About Us

Mission

We are committed to investing in our team of coaches, trainers, and league officials to ensure our children receive the best possible instruction
Our goal is that through fair play and sportsmanship our children will learn that the key to success is self-confidence and respect.
Put every effort towards developing competitive hockey teams through our operators
Our goal is to promote players to next level of hockey
Provide scheduling and practices to assist with a players academic studies
We help to mold players into respected members of the community
CIHF is “Hockey without Boundaries”
Players from all countries can play

Mandate

Scheduling all games
Provide player registration, rosters records including jersey numbers.
Recruitment and scheduling Referees.
Provide Game stats including Goals and Assists to promote our players to higher level teams.
Recruit with Operators assistance local Referees, train and schedule Referees.
Manage player and coach’s discipline.
Develop weekly newsletter promoting games from the week and highlights of players.
Player profiles hosted on the CIHF website.(AAA players only)
Develop our own Video Channel so parents/relatives/friends can view the video of each game weekly
Provide marketing materials to assist in recruitment of players
Paid Head Coach (non-parent) in our AAA only division
Attend AAU sanctioned events in cities such as Boston, Michigan, New York, Minnesota
All teams will be eligible to qualify for the AAU North American Ice Hockey Championships

Vision

A focus on player development that ensures opportunities at higher levels of hockey and academics

Development

The CIHF believe is modeled after the NCAA, where more practice on-ice/off-ice is preferred over more games. This model is proving successful as more and more NCAA players are being signed and drafted into the NHL.

We are also huge promoters of academics supplemented by athletic achievement. Hockey can provide you with an excellent path to a degree in University in Canada or the USA. Through Hockey you can obtain scholarships that assist witht he cost of education.

A record 305 former college players skated in the NHL in 2013-14, comprising 31% of the league. That number was just 20% at the turn of the century.

College hockey, in short, is the fastest growing development path for the NHL.

Just 10 years ago, just one in five NHLers had a college background. Growth since then has been remarkable, and should continue. In the last seven years, 36% of NHL debuts have been by former college hockey players.

NHL front offices are filled with general managers, assistant general managers and scouts who played the college game. Head coaches and assistant coaches in the league have college backgrounds.

NHL Drafts have featured at least 60 current or future college players for 12 consecutive years, and teams continue to scour the NCAA ranks for free agent signees as well.

Once a hidden gem of hockey talent, college hockey has become one of the biggest suppliers of talent to the NHL, surpassing all Europe.

Link to Information Package

Tier 1

Goals

 Paid Non-Parent Coaches

 Develop high level hockey players and academics

 More development on-ice and off-ice training to increase the practice to game ratio

 We play only weekend games to assist with needed study time to ensure players have the best opportunity to obtain a NCAA scholarship or Canadian University funding.

 NCAA now sends approximately 35% off all the players that reach the NHL and deliver an academic degree.

 Mandate all teams to provide professional development along with coach managed practices as part of their program.

 Power Edge Pro Stick Handling

 Powerskating Sessions

 Off-ice professional training sessions with branded athletic trainers

 Skating Treadmill Sessions

 Shooting Academy lessons

 A minimum 24 league game schedule

 Minimum 4 tournament series so players can compete against other high end talent. We will have local tournaments and USA Tournaments against other AAU Teams.

Tier 2/3

Operators of Teams in the AA- A
ORHL League

In the tradition of Independent Hockey, Operators can develop a team in any city they can obtain ice.

The Operators will have the choice to name teams with the same organization name or a variety of names to connect with the local city where they play.

Operators will not be mandated to offer the exact same program of other operators, however all teams must offer the key components of operating a Team in ORHL Hockey League. All programs offered by operators must be approved by CIHF.

Each operator must provide matching jerseys and socks.

Professional (non-coach, unless qualified) instruction sessions in skill specific attributes
o   Power Skating
o   Puck/Stickhandling
o   Shooting
o   Goalie Development

Each Team must attend at least 2 CIHF Sanctioned tournaments, which includes at least 1 in the USA.

The league will require that each team provide the league with a budget to be approved to ensure that each team is delivering on the general vision of the league.

To ensure full transparency and to avoid any parent complaints about funding, each team must establish a team bank account where the operator will be one signing authorities along with one of the parents on the team.

For insurance purposes and to ensure the CIHF can deliver on its mandate, Players will pay a registration fee to the league of $150.00.