Michigan Amateur Hockey Association District 6

Association Coaching Directors,

If you have yet to attend the annual fall ACE Clinic, you final opportunity to do so is in Ann Arbor on September 11th at the ICE CUBE, home of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program.  New ACE at 830a, existing ACE at  1015a.  The session will be posted in the Coaching Clinic section soon.  Please register here.

I am starting to plan the Student Coaches Clinics for this season.  If your rink has space and you are interested in having a clinic, or have students interested in participating, please contact me by clicking here.   

Here are some links to help your association with the American Development Model implementation at the 8/u level.

ADMkids.com

Coaching Materials

Red, White and Blue Hockey is the blueprint that USA Hockey and MAHA are supplying to help your association develop an appropriate ADM compliant eight and under program.   MAHA District 6 ACE Director, Brian Bellgraph and Bob Mancini are available to answer questions and help to get your program started.  Please feel free to contact us with questions.

To contact Brian or Bob, please click on their names.

Brian Bellgraph- District 6 ACE Director

Bob Mancini- USA Hockey ADM Regional Manager

Mite ADM is here.  Does your association need help implementing the program?  We are here to help.  We are available to meet with your association's board and coaches.  Please feel free to contact Brian Bellgraph on how to implement this program in your association. 

 I have noticed a problem of coaches violating their coaching ethics, so in conjunction with Art Kale, D6 Referee-in-Chief, I have written this letter as a reminder that our job is to develop hockey players and future adults.  We want to see a coach have passion and enthusiasm, just not the way its being seen.  I have had too many complaints about coaches verbally abusing players, officials and other coaches.  This is not the message we want to send out.

Here is the chart that was requested.

Click on the link below to complete your 2009-10 Coaching Ethics Agreement online.  You will need to have a TST website account to login to the online session.  If you do not have one from your association website, you will be asked to create one and then proceed.

I received a nice group of practice plans.  I have emailed the whole list to each ACE Director.  I will post 5 of them at a time.  Please feel free to contact me if you would like me to send them to you.  Enjoy