California Amateur Hockey Association has joined with OneGoal, USA Hockey, Anaheim Ducks, San Jose Sharks, Los Angeles Kings, Ontario Reign and Stockton Thunder to create an opportunity on November 7, 2009, for families to come to a local rink and Try Hockey for Free! This free trial has been created specifically for children ages 4-9 [...]

Massachusetts Hockey has joined with the Boston Bruins, OneGoal and USA Hockey to create an opportunity on November 7, 2009, for families to come to a local rink and Try Hockey for Free! This free trial has been created specifically for children ages 4-9 years old who are interested in trying hockey for the first [...]

The team USA Men’s Olympic Hockey Team is helping grow the game of hockey in a positive way. The following article details their recent charitable efforts to help keep the love of hockey growing. Each of the 34 players attending the U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Orientation Camp in Woodridge, Ill., recently donated 15 sets [...]

USA Hockey is inviting parents of children ages 4 to 8 years old to watch their kids soar with its “Come Play Youth Hockey” campaign. These campaign resources can be utilized by local associations and rinks in print advertising, collateral materials, television, websites as well as giveaway items. Click here (pdf) to download the step-by-step [...]

OneGoal has selected two markets to help promote the growth of youth hockey. Fresh off the heels of last season’s successful blitzes in Connecticut and Illinois, OneGoal has chosen Massachusetts and California as this season’s partners. These market blitzes are conducted by hosting state-wide “Try Hockey for Free” clinics with the goal of inviting new [...]

It doesn’t take an economist to see what the next few years of overall economic downturn will do to the hockey industry. The sport is expensive to play and while beer leaguers can hang on to the same shoulder pads for a little longer, kids don’t have that luxury – they grow, pretty much from [...]

The board of directors for Pentucket Youth Hockey and Greater Haverhill Youth Hockey have merged their programs in an effort to form a more competitive, cost-effective league. The leagues, which have about 100 players each, have had to pay for their own ice time at Veterans Memorial Rink in Haverhill. The merger will make scheduling [...]

The American Development Model (ADM) provides age-appropriate guidelines and curriculum to hockey associations across America to help more kids play, love and excel in hockey. Once the kids are on the ice and playing, the game itself can only take them so far. To love hockey, they first have to play it. And to excel [...]

Every hockey association has turnover from one year to the next. Many families forget to sign-up before the start of the season and do not return to hockey primarily because they figure that it is too late to play. Additionally, each season over 40,000 kids stop playing youth hockey. Much of this loss can be [...]