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2012 Phoenix President’s Day Hockey Inventational

February 13, 2012 By murphhockey Leave a Comment

The Phoenix President’s Day Hockey Invitational is one of the best run hockey tournaments that I have ever played in, and it’s close to home! There are 134 teams participating and 38 of them are coming from Canada. Not only do we play hockey in Arizona, we have awesome weather this time of year. Three of the teams the DYHA Firebirds will face are from Canada, starting with the Langley Eagles, from BC on Friday. Then on Saturday morning we face the Springbank PW 2 Predators from Calgary and early Sunday morning we meet the Sunshine Coast Blues, also from BC. Sunday night we play the West Valley Wolves from CA.

I’m looking forward to a weekend packed full of competitive hockey! If you want to follow a teams progress in the tourney, click HERE to get text updates.

Warrior Hockey Tournament in Detroit, MI

November 12, 2011 By murphhockey Leave a Comment

I had such a great time in Detroit! The Warrior Hockey Tournament was a great experience and the Phoenix Firebirds got to play some top notch teams. The Firebirds beat the Michigan Nationals 5-2, but lost to the Mississauga Reps 5-4 and Comcast 4-0, but we tied Victory Honda 1-1. Not a bad showing for a team from Arizona, eh?

#13 Datsyuk

While we were in Detroit; my mom and I went to Hockey Town Cafe for lunch. Afterward, we grabbed some Detroit Tigers play-off game tickets. I met the goalie for the 2000 Little Caesars’ team outside Comerica Park. By the 7th inning it was time to head for Joe Louis Arena to see a Detroit Red Wings game. We had great seats and I was able to see Datsyuk up close. He is one of my favorite players. Pavel has some sick stick-handling hands and is an amazing Center!

Max, Adrian & Murph

The biggest highlight for me, was seeing some of my former teammates from the Florida Jr. Panthers. They were playing in the Elite 99 division at the tournament, they now play as the Florida Alliance.

Skate Sharpening

The guys at Novi Ice Rink did an amazing job sharpening my skates, great cut! I had a great time in Detroit, and highly recommend the Warrior Hockey Tournament.

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Please Join Us at the President’s Day Invitational

February 10, 2010 By murphhockey 1 Comment

This weekend the President’s Day Invitational Hockey Tournament begins. The Polar Bear Squirt A Team will be playing all of our games at Polar Ice in Chandler. We have some great teams coming in from California, Georgia and Vancouver, BC in the Squirt A Division.

Be sure to check out the Master Schedule of games going on at rinks around AZ. Please come out and join in the fun and support youth hockey in Arizona!

Phoenix Polar Bears Squirt A Game Schedule:

Friday @ 5:20pm vs Bay Harbor Red Wings
Saturday @ 11:10am vs Atlanta Fire
Sunday @ 6am vs Valencia Express

Semi-final games will be Sunday at 3:30 & 3:50pm
Consolation game will be Monday at 8am

Championship will be Monday at 9:30!

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PRICELESS! …

December 30, 2009 By murphhockey Leave a Comment

Squirt A Phoenix Polar Bears WON the Coyote Cup at the Alltel Ice Den today beating the Jr. Coyotes 10-2 in the Cup Final.

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Phoenix Polar Bears Come up Short

November 28, 2009 By murphhockey Leave a Comment

I had a full weekend of hockey. I played in four games in two days for the Polar Bears. We played teams from Anaheim, Vancouver BC and San Diego. Our last game today was against the Vancouver Winterhawks. We played the Winterhawks tough, through the second period.

In the third we let up a couple of goals and eventually lost 5-2. Tough weekend!!

Our next tournament will be in Scottsdale over Christmas Break. Until then its practice! practice! practice! and a few Sonora League games and scrimmages to play in the next few weeks.

Yesterday, my teammates Logan, Trent and I had lunch and watched a tournament hockey game at Jobing.com Arena. Some of the teams were lucky to play on the Coyotes ice before they took on the Dallas Stars last night (and WON)!!

I am going to sleep in tomorrow, wish I was playing hockey!

Murph

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I am here … in Canmore Canada

June 20, 2009 By murphhockey 1 Comment

My first time through Customs was so cool, I got a stamp in my passport book with Calgary on it. The agent was talking to me about playing hockey and said “good luck in the tournament.”

It took about an hour to get from Calgary to Canmore. The mountains still have snow on the peaks. WOW! It is amazing. We went this afternoon to the Canmore Recreational Center to get our uniforms and I was able to get on the ice for a while and skate. The TNW jacket is really awesome!

I am off now to bed, long day. Very Exciting. My first team practice is tomorrow afternoon. I am looking forward to meeting my Coaches and the rest of my teammates. GO TNW!