Surrey Minor Hockey Association organizes players from the ages 4 - 20 to play hockey for the sport of it. The association draws its players from an area that encompasses the north west part of the City of Surrey in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. Our home games are primarily played at the North Surrey Recreation Centre and Newton Recreation Centre.

Coach Clinic post tasks' deadline is fast approaching

Please be advised that the Hybrid and Developmental 1 coaching clinic post tasks deadline is March 31st.

If you have attended the Hybrid coaching clinic, the post task signing sheet needs to be completed and signed by myself and faxed to BC Hockey branch.

Signing of Hybrid post task will be done February 29th from 730pm-9pm at Excellent Ice.

If you have attended the Developmental 1 clinic the post task is to be mailed to BC Hockey branch. Please photocopy and keep one copy for your records.

Yours in hockey
Craig Sherbaty

Rep Coach Applications

Please be advised that Surrey Minor is currently accepting applications for our Rep Coach positions for the 2012-2013 season.

The completed application can be sent to our Coach Coordinator.

Email is suggested, but mail is still an option.

P.O. Box 171
Surrey, B.C.
Canada
V3T 4W8

Deadline for applications is March 31, 2012.

Exclusive Summer Camps coming for Surrey Minor players

Coming this summer, Surrey Minor will be running our "Summer Sizzler" pre-season primer, this will be available exclusively to Surrey Minor Players.

More Details to follow.

Executive Changes

The SMHA Executive would like to announce that at our last executive meeting held February 1, 2012, Brett Martel made a motion to the executive for a vote on re-appointing Jamie Allen as president.

The motion was passed. Brett communicated that with the number of new executive members elected, who will take office at the upcoming AGM, he felt it in the best interest of the association to have Jamie re-appointed to the position.

Although Jamie has been working with Brett over the last several months in the position he has held for less than a year, with the number of new executive members that do not have experience with SMHA's administrative processes and with the short time Brett has been in the position, and after careful consideration and conversations with Jamie, it was decided that they would bring the motion to vote by the rest of the executive.

Jamie and Brett will continue to work closely together and look forward to working with the returning and new executive members of this great association. You can reach either Jamie or Brett by email at president@surreyminor.com address, and can continue working with either of them.

Scholarship Application

The deadline this year for our Association’s scholarships are April 1st, 2012. PCAHA’s deadline is March 30, 2012 and BC Hockey’s is April 30,2012.

Don't miss your opportunity to earn some additional funds towards your schooling. You can find our application on our Forms and Documents page or via the following link http://www.surreyminorhockey.com/pdf/ScholarshipApplication.pdf

Tax Receipts

All returning players are able to print out their own tax receipts directly from Hockey Canada Registration site.

https://registration.hockeycanada.ca/registration/AccountLogin.aspx?id=61

New players this season (2011/12) were emailed receipts from Hockey Canada upon registration.

If you have any problems or questions please email the registrar.

Body Checking vs Body Contact

Evening Surrey MHA membership,

I would like to thank those that took the time to submit their opinion in our Body Checking vs Body Contact survey that was running on our website.

The results we received were favoring to keep "Body Checking" over Body Contact in all C divisions, as well as Pee Wee A, and we went ahead to voice our memberships view accordingly. As you have likely heard, on Sunday Jan 22 there was a PCAHA Extraordinary General Meeting in which a vote took place that would decide what would happen in the 2012-2013 season.

At the completion of the meeting, it was decided that all C divisions (to include PeeWee, Bantam & Midget), as well PeeWee A would all revert to Body Contact upon completion of this season.

A news release from PCAHA has come out, explaining their view on the decision.

PCAHA News Release - C Hockey Body checking Decision

Brett Martel
SMHA President
president@surreyminorhockey.com

Website Issues?

If you ever experience any issues with the website, please don't hesitate contacting webmaster@surreyminorhockey.com so we're aware and can work to rectify asap.

Surrey Minor Hockey Association thanks the Province of British Columbia for the financial assistance they receive through gaming funds.