Festival Dates - 95 Girls Expanded

The Festival for both the Girls and the Boys will be held at the New England Sports Center from Friday April 20th to Sunday April 22nd.  Due to an overwhelming demand for the 17 girls the enrollment has been expanded and there will be 4 teams for all age brackets.

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Clarification of Mass Satellite Program and Mass Hockey Development Programs:

The Mass Satellite Program is a privately run program that is no longer affiliated with USA or Mass Hockey and does not provide access to USA Hockey or Mass Hockey development camps. The players from the tryouts available on this page will be competing for a slot at the Festival.  Players at the Festival will then be chosen to attend the National Development Camp to represent Massachusetts Hockey.  The Cunniff Overnight Camp is the State version of the Development Camp.  There will also be Mass Hockey Day Camp.

Massachusetts Hockey Player Development Committee

Mass Hockey Chair – Keri-Anne Allan

Boys’ Chair – Ryan McGrath, Umass Boston

Girls’ Chair – Courtney Kennedy, Boston College
Committee Email – PlayerDev@mahockey.org

 

Massachusetts Hockey is please to introduce two new chairs to the Player Development Committee, Ryan McGrath from Umass Boston and Courtney Kennedy from Boston College. Both coaches are highly respected in the world of hockey. They have been added to the committee to take Player Development to the next level. We look forward to working with both Ryan and Courtney to improve our tryout process and our development camps.

 

USA Hockey & Massachusetts Hockey Player Development Camps

After the 1980 Gold medal win, USA Hockey decided the best way of identifying the best players in the country, was to gather them at camps during the summer along with the best college coaches in the country.  Throughout the years, the camps have changed, originally two Regional camps, one in the east and one in the west for U16 & U17 players and then a national camp to pick the National team in Colorado.

The camps as they are now, the selected Girls (U14, U15, U16 &U17) and the selected Boys (U15, U16 &U17) are the product of USA Hockey’s desire to bring together the top 1% of the players at each age level.  The camps are USA Hockey’s way of tracking the development of the players selected to attend from all districts in the country. Top college and junior coaches help to guide the players throughout their experience at the camps, as well as opportunities to make the U18 and U16 National teams and be selected for the National Development training Program teams in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Massachusetts Hockey originated its player development camp in 1985 at Otis Air force Base and the Falmouth Arena.  The Camp Directors, John Cunniff and Tim Taylor took it upon themselves to get the camp going in the right direction towards developing the players’ skills. The Massachusetts Hockey player development camp, like the USA Hockey Player Development camps, went thru changes in ages, gender and locations over the years. 

The Massachusetts Hockey John Cunniff Player Development camp, in its current version, for both Girls and Boys has developed throughout the years.  Modeled after the USA Hockey Development Camps and using the ADM curriculum.  The camp is set up to help those players who attend, with their ability to improve and develop their individual skills. 

Massachusetts Hockey Player Development has a unique opportunity to help players within its borders to develop their hockey skills. Those players, in the future, will represent the Massachusetts Hockey Community on their High School, College and possibly World hockey stage.

Player Development Camp Tryouts

Massachusetts Hockey is pleased to announce that we will be conducting tryouts to select players to attend the USA Hockey Player Development Camps and the Massachusetts Hockey Player Development Camp this summer. Any registered USA Hockey player born in 1995, 1996, 1997 1998, & 1999 is eligible to attend.

Eligible Birth Years

 

Tryout Process

During the Festival Tryouts and Festival Weekend, the players will be evaluated by experienced college hockey coaches who have no affiliation with any of the players trying out.
Our goal is to improve the integrity and consistency of the player evaluation process by using highly qualified and professional coaches

 

For Open Tryouts, players will need to register for one of the Open Tryouts being held throughout Massachusetts. After all of the tryouts are completed, Massachusetts Hockey will conduct the Festival Weekend. A goalie evaluation session will take place to further evaluate the goaltenders skills prior to the Festival for all goalies who attended an Open Tryout. The goalies will then be selected to the Festival.

During the Festival Weekend, a parent meeting will be conducted by the Head Evaluator to explain the tryout process and expectations, the USA Hockey Player Development Camp and the Massachusetts Hockey John Cunniff Player Development camp, as well as answer any questions.

Boys Festival Weekend (April 20^th to April 22^nd)

ó       Registration is Invitational Only. Selections are from the Open Tryouts. Cost $150

ó       Four teams of each age level will by created from the Festival Tryouts.

ó       The Festival Weekend will consist of:

ó       One skills session.
Three round robin games.

ó       One All-Star game.

ó       Each age level will be cut in half to create two All-Star teams to compete against each other at the end of the Festival.

ó       Players from the All-Star game will then be selected at attend the USA Hockey Player Development Camp.

 

Girls Festival Weekend (April 20^th to April 22^nd)

ó       Registrations are open for the Festival Weekend. Cost $150

ó       Four Teams for each age level.

ó       The Festival Weekend will consist of:

ó       One skills session.

ó       Three round robin games.

ó       One All-Star game.

ó       Each age level will be cut in half to create two All-Star teams to compete against each other at the end of the Festival.

ó       Players from the All-Star game will then be selected at attend the USA Hockey Player Development Camp.

 

Boys’ Open Tryout Schedules and Registration

Register for ONLY 1 per player

Please note the March 25th tryouts are Sunday, not Saturday as originally posted.

Open to players who wish to tryout for National Development Camps

Open to players who wish to tryout for Cunniff Overnight Camps

Girls’ Festival Registration

Register for ONLY 1 per player

Open to players who wish to tryout for National Development Camps

Girls’ Open Cunniff Registration

Open to players who wish to tryout for Cunniff Overnight Camps

2012 USA Hockey Player Development Camp (NDC)

USA Hockey will host more than 1,100 hockey players at nine player development camps over a six-week period beginning June 24, 2012. The events will be split between the Sports Center in Rochester, N.Y., and the National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn  USA Hockey National Development Camp Information >>

NDC CAMP Dates - For Up to date info go to USAH >>