Provo Blades Team Blog

End of Year Party Details

provoblades | 06 April, 2008 21:29

Date: April 9, 2008

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Rock Canyon Park

Address: 2620 N. 1200 E., Provo (close to the MTC, temple, etc.)

Food Sign-Ups:

Charcoal, lighter, etc. - Jodi
Hamburgers - Deanna
Hot Dogs - Jodi
Buns (hot dog and hamburger) - still need someone
Condiments - Teresa/Libby
Dessert - Keisha, Kalo
Cookies - Teresa
Chips - Keisha
Veggie Tray - Jodi
Fruit Salad - Teresa
Salad - Libby
Drinks - Julie, Jenny
Paper plates, cups, napkins, utensils - still need someone

We could still use some more snack/salad type things, please let me know if you can help out.

Jackson Hole Tournament Information

provoblades | 24 January, 2008 14:27

Roster
Suzy, Jodi, Deanna, Jenny, Emily, Bree, Nicole, Monica, Rauna, Jana, Julie, Keisha, Libby

Schedule
Friday 10:25 pm, Saturday 11:40 am and 9:25 pm, Sunday 10:30 am (championship)

Click here to view complete tournament schedule

Vehicle List
#1 Nostrom, #2 Jessen (Libby, Jenny), #3 Merrill, #4 and #5 Weiss, #6 Cote, #7 Team (Monica, Deanna, Nicole, Rauna)

Hotel Information
#1 Nostrom, #2 Jessen, #3 Merrill, #4 and #5 Weiss, #6 Cote, #7 and #8 Team (Monica, Deanna, Nicole, Rauna, Libby, Jenny, Ben ... can combine into one room if desired)

The rooms are booked under Caroline Merrill's name. Each room will have to provide their own credit card number upon check-in. Please make sure to do this promptly so that Caroline's personal card is not charged.

Painted Buffalo Inn
400 West Broadway
Jackson Hole, WY 83001

Click here for Mapquest Directions from Orem

Rink Information
Snow King Ice Center
400 E. Snow King Ave.
Jackson Hole, Wyoming USA 83001

Click here for Mapquest Directions from Hotel to Rink

Reminder

kevinnostrom | 27 November, 2007 18:30

PRACTICE STARTS 15 MINUTES EARLY 8:15 FOR THE CHALK TALK ON THE ICE AT 9:15 FINISH AT 10:30 ON NOVEMBER 28. YES WE ARE ON THE ICE 1.25 HOURS FOR THIS PRACTICE SEE YOU THERE.

Today's Games

provoblades | 10 November, 2007 21:54

For anyone that wasn't at today's games they were both AWESOME! We lost this morning but it was a great learning game against the Park City Predators. Amber and Jasmine played their very first games ever and both did amazing. I think the final score was 5-1 but Jenny can confirm that when she updates the stats ;)

The evening game was against the Black Diamonds which is always a fun game. We won 5-2 and every single player played their best game ever I think. Again, I'll let Jenny give you the full report and rave about the amazing defenseman who got a hat trick. Hehe.

Just wanted to let everyone know what happened. See you all on Wednesday!

-Jodi

Web Updates

provoblades | 08 November, 2007 16:22

The news and upcoming events pages have been updated. Please check them out.

Congratulations Sarah!

provoblades | 08 November, 2007 01:36

For anyone who missed the big announcement in the locker room today ... Sarah is pregnant!!!!!! Good news for her, bad news for us ;) She is six weeks along and is planning to keep playing for a little while at least. Another Blades Mommy in the making. This is the fun of being on a women's team :)

Jenny's Awesome

jodimoore | 01 November, 2007 21:04

Make sure to check out the game reports that Jenny is writing for the tournament games. They are really cute and funny. She is also going to be keeping the stats updated, so check back soon for those. I think we will see who the resident goon of the team is ... *ahem* Deanna *ahem*

Also, if you have pictures from the tourney, send them my way. So far I have only received stuff from Tiffany. I am hoping to do a bunch of updates on Sunday so try to get them to me by then.

We are the champions!

provoblades | 29 October, 2007 19:11

We took first place in the upper division of the "Stick or Treat" tournament held in Eagle, Colorado last weekend. We played fantastic winning three out of four games. Everyone had a lot of fun and we really developed as a team as we practiced our new systems we have been learning. Jenny will be posting the detailed reports and stats so watch for those over the next few days.

