Paris Minor Hockey Association is moving forward to move from Grand River Local League to the OMHA Inter-Town Local League for a two (2) year trial, starting for the 2016-2017 season.
PMHA is very excited to move forward on this. As seen in the rules we would like to point out that NO GATE FEES for Local League games in Inter-Town Local League will be charge with the exception of Championship Games.
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 |
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- 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 23rd, 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 1st, 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
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|
| 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** |