Good evening,

I hope this message finds everyone doing well :) 

It is hard to believe that we are a little over a month before competitive tryouts begin!  I would like to thank all the folks working behind the scenes to get everything ready for another season of Chebucto Minor Hockey!  Below is some information and reminders as we approach the beginning of another season!

Preseason Development

Registration for preseason development closes today!  Bryan, our VP of Development has sent a number of reminders and updates pretaining to development sessions the last couple of weeks.  It really sounds like he has some great instructors lined up for our players to prepare them for the season! If you have any questions pretaining to development or are wondering if there are still spots avalaible after registration closes, please reach out to Bryan at development@chebuctominorhockey.com.

Also, we still are seeking volunteers to help make our Pre-Season development sessions a success. Volunteers help us reduce cost and make these sessions accessable to all while still maintain very high level of quality pre-season instruction. 

We are seeking:

• One Ice Lead Coaches
• On Ice Assistant Coaches (Goalie and Player)
• Dressing Room Monitors 
• Check in Staff
• Goalie Session Shooters

If you'd like to volunteer in any capacity please fill out and submit the following form and we will be in contact shortly.

Pre-Season Volunteer Form

Competitive Tryout Information and Dates

Just wanted to send a quick update regarding Competitive Tryouts.  The majority of the evaluations will be taking place at the Forum/ Civic this year, with some of the later sessions happening at the Lion's Rink.

The following dates are when evaluations are scheduled to begin. As we get closer to the actual dates, a full schedule will be posted for each age group.

U11: Saturday, September 23, 2023

U13: Friday, September 15, 2023

U15: Thursday, September 28, 2023

U18: TBD (waiting until dates are published for U16AAA/ HS tryouts)

 A couple of reminders:

 1. Registration for competitive closes on August 21, so if you haven't already registered, please remember to do so.

 2. If you would like to help with the evaluation process, please sign up here: 

 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K4se_3oj12RTF71nh7GSorZ_ILJuDK9f0tX0Y1OChVc/edit?usp=drive_web

 More information concerning tryouts will come out in early September.  If you have any questions please reach out to our VP of Competitive, Stephen Pelham at competitive@chebuctominorhockey.com

Coaching Selection Committee Update

The coaching selection committee would like to thank all of the parents and non parent volunteers who put their names forward to coach for this coming year!  We have a number of parents candidates who we are not able to name at this time as we need to wait until we see where their children land after tryouts. Parent coaches will be named closer to the end of tryouts.  As we move through the tryout process the coaching selection committee will narrow down the parent candidates.

In terms of non-parent coaches, we would like to welcome back and name Justin Ritcey as our U13AAA coach once again this year and Dante Manuel as our U18AA coach once again this year.  Justin and Dante are everything we like to stand for as an assocation in having our players come back after successful years playing to give back to the association.  Congratulations Justin and Dante, and welcome back! Other coaches we are naming that is time are Peter Jollimore U24 Rec, and Paul Chui U18 Rec, again two coaches who are returning to Chebucto after many years of coaching those two teams!

All other coaching positions will be named at a later date!  If you have any questions about coaching selection please reach out to Craig Messervey at executive.vp@chebuctominorhockey.com

That is it for now, I will send another update at the end of the month!

Take care!

Craig Myra

President, CMHA