The historic Blue M of the St. Michaels Buzzers has signified integrity, success and hockey excellence since 1933. These principles will be the foundation of our spring hockey program designed for the elite hockey player with the purpose of them having fun and developing their skills in an equal and fair play environment

 Program 

• Program will consist of one team at each level for players born from 1998 to 1990.  As some of these teams are "club" teams - if enough interest is present a second team may be instituted.
• Program will last for 8 weeks from Monday April 24^th, 2006 (The week after AAA tryouts) until Thursday June 16^th, 2006.
• All teams will have the choice at participating in either the Junior level program or the Senior level program. The choice of levels will be at the coaches discretion.

Teams

• Each team will comprise of 17 players – 2 goalies – 6 defensemen and 9 forwards (based on coaches discretion) to allow for the inevitable conflicts that these boys will have during the spring.
• Only top coaches with the highest integrity who have the same philosophy about how the game should be taught and played will be considered for our program. The complete list of coaches for each level will be released by January 2nd, 2006 (see coaches list)
• All players must play at their own age group and their will no deals made on registration to any players – regardless of their caliber.
• There will be no tryouts for our program as we do not want to be a disruption to the existing winter programs. Players that apply will be evaluated during their practices and games during the winter.

 

Fun/Non-threatening environment

In to many cases, our current hockey system stymies the development of elite hockey players for a number of reasons………

• Too many incompetent coach’s who are worried about their own agenda, about making side deals in exchange for ice time, letters on the sweaters and specialty team play.   
• There are too many teams at the AAA level translating in a lack of elite competition and too many meaningless games.
• Players are afraid to get creative and make mistakes as that could translate into reduced ice time.
• Too many players are playing for teams that they do not want to be a part of but cannot get a release and too much time is being spent on worrying about where they will be playing next year.
• Hockey should be fun – fun – fun – fun. This in on longer the case with many of today’s.

The Junior Buzzers Spring hockey program will do the following to insure that our Mission Statement is the goal of our program and that our integrity will never be compromised.

• Coaches will not be allowed to shorten the bench during a game under any circumstances.
• Coaches or any parents will not keep statistics and will not have specialty power play or penalty kill team.
• No deals OF ANY KIND will be made with any players.
• No teams will have captains or assistant captains.
• To stress the team aspect of the game – no player’s names will be back of the sweaters.
• Players that disrespect the coaches during the game or are not working on the ice will be asked to leave the program with a full refund.
• Players will be encouraged to make mistakes, think out of the box and get creative without any implications to the amount of ice time that they get in the next game.

Coaches will focus on skill development and the cognitive side of the game.