North Metro Youth Hockey

North Metro Youth Hockey Association proudly serves the youth hockey communities of Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Fridley and Columbia Heights. Our ice arena is located at 5600 85th Avenue in Brooklyn Park, MN. We look forward to seeing you...on the ice!

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A total of 28 youth teams competed in the North Metro Youth Hockey "Pirate Tournament" over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend in Brooklyn Park.

Jennifer Soike's son plays on the White Bear Lake Team.

"Well they won one and they lost one," Soike said of her son's team Sunday afternoon.

But while much of the attention was focused on the ice, spectators paid just as much attention to what was happening off of it.

"When we heard Jack's story, the hockey community was very supportive," said Kevin Redding of North Metro Youth Hockey. "And we here at North Metro tried to figure out what we could do to pay back Jack's family and what he's going through at this time."

T-shirts and wrist bands honoring Jack Jablonski were sold to raise money for the foundation in his name. The souvenirs also served as a sobering reminder of what can happen during an intense game.

"The issue and the situation that we're going through now of course is checking from behind," Redding said. "And we're hoping that all the kids really respond to taking "Jack's pledge.'"

A pledge to minimize violence and enhance safety.

"You know, I think a lot more needs to be taught to that," Soike said.

Soike, however, acknowledges that violence is a part of the game.

"I do worry, but you have to let them play too," she said. "You know, you hope that you teach them well enough to protect themselves, but a parent always worries."

Stop signs on the backs of youth hockey players' jerseys are supposed to help deter checking from behind.

Yet parents such as Eric Runningen of Rosemount say players just need to use common sense and play with sportsmanship.

"I played hockey my entire life growing up and I never had a stop sign on the back of my jersey," he said.

Still, it's a sign of the times as parents and players have Jack Jablonski on their minds.

"Our thoughts and prayers going out to Jack and his family," Redding said.

The tournament was also dedicated to Jenna Privette, another youth hockey player who sustained a serious injury on the ice. Meantime, the North Metro Youth Hockey Association helped raise more than $3,000 for the Jack Jablonski Fund.

Delane Cleveland
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 Mite parents and players,

SUBMIT YOUR TOURNAMENT SUCCESS STORY TO COMMUNICATIONS@NMYHA.COM AND IT WILL BE POSTED HERE!

Bantam B1

• Three for three in taking home hardware won in tournaments this season, the Bantam B1 team captures 3rd place in Thief River Falls!

Peewee B1

• The PWB1 team took Consolation in the Anoka tournament the weekend of  January 5-8
• The PWB1's took FIRST PLACE in the Spring Lake Park tournament- their FIRST tournament of the year!

Peewee B2 GOLD

• The PWB2 Gold team takes the consolation trophy home after winning 3 out of 4 games in the HUGE Anoka tournament the weekend of January 5-8, suffering their only loss in the 1st game in OVERTIME!
• The PWB2 Gold team takes 3rd PLACE in the Mankato tournament in November!
• The PWB2 Gold teams took 1st PLACE in the Hutchinson tournmant the weekend of January 20-22!  Not only did they win all three games, they outscored their opponents 37-1!  The championshp game's final score was 15-0 against the top B team in District 4!

Peewee B2 WHITE

Squirt B1

•  The Squirt B1's took Consolation in Breezy Point the weekend of January 13-15!

Please join us in supporting one of our Minnesota Hockey families

Mark your calendars: The NMYHA S.K.A.T.E. banquet has been scheduled for April 19th from 6:30-8:30pm at Brunswick Zone in Brooklyn Park. The event is open to all traveling (Squirts, PeeWees, Bantams, Jr. Gold, U10, U12 and U14) NMYHA hockey players that achieve a 3.0 GPA (or greater) during the hockey season. Pre-registration is required and due by March 26th to be eligible. The registration form and additional details regarding the event are posted in the S.K.A.T.E. section on www.nmyha.com.

Please help us to get word out regarding this event! Make sure to encourage your kids to work hard during this reporting period to try to achieve a 3.0 (or greater) GPA. The bowling & pizza banquet is always a lot of fun, and the door prizes given out are awesome too. So far, we have multiple NHL Jerseys, an Ipod Touch , Ipod Nano, Gift cards (just to name a few) that will be given away at the event. EVERY qualifying skater will receive a gift bag, and door prize along with an evening of bowling and pizza with their fellow qualifying skaters. Hopefully this will give some incentive for the kids to work hard in school!!

