Table Hockey Heaven

[ReggieJ44]

The Alberta Stiga Table Hockey Championships V will take place at Centre Stage (The Bay) in West Edmonton Mall on Saturday, February 6, 2010.

We will begin at 9:30 am. One or two initial rounds will be played for a total of around 28-30 pre-playoff games. Playoffs all best-of-sevens in all Pools. This a Player's Choice tournament. As in ETHL tournaments in the past, schedules are set up so that there are minimum figure changes between games (one overall change per round robin) and scores are kept by each player on his scoresheet, so you'll get the maximum amount of games in a minimum of time!

Tentative schedule:
9:30 - 12:30 First round robin
12:30 - 1:15 Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 Second round robin
2:30 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 7:00 Playoffs and award ceremony

Entry fee is $15 and participation is open to anyone - Albertan or not. There will be 3 (or 4) pools, with trophies for the top 3 finishers of each division. Last year, we had 27 participants.

This is a player's choice tournament. NHL players may use Inter goalies. All player figures (NHL and Inter) will be supplied, but you may bring your own teams, if you wish, to use only in the Playoffs. The ETHL timer and face-off rule will be used. All games are cleaned with diluted Original Windex, have Suplaks, Lyle Knittig net deflectors, pledged rods, oiled slots and 'Tack it Over' on the rod pegs. This tournament is not part of the CTHA/USTHA North American Stiga Tour.

The Oilers are not playing that weekend, but do host the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday, February 3.

For more information and to register, please contact Reggie Stefaniszyn at reggiej44@hotmail.com

Reggie Stefaniszyn ETHL

[nedved_93]

some pictures...

pre-tournament:
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tournament:
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Dwayne - ETHL

[ReggieJ44]

Thanks, Dwayne. I'll post the results tomorrow evening.

Reggie Stefaniszyn ETHL

[ReggieJ44]

Here are the results for the Alberta Stiga Table Hockey Championships played last Saturday on Centre Stage in West Edmonton Mall. Thanks again to all the participants and special thanks to Will Wong for sound system setup/stats and Kevin Giacobbo, Bill Rothery for their help in game setup.


First Round (ETHL #5)
Name W L OTL Pts.
1) Reggie Stefaniszyn 13 0 1 27
2) Dwayne Pankiw 11 3 0 22
3) Ryan Sandhu 11 3 0 22
4) Thomas Hunter 10 3 1 21
5) Mike Moore 9 5 0 18
6) Rick Socha 8 4 2 18
7) Kevin Giacobbo 8 5 1 17
8] Will Wong 8 6 0 16
9) Wade Hopfe 7 6 1 15
10) Jonathan Law 6 6 2 14
11) Matt Alden 6 7 1 13
12) Wesley Miller 5 9 0 10
13) Ken King 2 9 3 7
14) Bill Rothery 1 13 0 2
15) Joaquin Kenyon 0 14 0 0

Second Round
Name W L T Pts.
1) Reggie Stefaniszyn 11 1 0 22
2) Kent Richter 10 2 0 20
3) Kevin Giacobbo 7 2 3 17
4) Dwayne Pankiw 6 1 5 17
5) Will Wong 6 3 3 15
6) Thomas Hunter 5 5 2 12
7) Jonathan Law 5 6 1 11
8] Wesley Miller 4 5 3 11
9) Matt Alden 5 7 0 10
10) Wade Hopfe 4 6 2 10
11) Ken King 4 7 1 9
12) Bill Rothery 1 11 0 2
13) Joaquin Kenyon 0 12 0 0

Playoffs
Players 4 through 13 played a best-of-5. Winners advanced to the Quarter Finals, losers dropped to the C Pool.

4) Dwayne Pankiw defeated 13) Joaquin Kenyon 3 games to 0
5) Will Wong defeated 12) Bill Rothery 3 to 0
6) Thomas Hunter defeated 11) Ken King 3 to 2 (coming back from a 1-2 deficit)
7) Jonathan Law defeated 10) Wade Hopfe 3 to 2 (coming back from a 0-2 deficit; 2 OT)
9) Matt Alden upset 8] Wesley Miller 3 to 1

C Pool Playoffs
Elimination Playoff - Best-of-7
12) Bill Rothery defeated 13) Joaquin Kenyon 4 games to 1

C Pool Semi-Finals - Best-of-7
8] Wesley Miller defeated 12) Bill Rothery 4 to 0
10) Wade Hopfe defeated 11) Ken King 4 to 2 (3 OT)

C Pool Third Place Final - Best-of-5
11) Ken King defeated 12) Bill Rothery 3 to 0

C Pool Final - Best-of-7
10) Wade Hopfe upset 8] Wesley Miller 4 to 3 (coming back from a 1-3 deficit; 1 OT)

Congratulations to Wade Hopfe for winning the C Pool Championship!

