Midget 18A – Meet And Greet on May 23rd

To Midget 18A Players and Parents: The first Team/Parents Meeting has been scheduled for 8:15 PM, Wednesday, May 23rd at Steel Ice Center. Coach will have your system binders for the season and will discuss summer ice schedule, dryland and tournaments.

Volunteers Needed for Team Manager and Assistant Manager — For Your Player’s Team

If you are interested in playing a pivotal role in serving the players and assisting the coaches to make this the best season possible for your player’s team, we have opportunities for Team Manager and Assistant Manager at every level.  No experience is necessary as we will have an orientation and training and you will be provided with a team manager guide – in addition to support from peer team managers and the VP of Administration. Please click here to complete an application.  If you have questions prior to completing an application, please contact Roy Goodman, VP of Administration, via email by clicking here, or you may call him at 610.401.3908

Board Meeting Postponed Until May 17th

The monthly Flames board meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday, May 10th, has been postponed for one week due to travel and scheduling conflicts. The new date is Thursday, May 17th at 7:00 PM at the Steel Ice Center. Thank you!

Reminder: Commitment Fees are Due May 15th

Don’t forget, your commitment fee is due on Tuesday, May 15th. This fee must be paid on this date to secure a position on your team. For complete details on the commitment fee and payment schedules, click here.

Placements For 2012-2013 Have Been Posted

To view the placement page, go to the Teams menu and choose the “Placements for 2012-13″ link, or click here.

Any questions with regards to a player’s placement should be directed to the head coach listed for that team. If the head coach is contacted and you still have questions, please, at that point, feel free to contact our Hockey Operations staff in either Bob Fyrer or Mark Spease. Thank you for your cooperation in adhering to our policies.

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Openings for Appointed Board Positions

There are open Board positions for the Lehigh Valley Flames. These are all appointed, non-voting positions that are very important to the organization. Do any of these positions sound like you?

  • New Player Coordinator
  • Associate Special Events Coordinator
  • Tournament Director
  • Equipment/Uniform Manager
  • Associate Scheduler

To learn exactly what each of these positions entail, click here for a full description.

Please consider volunteering, it takes a lot of people to keep the kids on the ice!

Thank you!

 

Election Results Are In

Congratulations to the winners of the elections for open Board of Directors positions for the Lehigh Valley Flames. Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote, and for those who ran for open positions. Your time, effort and commitment to the Flames is truly appreciated throughout the organization! The results:

  • President: Sandy Steidel
  • Vice President of External Affairs: Mark Gutekunst
  • Secretary: Larry Fortunato

 

New Gallery – Flames End-Of-Year Banquet

To view a list of end-of-season award winners, as well as some photos from our banquet, click here! Congratulations to all our Flames players and their families for a tremendous season!

Check out this story on the Flames Jake Jablonski fundraising efforts…

Thanks to Larry Fortunato and the many, many Flames families who made this fundraiser a success: Lehigh Valley Hockey Fans Support Minnesota Hockey Player Jack Jablonski.

Lehigh Valley Sports Extra Highlights Flames

April Issue of Lehigh Valley Sports Extra is set to hit the newsstands across the Valley. There are several articles concerning Flames Playoff Teams, Flames players in Quebec PW Tournament, and the Phantoms bus trip. In May, LV Sports Extra will highlight additional playoff coverage and Flames DVHL All Stars.

Local Lehigh Valley Hockey Fans support Minnesota Hockey Player and the soon to be home team, Adirondack Phantoms in Wilkes-Barre, PA

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LEHIGH VALLEY, MARCH 23, 2012. Several local Lehigh Valley hockey fans made the trek to see the Wilkes-Barre Penguins host the Adirondack Phantoms on Friday, March 23, 2012. It was more than an evening of taking in a minor league hockey game, but a show of support for a 16 year old, Minnesota hockey player, Jack Jablonski who on December 30th was involved in a tragic hockey accident. As he was in pursuit of a loose puck shot deep into the offensive zone, Jack was checked and careened into the boards head first. In a matter of seconds, Jack’s life was dramatically altered. Jack suffered a serious spinal cord injury and broke two vertebrae while playing the game he loves. Though undergoing successful surgery to fuse three vertebrae to protect the spinal cord from further injury, the cord was severed in the accident causing pervasive paralysis.

A bus load of more than 50 fans departed from Allentown, PA on Friday, March 23rd, 2012 to cheer on the soon to be home AHL team, the Adirondack Phantoms, while raising money to support the Jack Jablonski Fund. To date, more than $1500 has been raised locally by the Lehigh Valley hockey community through raffles, apparel sales and 50/50’s, as well as the bus trip on March 23rd. Several NHL and AHL teams, and the newly formed Penn State Ice Hockey team have donated autographed items in support of this cause.

(On a side note, our Lehigh Valley Flames Squirt Patriot coaches Bob Fryer and Jud Ritter were the two linesmen officiating the game!)

The Jack Jablonski Fund was created to assist Jack on his road to recovery from this tragic accident. The Minneapolis Hockey Association along with the Jablonski family have set up Jack’s Pledge in order to create a grass roots movement among coaches, moms, dads, players, and associations to make hockey safer. For more information, check out www.jabby13.com.

 

Bantam A Moves On to Districts; DVHL Playoff Wrap Up

MARCH 11, 2012 — Five Teams represented the Flames at the DVHL playoffs over the past two weekends: Squirt AA, Bantam A, Bantam AA, Midget 16A Red, and Midget 18AA. All members of the Flames organization, congratulate these teams on their success this season. Beyond these teams however, a wider congratulations to every team who proudly wore the Flames crest in this, our inaugural season. We are all proud of your ongoing commitment to youth hockey and the Lehigh Valley Flames.

Special congratulations to the Bantam A team, who powered through their playoff round in only two games, defeating the Delaware Jr. Blue Hens and the Exton Kings in route to becoming DVHL Playoff Champs. The Bantams will represent the Flames at Districts at Mennen Arena in Morris, NJ. (Schedule here.)

Here are two clips from the final moments of the game:

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