My name is Chris Johnston and I am the U12 Convenor for the 2024-2025 season. I sent out an e-mail to all families with players registered for U12 on Saturday August 31st. Details of this e-mail are below...
Goalies:
We are short two goalies for the U12 division. If your child is
interested, or if they have a friend who is interested in playing goalie,
please reach out to me ASAP! North London has great
skills development programs for goalies and we have new and nearly new goalie
equipment and sticks available to borrow for the entire season if there is a need.
The season kicks off after Labour Day weekend, details as follows:
Prep Skates:
All U12 HL players will start the season with three prep skates, which
begin Thursday September 5th (for last names E-Z) and Sunday September 8th (for
last names A-D). These sessions are being run by skills trainers Colin Martin
and/or Rob Drummond and are optional skates simply meant to get our players
back on the ice. Please bring a dark and light coloured jersey in case
the skills trainers want to split the kids up by coloured jersey.
Players have been assigned to one of two groups for prep
skates.
-U12 Group 1 (Last Name A-D) (who will share prep skate ice with U11 players)
-U12 Group 2 (Last Name E-Z)
It is important that players only attend the session that they are
assigned to, goalies can attend any session.
Calendar Link to U12 Prep Skates can be found here: https://northlondonhockey.ca/Teams/4283/Calendar/?Month=9&Year=2024
Please refer to the link for the duration of the prep skates as details
can change.
Evaluation Skates:
Evaluation skates start Saturday September 14th. Formal evaluations are
run by the head coaches to ensure balanced teams. All U12 HL players need to
attend evaluation skates, so please do your best to attend. Please bring a
light and dark coloured jersey to each evaluation skate.
The first skate will have all U12 HL players skating together.
Then players have been assigned to one of two groups for the remainder of
evaluation skates.
-U12 Group 1 (Last Name A-L)
-U12 Group 2 (U12 Last Name M-Z)
It is important that you only attend the session that you are assigned
to.
Calendar Link to U12 Evaluation Skates can be found here: https://northlondonhockey.ca/Teams/4294/Calendar/?Month=9&Year=2024
Please refer to the link for the duration of the evaluation skates as
details can change.
HL Season:
The HL season will officially begin sometime in October. Some HL
exhibition games may be scheduled, allowing the coaches to create balanced
teams. I will communicate these details as soon as they are available.
Practices and league games are still being scheduled and should start to be
shown on the U12 HL calendar soon. https://northlondonhockey.ca/Categories/1858/Calendar/
HL On-Ice Help:
We are always looking for volunteers to help on the ice. Many of
you already reached out in the registration process, but if you were not
interested then, but you are now, please reach out to me or your child's head
coach once teams are chosen.