Please email me at skate@nmyha.com or call at 612-209-8693 if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Mary Brewer
NMYHA S.K.A.T.E. Coordinator

* All eligible non-parent coach’s travel expense reimbursements need to be submitted to the treasurer within 1 month of occurrence. Please attach all receipts to the expense report.

* The coach’s name must appear on the Official Team Roster that is submitted to & approved by Minnesota Hockey District 3 in order to receive reimbursement.

Thank you.

Be sure to pick up a copy of this week's Let's Play Hockey! There is a long article about the great parent volunteers of North Metro, and what we are doing to increase player numbers at the Mite level. Plus both our Pee Wee and Bantam teams are ranked in the TOP 20! Today is a good day to be a PIRATE!

As part of the Nationwide Try Hockey For Free Day, North Metro hosted 37 new skaters on Saturday, November 5th! If all those boys and girls decided to play hockey, that would mean an additional FOUR FULL Mite hockey teams!

A special thank you to all the NMYHA moms and dads who came out and helped direct the new families, tie skates and kept all the kids safe on the ice!

If you have a child interested in playing hockey with North Metro, please contact Lori Kiesow, our registration coordinator.

Phone: (763)391-7313

North Metro Youth Hockey Association, serving the communities of Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Fridley and Columbia Heights. Our home arena is located at Brooklyn Park Community Activity Center, 5600 85th Ave, Brooklyn Park.

Hi, everyone! We are pleased to announce that the Golf Tournament was a SUCCESS - Raising approximately $3,700! WOW!

We cannot thank the following people enough for helping to set up and run the event: Cindy Timm, Jason Wood, Deven Dubuque and Jen Jaeger. In addition we thank Lori Kiesow, Deb Heisler and Shelly Breitenfeldt who helped us the day of!!! We could not have done it without all of you.

Special thanks to Sundance for hosting the entire event and our following sponsors:

• City of Brooklyn Park
• North Metro Stars
• Kidd Plumbing
• Slip Streamers
• Dave's Sports Shop in Fridley
• Photo Guy
• JT Remodeling
• Becker Flooring
• APEX 
• Navarre Corporation
• Microsoft
• T&K 
• Trend Micro
• SPA
• Up North Liquors
• AM Ramp 
• Chanticlear Pizza
• Lakeland Graphics
• Greenwood Painting

Thank you everyone for supporting North Metro Youth Hockey! Our players and families thank you as well!

D3 wants everyone to know they are making a strong effort to reduce head contact (and hopefully the prevalence of concussions).

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The attached document will give you a snap shot of what it really costs for your child to play hockey with NMYHA. This cost analysis is per player and is listed by team. It is based on last year's financials.

Last year, each child was allocated $473 from our fundraising activities. If that amount remains consistent and you divide that amount by the 15 hours of volunteer work that you are required to do, you (the parent) will earn $31.53 per volunteer hour. That is equivalent to a job paying $65,500+ per year. The money that you help us earn through our fundraising activities reduces the registration fees for your hockey player. In other words, less money you have to pay out of your pocket.

You will also notice that NMYHA is incurring costs for each player that is not covered by registration fees or by fundraising activities. In order for NMYHA to continue to offer affordable hockey to the children in our community, we need to expand our fundraising activities to help cover the shortfall. We need your ideas & energy to help us achieve this goal. We operate as a non-profit association and rely on our volunteers (parents) to help make NMYHA successful.

Please attend our monthly board meetings at 7:00 pm on the first Wednesday of each month.

Thanks.

Colleen Tucker
NMYHA Treasurer 

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Come out and support NMYHA at Bar Bingo at Mad Jack's every Monday night starting at 6:00.

12 games in all each night.  $1.00/card and 3 chances to win on each card.  With a wide range of games. 

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Attention Parents,

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Hockey is not an end. It is a means to an end. There is nothing inherently good about scoring, forechecking, backchecking, or winning. It is only good if it promotes education and learning. Those that come away with a higher work ethic, honesty, and integrity are the true winners. Hockey does not build character, rather it reveals it. It's these values that do more than anything else we develop that will be the true measure of how successful the NMYHA is.