OMHA Inter-Town Local League – Your input is important, News (Paris Minor Hockey)

The Paris Minor Hockey Association’s current year Executive have placed in a request for consideration to join the OMHA Inter-town Local League (Southern Counties) on a (2) two year trial basis starting for the 2016-2017 Season.  Your input is welcome and very important to us.

                                                                                                        PMHA Executive always listens to our members concerns and suggestions on how to better our centre for not only competitiveness but most importantly player development through the year.  We have done some research over the last couple of months in moving out of the Grand River Local League loop and changing to the Inter-town Local League loop.

 

The following are highlighted benefits:

• The Inter-town Local League loop will align to play similar centres as our Representative Teams (Southern Counties.

Burford Coyotes	Delhi Rockets	Ingersoll Express	Langton Leaf
Norwich Nighthawks	Port Dover Pirates	Simcoe Warriors	Six Nations Blackhawks
Tillsonburg Tornadoes	Waterford Wildcats

• Better aligned competition levels based on centre size and division classifications (Paris is a 'B' centre)

Inter-town Local League		Grand River Local League
Centre Category	Centres	Center Category	Centres
BB	Tillsonburg	A	Hespeler, New Hamburg, Woolwich
B	Ingersoll, Simcoe	B	Ayr
C	Burford, Delhi, Port Dover, Six Nations	C	St. George
CC	Waterford	CC	Tavistock, Twin Centre
DD	Langton, Norwich	D	Beverly
		DD	Embro, Plattsville

For our members interested in reviewing the Inter-town Local League rules - Inter-town Rules (2015-2016 Season).  To review the 2015/2016 regular season - Inter-town Regular Season (2015-2016) results.

We have received pre-approval of a tentative welcoming from Inter-town Local League members at their Annual General Meeting in April.  We have also received an official blessing from Grand River Local League members at their Annual General Meeting in May 2016.

The PMHA Executive as per OMHA’s wishes would like to extend these proposed changes to our members, you of The Paris Minor Hockey Association.  We encourage each of you by Monday May 23^rd, 2016 to extend your opinion by a simple Poll (on the right hand side of our home page www.parisminorhockey.com) on joining the Inter-town Local League for a two year trial period.  If you have immediate detailed concerns positive or negative we encourage you to email your Executive Members (email link).

The Executive would like to evaluate with OMHA before we open registration on June 1^st, 2016.

We appreciate all of you and look forward to a great 2016-2017 hockey season.

PMHA Executive

We have had some people concerned about mileage comparison - this is something that PMHA Executive reviewed as well - here are the details based on both MapQuest and Google Maps using shortest distance as a common factor:

Inter-town LL vs. Grand River LL Mileage Comparison
Paris	N3L 0B2
Inter-town LL				Grand River LL
Centre	Postal Code	Google Maps	Map Quest	Centre	Postal Code	Google Maps	Map Quest
Burford	N0E 1A0	12.6	12.7	Ayr	N0B 1E0	19.9	18.7
Delhi	N4B 1S1	41.6	41.8	Beverly	L0R 1X0	34.6	52.1
Ingersoll	N5C 1S6	47.8	47.8	Embro	N0J 1J0	52.6	50.7
Langton	N0E 1G0	60.3	60.2	Hespeler	N1R 5W8	25.2	24.6
Norwich	N0J 1P0	35.0	36.7	New Hamburg	N3A 1A1	44.6	45.0
Port Dover	N0A 1N4	50.6	47.7	Plattsville	N0J 1S0	33.0	33.3
Simcoe	N3Y 3W4	38.8	39.1	St. George	N0E 1N0	18.7	16.7
Six Nations	N0A 1M0	31.0	30.9	Tavistock	N0B 2R0	55.4	55.3
Tillsonburg	N4G 3W9	57.8	57.5	Twin Centre	N0B 2M0	52.6	52.9
Waterford	N0E 1Y0	29.0	17.8	Woolwich	N3B 2Z6	64.3	55.6
Total one way:		404.5	392.1	Total one way:		400.9	404.8
Average one way:		40.5	39.2	Average one way:		40.1	40.5
One way difference:		3.6	(12.7)
Average difference:		0.4	(1.3)	**Note: Using shortage distance**