Testimonials
Is our tournament right for your team? You be the judge...
Following is a collection of testimonials we received following HOCKtoberfest 2008. Our first ever annual event. Next year promises to be even bigger and better!
Hi Mike
Sorry for not responding earlier...as you were busy and so was I. I would like
to say thank you for sending me this email....I greatly appreciated it!!!
By the way FANTASTIC JOB with the website...I can't tell you how many times we
checked the website for people at FGA (on my Palm) for scores and NOT ONCE did
we check and the score NOT been posted...I know that you were a very busy
man!!! Hats off to you!!!!
Have yourself a wonderful day
Debi Curran
General Manager
Southwest Wildcats Junior Hockey Team
Hi Brad and Cathy,
I hope that you have both recovered from the tournament and that you have had a chance to enjoy all the great successes from the weekend.
I just wanted to thank both of you for putting on such a great event. I really had a great time working with Team England and meeting so many of the tournament attendees as a vendor.
Great job with everything and I look forward to being involved again next year.
Thanks again,
Kim
Kim McCullough, MSc, YCS
Director, Total Female Hockey
Phone: (416) 554-0720
Email: kim@totalfemalehockey.com
Web: http://www.totalfemalehockey.com
Hi Brad -
What can I really say, other than an enormous
THANK YOU.
We were treated like royalty by all of your staff and volunteers. Our team had an awesome time.
We most certainly would be interested in coming back for a repeat in the future.
I hope you have time for some well deserved rest after all of the hard work you put into this extrememly well organized event.
On behalf of Keith, myself and all of our players a most sincere thank you to everyone involved. The extra work and detail that was taken to make us feel welcome and a part of the event are appreciated.
Sandy
Team Canada
Hello guys:
Joe Kolet here from The Motor City Machine girls 16U Midget AA team. I just wanted to say thank you for such a great tournament. The arenas were great, the staff and helpers were great, the games were very competitive and run on time. Most of all I would like to commend you on having such great officiating at these games. It was truly a pleasure and I even had the opportunity to have some discussion with a few of the officials after our games. Excellent job on the tournament and definitely mark us down for next year if you plan on having another one. Also I did not know if it was possible or not but if it is, could we possibly get some contact information on the teams that were in our division??? I would like to schedule some more games with some of those teams and offer them the chance if they are in town to come and play on our ice.
Thank you again for such a wonderful time.
Our girls will not forget the England team either, that was a very special evening for all of us that were involved.
Sincerely,
Coach Joe Kolet
Motor City Machine Girls 16U
To all the
organizers of HOCKtoberfest
Thank you
for organizing such an amazing tournament! I can only imagine the
time/effort/challenges involved. We certainly reaped the rewards!
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Chris Thrasher
Manager
Lakeshore Lightning
Midget
Travel Team
HOCKtoberfest Champs
Hi Brad,
I Just wanted to thank you for the tournament! We had such a great time and
really enjoyed it.
Jenna Donnelly
Detroit Three Star Truckers
Hi Brad,
Well I guess you can take a deep breath and put your feet up now that the tourney is over. Being the tourney chair in Hamilton in the past I can say first hand that it is not an easy task to run any tournament. Well my friend you have run one of the best events that our team has ever attended.
Your organization has just raised the bar to a new height for all tourneys to come. If I could sum up the tournament in one word it would have to be "SPECIAL" because that is how our players and staff felt while we were there.
The Hamilton Senior A Hawks take our hats off to you and all of your many volunteers that organized and ran this great event.
In closing please let me say that we will be back next season if we can secure a spot which will not be easy now that the word is out how well run this festival was.
We have said a few words about the tourney on our team website so please pass it on. www.hgha.ca/Rep/SeniorA.htm
Thank you and as always,
Your's in Hockey,
John Kotlan
Hamilton Senior A Hawks
Brad:
Just a short note to thank you for inviting us to the Hoctoberfest Tournament! Our girls and parents had a great time.
I need to ask a small favor.
Could you please fax me our game sheet from the Culver Academy vs. Ohio Flames game on Saturday November 1,2008? I failed to pick it up when I returned the locker room key. I need this so I can finalize our statistics for the weekend.
Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Mike Norton
Assistant Athletic Director/Hockey Coach
Culver
Academy
(574) 842-8286 (office)
(574) 842-8092 (fax)
nortonm@culver.org (e-mail)
Just a quick note thanking you for the great tournament over the weekend as it was very well organized and we enjoyed ourselves immensely.
You and your volunteers need to be proud of the outcome as I heard many positive comments on the tournament. We have been to many previous tournaments but have never been pampered with fruit at the sign in table, lunch after the game and the Saturday evening function at the Holiday Inn Select was a special touch also. The extra events and merchandise tables allowed those interested an alternative. Our ladies commented routinely on the positive attributes of the weekend.
Questions were answered by easily finding officials with their bright orange clothing who then communicated to others over the radios to find the answers.
Hats off to you and your core group who must have worked endlessly to pull this off ( I spoke with Kathy on Saturday evening and she looked exhausted).
please forward my thanks to all those involved
Greg Dallyn
Good Afternoon Brad,
My daughter plays for the Midget SCS Saints coached by Joe Provenzano.
