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Summer Tour Dates
June 12th and 13th 949 Hockey center, Irvine, CA Pro Qualifier
June 26th and 27th, Kalamazoo, MI, S2 Ice arena Pro Qualifier
July 17th - 18th, Gardens Ice House, Maryland, Pro Qualifier
August 7th - 8th (TBA) Last chance tourney Pro qualifier
August 28th - 29th, PRO FINALS, $10k, first place, $5k second place, Palm Beach, Florida, (tentative)
MLRH GOES COAST-TO-COAST WITH $20,000 Summer SERIES
Five National events to include Pro Tour, CO-ED Slamm Hockey plus amateur events
Alexandria, VA-- Major League Roller Hockey (MLRH) has announced their expanded Summer 2010 Pro Tour and the return of it's highly successful Slamm Hockey full contact CO-ED league.
The winning Pro team will receive $10,000 with the runner-up team receiving a $5,000 award. The Slamm Hockey winner will take home $5,000.
Built on the success of it's highly competitive MLRH2, AAA and AA leagues, MLRH will offer four Pro Festival events leading to a National Championship weekend tentativly scheduled for August 22nd & 23rd.
At this time, the Buffalo Wings, the 2009 MLRH Champions are set to return and defend their title.
East Coast, West Coast and Midwest...pick your qualifying event
New to the MLRH Pro format is the addition of a West Coast qualifying event, designed to accommodate tournament teams without a suitable home facility for a traditional MLRH schedule. Each pro team will be required to play "one" Festival on either the east coast, midwest or west coast which will seed them for the finals . Each team will play four games and their standings will determine their seeding and playoffs status. As each events standings are kept, the top two teams in the Pro division will be given "byes" to the semi -finals, based on points and tiebreakers, while the other teams battle it out at the finals. After eliminatng teams in the quarter finals, those left standing will meet the best performers of the 2010 Festivals.
"These cross-country matchups should create a real buzz." enthused Bill Raue, MLRH President. "This series will have the best of the best meeting all across America.
$10,000 Championship prize, $5,000 Finalist prize PRO division, $5,000 prize Slamm Hockey division
August 20th, 21st - 22nd, TBA, MLRH PRO TOUR FINALS, SLAMM HOCKEY FINALS, AAA and AA FINALS
The return of Slamm Hockey (and Slamm Hockey Lite)
Slamm Hockey is back and this time they are playing for cash. League officials believe this is the
first time in roller hockey history that any prize money has been awarded for a CO-ED event. Slamm Hockey is played with alternating lines of men vs. men and women vs, women in full contact action. Adding to the fun is that, in games carried on broadband TV, there are announcers on the players bench with each team discussing the action. It is not uncommon to hear the women dissing the men on their shift and vice versa.
Bill Raue, Slamm Hockey creator calls it "90% pure hockey and 10% soap opera." Slamm Hockey events will be a part of all of the Pro Tour stops. In it's debut season, MLRH operated the various Slamm teams but this time around, it is a wide open competition open to any group that elects to form a team. For teams that enjoy the Slamm Hockey format but not the "Slamm" part, MLRH will also offer non-check Slamm Lite
The Quebec Mistral with Itan Chavira and Jenna Donnelly are the defending Slamm Hockey champions. The Mistral edged the New York Flash in OT to take the title in Buffalo.
AAA, AA and CO-ED non-check events included at each Event
The summer festivals will include non-check tournaments with qualifiers advancing to the
national championships the last weekend in August. While MLRH has long been identified
with full-contact hockey, the addition of non-check leagues has opened the doors to many
players who have used the AAA league as a vehicle to be seen by pro teams. The AA league has opened the MLRH door to many younger player who enjoy playing along side the pro events. There will be no prize money in these divisions but teams will enjoy the prestige of a MLRH National Championship.
Questions? e-mail:
info@mlrh.com
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Slamm Hockey League
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Saturday Night Crazyness
Mambo, LA and Motor City all finish the night 1-1.
Slamm Hockey's opening night at the Gardens Arena was a wild night with upsets, some big hits and a huge night from Stephanie Metcalf who tallied four goals to power the Motor City Hot Wheels to a 7-2 win over the Miami Mambo.
Metcalf''s record breaking performance could not have come at a better time as, earlier in the evening, they lost a 4-3 thriller to the La Cru. The Cru got on the board early on a goal from Emily Hall and each time the Wheels evened the score, Itan Chaviria found a way to put LA back on top with the game ending at 4-3.
Later in the evening, the Miami Mambo posted a 5-4 win over the Cru in another thrlller and then, when the Mambo were feeling pretty good abut themselves, Ms. Metcalf put a big hurt on the Mambo. For the record, it was the first hat trick by a woman in Slamm Hockey, much less a 4-goal game.
Metcalf, a former collage ice hockey star at Colorado, has made a very nice transition to playing on wheels. In 2004, she was named the best woman in women's ice hockey and selected as a first team all-star.
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