Quarter Finals - Best-of-7s
Players were reseeded 1 to 8. Winners advanced to the A Pool, losers dropped to the B Pool.

1) Reggie Stefaniszyn defeated 9) Matt Alden 4 to 1
2) Kent Richter defeated 7) Jonathan Law 4 to 1
6) Thomas Hunter upset 3) Kevin Giacobbo 4 to 1 (1 OT)
5) Will Wong upset 4) Dwayne Pankiw 4 to 3

B Pool Playoffs

B Pool Semi-Finals - Best-of-7s
3) Kevin Giacobbo defeated 9) Matt Alden 4 to 1
7) Jonathan Law upset 4) Dwayne Pankiw 4 to 3 (Series began 3-0 Jonathan)

B Pool Third Place Final - Best-of-5
4) Dwayne Pankiw defeated 9) Matt Alden 3 to 1 (2 OT)

B Pool Final - Best-of-7
7) Jonathan Law upset 3) Kevin Giacobbo 4 to 3 (coming back from 1-3, Gm 7 OT)

Congratulations to Jonathan Law for winning the B Pool Championship!

A Pool Playoffs

A Pool Semi-Finals - Best-of-7s
1) Reggie Stefaniszyn defeated 6) Thomas Hunter 4 to 0
2) Kent Richter defeated 5) Will Wong 4 to 1

A Pool Third Place Final - Best-of-5
5) Will Wong defeated 6) Thomas Hunter 3 to 2 (coming back from a 1-2 deficit; 1 OT)

A Pool Final - Best-of-7
1) Reggie Stefaniszyn defeated 2) Kent Richter 4 to 0
Scores: 6-0, 4-3 OT, 2-1, 3-2

Reggie Stefaniszyn ETHL

[Cowboy]

Congratulations yet again Reggie!!!

Cheers, Warren

[Paul]

Congratulations Reggie!!! And to everyone else I bet you all had a great time.

-Paul

[Harvey]

Congrats Reggie ...and to the other pool winners Jonathan and Wade!!


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The only Victoria BC born player on the planet!

[Cowboy]

[ReggieJ44]

Thanks, guys!
It was a good news-bad news day.
Bad news: We only had 13 participants - our lowest total since our first Alberta Championships in 2006 when we had 12 players. Unfortunately, none of the Calgary players could make it.
Plus, not everyone wants to commit a whole day to playing table hockey. In the past (for the Centennial tournament) I have thought of having a smaller 2-3 hour secondary tournament for guys who don't want to spend the whole day. I am just afraid that the smaller tournament would detract from the main event - we might end up having 20 players for the smaller event and 15 players for the day-long tourney. On the other hand, the total number of players would look good to the media! Do you guys have any thoughts?? I have explained to some of the players that the major tournaments are set up to be day-long events and that there is a reason why the ITHF awards double or triple tournament points to these events.

Good news: Wade Hopfe and Joaquin Kenyon joined the league and we are now up to 30 paid members for the season - our 3rd consecutive season with 30 or more paid members. We usually pick up a couple of players after the February tournament and this year we have had a few enquiries.
In the past year, I have also found out that 2 elementary schools have Stiga leagues in Edmonton. One school was destroyed by fire, but I contacted the other school and offered to set up a 2-3 hour junior tournament at the next Centennial. The person I spoke to thought that around 20 kids would be interested in playing.
Also, Bill Rothery of our league is involved with Boy Scouts and wants to set up a Stiga night there.

Reggie Stefaniszyn ETHL

[ICECHEXX]

That is good news, Reg. Don't be afraid to experiment or try new ways to do things. Sometimes the efforts amount to nothing, but sometimes a person hits on something that works that we could all learn from.
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John Medema
TTTHC & LTHL

[Mackenzie]

Reggie;

Not any hard data or anything, but I knew a few buddies in the Ottawa region that would have played a half day. The main reason was family. They could not afford to invest an entire day to TH.

john
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Bill L.T.K. Mackenzie
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