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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If you look to the the left of the website you will see a vertical tool bar with buttons to the various pages on the website.  At the VERY top is a new button titled Emails.  A copy of all emails sent out to the association will be available here for a time after the email has been sent out.

If you would like to join our board, we would LOVE to have you!!  We currently have a need to fill the following positions:

Fundraiser Director (position description coming soon)

Volunteer Coordinator

Marketing Director

Please consider coming to our next board meeting on June 6th to learn more.  You can also find position descriptions on our board page.

Once again NMYHA will be holding a summer training program for all Squirts/U10 moving up to the Peewees and U12, current Peewees/U12 and Bantams/U14.  The sessions will consist of on ice training and dry land training and will be held once a week from July-August.  Please see the flyer below for more details and sign up.

 USA Hockey Level 4 Coaching clinic will be held May 19-20 at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center in Rochester.  For more information and to register online go to www.usahockey.com

 Osseo hockey would like to invite players to their 2012 STP Summer Hockey training program.  Please see the attached flyer to sign up.

 For the first time OPC will be having a 5th/6th Grade Lacrosse team for the first time this summer.  Registration is open until April 27- check out the flyer!

Our North Metro Mites have done it again!  Our Skate-A-Thon was a BIG success, bringing in a grand total of $3390! That tops last year's amount by over $800!
Our top individual pledge earner was Gabriel Morafka, who brought in $237!  
Our top earning team was the Mite II Chiefs, with a total amount raised of $555!  Thank you all for your great effort and the great turn-out! 

Thanks to all of our Mites who participated and to the parents who supported this great fundraiser!

If you took a picture of the group with Goldy and are willing to share, please email it to registrar@nmyha.com 

Did you know that 4 of the 2012 State Champion Breck Varsity Girl players are NMYHA alumni?

Taylor Neisen, Michaela Neisen, Karina Marette, and Kate Schipper all played their youth hockey at North Metro.

Congratulations to them and the rest of the Breck Girls High School team!!!

12UB North Metro Pirates are District 3 Tournament Champions and advance to Regions

After winning the District 3 League Title, the North Metro 12UB carried the strong finish into District 3 playoffs. They maintained their #1 seed by winning their pool with victories over Wayzata Gold and Armstrong/Cooper to advance to bracket play. Strong play at both ends of the rink led to victories of  8-1 over Wayzata Blue and  7-0 over Crow River to advance to the title game. In the championship game, the Pirates faced Hopkins. With sound goaltending, blueline play, and good jump on the frontside, the Pirates dominated the first 2 periods and led 3-0 after 2 periods. Hopkins came out strong in the second period and scored 2 goals to pull within one goal.North Metro re-established their strong play with a quick goal to counter, and regained the momentum to finish off the game with a 4-2 win.  North Metro advances to the Regionals American Division with the top seed from District 3. Good Luck Girls!

The North Metro PWB2 Gold team took home the District 3 Championship trophy on Super Sunday at the St. Louis Park arena. They started their journey to the championship with a win over St. Louis Park White 5-1. Next came a win over Mound with another 5-1 score! Finally, in the final game of the Maroon bracket North Metro beat Osseo Maple Grove Black with yet ANOTHER score of 5-1! 

In their final game of the year North Metro took on Wayzata Steel. North Metro was the first to score but shortly afterward Wayzata answered with a goal of their own to tie it up 1-1. They went head to head for awhile until North Metro scored again, and then they never looked back. The final score was 8-2 with this young North Metro team taking home their first District Championship Trophy!

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!
  

• The weekend of February 3-5, 2012 the North Metro Peewee B1’s traveled to Willmar and may have netted a small fish during some team ice fishing, but when it counted they brought home the big championship trophy.

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!  They won all three games and the championship game was against the top B team in District 4!
• The PWB2 Gold took their second 1st PLACE championship in the Elk River Classic the weekend of Feb 4-5 winning 4 games in 2 days!  The final against a previously unscored upon Eden Prairie was 5-2 with Rylen Anderson taking the tournament MVP award!
• The PWB2 Gold team took 2nd place in the Hayward tournament the weekend of 2/11-2/12!  They played a great weekend of hockey and wrapped up their tournament season with their 5th tournament of the season taking home hardware in all 5!

Squirt B1

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

Girls 12U

• The Girls' 12U took the Championship in the Silver Bay Tournament in January.  They defeated Duluth 8-0 and Hibbing 9-2 on their way to the championship game.  In the final they faced the home town team Silver Bay and battled back from a 0-1 deficit to win the CHAMPIONSHIP 6-3!  The Pirates offense was buzzing and got stellar play from their defense and goaltender all weekend.  Congratulations Girls!

• The North Metro U12B team just finished the season with a 18-2-2 record and captured their 2ndconsecutive District 3 Season Championship at the U12B Level and are the #1 in the District 3 Playoffs. They also just took 2nd place in the So. St. Paul Cowtown Classic (lost 3-2 to #4 ranked Edina White) and are currently rated 9th in the State according to LPH.
  
  The U12B girls team finished the season with 2-1st place Championships and 1-2nd place finish in Tournament play.

View the video here:

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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
dcleveland@twelve.tv

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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.