WINNIPEG, MB – Join our team! Hockey Manitoba is now hiring a Coordinator, Programs & Events. For more information and the full job posting please follow the link below! Job Posting: Coordinator, Programs & Events . The application deadline for this position is Monday September 2, 2024.
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Hockey Manitoba is proud to celebrate the 10th Annual National Coaches Week from September 16, 2024 to September 22, 2024 presented by the Coaching Association of Canada and Territorial Coaching Representatives. This year, we are introducing the Hockey Manitoba National Coaches Week Contest where we will give members a chance to nominate one of their coaches to have them recognized for the integral role they...
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THOROLD, Ontario – Hockey Canada has announced the roster for Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team for a three-game series against the United States, Aug. 14-17 at Canada Games Park. Twenty-three players – three goaltenders, seven defence and 13 forwards – will wear the Maple Leaf. The roster includes five players (Cimeroni, Grenier, Manness, Primerano, Zablocki) who captured a bronze medal at the 2024 IIHF U18 Women’s World Championship in Zug, Switzerland. Manitobans selected to...
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Registration is now open for the 2024 – 25 NHL/NHLPA First Shift program. The NHL/NHLPA First Shift program is designed to ensure a positive experience for new-to-hockey families. We want families to experience the game at its best — to understand why so many Canadians feel an inherent love for the sport, and to stimulate a desire for continued participation.
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Hockey Manitoba is an established sport organization that has thrived on solid and consistent administration and governance, serving over 30,000 members throughout our province. It is essential that both volunteers and staff make a concerted effort without bias or prejudice when applying the rules and policies of Hockey Manitoba. This ensures a fair and consistent voice in the application when interpreting the rules, regulations, and...
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Manitobans Sara Manness (La Salle), Kate Manness (La Salle), and Hayley McDonald (East St.Paul) have been invited to participate in Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team selection camp, presented by BFL CANADA, scheduled for August 5-11 at Canada Games Park in Thorold, Ontario Sara Manness, Kate Manness, and Hayley McDonald all represented Female U18 Team Manitoba at the 2023 National Women’s U18 Championship in Dawson Creek,...
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TORONTO, Ont. – The Hockey Canada Foundation has committed $1 million for its Assist Fund during the 2024-25 hockey season, which will be distributed as registration-fee subsidies for young Canadians playing hockey and facing financial barriers. Since it launched in 2020, the Assist Fund has helped nearly 10,000 Canadian children from diverse backgrounds to participate in competitive and non-competitive hockey, including over 3,000 who identify with Black,...
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Hockey Manitoba, along with Hockey Canada, is proud to announce applications are now open for the 2024 IIHF World Girls’ Ice Hockey Weekend (WGIHW) slated for October – November 2024. World Girls’ Ice Hockey Weekend is an international celebration of the women and girls’ game that has reached hundreds of thousands of young girls over the last decade. The goal is to have events from...
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U16 Team Manitoba Alumni Peyton Kettles (Winnipeg) will represent Team Canada at the 2024 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, which will take place from August 5-10 in Edmonton, Alberta. Kettles represented U16 Team Manitoba at the 2023 Canada Winter Games in Prince Edward Island (two assists in five games). He currently plays for the Swift Current Broncos in the Western Hockey League. He registered 13 points (two...
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Over the past five seasons, Ferdi Nelissen has scouted hundreds of games for Hockey Manitoba’s Female Under-18 Program of Excellence. Nelissen, currently the Director of Minor Hockey for the Central Plains Region, was a member of the Ad-hoc Committee that founded the Manitoba Female U18 AAA Hockey League (MFHL) in 2008 and has been involved with the league in some capacity for its entire 16...
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CALGARY, Alberta – The following is a statement on behalf of Hockey Canada from president and chief executive officer Katherine Henderson, on the passing of Murray Costello. “Hockey Canada is deeply saddened to learn that long-time hockey executive Murray Costello, who led the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) and Hockey Canada as president for two decades, passed away Saturday at the age of 90, surrounded by...
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WINNIPEG, MB – Hockey Manitoba is pleased to announce the final roster for the 2024 Female Under-18 Program of Excellence (POE). The next stage of the Female U18 POE process will be a Collaborative Skills Camp on Thursday August 12th at hockey for all centre with the Male U16 POE program which will see the team work on concepts that are derived from Hockey Manitoba’s...
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Eighty players – eight goaltenders, 24 defencemen and 48 forwards – will take the ice at Joshua’s Creek Arenas in Oakville, Ontario as part of Canada’s national under-17 development camp, set to take place July 18-24 . All 80 players have been drafted by Canadian Hockey League teams (39 from the OHL, 23 from the WHL and 18 from the QMJHL), while 17 represented Canada at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games (Beites, Chartrand,...
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As part of Canada’s National Men’s Summer Under-18 Team selection camp, 41 players – four goaltenders, 12 defencemen and 25 forwards – have been invited to compete to represent Canada at the 2024 Hlinka Gretzky Cup , scheduled for Aug. 5-10 in Edmonton, Alberta. The selection camp, set for July 27-30 at the WinSport Event Centre in Calgary, will include a pair of Red-Black games on July 29-30. The roster includes five players who won gold...
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Forty-two players – four goaltenders, 13 defencemen and 25 forwards – have been invited to Canada’s National Junior Team Summer Showcase, July 28 to Aug. 3 at the WFCU Centre in Windsor, Ontario, and south of the border in Plymouth, Michigan. The camp roster features 38 players who have been selected in the NHL Draft, including 17 first-round picks: Colby Barlow (WPG), Cole Beaudoin (UHC),...
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CALGARY, Alberta – Hockey Canada has announced that its board of directors has approved a Western Canadian Development Model (WCDM) pilot project for the 2024-25 season, following an extensive proposal submitted in collaboration from its four Western Members, their respective Junior A hockey leagues and the Western Hockey League (WHL). The WCDM pilot project focuses on strengthening the delivery of sanctioned junior hockey to participants across...
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BFL CANADA and Hockey Canada announced that Regan Boulton has been named Manitoba’s 2024 BFL Canada Female Competitive Coach of the Year Award winner and Brenda McCallum has been named Manitoba’s 2024 BFL Canada Female Community Coach of the Year Award winner. Both winners will receive a $1,000 bursary. Regan Boulton is entering her 6th season as the Balmoral Hall Blazers Assistant Coach. After graduating...
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Brandon’s Clarke Caswell had his name called at the 2024 NHL Draft in Las Vegas, Nevada Caswell was the lone Manitoban to be selected at the 2024 NHL Draft, going to the Seattle Kraken in the fifth round (141st overall). The 5’11”, 176 pound left winger scored 26 goals and 77 points in 68 games for the WHL’s Swift Current Broncos last season. Caswell represented...
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WINNIPEG, MB – Hockey Manitoba is pleased to release the roster for the 2024 Female Under-18 Program of Excellence Top – 40 Camp which will be held from July 4 – 6, 2024 at hockey for all centre. This camp will be the second phase of the Hockey Manitoba Female U18 Program of Excellence which is designed to provide high performance female players with the...
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