Hello Coach, Can You please Answer a few question? I am an interested player for the Eagles next season.
1. What does the team provide for school? Scholarships?
2. Equipment? sticks?
3. Locker room? training facility, gym memberships?
4. Where do we live? housing, apartments or dorms?
5. Weekly stipend or money?
6. Is food and transportation paid for road games?
7. Can we find part-time jobs?
8. How many guys are returning?
9. How Much is transfer & insrance?
10. Cars? Do we need them?
Answers:
I will gladly answer your questions. Please feel free to contact me @ Keithmcadams@varkauseagles.com with any other questions you might have.
1. The Eagles pay for open school for the players. The objective of the team is find quality student athletes who will do good in school and move into the degree program in Finland.
2. The team will be supplying Harrow Equipment to the team. Each player receives pants, gloves a number of shafts and blades. You can view the equipment on blog and web site.
3. The team has a locker room. But like most teams in Finland we have a drying room to store equipment. We do not have a gym membership at this time. Players can sign up on their own in a local gym at a discounted price. We will be using the city of Varkaus facilities this season for off ice training. Players are entitle to sign up for free use of public facilities, pool, gym and sauna. All members are allowed to use these city facilities.
4. The team lives in apartments. There will be 2-4 guys in apartment based on the size of apartments. Returning guys will have the bigger apartments. Guys will be spread out in different apartments throughout the city.
5. We do not pay players. We have limited resources. Our budget is two half times the budget of most Second Division teams. We have little sponsorship. But we will have a few bonus systems in place for guys to earn extra money for food this season.
6. The team pays for all bus expense for road games. The team pays for dinner after the game for all players.
7. Finding a part time job is possible. But jobs are limited in the city of Varkaus.
8. We will be resigning 10-12 players this year.
9. Transfer fees and insurance change each year. The transfer is presently 800 euros. I have not received information on insurance yet for this season. But it is under 200 euros. It includes full medical and dental. But you or your insurance company are billed and then a refund is sent to you. Your transfer fee is good for three years. The insurance fee needs to paid each year.
10. We suggest player buy a bike when they get here. The price of gas in Europe is very expensive.
Keith mcAdams, GM, Varkaus Eagles
6 comments:
How many total guys will be signed?
We will only be signing 20-22 players maximum. We will function just like teams in the ECHL,
IHL and SHL. We will only roster 20 guys.
The Affiliate agreement with the WHA let us take players off their roster.
We are hoping to have other agreements in place shortly, which will help us in this area. We have lots of interest from team in Europe.
We are allowed to use 5 Finnish Players, if guys get hurt. So we do not need as many players this season.
Keith McAdams
Thank You for the response.
Paul Brady
Urbana, Illinois
Perhaps it should be pointed out that University Degree Programmes are free in Finland.
Open university does cost money, which is paid by Eagles.
Studies completed in Open university are generally accepted into degree studies, so you won't be wasting your time.
Only difference is that whether you have a permanent study place or not.
You can apply for degree studies in spring 2009.
Four players from Eagles 2008 -roster got a permanent study place in this years application.
What kind of cars will players get if they do the car program?
All the cars will be old model cars that have been traded in to a dealership. But they will all be in good running condition. The guys are responsible for basic care. But If there is a problem with the car the team will simply trade the car back in for another used car.
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