The Calm Before The Storm

Hi all

We're now in the midst of a lull, between the Wonderland tournament and the Co-op Cup and before the season actually starts. Coach Joe welcomes this break as the team can practice and work on systems.

I've had some time to update the blog page content and appearance. These changes include:

- Strathroy photos * Photos *

- Links for the upcoming tournament Co-op Cup

- A viewer poll (bottom of the page)

I will continue to tinker with the site until I get a layout that I am satisfied with.

Bye for now,

Ken

First Blog Entry

Hi all. Welcome to the first official post to my minor hockey web blog. This is my first attempt at blogging and I'm sure that things will run smoother and have a more professional look as the season goes on and as I gain more experience with this blogging concept.

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The Mission of the Guelph Junior Storm Hockey Blog
This blog is meant to be a vehicle for sharing information of a positive nature, principally photographs. I hope to involve a variety of people as contributors. Anybody interested in contributing should contact me. All posts will be edited. I remain determined not to let this blog become a vehicle for discussing controversial issues or for second guessing the coaching staff. Please bring it to my attention if I start to stray from these ideals.

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Strong Showing in Wonderland
Competing under the name Guelph Pro Hockey, the core group that will make up this year's Major PeeWee AAA team competed in the CCHA Wonderland Tune Up tornament (http://www.cchasports.com/asp/results.asp). This year's team features a number of new additions and a new coaching staff. A warm welcome to all!
The team competed hard and fared well. Guelph went 3 and 0 in the qualifying round defeating the Mississauga Rebels (6th in the GTHL last year!) in the process.
Sunday morning, the Rebels rebounded, defeating Guelph 3 to 1 in a closely contested match. The Rebels then went on to defeat the Toronto Rifles (Markham Majors), another strong GTHL team, 5 to 1 in the final and to win the tournament (final results - http://www.cchasports.com/2007PCWResults-final.htm ). There is a good chance we will see these teams again as the year progresses.
As things transpired, I was not required on the bench and able to take a number of photographs.
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Photos from Wonderland
For those interested, these can be viewed at the link - http://photobug-guelph.smugmug.com/gallery/3344076 The photo gallery should play as a slideshow. Comments are welcomed. As the season unfolds, I will try to include shots of all players.
Congratulations to the team for the strong showing! We are looking forward to the upcoming season.

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London Games (Aug 25th)
Directions - http://www.arenamaps.com/view_arena_g.php?id=2369&position=0&sport=0&arena_name=&city=strathroy&state=ON&zip=&country=

Schedule:

12:00-1:00pm Guelph vs Elgin Middlesex (Gemini Green)

1:30 -2:30pm Little Caesars vs Guleph (Gemini Blue)

2:30 - 3:30pm Elgin Middlesex vs Little Caesars (Gemini Blue)
Ken