Michigan Senior Women’s Hockey League
Meeting Minutes ~ March 5, 2007

Meeting Overview
President Joanne Lukasik called the meeting to order at 7:08 p.m.  

Treasurer’s Report
Johnna reported that there is a balance of $15,319.62

Old Business
* Ruicci cup planning is going well. Game schedule will be emailed to team contacts tomorrow. Program will be completed this week as well as the player passes. Michele Monson reported that Hall of Fame Great Ted Lindsay will be there to drop the puck at the Championship games as well as Joey Kocur plans on attending. 
 New Business
* Iron Maidens/Michigan Devils game complaint was discussed. Complaints came from both teams. There was a game misconduct by a Michigan Devil coach and an Iron Maidens player. In reviewing the score sheet there were several penalties from both teams, totaling 26 penalty minutes altogether. The Devils have been brought in once already this season for their level of play as well as there have been previous issues with game misconducts and the Michigan Devils coaching staff. The league president will talk to the coaching staff from the Michigan Devils at Ruicci Cup to discuss this issue. Also, the referee pool from Yost arena was discussed. There seems to be one individual referee that several teams have complained about. The Ann Arbor teams have made attempts to get this ref removed from MSWHL games with no luck. They will discuss again with the area scheduler and possibly get Adrianna involved.  
* Level of play discussed for the Intermediate I division. Several complaints have come from a number of teams regarding the aggressive and dirty play of players from various teams. Some have resulted in serious injuries. Joanne has sent a formal letter to all teams in that division warning that there will not be any tolerance for this behavior and one more incident from anyone in this division will result in suspension of that player and possibly the team. Team managers/coaches need to take responsibility of their players and if they cannot control them then the league will be forced to suspend or remove them from the MSWHL. 
* Eligibility Waivers for Ruicci Cup reviewed and decisions as follows:
o Williams-Nighthawks	 	Approved
o Anton-Nighthawks		Approved
o Vbar-Metro Blades		Approved
o Pittford-Ice Picks		Approved
o Fisher-Belle Tire		Approved

MAHA/USA Hockey Report
Mission from the Advanced II division won States and will be going to Nationals in San Jose to compete in the Senior C Division.  Black Beauty and the O’Leary Hawks are going to compete in the Senior B division, and the Icebreakers in Senior A. 

MSWHL Development Clinics
Last clinic is March 10th, 11am at Eddie Edgar Arena. There will be a scrimmage game for all girls/women who participated in clinics on Saturday, March 18th at 3:30pm.

Meeting adjourned: 8:09pm

Lisa Mello
MSWHL Secretary