Stats and Game Reports

jennystokes | 14 October, 2007 13:42

Okeydoke, ladies-- the first of the game reports and statistics is up and running. Let me know if you see any glaring errors. I'm going to try and keep everything up to date and correct. Good game Saturday!

Important Information about Wednesday's practice

provoblades | 07 October, 2007 23:21

If you haven't noticed on the calendar, we have a lot of stuff going on this Wednesday at practice. Please show up at 8:15 pm or even a bit earlier if you can. Here are the things that are going on:

1. We will be looking at samples of warm-ups and trying on different sizes to see what we want to order.

2. We will be having chalk-talk from 8:30-9:15. If you haven't been to a chalk talk yet, you are missing out. We are learning great stuff that is really going to help in our games. Please make every effort to attend.

3. We will be voting on captains after practice so be thinking about who on the team would make good leaders. Each player will vote for 3 people and the top 3 will be captains with Kevin having discretion to name the C.

And please please please get your October payments in asap. The late fee will be added Wednesday night after practice.

Fundraising Solution

provoblades | 04 October, 2007 19:33

Teresa and I have been brainstorming and have come up with a good solution for selling the cookie dough. Since everyone seemed concerned with trying to meet the minimum order of 300+ we have decided to go ahead and commit to paying a $150 fee which will remove the minimum order requirement. What this means for the team is that November fees will be $8.00 more per player which will cover that fee. If each player sells (or buys) just TWO tubs of cookie dough they will recoup that $8.00 fee. Then anything they sell over that will be profit towards November's team fees.

Teresa has the brochures and will bring them Saturday so we can start this immediately. All orders will be due at practice on October 24th and cookie dough will arrive approximately 2 weeks after that. We felt that if everyone chipped in $8.00 it would provide a great opportunity for the girls who desperately need/want to find a way to help pay for their hockey. If you choose not to sell any then the $8.00 is kind of a team donation to help other girls on the team be able to play.

We felt like this was fair for everyone and would enable us to sell as little or as much as we want without having to panic about hitting a certain target. If you have any issues with this, please let me or Teresa know. Otherwise we will plan to go ahead with it starting on Saturday.

As a side note, Teresa has worked really hard at finding some good opportunities for us to fundraise this year so when she talks about this on Saturday please be respectful of her and give her your full attention. That will be necessary for us to suceed with this. Thanks everyone. You're the best!

October Team Fees Due on the 10th

provoblades | 04 October, 2007 15:21

I have put up the payment information for October on our team fees page. Please get that in as soon as possible, but the date it will be considered due is October 10th. ($5.00 late charge after that). Any players who haven't paid October will not be able to play in the games.

If you are going to Eagle but didn't sign up as a tournament player, you can pay the fee for Eagle now as well.

If you want to pay all of your fees up front and receive a discount there is an option for that as well.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for being so good about getting payments in. Everyone has been really good about it so far this year and I really appreciate it. It helps us to be able to pay our bills on time and book the right amount of ice for our needs. You guys are the best!

Defensive Zone Coverage

provoblades | 03 October, 2007 13:17

We had a chalk talk after Saturday's practice and we discussed what we are supposed to do in our defensive zone. Each position has three main responsibilities. I have outlined these with some diagrams and descriptions with one page for each position. Please view it and/or print it if possible before practice tonight. I will try to bring a few copies too. Tonight we will be going over how our defensive zone coverage will transition into a break-out. So it is important to have this down. Here is the link to the document. Post a comment if you have any questions.

"Link removed. Will be posted on our site at a later date"

Chalk Talk on Wednesday

provoblades | 01 October, 2007 22:02

We will be having a Chalk Talk before practice this Wednesday. Please make every effort to attend. Our coaches all put in a lot of team and energy to provide us with a good program and we need to make sure to take advantage of this.

In this Chalk Talk we will be learning things that will be necessary for every player to know in games. It will also be covering things that we will be working on in practice that night. It will definitely be worth it to be there.

See everyone on Wednesday!

Team Photo Album

provoblades | 27 September, 2007 12:19

You can now register yourself to access the team photo album site. Once you register and login you can post comments on pictures, and upload your own pictures. Please make sure to keep pictures relevant to Blades activities, tournaments, etc. I've got an approval process set up just so I can make sure I have a bit of control over what gets posted.

The Photo Album can be found at http://www.provoblades.com/photoalbum Let me know if you have any questions.