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Season Dates:
Please see the Saratoga Youth Hockey website for the most up-to-date information.
Registration Dates:
Please see the Saratoga Youth Hockey website for the most up-to-date information.
Ages:
Saratoga Youth Hockey offers programs for players of all levels for players ages 4 to 18. USA Hockey, Saratoga Youth Hockey's governing body, classifies player ages by birth year (Jan 1 to Dec 31). Below are the USA Hockey divisions.
Learn To Skate-Ages 4 to 10 years old
Mite - 8 & Under
Squirt - 9 & 10 year olds
Pee Wee - 11 & 12 year olds
Bantam - 13 & 14 year olds
Midget - 15 to 18 years old
For players in the Squirt division and above teams are selected by a tryout process. The number of teams at each level is determined by the total number of players registered in each division. Teams play a regional schedule and participate in the Tech Valley Hockey League.
New! Mite Age (8 & Under) Programs:
USA Hockey recently incorporated the ADM (American Development Model). This program lies at the core of player development. The ADM utilizes a station approach to practice in order to simultaneously maximize ice utilization while presenting players with limited time and space training. This approach serves to increase repetitions, puck touches, and skating in traffic. As a result, particularly at the 8U Mite level, it serves to develop agility, balance, coordination, and speed (The ABCs). Another FUNdamental component of the ADM for the Mite level is its emphasis on cross-ice, half-ice and small area games, all designed to help foster a read and react mentality, the essence of decision-making in the sport.
SYHI is committed to following these ADM principles. Saratoga Youth Hockey’s entry level programs will now offer four levels of participation:
Location:
Wiebel Ave Ice Rinks
Frequency of Practice and Games:
Please see the Saratoga Youth Hockey website for the most up-to-date information.
Squirt Dates and Times
Week 1: Monday and Tuesday
Week 2 - 7: Sunday and Tuesday
Start Times: 6:00PM, 6:10PM, 6:30PM or 7:30PM
Pewee Dates and Times
Week 1: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
Week 2 - 7: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Start Times: 7:10PM or 7:20PM
Bantam Dates and Times
Week 1 - 7: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Start Times: 7:10PM, 7:20PM, 7:50PM, 8:50PM 9:00PM
Midget Dates and Times
Week 1 - 7: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Start Times: 8:45PM, 9:20PM, 10:05PM, 10:20PM 10:30PM
Amount of travel:
None
Registration costs:
Please see the Saratoga Youth Hockey website for the most up-to-date information.
Please note: The information on this page was found on the organization website. Please check back there for the most up-to-date information. Feel free to let us know if we have posted any incorrect information or if you have any other information you'd like to share.
Please see the Saratoga Youth Hockey website for the most up-to-date information.
Registration Dates:
Please see the Saratoga Youth Hockey website for the most up-to-date information.
Ages:
Saratoga Youth Hockey offers programs for players of all levels for players ages 4 to 18. USA Hockey, Saratoga Youth Hockey's governing body, classifies player ages by birth year (Jan 1 to Dec 31). Below are the USA Hockey divisions.
Learn To Skate-Ages 4 to 10 years old
Mite - 8 & Under
Squirt - 9 & 10 year olds
Pee Wee - 11 & 12 year olds
Bantam - 13 & 14 year olds
Midget - 15 to 18 years old
For players in the Squirt division and above teams are selected by a tryout process. The number of teams at each level is determined by the total number of players registered in each division. Teams play a regional schedule and participate in the Tech Valley Hockey League.
New! Mite Age (8 & Under) Programs:
USA Hockey recently incorporated the ADM (American Development Model). This program lies at the core of player development. The ADM utilizes a station approach to practice in order to simultaneously maximize ice utilization while presenting players with limited time and space training. This approach serves to increase repetitions, puck touches, and skating in traffic. As a result, particularly at the 8U Mite level, it serves to develop agility, balance, coordination, and speed (The ABCs). Another FUNdamental component of the ADM for the Mite level is its emphasis on cross-ice, half-ice and small area games, all designed to help foster a read and react mentality, the essence of decision-making in the sport.
SYHI is committed to following these ADM principles. Saratoga Youth Hockey’s entry level programs will now offer four levels of participation:
- In the fall and again in the winter, SYHI offers a Learn to Skate program that runs for 8 weeks (see Learn To Skate on Team's tab).
- In the winter session, a Learn to Play program modeled after the 6U American Development Model (ADM) developed by USA Hockey runs concurrently with the Learn to Skate program (see Learn to Skate on Team's tab).
- Participants that wish to further their hockey experience can advance out of LTS and/or LTP into the Red, White and Blue program, also modeled after the ADM. There will be a station based practice session each week and a cross-ice game night as well as opportunities to participate in local cross-ice jamboree tournaments with other organizations (see Mite-RWB on Team's tab).
- Those 8U participants who have excelled in their skill development will be invited to try out for the Stars and Stripes Mite Program. The Stars and Stripes Mite Program will provide more advanced skills training following the ADM, while offering more local cross-ice or half ice competition. The Stars and Stripes program will meet separately from the RWB program for practices and half-ice games, but will also incorporate ADM training principles and practices. We are currently working with organizations involved in the Tech Valley League to form a division within the league. Stars and Stripes players will have opportunities to still play in local jamborees, but will also play in the Tech Valley League, with home and away games around the Capital Region. A goal of this program is to adhere to a 2:1 practice to game ratio. As Herb Brooks noted, “Competition without preparation is anti-development, so the primary emphasis of training at this level is skill development coupled with game concepts (see Mite-S&S on Team's tab).
Location:
Wiebel Ave Ice Rinks
Frequency of Practice and Games:
Please see the Saratoga Youth Hockey website for the most up-to-date information.
Squirt Dates and Times
Week 1: Monday and Tuesday
Week 2 - 7: Sunday and Tuesday
Start Times: 6:00PM, 6:10PM, 6:30PM or 7:30PM
Pewee Dates and Times
Week 1: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
Week 2 - 7: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Start Times: 7:10PM or 7:20PM
Bantam Dates and Times
Week 1 - 7: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Start Times: 7:10PM, 7:20PM, 7:50PM, 8:50PM 9:00PM
Midget Dates and Times
Week 1 - 7: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Start Times: 8:45PM, 9:20PM, 10:05PM, 10:20PM 10:30PM
Amount of travel:
None
Registration costs:
Please see the Saratoga Youth Hockey website for the most up-to-date information.
Please note: The information on this page was found on the organization website. Please check back there for the most up-to-date information. Feel free to let us know if we have posted any incorrect information or if you have any other information you'd like to share.