Witte – CANCELLED

Maroony Tunes vs Red Delicious – CANCELLED

ABBA: Gold vs Nightfuries – CANCELLED

This is reflected on the page https://www.madisongayhockey.org/teams-schedule/ We will make up those games the scrimmage week of March 10th. 

If you have scorebox for the 4:50pm or 6pm games, please still plan to show or get a replacement.

One thing our mid-season survey reflected was a need for greater clarity regarding how our sub system works. 

• Every Sunday we have league games, a script on the website runs at noon to check for players who have marked themselves absent as well as players who have volunteered to sub.
• The script analyzes each absentee and volunteer and uses a combination of skill level, times subbed, and game time to determine sub suggestions. If there are no subs at the appropriate sub level for an absentee, a Potential Sub will be selected (someone of a similar skill level). Each sub is only suggested once per email. For more on this algorithm see here.
• The script puts all this information plus pictures and contact info in an email (see pic below from Sunday’s email) and sends it to the captains.
• The team captains then use this info to select a sub and contact them.
• If the contacted player replies yes, all done! If the contacted player cannot sub that day and time, the captain contacts someone else until they find someone.

A note on last minute subs: yes, we still end up needing last minute subs. Life happens. Captains are instructed to make their best effort to match skill level and communicate with the opposing captains especially on last minute subs to address competitive balance.

Considerations: 

• PLEASE mark yourself absent if you know you’ll be absent for your game. You can do this weeks in advance if you know.
• Please do it before noon on Sunday of the game you’ll miss.
• Volunteer to sub by marking all the game you are able to sub on the website before noon on Sunday. 
• Make sure your contact info is up to date!

Thank you and thank you Randi for all your hard work to make this system work!

Hey MGHA!
It’s that time of year for our annual Town Hall meeting! The meeting will be in the basement of the Glass Nickel pizza as usual on Atwood. The meeting will be January 28th starting at 6:30 and we have the room until 10.  There will be pizza of several varieties so come grab a slice and check in on how the MGHA is doing.
Please take a look at the agenda as we will be discussing some formatting changes (as part of the meeting we will explain them).
AGENDA

• Introductions
  
  • Brief board introduction and our acting roles
    
• Presidential Address 
  

NEW BUSINESS

• Clarification of new forum for discussion 
  
• 5 minutes to introduce your topic of discussion and present your arguments
• 10 minutes total discussion for the topic after introduced, then it becomes old business
• Next meeting will have similar format to introduce old business again
• Summary of agenda with brief explanation
  
• Conduct form introduction  – Maggie
  
• HOps update – Tim
  
• Survey results summary high level, positives and negatives – Witte
  
• Actions taken in response 
• MGHA Classic Tournament
  
• Cap Ice discussion 
  
• Recap of all topics mentioned
  
• Open discussion
  

Hope to see you all there!
Cheers,Secretary Witte