The Portland Hockey Dad

08-12-2015 Episode 007 of The Portland Hockey Dad Podcast

pdxhockeydad@gmail.com (Jay Birchill) — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:42:00 -0700

Episode 7 of The Portland Hockey Dad Podcast

Checking for Charity: Beef and Beer Charity Auction Tickets Remember to put "Jr Hawks" or "Midget" after the Name of Ticket Purchaser to make sure part of your ticket proceeds go directly to supporting the PJW U16AAA team

PJW Travel Team tryouts have been held, rosters have been posted on the website

Coaches:

Squirt Minor (2006) - Paul Doherty

Squirt Major (2005) - Paul Doherty

Peewee Minor (2004) - Neil Wilkinson

Peewee Major (2003) - Jason McBain

Bantam A (2001/2002) - Dean Rurak

Bantam AA (2001/2002) - Bruce Pritchard

U16AAA (1999/2000) - Scott Brown

Portland Winterhawks Assistant Coach Kyle Gustafson is holding a Jr Prep camp this week at Winterhawks Skate Center in Beaverton, OR.

3 Former Portland Jr Winterhawks will be attending the Portland Winterhawks main camp:

Caleb Dahme (99), 6’3, 205lb D-man. Caleb grew up playing in Portland. He played last year with the West Coast Renegades U16 team. He is currently on the Portland Jr Winterhawks U16AAA roster.
Sammy Willman (00), Sammy was one of the team captains for the U14AA PJW team that won the USA Hockey Tier II 1A National Championship. He had 102 goals in 54 games last year, Including an end to end OT game winner in the Natl Championship game. He was credited with 31 assists, but because of deficient stat enterers that number is incomplete. He had 17 Short Handed Goals, and a Shot Percentage of 32%. He took 948 faceoffs last year and won 56% of them. Sammy was selected to participate at the USA Hockey U15 National Development camp put on in Buffalo NY in July.
Riley Morgan (00), Riley played for the Portland Jr Hawks from Mites through Peewee’s. He left Portland for the Arizona Bobcats to play his Bantam hockey. He made it out of USA Hockey’s Rocky Mountain Region to compete at the USA Hockey U15 National Development camp where he led all goaltenders with a .926 Save Percentage. He allowed 4 goals in 5 appearances, including 3 shut out showings.

The newly created Vancouver Rangers are getting ready to host their first ever main camp. Follow them on... Facebook, and Twitter

Yes Checking for Charity is here twice. No it wasn't an accident, and thanks for reading all the way to the bottom of the show notes!

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07-23-2015 Episode 006 of The Portland Hockey Dad Podcast

pdxhockeydad@gmail.com (Jay Birchill) — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:04:00 -0700

Episode 6 of the Portland Hockey Dad Podcast
Recorded July 23rd, 2015 at SnoKing Ice Arena in Kingsgate Washington.

Follow Quinn's Ultimate Goaltending Camp on Facebook. New pictures are being posted daily.

USA Hockey Youth Tier II 14U 1A National Championships
USA Hockey Tier 2 Championships were held in Salt Lake City UT.

Ridge Meadows Hometown Heroes Spring Tournament
Peewee AA team played in the Peewee Tier 2 bracket. The highest Peewe bracket in the tournament.

John White Memorial Hockey Tournament
The PJW Squirt Minor team travelled to Victoria BC to play in and win the 2015 John White Memorial tournament.

Whistler All-Star Hockey Invitational
The Pacific Northwest Hawks, a new Spring team of predominantly PJW players was put together to compete in the Whistler All-Star Invitational this Summer.
2006: 0-4 with a -39 goal differential
2005: 0-4 with a -44 goal differential
2003: 0-4 with a -29 goal differential
*2004: 0-3 with a -27 goal differential
2002: 0-4 with a -34 goal differential
2000: 0-4 with a -36 goal differential
Avg of -34.8 goal diff
*Couldn't find the results from their 4th game

Coming up
Progressive Goaltending Camp at WSC Aug 3-7.
Put on by Adam Gardner
Adam played for the University of Denver from 2010-2012. He has experience coaching with PJW and he spent this last season working with KHL Sisak over in Croatia

Junior Prep Camp at WSC Aug 10-13
Put on by Kyle Gustafson

San Jose USHL showcase
The U16 team will be travelling to San Jose over Labor Day weekend to compete in the USHL showcase.

Intro Music - Life is a Highway, Tom Cochrane
Outro Music - Can't Stop Us, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

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03-24-2015 Episode 005 of The Portland Hockey Dad Podcast

pdxhockeydad@gmail.com (Jay Birchill) — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:30:00 -0700

Notes from today's podcast:

03-15-2015 PJWU14A vs Vancouver Jr Vipers (2015 Holiday Inn Express Coeur D' Alane, ID)

PJW Peewee AA's Win Ridge Meadows Hometown Hero Hockey Championship

PJW Squirt Minor wins the 2015 John White Memorial Championship

Nationals!
USA Hockey Nationals 14U
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My Hockey Rankings

Camps
Winterhawks Hockey School
Okanagan Hockey Academy Summer Camps
Gold In The Net
Progressive Goalie Camp

Flyers up at Winterhawks Skating Center
Put on by Adam Gardner. Get in touch with him at coach.adamgardner@yahoo.com for more information.

Quinn's Ultimate Goaltending Camp

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03-03-2015 Episode 004 of The Portland Hockey Dad Podcast

pdxhockeydad@gmail.com (Jay Birchill) — Tue, 3 Mar 2015 19:11:00 -0800

This week on the PDX Hockey Dad podcast...
14U Tier II Nationals are coming up. Keep up with them on Twitter @14UNationalsTII

Check out My Hockey Rankings. Great spot to see how good those teams you don't know are.

Contact the show
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02-25-2015 Episode 003 of The Portland Hockey Dad Podcast

pdxhockeydad@gmail.com (Jay Birchill) — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 07:17:00 -0800

It took some time to pull this together. A re-cap of the President's Day Tournaments, a bit about me and the show, and a look ahead into what's coming up in the next couple of months.

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02-15-2015 Episode 002 of The Portland Hockey Dad Podcast

pdxhockeydad@gmail.com (Jay Birchill) — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:52:00 -0800

Episode number two of the podcast covers the round robin results of the 2015 Phoenix Presidents Day Invitational, and a look at the upcoming Semi-Finals. The Vancouver Jr Vipers Bantam team had two games against Kent this weekend, and did you know that the 2015 Portland Presidents Day Cup hockey tournament was happening? We'll check in on the WVHL Selects.

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02-14-2015 Episode 001 of The Portland Hockey Dad Podcast

pdxhockeydad@gmail.com (Jay Birchill) — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:15:00 -0800

After much threatening, and watching others have the guts to put together podcasts and publish them, (I'm looking at you Pucklandia, and you NW Sports Desk!) I've decided to give this a try.

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