Bobbi just sent these over to me from our game against the Lady Lightning. Thanks Bobbi!
We’ve got some exciting news! First, the 2012 Goal Digger Women’s hockey tournament will be December 7th – 9th next year. Second, we will be hosting the entire tournament out of the Salt Lake City Sports Complex!
Here are some reasons this is going to be so exciting:
- No more driving from one rink to another for your games! In some years that is a death wish coming through the canyon. . .
- SLC has two rinks at the same location so better ice times = no 11:30 pm games
- If you bring more than one team you don’t have to worry about splitting up into two locations, you get to be together
- You don’t have to wait up until all hours of the night Saturday wondering where you are going to be playing in the morning
- More options for food and lodging – and we promise to have information out earlier for 2012!
- You’ll get to watch more of the tournament, often teams in the B and C division never get to watch the A games because they are in SLC – but not for 2012 (and these games are lots of fun to watch!)
- Local teams won’t have to get hotels to stay up in Park City, they can get hotels in SLC, but most will be able to commute.
- Because we’ll only have one rink to run the Ice Vixen will be around even more to answer questions, take more pictures, update scores, and just be around in case you need us!
As you can see we are really excited for the 2012 Goal Digger tournament already. We are starting early and getting ready to make next years’ tournament the best one yet! Also keep in mind SLC is still only ½ hour away from great skiing and other outdoor activities!
Have some extra time off during the holidays?
Come out and get some extra practice (maybe burn off those Christmas goodies!). Here are the Stick n’ Puck and Drop In ice times for both the South Davis Recreation Center in Bountiful and the Ice Sheet in Ogden. (All these times are just the adult times, if you have kiddos that play there are even more times listed on their websites) ***This is as of 12/21/11, if I hear of any changes I update this but it’s always good to call if you want to make sure none of the times changed***
Happy Holidays!
SDRC (Bountiful)
12/21
5:15-7:30 pm Stick & Puck
8:15-9:45 pm Drop In
12/23
9:15-10:45 Drop In
12/24
6:00-7:15 am Stick & Puck
8:45-945 am Stick & Puck
12/26
8:30-9:45 pm Stick & Puck
12/28
6:30-8:00 pm Stick & Puck
8:15-9:45 pm Drop In
12/30
9:15-10:45 pm Drop In
12/31
6:00-7:15 am Stick & Puck
11:00-12:15 am Drop In
4:30-6:00 pm Stick & Puck
Ice Sheet (Ogden)
12/23
10:45-11:45 am Stick & Puck
12/26
3:45-5:00 pm Power Skating – Beginning/Intermediate (need to be able to skate both forwards and backwards comfortable, this is more conditioning than learning how to skate) need to email rink to save a spot as the classes can fill up
12/27
3:30-4:45 pm Stick & Puck
12/28
3:30-4:45 pm Stick & Puck
12/30
10:45-11:45 am Power Skating – Intermediate/Advanced, need to email rink to save a spot as the classes can fill up.
Black Stars beat Freeze in OT to take Gold in the C Division
Posted: December 12, 2011 in UncategorizedCongratulations to the Black Stars on taking first place in the C divisions by beating the Freeze 2-1 in the championship game. This was the last game played in the entire 2011 Goal Digger Tournament and it was a great game to end with. With the Black Stars first place win in this division the Black Stars C team made sure all three Black Stars teams went home with a medal. Their A team took gold, their Ba team took bronze and then of course the C also took gold.
The Black Stars had a great run in the C division with a win in their first game, tie in their second and wins in their third and fourth games. Their defense and goalie showed just how strong they were as they allowed only 3 goals to be scored on them the entire tournament.
The Freeze also had a great run as they had two wins, one tie and then the championship loss in overtime. The game they did tie was also against the Black Stars which shows just how close the teams were matched up. The Freeze goalie also showed just how good she was by allowing only 1 goal through the first 3 games in the tournament by getting shut outs versus the Blades and Twisted Sisters and only allowing 1 goal in the first match-up between these two teams.
We hope everyone travels home safe and hopefully can come out again next year!
Congratulations to the Five Stars from Ketchum, Idaho for taking home the gold in the Bb division by beating the Park City Predators 2-1! The Five Stars were the only team in the Bb division to go home without a loss this weekend. They tied their first game of the tournament 0-0 and then finished strong by winning their next three. After being shut out in their first game they went on to score 16 goals in their next three games!
The Predators also played great this weekend suffering their only loss in the Bb Championship game to the Five Stars. Their goalie proved she was top-notch by allowing only 1 goal in their first 3 games combined and a total of only 3 goals for the whole tournament.
Great job to both of you and we can’t wait to see you again next year!
Congrats to the Riveters from Boise, Idaho for taking home the gold in the Ba division by beating the Hellcats from Colorado in a shoot out 2-1. The Riveters were the only team in the Ba division to play all four of their games this weekend without a loss. They won their first game, tied the next two and were able to pull out one more win to finish out the weekend. The Hellcats and Riveters actually played the last Ba night game Saturday and it ended it a tie so we know they just wanted to come out today to finish it!
We really enjoyed being able to separate the B division into Ba and Bb. The Ba division was the best balanced too. Aside from the first game where the Riveters beat the Diamonds 5-1, all the other games in this division were decided by 2 goals or less.
See you next year ladies!
Black Stars edge out Thunder for 1st place in the A division.
Posted: December 11, 2011 in UncategorizedCongrats to the Lady Black Stars who were able to beat the Thunder 5-4 after a sudden death shoot out. It was a hard fought and close game and it looked like the Black Stars were going to win in regulation when A. Dunn of the Black Stars scored with 3:27 left on the clock. But the Thunder wouldn’t give and M. Marietti was able to tie the game up with just 35 seconds left. They played a 5 minute overtime period but the score was still tied so the game went into penalty shots. The Black Stars were able to get the win but there were some great shots and some great saves made by the goalies B. Limb (Black Stars) and K. Macbean (Thunder).
Hopefully lots of people got to see the A division play because the games were very good and just a lot of fun to watch. I know some of us Vixen that were able to see some of the games were talking about how fast and good the games were. Hopefully we’ll see all 3 of these teams back next year (along with a 4th A team)!
