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Did you know that the first female player to play in the NHL was Manon Rheaume?
Did you know that the very first professional game she played was for the Atlanta Knights on December 13, 1992?
Did you know that the team she played against was none other than our Salt Lake Golden Eagles?
Learn more about the heritage and history of the Salt Lake Golden Eagles by visiting this great website put together by Tex Leibmann.
by Scott Schulte 21.AUG.07 – Original Publication – Davis County Clipper
DAVIS COUNTY — Twelve-year-old Kade Servass of Farmington spent this summer doing something a little different. While other kids were learning to swim and going to Scout Camp, which this young man may have also done, Servass was learning how to play hockey. “I’ve been wanting to do this for two years and I learned this summer,” he said. “It’s a great sport because it’s sort of rough and tumble and it’s real nice to play in the summer because it’s cool inside the rink.”
The rink at the South Davis Recreation Center is the home ice for the Davis County Youth Hockey Association and houses one of the few official Olympic-sized playing surfaces in the area.
“With a rink like this there’s a little more room for playing,” said Dave Soutter, the coaching director for DCYHA (www.dcyha.org). “During these summer months we offer Learn to Play Programs. They are designed to teach young people the fundamentals of hockey like skating, stick handling, and passing and shooting.
“It helps them become comfortable with the sport so when we have our in-house and travel teams put together this fall these guys will already have a good foundation to work with.”
Sign-ups for youth hockey is Sept. 5 at the Rec Center.
Soutter’s son, Alex, 10, has been playing hockey since he was 6 years old.
“My favorite part is that I get to spend time with my friends,” Alex said.
It’s this idea of building friendships and learning life skills that is the fire and foremost goal of the DCYHA. “We want these kids to come out here and learn how to play hockey,” Dave Soutter said.
“Our first objective is that they are having a good time. We have our in-house teams and travel teams and we are all competitive people and we play to win, but there’s much more to playing hockey than just winning.”
Soutter went on and explained that the coaches in the program, although very skilled and great teachers of the game, also understand that the boys should come away from this experience with life skills.
“We want these kids to learn about teamwork and what it takes to get up when they get knocked down,” he said. “Knowing how to pass a puck isn’t going to necessarily help them in the work place in 10 or 15 years, but the overall experience of having played hockey will help them in their adult lives.”
Okay, you need a sheet of ice, a puck, something for a goal, a stick, and hopefully some skates.
I am amazed (and a little depressed) about how complicated we like to make things. I recently bought my son another pair of new skates because his feet keep growing. I couldn’t believe how many different skates are on the market. Compared to my first pair of skates, there was more technology in my son’s new skates than existed on the first manned space rocket.
I currently sit on two hockey related board of directors…not one, but two.
The Board for Davis County Youth Hockey Association is concerned about developing new players, and whether we have enough coaches and players to roster both a house and a travel team at each division. (And how to appease a few very vocal parents no matter which decision we have to make.)
I just got back from another board meeting tonight for the Wasatch Ice Hockey Officials Association where we dug into details about scheduling tools, fees, and late balances from uncooperative programs.
Is it just human nature to complicate things or has the litigious nature of our society forced us to become hyper-sensitive to incorporating, meeting minutes, insurance, lawsuits, injuries, fines, etc. that we are driven towards an increasingly complicated system?
And if there are a variety of systems pushing us towards a helpless state of unnecessary complication, what can be done about trying to simplify the game and just let fun be enough?
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