Christmas Tournament 2007

2007 Confederation Christmas Tournament
Thank-You's
We would like to thank everyone involved with the 2007 Confederation Christmas Tournament. This includes all of the coaches, managers, referees, volunteers, parents, spectators, and most importantly, the players. We had 244 teams registered this year, with approximately 3,800 players, playing 518 games in 4 days at 12 different city arenas. If you would like to see the tournament results, please click HERE.

This year marked a significant milestone in the history of this event as it was the 25th anniversary. The tournament began way back in 1982, and has run continuously ever since. There were coaches who brought teams to this years event who actually participated in the tournament in its early years.

This years tournament would not have been possible without some very important volunteers who helped us out in some key areas. In particular, we would like to thank the following people for their contributions:

  • Anne Mazer, for all her phoning and following up with teams and individuals, her help in organizing everything related to the tournament, and her amazing ability to keep everything running smoothly at the director's home while he was absolutely preoccupied during the months leading up to the tournament,
  • Rob and Dawn Knowles, for coordinating the volunteer schedules and for ALL the big and little things that they did to help make sure this tournament was a success. Rob (who was the Tournament Director last year) also served as this year's Assistant Director for the tournament,
  • Brett Purdy, Clayton and Sandra Crawford, Gerald McCabe, Kelly Scott, Rob Knowles, and Tom Sharp for all their help in planning the tournament,
  • Doug MacDonald, Ellen MacDonald, Glen Thompson, Greg Idell, Jim Wickware, Lori Gillespie, Rick and Laurie Krupa, Rob Babik, Ron Boehm, Sandra Crawford, and Tom Sharp for acting as rink managers,
  • Brett Purdy and his family (and friends), for preparing the referee envelopes,
  • Dennis Gregorski, for grouping the teams and preparing the game schedules,
  • Doug Buhler for handling the tournament discipline,
  • Gary Greenough, for scheduling the referees,
  • Gerald McCabe, for assisting and supporting us in so many areas, including procurement organization of medals, t-shirts and toques, and even helping in packing team boxes,
  • Kelly Scott, for helping to coordinate the raffle,
  • Kevin Lawlor, for coordinating and updating the registration of all 244 teams,
  • Neil Fink, for preparing the referee label information,
  • Tom Sharp, for getting the silent auction prizes.

We believe the tournament was a huge success, with great fun had by all participating and watching the event. If you have any questions or comments regarding the tournament, please click HERE. Have a great finish to your hockey seasons, and we hope to see you all back next year for the 26th annual Confederation Hockey Christmas Tournament!


Steve Mazer, Christmas Tournament Director
Rob Knowles, Assistant Christmas Tournament Director

 

Christmas Tournament Raffle Winners:

Prize Package 1: Build Your Own Vacation with $3000 in WestJet Travel Vouchers
Winner: Allan Henderson of Edmonton Alberta

Prize Package 2: South Edmonton Restaurant Tour - Twelve $100 gift certificates to a variety of fine South Edmonton eating establishments
Winner: Mia Moreau of Edmonton, Alberta

Prize Package 3: One of two Nintendo Super Prize Packages. Each package contains: 1 Nintendo Wii with Wii Sports and Wii Controller, Nintendo Wii Play game with bonus Wii Controller, Super Mario Galaxy game, Nintendo Wii Nunchuk Controller, 1 Nintendo DS, and the New Super Mario Bros. game for Nintendo DS.
Winner 1: Louise Finlaison of Edmonton, Alberta
Winner 2: Tonda Conrog of Edmonton, Alberta

Prize Package 4: iPod Touch (8 GB model) with $50 iTunes gift card.
Winner: Rob Feagan of St. Albert, Alberta

Prize Package 5: iPod Nano (4 GB model) with $50 iTunes gift card.
Winner: Beth Pauluk of Edmonton, Alberta

 

Silent Auction High Bidders:

Ales Hemsky Print: Sandy Tarnowski
Jarret Stoll Print: Ian Stanley
Mats Sundin Print: Amin Kassam
Ryan Smyth Print: Doug Buhler
Alexander Ovechkin Print: Darrel Davis
Dwayne Roloson Print: Peter Wemyss
Sam Gagner Print: Ian Stanley
Andrew Cogliano Print: Peter Murphy
Steve Yzerman Print: Darrel Davis
Joe Sakic Print: Peter Murphy
Roberto Luongo Print: Logan Liersch
Dion Phaneuf Jersey: Bruce Leisen

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