On behalf of myself, my daughter and the Saints, I just wanted to pass on my thanks for the tremendous job that you and the tournament staff did this past weekend. The tournament was one of the best run tournaments that my daughter has ever participated in. The games were on time and well run, the competition was terrific, and the volunteers couldn’t have been more friendly. Gosh, even the officiating was good.
Although the team did not fare as well as they would have liked, a good time was had by all. We will certainly look forward to next year and I will recommend it to whichever team my daughter skates with as she has to move up to intermediate.
Again, thanks to you and all the tournament volunteers.
Best Regards,
Dave Redys
Hi Mike
Every year is a learning year and you can only get better!!! Your idea for next
year would really set this tournament apart from others. I can only wish you
and your board the best of luck!!
As for our team...no complaints...we had a great time and the girls played
awesome. We had a very small issue for the final game but the issue was taken
care of quickly with the aid of Joe and Betty (Brad and Brent too). Had a
fantastic time with the Group at FGA...everyone was wonderful (I even learned
how to do the clock...by the way it a pressure job....lol)
Take a deep breath everyone it is all over....until you start again for next
year!!!
THANKS AGAIN FOR A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!!!
Debi Curran
General Manager
Southwest Wildcats Junior Hockey Team
Brad,
Good morning. We wanted to congratulate you on a great tournament. We had a good time and played some great hockey. I wondered if there was a chance I could get the stats from one of our games. We never got a copy of our game vs St. Clair Shores. If there is a way to get our goals, assists and penalties it would be appreciated. Or if you could either email their coach or give me his contact info, maybe that would be easier for you? Thanks so much and we look forward to seeing you next year!
Stacey Dobbin
Hi Brad
We had a great time at your tournament
Possibly the best run tournament we have ever been to
You had a terrific crew of volunteers
Keep up the good work for next year and thanx for all your efforts
Rick Gore
King Cavalry
Hi Brad,
Just a quick note to let you now that our coaches and parents and daughters thought it was a great tournament - this was the consensus even before we won our division.
Congratulations !
Hope to be back next year - but that will depend on if and where my daughter is playing.
Best Regards,
Allan Shapiro (manager - Belmont Blazers Bantam A)
Brad,
Just wanted to say thanks to you, your committee and volunteers for throwing a great tournament. A lot of nice extras as well as good competition and for the most part played right on time. I noticed on the results website that you had Barrie down as winning the Midget AA division. The correction should be Belle Tire. Thanks again for a job well done on your part.
john
Brad,
Great job by your team, the weekend was very well organized and everyone had a great time!
I will see you next year.
David Carr
Kitchener Lady Rangers
I would also like to take this
opportunity to say that I thought this was an excellent tournament. Everyone
was extremely helpful, and I think the organization of the tournament was
great. I look forward to coming back to play next year.
Thank You
Patrick Jesue
Head Coach
Honeybaked U16
Patrick,
Thank you so much for the pictures – they turned out great and the coaches, parents and players will treasure them! We had a great time at the Hocktoberfest tournament and really appreciate all of the hard work that went into running such a successful tournament. Congratulations on a well run hockey tournament!
Thanks again,
Becky Conlon
Thank you so much for such an amazing time. Our girls had
a wonderful time the entire weekend and we were treated so well by everyone
involved.
Thanks again for such a great experience.
Tracy Parnham
Hi Brad,
I have been meaning to contact you to thank you and all the volunteers who put on a great tournament. Our team had a blast and I plan on promoting your tourny to the rest of our Durham West teams so hopefully they will attend and enjoy the experience like we did this year.
Thanks again, it was a first class event.
Rob Bois
Midget A, Coach
Durham West
Lightning
To Brad and the rest of the board, what have you done, well let me tell you, you have created a tournament that has the potential to be a world beater, I may be wrong but I know of no other tournament that brings together so many female teams in one place at the same time, to run a tournament in numerous venues is a huge task, my friends you not only achieved that you achieved so so much more.
This event will grow, with more teams coming from Europe I have no doubt particular at the 17s and below age groups, there are so few opportunities for the 16 year old girls to play against their peers in Europe this event has to be a must for those nations wanting to improve and grow the female game in their own countries. I cant praise the organisation and passion of the people that ran the event enough you where all outstanding.
As where the management and staff at the Holliday Inn Select that took care of us for the 11 night stay thanks to Kim and her team.
Brad there are too many people to thank from the board to list and I would hate to offend them by missing anyone off the list.
Rest assured that Team England Women and 16's girls will return next year, we all learnt so much not just the players, but the team staff and I as the guy that organised the England end.
For anyone reading this from Europe or anywhere else in the world if you want to take your team to a great female tournament this is the place for you, if anyone is unsure if this event is for them please feel free to email me at geoff.hemmerman@eiha.co.uk and I will happily share our experience with you.
Well done to the whole team and the many volunteers that made it happen.
Kindest Regards
Geoff Hemmerman
EIHA Director
EIHA Womens Chairman
