Player Selection Process
2024-2025 Rep Player Selection Process
- The tryout process will adhere to the requirements laid out in Policy 9 – Rep Selection Process. (Rep Player Selection Policy). Please review the policy prior to your first tryout skate.
- All participants should have completed the Rep Commitment Form sent to you when you registered for Rep Tryouts. All behavioural and commitment expectations should be adhered to.
- Participants MUST attend all tryout sessions they are assigned to attend with the following exceptions
- Injury – a doctor’s note must be submitted to the Executive Director/Board Members here with both the nature of the injury and the expected return to play date;
- U15 or U18 players who are still part of Hockey Canada sanctioned U15 AAA, U18 AAA, or Junior team tryout camps are required to be in regular communication with the Executive Director throughout the process to maintain their eligibility with TBirds as per the Rep Selection Policy.
- The evaluation team is comprised of non-parent coaches and external evaluators. Parent coaches will be asked to provide session support, but will not provide evaluations.
- No player is guaranteed a spot on a rep team based on their performance on any one day.
- A rep parent meeting will be held via Zoom where a minimum of one parent per player must participate. The timing of this meeting will be communicated at a later date.
Detailed schedules for all divisions throughout the tryout period will be found under division specific tabs below.
2024 Rep Schedules
U11 will commence September 7th, 2024 - schedule has been posted on U11 age division tab
U13/U15 - will commence August 24, 2024 - schedule has been posted on age division tab
U18 - will commence September 3rd - schedule has been posted on U18 age division tab
Age division details can be found on tabs below
U11 Rep Tryout Schedule
September 7, 2024
9:00 AM -10:15 AM UBC - Father Bauer - Goaltender Session
10:30 AM -11:45 AM - UBC- Father Bauer - Group A/B
12:00 PM -1:15 PM - UBC - Father Bauer - Group C/D
1:30 PM -2:45 PM - UBC - Father Bauer - Skills Group E/F
September 8, 2024
9:30 AM -10:45 AM Sunset Arena - Scrimmage Group C vs F
11:00 AM -12:15 PM Sunset Arena - Scrimmage Group B vs E
12:30 PM -1:45 PM Sunset Arena - Scrimmage Group A vs D
September 9, 2024
4:15 PM -5:15 PM Hillcrest Rink Scrimmage Group B vs D
5:30 PM -6:30 PM Hillcrest Rink Scrimmage Group A vs F
6:45 PM -7:45 PM Hillcrest Rink Scrimmage Group C vs E
September 12, 2024
5:45 PM -6:45 PM Hillcrest Rink Scrimmage Group 2
7:00 PM -8:00 PM Hillcrest Rink Scrimmage Group 1
The Pathway prep skates are an opportunity for first-year U11 players to become familiar with the rule changes and larger ice surface. (Playing Rules (off-side, icing, face-offs, penalty procedure, line changes, surface size) and Offensive and Defensive Concepts)
The prep skates ensure a player’s first experience in the new hockey season is not a formal tryout - this gives all players the opportunity to get back on the ice in a more "player‐friendly" environment.
The prep skates help level the playing field; not all players go to hockey schools or prep camps prior to the start of the season.
Click here for detailed information on Hockey Canada U11 Pathway recommendations
The Tryout Process
Hockey Canada outlines the following objectives of any player evaluation process:
- To provide a fair and impartial assessment of a player's total hockey skills during the skating and scrimmage sessions.
- To ensure that players have a reasonable opportunity of being selected to a team appropriate to their skill levels as determined during the on-ice evaluations of the current year.
- To provide coaches with the opportunity and flexibility to build a team based in part on their own coaching philosophy and knowledge of player skills and attitude.
- To provide uniformity and consistency in the evaluation process such that a player and parent expectations are consistent from year to year as players move through the various levels of the association's programs.
- To provide feedback in order to develop players.