Wednesday, April 2, will officially end the 2007-2008 Wisconsin-Minnesota Hockey League (WMHL)season with their Annual Meeting. Reedsburg will officially end the 2007-2008 season on Thursday, April 17, when we hold our Annual Meeting.
     The Reedsburg Hockey Association Annual Meeting is extremely important and members are encouraged to attend. The meeting serves numerous purposes. Club members find out more about the financial situation of the association, learn about the different levels (Polar youth teams, Freeze youth teams, BRH and Freeze high school teams) and there are five positions on the board which require elections.
     The following are important dates to remember (other dates will be posted as they become known):

While her High School hockey career with the Freeze Varsity is over, Brittany Bruun is not done playing hockey. Brittany will be competing in the Wisconsin Girls Senior Class Tournament on Saturday, April 5th, in Stevens Point.
Brittany will be competing on the Section 3 team, which includes players from the Viroqua, Antigo, Green Bay, Mosinee, Kenosha and Point-Rapids teams. Section 3 will play the first game of the tournament at 12:45 PM against Section 4. The second tournament game between Section 1 and Section 2 will start at 2:00 PM. The loser of game 1 will take on the loser of game 2 at 3:15 PM, while the winner of game 1 will play the winner of game 2 at 4:30 PM. These four games will consist of two 20 minute stop time halves.
There will be a hospitality room for players, parents and spectators from 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM. Also, there will be a WIAA coaches meeting at 6:00 PM.
The Feature Game will start at 7:00 PM. The four teams will be combined into 2 teams for this game (the teams will be balanced based on the afternoon games). This game will consist of three 20 minute stop time periods.

This past weekend saw the Reedsburg Polar Peewee and Bantam teams complete their seasons by competing in the Ultimate Tournaments final tournament of the 2007-2008 season. Both teams ended the season on a winning note.
The Peewee team started the weekend playing at 4:50 PM on Friday, March 15th. The peewees defeated a team from Waterloo, Iowa 3-1. The next game for the peewees was Saturday at 11:00 AM. Once again the Polars were playing a team from Iowa, but this time they lost to Cedar Rapids 5-1. Reedsburg played again on Saturday at 5:45 PM. They took on Beaver Dam but fell 4-1. The Polars finished the season on Sunday. They took on the Geneva Cyclones and defeated them 6-1.
The Reedsburg Polar Bantam team took on the Winona Winhawks on Friday at 7:10 PM. Reedsburg won this game 5-0. Reedsburg next took on Rochester at 9:35 PM on Friday night, but the first game took its toll and the bantams lost 5-0. Saturday, March 16th, at 12:50 PM Reedsburg took on the Ironwood Polar Bears, but lost 5-2. Then at 7:45 PM Reedsburg played Wadena. Wadena took an early lead, but Reedsburg fought back to make it 3-2 late in the game. Wadena added another goal halfway through the third period, but the Polars would not quit and scored a goal with to make it 4-3. However, the clock was as big an enemy as the score and the bantams ran out of time despite the pressure they applied on the Wadena netminder. The Polars had one game left, a rematch against the Ironwood Polar Bears. This time Reedsburg came out on top with a 5-2 victory to complete their 2007-2008 season.

On Thursday, February 28th, the Wisconsin Hockey Coaches Association announced the winner of the first ever Wisconsin Ms. Hockey. The Six Final Ms. Hockey Candidates were:

There will be a Reedsburg Hockey Alumni Game and Erik Rosholt is helping to organize the game. The alumni game will be followed by a bantam game, Baraboo vs Reedsburg, at 8:00 PM.

On Friday, February 15th, the South Central Freeze saw their season come to an end whe they lost their Regional playoff game 3-0 to the Badger Thunder. Monday, February 25th, the Freeze concluded their season with the End of the Season Awards Dinner at Moose Jaw in Lake Delton. The players, coaches and families enjoyed dinner and the company of friends.
Once dinner completed, the business of distributing awards was begun. The following is a list of the awards and their winners for the 2007-2008 season.

Last weekend the Polar Squirts hosted a six team tournament. Reedsburg, New Richmond and Dodgeville were in one bracket and Waupun, West Salem and Monroe were in the second bracket. Reedsburg played Dodgeville in their first game and won 6-3. Then Saturday night they played New Richmond and Michael “Sprinkles” Olson had a shut out with a Polar win 5-0. With 2 wins on Saturday, the Polars were able to make it to the championship round to face Waupun on Sunday for the final game of the tournament. Waupun was well deserving of the first place trophy and Reedsburg took second place after a difficult game against Waupun. During the weekend there was also a shoot out tournament between all six teams. The Polars took first place in the shoot out tournament earning themselves another trophy. A huge thank you to Wendy Bill and Tracy Jones who did an excellent job of organizing and running the tournament. Also thank you to our wonderful head coach Ken Olson and assistant coaches Matt Sakry, Rick Cummins and Jim Brown.