The 21st annual Esso Golden Ring was held Jan. 19-21, 2007 and hosted Bunny through Intermediate divisions. There were 181 teams in 17 different divisions.

• There were 2638 players on 181 teams in the 2007 Esso Golden Ring in 18 divisions of play. There were 786 team staff members.
• There were a total of 367 Games (496 hours of ice).
  The ice bill will be approximately $70,400.00.
• There were approximately 75 on-ice officials used in the tournament.
  Referee game fees for the tournament total $11,260.00. The cost of "importing" referees and transporting them is an additional $5000. Plus, hotel rooms are provided free of charge to all out of town officials.
• Transportation was provided to out of town officials to all of their games. (thanks to Murray Todd and Lonnie Krahn for driving).
• Committee members accumulated 543 draw prizes for players (3 for each team), including 181 custom brown stinger sticks with the 21st Esso Golden Ring imprinted on them.
• There were an additional 9750 items which were included in coaches packs for the teams.
• All players received Esso Golden Ring souvenir items - lapel pins, pens or sharpie's, posters and a custom lanyard. (that's another 10,552 items)
• All bunny teams received participation medals for their friendship series.
• Committee Members accumulated $3352 worth of donated prizes for the Esso Golden Ring Raffle (all $10,000 tickets were sold thanks to Calgary teams)
• There were 255 Individuals from Calgary teams who volunteered at arenas, plus 170 people who were minor officials and shot clocks operaters at the semi and final games.
• There are 22 tournament committee members, who opened arenas as early as 5:30 am, and closed as late as 12:00 am.
• The "control centre" was once again at East Twin and was staffed with committee members and volunteers all weekend who circulated game scores, uploaded scores to the website, compiled results, and generated pre-printed gamesheets for all games.
• Committee members were linked by cellular phones donated by Fido, and averaged more than 500 km of driving over the weekend.

Raffle Winners:
Signed Calgary Flames Jersey - Reginato Family
Electric Fireplace insert - McKague Family
Graf Skates - Paige Thomsen
Decorative Mirror - Beverly Wilkie
Digital Camera - S. Hart
Ring Jet 500 Stick - Don Lewis
Avon Aromatherapy Relaxation Set - Richard Kurta
1 Hour Power Skate - Bow View Tween A Ocius
Meat Hamper - Kent Bienert
Gift Certificate to Nick's Restaurant - Patrick Windle
MP3 Player - Mary Anne Hartley
Calgary Camp Registration - Richard Young

Where were the teams from?

Level	Calgary teams	AB teams	BC	SK	MB	QUE	total out of town	# in draw	# of games
Bunnie	11	5					5	16	24
Nov	6	6					6	12	25
Nov B	10	0					0	10	21
Pet A	5	5	1	1			7	12	25
Pet B	7	9					9	16	31
Pet C	3	4	1				5	8	15
Tw AA	2	4	2	1	1		8	10	23
Tw A	5	7					7	12	25
Tw B	7	9					9	16	31
Jr AA	2	2	3	1			6	8	19
Jr A	4	3		1			4	8	15
Jr B	4	6					6	10	21
Belle AA	2	2	1			1	4	6	16
Belle A	2	2		1			3	5	11
Belle B	4	4					4	8	15
Open AA	1	2	1				3	4	10
Open A	7	3		2			5	12	25
Open B	3	3	1	1			5	8	15
	85	76	10	8	1	1	96	181	367

Tournament Committee members and helpers assemble 181coaches packages and sort 543 players prizes.

Appearance on the Global Morning Show....

The Control Centre
What is the control centre? It is the heart of the tournament. It is here that volunteers from all the different arenas phone in game scores and they are entered into a software program that helps in calculating which teams are advancing. Then control room workers generate gamesheets for the next round of games. Gamesheets from across the city are shuttled to the control center where each one is checked and verified. These same drivers take the new gamesheets and deliver them back to all the arenas. It is also here where decisions are made to "troubleshoot" ongoing occurances

Hospitality Night

The Games

The Celebration
Monica Ford and Shelley Geddes	Teresa and Tony Merritt
Shelley Geddes, Monica Ford and Marlene Jensen	Joan Hammond, Tony Merritt and Monica Ford
Marlene Jensen, Shelley Geddes and Gail Kerr	Bob Kerr and John Mader
Marlene Jensen, John Mader and Iveah Hutchison
	Laura Webb and John Mader