November 6, 2009: Hall of Fame goalie, Jacques Plante, once made this comment about being an NHL goalie: "How would you like a job where every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?" November 2, 2009: Boston coach Don Cherry was having difficulty getting his goalie, Gerry Cheevers, to make an effort during team scrimmages. The easy goals he gave up disrupted the scrimmage. Cherry told his team, outside of Cheevers' earshot, that every time a player hit Cheevers' pads, it would be counted as a goal. After a couple of practices, Cheevers came up to Coach Cherry and asked Cherry if he noticed how well Cheevers was playing during scrimmages lately. October 30, 2009: The odds an ice hockey player will be injured while playing ice hockey in a year are 1 in 119.1
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Berkley High School Bears Varsity Hockey Team 2008-2009
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You are at the Berkley Bears Varsity Hockey Website. The Berkley High School Bears Hockey Team will be entering its eleventh season this fall. The website contains links to the hockey schedule, roster, coaches, results, statistics, photos and much more. We will soon be adding a store where you can get your Berkley Bears Hockey gear online! Keep coming back often to check up on the Bears' 2009-2010 high school season. Also, feel free to sign in on our Guestbook. GO BEARS!
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TRYOUTS The annual Berkley High School Hockey Varsity Hockey Team tryouts are upon us. Tryouts will occur on Sunday, November 1, Tuesday November 3, Thursday November 5, and Sunday, November 7. If you intend to play Varsity hockey this season, you must be at these tryouts. The Berkley Varsity Hockey team congratulates their brothers on the Berkley High School Varsity Football team for their great season. GAME & PRACTICE SCHEDULE The Varsity games and practice schedules for the 2009-2010 Season have been posted. Please note that there may be some changes to the practice schedule at the coaches' discretion and some of the games still have times to be announced. Stay tuned for updates to games and practices and other Berkley High School Hockey events as the season unfolds. 2009 GOLF PHOTOS ADDED We have added new 2009 Golf Outing pictures to the photo section of the website. It's never too late to submit your pictures for the inclusion in the Bear's website. Check out the new photos and forward those of your own to Saulius. We'll add them as quickly as we can. Plus, check out four new entries to Ugly Hockey! WEB SITE TRAFFIC DATA In the last year (10/31/08-11/1/09), we have received quite a bit of traffic to our website. According to our embedded stat counter, we have 39,104unique visitors to the website, 20,808were first time visitors with 18,296 returning visitors. We had a total of 57,045 page loads. Please keep this in mind when soliciting donors. Also, I would urge all of you who have pictures from this past season to forward them to Saulius , especially Senior Night pictures, team dinners and game time photos. Thanks to all who visited the Site this past year and provided site content. If you have suggestions on how to improve the site, don't be bashful.
NEW PICTURES POSTED Check out the photos section for the pictures for 2008-2009 Varsity Tryouts, 2008 Dream Cruise, 2008 Golf Outing , 2008-2009 Fundraising and 2009 Team Banquet! If you see a photo you like and you want a print, contact Saulius Mikalonis. Better quality prints are available for a small donation to the Berkley High School Hockey Association. Pricing: 8 x 10 - $8.00; 5 x 7 - $5.00; 4 x 6 $2.00. Postage is extra. If you have photos you'd like to see on the site, please email them to Saulius Mikalonis. TEAM HANDBOOK ON WEBSITE The link on the far right of the banner will now direct you to the BHSHA Team Handbook. A hard copy will be available to all, which will include financial information. However, you can review the Handbook online, too. Much thanks to Bob Michalak who prepared and formatted a great Handbook. ROSTER 1999-2009 We have added a new feature. Please review the Roster 1999-2009 Link above for a listing of all the players who have played for the Berkley Bears Varsity team from its inception. You will note that there is significant information to add to the list, and we urge anyone with knowledge of errors, omissions or additional information to send them to Saulius Mikalonis so that we can make this information as complete and accurate as possible. CHECK OUT PHOTOS AND AWARDS Look for pictures on this site! We still need more photos, so please forward them along. We have also have photos of past Bears' hockey teams. Also, please check out the Awards and Records pages for past accomplishments. The Varsity hockey program is now 11 years old and it has a rich history that deserves to be remembered. SPONSORS ADDED We have added the names and contact information of our sponsors. Some of them also have direct links to their home pages. Please take time out to check out our sponsors. Also, reward their support of Bear Hockey by sending some business their way. LOOKING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS We are looking for photographically inclined volunteers to take pictures at games, practices, team dinners and other team events that we can then use on the website. Please contact Saulius Mikalonis if you have such hidden talents. Also, if you have team pictures already in digital form, email them to Saulius and we will add them to the website. THE GOOD OLD HOCKEY GAME
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