MITE RED 2014/2015

Coaching Staff:

  • Dan McCluskey (Head Coach)
  • Ryan Murphy (On-Ice Assistant Coach)
  • Tim Wise (On-Ice Assistant Coach)
  • Julie Moody(Team Manager)

Mite RedTeam Website:

Season Plan & Philosophy

  • Encourage players to have FUN, develop hockey skills, develop team type mentality, develop solid work ethic, develop friendships and learn to win or lose respectfully.
  • Teach basic hockey skills, while introducingnew skills.
  • Provide players and coaches with practice plans that emphasize hard and soft skill development:

Hard skills emphasizewill be: / Soft skills emphasize will be:
-Skating / -Have FUN
-Passing / -Effort
-Shooting / -Attitude
-Stick Control / -Respect
-Puck Control / -Team Play
-Positioning* / -Listening

*Players will play all positions, rotation through the season

  • To Stress the importance of what part of the game the players have control over: Their EFFORT and their ATTITUDE
  • To Emphasize a TEAMFIRST mentality– Work hard for your teammates
  • Game philosophy – It’s NOT about winning and losing. Players will be instructed/expected to focus on their effort, attitude and playing as a team
  • Coaches will provide consistent feedback to players during/after practice or games
  • Family, school, church, and health come before hockey
  • Open to feedback and highly encouraged

Positions

  • All players will have an opportunity to play all positions, as we will be breaking them up into forwards and defense for 4-6 weeks at a time to lean the positions. We should be able to make three switches through the season.
  • We will need to rotate at goalie position, unless we have a full-time goalie

Season Format

  • Practice - Station style practice /small area games/inner-squad scrimmages
  • Shared Ice with Other teams
  • 39 Indoor Sessions
  • Outdoor twice a week December-February/Middle of March
  • Games
  • Up to 15 district Scrimmages League Games (Half-ice up to December 31 then can be full ice)
  • Jamborees (up to three)
  • Dryland
  • 10 Sessions (The Pond)

Additional Funds

  • We will be asking for additional funds (MAX is $150) for one or two other Jamboree’s later on in the season.

Attendance Policy

  • Players should be ready to go on the ice (Full gear on) 10minutes before our scheduledPRACTICE time.
  • Players should be ready to go on the ice (Full gear on) 20minutes before our scheduled Game time.
  • Please contact one of the one of the Coaching staff if your son is unable to attend a game or practice. (e-mail, call or text)

Bench Policy

  • Parents are not allowed to enter or stand by the bench at anytime unless given permission by the coaches.

Player & Parent Conduct

  • All players will respect other team members, coaches, parents, referees and opposing teams on and off the ice.
  • All players are expected to come to practices/games prepared to listen/pay attention and participate. If players are not listening/paying attention, not participating or making distractions (i.e. pushing, tripping, kicking, checking, shooting pucks, skating on their own, not listening, etc…):
  • First Incident: Player will be given a verbal warning
  • Second Incident: Player will be asked to sit on the bench for two-minutes
  • Third Incident: Player will be asked to sit for five-minutes
  • Fourth Incident: Player will be asked to leave the ice and there will be a parent, player and coach meeting right after practice/game.
  • Players are expected to respect coaches, teammates, referees and opposing teams
  • Parents are expected to respect coaches, players, referees and opposing teams.
  • Parents are expected to provide their player with positive/supportive feedback
  • If any issues arise, please contact Dan McCluskeyas soon as possible. Dan will be available after practices/games, e-mail and phone.

Cancelled Practice/Scrimmages:

  • If School has been cancelled for District 196 there will be no practice/scrimmage that day/night
  • If after school activities have been cancelled for District 196 there will be no practice/scrimmage that day/night
  • If the Coaches decide to cancel you will receive an email by 5:00pm on that day
  • Any cancellation will be updated on the Mite Red Team Website page

Appendix A:Contact Information

Dan McCluskey: (Head Coach)

E-mail:

Phone: 612-597-1191

Ryan Murphy: (On-Ice Assistant Coach)

E-mail:

Phone: 651-324-3644

Tim Wise: (On-Ice Assistant Coach)

E-mail:

Phone: 952-484-5872

Julie Moody: (Team Manager)

E-mail:

Phone: 651-285-1829

Appendix B:Fund Raising

KWIK TRIP CARDS:

Money off hockey for driving your car? YES!!! Receive an $8 ice credit on EVERY $100 Gas Card purchased through the RAHA website. Use your card at the pump or in the store for Gas or goods. Use gas coupons along with your card to save even MORE! We are running this program 24/7/365, so buy cards all year round to maximize your ice credits. Visit our KWIK TRIP PAGE for more details and how to order.

NITTI SANITATION:

RAHA has teamed up with Nitti Sanitation to bring you this optional fundraiser.Earn an $80 ice bill credit when you switch over to Nitti.They offer thebest prices in town and you will be supporting a hometown business who has kidsin our association.

WORLDS FINEST CHOCOLATES:

RAHA has teamed up with Worlds Finest Chocolate to bring you this optional fundraiser.Earn a $30 ice bill credit on every box of chocolate bars you purchase. You then can sell the bars to friends, family, neighbors or at your office.

-Cost of each box is $60 (60 bars per box) + $1 Shipping

-Net benefit to RAHA Family 50% or $30 per box(ice bill credit)

-Payment and delivery will go through the Pull-Tab Booth at Carbones

-All bars have a Carbone’s coupon on back good for $2 off a large two topping pizza

CHOICE LOYALTY:

Earn money for RAHA and yourself while supporting many of our local merchants like Carbone’s, Rosemount Liquor,Las Tortillas, and many more. Stop into Carbone’s or Rosemount Liquor and ask for a RAHA Choice Loyalty card and you can immediately start earning your rewards (3% Rosemount Liquor, 5% at Carbone’s) RAHA will benefit by receiving half of the reward and the other half goes directly back onto your card for future purchases. If you visit any of the Choice Loyalty merchants and you don’t have a card, you are missing out.

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