Alumni attend PCAHA awards

2008-05-30 :

On May 20th, the Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association held there annual Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association scholarship awards at General Motors Place. Scholarships are awarded every year to a number of registered Midget and Juvenile players who are in grade eleven or twelve, or are finished high school.

This year, The Pacific Coast Scholarship Program is in its 31st year of operation and has worked closely with the Vancouver Canucks over these years. This year the awards ceremony saw many young male and female athletes from all over mainland. “Its always exciting to see these young athletes at this time of their lives.” said Cliff Ronning, from the Vancouver Canucks Alumni.

This years’ winners had the great opportunity to receive their awards from Vancouver Canucks Alumni Cliff Ronning, Bob Murray and John Craighead. This years winner of the Vancouver Canucks Community Service Bursary Award was Ryan Randhawa . The winners of the Vancouver Canucks Scholarship Awards were, Thomas Shaw of Port Coquitlam MHA, Troy Johl of Vancouver MHA and Laura Borden of North Shore Female IHA and the winner of the newly named Stan Smyl Scholarship Award was David Semail of Burnaby MHA.

Over the past 31 years, The Pacific Coast Awards Program has given out over 568 awards with a total value of approximately $303,350. This year 17 deserving minor hockey players were awarded $14,250 in scholarship awards. Every recipient must apply their awards towards tuition at a post-secondary educational institution of their choice.

For more information on this or other minor hockey programs call the Canucks Centre for BC Hockey @ 604 899 7770 or go to PCAHA.org or BC Hockey.net.

Canucks Alumni Tee-off in 60th Annual Cyclone Taylor Classic

2008-05-15 :

The "Cyclone Taylor Classic" will be celebrating its 60th Anniversary this summer. Recognized as the "official golf tournament of the Canucks Alumni" and referred to by former Canucks players as "the hockey player's tournament", this year's event will be held on July 7, 2008 at one of Vancouver's premier golf courses, the Richmond Golf and Country Club.

For the first time with the generous support of our new sponsors and invited guests, the tournament will help raise funds for the many programs and projects supported by our B.C. Hockey Benevolent Association.

The presenting sponsors for the event include MCL Motors Cars, Molson Canada, Boston Pizza, The Shark Club, and Pacific Coastal Airlines.

For more information about sponsoring this event, please contact Ric Thomsen at Game Day International at 604-408-0097 or ric@gogameday.ca.

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MARCH 2008 NEWSLETTER

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ALUMNI VS. ABBOTSFORD THUNDER

2008-04-03 : On Saturday March 29th, 2008 the Vancouver Canucks Alumni traveled to Abbotsford to play the Abbotsford Police Thunderbirds to raise money for Special Olympics. The game drew a crowd of over 400 fans and all enjoyed the fun-filled game. Once again a fantastic show was put on with the traditional pie in the face to Marc Suderman who scored the first goal for the Thunderbirds. With the final score reading 16-13, the game was close, but not that close. Sgt. Richard Rabinovitch of the VPD, host organizer said; "I am slowly recovering from the pain of watching your guys get past us so simplistically." Sgt. Ravinovtich, Danielle Rana manager of Fund Development for Special Olympics, Kelly Pater Coordinator Community Policing and Chris Gaib Manager of Arena Operation at MSA Arena, amongst others were instrumental in coordinating this successful event. The day started with over 100 fans waiting to get an autograph from the likes of Moe Lemay, Chris Oddleifson, Kirk McLean and many other Vancouver Canucks Alumni. "Its great to get out in the community to play these charity games, especially for such a great cause as Special Olympics" Garth Butcher had to say about this and other games the Alumni play. The Vancouver Canucks Alumni send out their condolences to the family and friends, including game volunteer Kelly Pater who tragically lost two friends in an accident the day of the game.

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