BTHL Survey - Return #17

Received: March 20, 2000 12:03pm

1. Your Position: Other
2. Your Association/Team: Dayton Gems
3. If representing a team,
   1. Your classification: PeeWee
   2. Your level: AA
4. Overall, how would you rate your experience with the BTHL? Good
5. How would you rate the overall competition within the division during regular season play? Fair (Many uncompetive games)
   • Additional comments:
6. For the 1999 - 00 season, the BTHL further refined the rule limiting the number of 2nd year players on an "A" team to six (6). A team with more than six 2nd year players is classified as "AA".
   1. Do you agree with the rule? Yes
   2. What are your suggestions for refining the rule?
7. Overall, how would you rate the Scheduling, when games scheduled, length of season, etc? No opinion
   1. Did you attend the September 18, 1999 Scheduling Meeting in Dayton? No
   2. When are your team tryouts/selections held? April
   3. If there were a perfect date for the Scheduling Meeting, when would it be? No response
   4. Other comments on Scheduling
8. How would you rate the end of season Tournament? Good
   1. How would you rate the fees? Average
   2. Last years' tournament was all held in the greater Cincinnati area. This year the tournament was split between Dayton, Cincinnnati and Columbus. Do you... like the tournament in one area
   3. The tournament is sponsored and run by the BTHL board with help from the local organizations. It's held on a 'break-even' basis and is not intended to be a money maker for the league. Any profits are applied to next years' tournament to help keep costs to teams down. Do you have any suggestions on how to better the tournament?
   4. Plans for the Tournament were discussed at the September Scheduling Meeting and were discussed at subsequent BTHL Board meetings. Updates were posted on the BTHL WEB page and a mailing was sent out to all teams in early February with rink sites, fees, etc.
      1. Did you check the WEB page for tournament updates? Yes
      2. Did you receive the 1/27/00 letter and brackets? Don't know
   5. Other comments on the tournament
9. Have you visited the league Home page on the Internet? Yes
   1. If yes, how would you rate it? Excellent
   2. What could be improved?

      Rosters do not work using Netscape browser. I'm told they work fine with Internet Explorer.

   3. Other comments
10. During the season did you receive the BTHL mailings? No
    1. Have you read/seen the BTHL minutes? Yes
    2. If yes, are the minutes helpful in learning what's going on with BTHL? Yes
    3. This season the Minutes were posted on the WEB page. Did you read them from there? Yes
    4. Do you know who your BTHL Representative is? Yes
11. Have you seen/read the BTHL Rules & Regulations? Yes
12. Did you attend the June 1999 Mid Am Hockey Meetings in Columbus, OH? No
    • Do you plan to attend the June 24-25, 2000 Mid Am Meetings? No
13. The BTHL Meeting Minutes have been posted to the WEB page and sent to member organizations via e-mail, as well as sent through the mail. Which method would you prefer receiving BTHL information? Other
    • If other, please specify Posted on Web as currently done
14. The BTHL is run solely with volunteers from member organizations. In some cases, board members don't have players in the league. Do you have any suggestions on how the BTHL can better identify volunteers for board positions and committees?

    Give better advance information about time commitments required. Lacking this info, people are reluctant to volunteer for fear it may be more than it actually is.

15. Most board positions are open for the 2000-2001 season. Starting with the new season, the board positions will be filled via a rotating list of member organizations. However, we will gladly accept volunteers to hold one of the board positions. Would you like a board member to contact you for one of the following positions? (include phone number) No answer
    • Phone No response
16. Any other general comments

    Two concerns about league games: - Many teams did not purchase enough ice time. One game in Toledo was called due to curfew with over 5 minutes remaining on the game clock. The referees did nothing to speed play, accepted time-outs, or did not hurry time between periods. This was made worse by the concern below. The second game in Toledo was only right because the Toledo coach, to his credit, told the Zamboni driver to let the game finish since it was only a one goal lead. It is not right for us to pay for 75 minutes of ice at home, but when we go on the road only get 60 minutes (minus 10-15 minutes for ice cut) - Several teams (Toledo, Indy Racers in particular) shake hands before the game, in violation of BTHL rules. The refs were advised in advance, but when the other team lines up, it is hard (and looks like we are the poor sports) to just send out the starting five. This rule needs to be enforced. If teams cannot shake hands in a true sporting fashion after a fierce game, then the players and coaches and players should not be involved with this sport. The delay caused by us not anticipating a before game line-up made the only 60 minutes of ice problem worse. In Toledo, the game actually started almost 25 minutes into the 60 minutes allotted.

17. Your Name/Address/Phone/Email (optional)

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