We are very proud to announce that Makivik, as the promoter and administrator of the Nunavik Youth Hockey Development Program (NYHDP), and its board of executive has approved the recommendation to create regional minor hockey tournaments, previously submitted by our NYHDP team of instructors and educators. Makivik strongly believes that by having these tournaments, it will help stimulating more communities to properly implement the program that is meant to use hockey as an incentive for the children to do well in school in regards to attendance, behavior and effort.

To participate in a tournament, fill out the document below:
Team Registration 2012 - Minor Hockey Tournament (MS Word document)

To host a tournament, fill out the document below:
Hosting request 2012  - Minor Hockey Tournament (MS Word document)

A budget was therefore approved to help communities to fund and put in place these different tournaments for the Spring of 2012. A total of five events could possibly be hosted by communities interested to organize these competitions for the following categories; Atom (8-10 years old), Peewee (11-12 years old), Bantam (13-14 years old), Midget (15-17 years old), and Juvenile Girl (13-17 years old).

Nunavik already has a hockey tournament history with the Ungava Cup and Hudson Cup for Women and Men. It is now time to do the same for our youth in providing these annual events so our children can have the same opportunity as the adults to travel to other villages and participate in hockey tournaments.

The NYHDP Regional Minor Hockey Tournaments, promoted and sponsored by Makivik, are meant to:

• Create an incentive for the communities to properly implement the NYHDP and to follow the protocol while respecting the program’s education mandate.
• Create an annual event for the children participating in the NYHDP to play hockey and compete within the region.
• Create an occasion for the children participating in the NYHDP to travel and make friends from other communities.
• Create an occasion for parents and adults to get involved with minor hockey and youth development.
• Create an incentive for the children to do well in school in respect to attendance, behavior and effort.

Only villages that have made an honest effort to properly implement the NYHDP and who have followed the protocol will be allowed to participate in hosting a tournament and/or to register a team to participate in. The smaller villages will be able to join efforts with another community so they can be enough players to form an organization/team. Ex: Aupaluk and Tasiujaq

The communities who will be chosen to host a NYHDP Minor Hockey Tournament will need to form a local "hockey tournament" committee to oversee the planning and aftermath of the tournament. Each member of the committee would have specific tasks and would also have to find other volunteers working under him to assure the proper coordination and to complete numerous tasks such as:

Teams and students-players registration (respecting age groups and categories)

• Accommodations (lodging and food)
• Regional flight bookings for all participants (including 3-5 chaperons per team depending of the category/age group)
• Local transportation (school bus, vans, pickup truck)
• Tournament statistics
• Security
• Medals/banners/trophies orders
• Officials (Referees and time keepers)

Here are the criteria that will need to be followed and respected in order for a community to host a NYHDP minor hockey tournament, and for municipalities/school to register teams to participate and compete in these events

• Verify that the communities who want to register have followed the NYHDP during the season
• Verify that all participants are students who have the approval from the schools to participate in the tournament in respect to their attendance, behavior and effort

Follow the Hockey Québec rules and regulation

• Penalties
• Categories’ age
• Number of players,
• Minimum of one certified referees per gameArena equipment in full operative and working condition
• Zamboni in good working condition with enough propane gas (if appropriate)
• Scoreboard in good working order (consol, light bulbs, buzzer, etc)
• Sufficient amount of new pucks available
• Hockey Quebec scoresheets available
• Proper dimensions for all lines and faceoff circles
• Undamaged arena boards, glass, doors, etc
• Heated, clean and adequate dressing rooms
• Referee room separated from players and teams
• Emergency equipment on hand (bandages, ice-packs, stretcher, etc)
• Protocol in place with your local CLSC

Volunteers availability to do the following tasks during the tournament

(Unless they are paid staff)

• Timekeeper / Scorekeeper (must be trained how to operate the console / scoresheets)
• Security
• Janitors
• Statistician (need to be computer literate with proper software that can make tournament schedule)
• Referees (might need to hire referees from the South)
• Video and photographer (If available)

Food & lodging

• Ability to accommodate a possibility of 13 teams (15 players and 5 coaches/supervisors)
• Ability to serve all meals for the teams during the event (Unless each team coaches/supervisors are made responsible for feeding their own players, a daily budget for food would be made available to each team by the NYHDP)
• Put in place a curfew

Transportation

• Each organization (community) will be asked to provide to the "tournament committee" well in advance, their list of people traveling on Air Inuit
• The "tournament committee" will need to make travel bookings for all teams in collaboration with the NYHDP Regional Coordinator
• A bus service will need to be provided (Unless each team rents their own vehicle) to bring all teams’ personnel from airport to their lodging, lodging to arena, etc
• A daily bus schedule will need to be posted and followed so all players can be

All communities interested to host one of these minor hockey tournaments will need to send their request by writing to the following email:

Hockey Nunavik

Attention: Danny Fafard, Regional Coordinator, Hockey Development

Email: dfafard@nyhdp.ca

The request letters from the communities interested to host one of these tournaments will need to be signed by the Mayor and the School Principal, and the following information will need to be provided:

• Name of community
• Tournament dates
• Choices of category in order of choice (Atom, PeeWee, Girl Juvenile, Bantam or Midget)
• List of volunteers and respective responsibilities

We are looking forward to a great turn out so our children can get this opportunity to participate in regional hockey tournament and interact with students from other communities. 

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