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What to do about Winter Hockey Season? Help us decide, your opinion matters!

By now you probably have heard that Government of Alberta announcement on January 29th, 2021 and hockey is not looking like it’s in the cards for a while.

We are working on the best options for the NCHL to move forward and we need your help!

Please take 1 minute of your day to fill out this short, anonymous survey. Answers will be accepted until Thursday, February 4th. Your opinion matters greatly to us.

DO THE SURVEY

After that will have another update by the end of this week with more info on what we will happen with the 2021 Winter and Summer Seasons.

Customer Guarantee: As always, we guarantee that when we cannot provide the product you registered for, your team account will be refunded the difference of the games that you did not receive.

Thank you for your patience in these trying time, and for playing with us all these years.

The NCHL – A Better Way To Play!

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The NCHL Welcomes Its New Lead Ambassador

The NCHL would like to introduce Jen Dorward as the new Lead Ambassador for the league.

Jen has been working with the NCHL for the past 5 years as a time keeper and league ambassador. She will now be the main point of contact for team GMs in regards to any concerns you may have. Jen will be helping you directly, or will make sure that you are connected to the right person who can best help with what you need.

She will also be checking in after your games occasionally to find out more about how the game went, and how your team’s season is going overall. This helps us best identify teams for realignment and to improve the overall league parity. Your experience matters a great deal to us, and we are working every day to improve on what we do.

Normally Jen would be in charge of coming to your dressing rooms, and scheduling other ambassador visits in all cities. Unfortunately with the COVID-19 restrictions, she will not be able to come visit your dressing rooms throughout the season, so we are doing our best to still stay in contact, address your concerns, and communicate any important information you may need about the season.

With all of her experience and her passion for the game, we know that Jen will be a great fit for the position. This is one of the many little things we do for you as a player, and team GM to make your league experience with us amazing.

If you have any questions or concerns about your games you can fill out a form here (Calgary, Edmonton, Richmond). If you have general questions please email info at nchl.com

The NCHL – A Better Way To Play!

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Playing Winter Ice Hockey In A COVID World – Registration Information For Grande Prairie Teams (AKA – The Plan)

As far as plans go, someone once said everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face (Ok it was Mike Tyson and we are paraphrasing).

Mike did get one thing right, with all this uncertainty surrounding us during the great calamity called COVID-19, how can one plan anything right now? Yet we somehow have to proceed with life and hockey.

While no one knows what will happen in the future, we are operating under the assumption that hockey will be back to some kind of normal without the draconian restrictions placed on it by the vagaries of the pandemic.

Other jurisdictions do not have cohort requirements right now, in Manitoba players can play on as many teams as they want and there is no limitation on team sizes as a result.

The same is true in some places in BC (we heard through the hockey grapevine that in Victoria people have been playing beer league hockey for the past 6 weeks without cohort restrictions).

So the trend seems to be moving in the right direction in regards to what winter may look like. And thus we have decided to offer a regular winter hockey season to all our teams that will include:

  • Choose Your Schedule Option (only in the NCHL)
  • The NCHL Experience – playing hockey in a safe, fun, competitive and well organized environment
  • 30 Regular Season Games
  • 1 Guaranteed Playoff Game (every team makes the playoffs)
  • Best of 3 finals (way more games for your team)
  • 3 stop time periods, 15 minutes each
  • 2 Referees and 1 Scorekeeper at Each Game (or you get a team credit)
  • Online Stats For All Teams and Players
  • Individual Payments for Players (only in the NCHL)
  • Payment Options – one, two or monthly
  • Season Start – After September 1st, 2020
  • Season End – Before April 30th, 2021

See full season details …

“But you just said no one can tell the future, so how can you offer this and be sure it will actually happen?” you may be wondering, and rightly so. This is our plan for winter.

If for whatever reason we are not able to offer you hockey in this manner come winter, we will need to adjust so we can still play. It will come down playing hockey vs not playing hockey, and we think playing hockey is always the better choice.

So here is our promise to you, if we are not able to offer the season as outlined above, and have to adjust or cancel hockey all together you will always have the option to either get a refund for the remaining games you did not get, or keep the team fees as a credit until hockey returns.

We will work with each and every team to make sure we take care of you and the wishes of your players. The same way we did this past winter season when it was abruptly cancelled, and the summer season that never happened.

All teams that wanted a refund for games not played have been taken care of.

THE IMPORTANT STUFF

Today we are releasing the season and pricing information for winter. We had to adjust the pricing a little. Ice costs did go up, because arenas must now sanitize surfaces more often, purchase additional PPE and potentially have more staff.

Here is the link to Grande Prairie Winter Team Fees and all available schedule plans.

Registration will open on Wednesday July 8th, at noon MST.

Pre-registered teams will have until Friday July, 10th at noon MST to complete the registration and join the Winter 2020-21 NCHL-Grande-Prairie hockey season.

We strongly encourage you to provide us with a deposit at the time of registration or instructing us to apply any unused team credits on account towards your deposit.

Teams that have enough credit on account are assumed to have their deposit fully paid at the time of registration.

See important deadlines here …

If you pre-registered your team earlier when we did not know which way was up, thank you for your support!

That means you now have a 48 hour advantage over any other team that did not do so, and you can complete your registration ahead of these teams.

Why is this important?

Teams that want to get the best possible ice times we can offer for winter need to be at the top of the deposit order because this order determines the selection of your schedule for the winter season.

The team that has the highest placement in the deposit order at that point will choose first, and we will continue this process until all teams chose their schedule for the season.

What does this mean for you?

If choice is important to you, sign up and get your deposit in as quickly as you can.

Please do not wait, complete your registration ASAP and put your deposit down.

Thank you for your support during these uncertain times.

The NCHL – A Better Way To Play!

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Stop playing hockey, this is what will happen to you!

WARNING! These images are disturbing. Your fate is in your hands. This is what will happen to you if you stop playing hockey this winter. To prevent sudden loss of teeth, strikingly receding hairline, and/or an early onset of a mullet – sign up as a Free Agent. Salvation is at your finger tips.

Calgary Information

Edmonton Information

Grande Prairie Information

Richmond, BC Information

All images courtesy BarDown

This is what happens when you stop playing winter hockey
This is what happens when you stop playing winter hockey!

This is what happens to you when you stop playing winter hockey!
This is what happens to you when you stop playing winter hockey!

This is what happens to you when you stop playing winter hockey!
This is what happens to you when you stop playing winter hockey!

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Drop In Pickup Shinny Hockey While You Wait To Be Placed On A Team

Black Aces Weekly Shinny

You just want to play? Perfect, you don’t need organize a team. We will set you and all your friends up for a winter hockey team. We will place all of you together on the same team. Guaranteed, or your money back! Registration for Winter is about to open very soon. In the meanwhile please consider the Black Aces Weekly Shinny.

Once we gather enough people interested in playing on a winter ice hockey team, we will start a weekly Black Aces Shinny. This is a great opportunity to play ice hockey while you are waiting to get on a team for winter. There you will get a chance to meet, and play with or against your new potential hockey teammates. What an awesome way to break the ice and start getting in shape for winter!

The ice times will be posted on Breakout weekly for each city. Please fill out the form below so you can get the link for the Black Aces Shinny team on Breakout. Once we have enough people on the list we will start setting up the ice times.