Western Pennsylvania Youth Hockey

Registration is now open for STEEL POWER, a weekly hockey skating specific program lead by Marianne Watkins. Marianne is one of the most sought after skating coaches in hockey and has worked with many of the games top players and 5 NHL organizations. The biggest improvement you can make to your game is through skating development. In STEEL POWER, all of the basic hockey skating fundamentals are emphasized, solidified and intensified as lessons progress into high-level skills, which incorporate agility, lateral movement, speed, acceleration, reaction time and maneuverability. Make no mistake though, this is not a learn to skate program. This program is desi…

Based on what people are saying, neither the Ice Miners nor Wheeling have any ice on which to practice yet.

Ok... I'll kick this thing off I guess. Currently living in TX and have two sons playing -- 12UAA and 10UAA. My wife is a Pittsburgh native and we are considering a move there sometime before 2019-2020 hockey season. In the meantime, we'll probably make a couple of trips up there and we'd like to catch a few different games and/or practices to get a feel for how the scene there differs from Texas. Is there a specific weekend that is better or worse in terms of the sheer volume of youth hockey activity around town? Which organizations should we try to prioritize observing? I'd be equally interested in seeing what constitutes AAA talent up there, as well as AA and A…

SCIR 408 is in Group 1. They beat the Preds today 2-1.

Inviting all area youth hockey team managers, coaches, and schedulers to join a Western PA area facebook group. The mission is to assist managers in filling and finding available ice slots, facilitating in scheduling games, and inviting other teams to tournaments and showcases. It is a western PA centric group, but has members from Eastern PA, NY, NJ, MI and Ohio. It's a closed group and you must provide the team you represent and must be in some offical capacity with the team. www.facebook.com/groups/223896918195293/ If this is not an inappropriate forum for this post please advise or move. Feel free to share or invite anybody that this might benefit. Th…

The new forum has advanced capabilities of tagging someone (or several) people within a post. If you know their username, all you need to do is type the "@" symbol followed by their username. As you start to type the username it will do an "AJAX" lookup and show you all the usernames that start with those letters. Select one of those usernames and keep typing your post. The person (or people) that you tagged will get a notification that you tagged them when you make the post. I find this a very handy feature. Check it out!

Crawford County Youth Hockey Association has openings on their U12 & U10 travel teams. For players still looking for an organization to play travel hockey but have yet to be placed on a team we are in need of one or two players at each level to fill out a full, healthy roster. Teams have openings for any/all positions. Both teams will play a PAHL league schedule, likely in an "A-Minor" classification. Please email the organization at cchyaflames@gmail.com for more information.

YouthHockey,com is currently being used by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League (PIHL), and is available to your teams, clubs and leagues. YouthHockey.com is a great way for team managers to keep parents and players informed and to find games. YouthHockey.com also offers clubs an easy and convenient way to keep their websites up to date and track teams, ice slots, and schedules. Lastly, our state of the art automated scheduling system is now being used by leagues from MA to MN. Leagues also love our standings and results system. YouthHockey.com is currently available to all Western PA Hockey Forum members free! Sign up Now!

As an FYI, there is a new VIP forum for posters who have posted a total of more than 100 posts/comments/likes. When you hit the threshold, it will appear under YOUTH HOCKEY. This forum is not visible to anyone under 100 content items.

Today I deployed a brand new, robust theme which is now set as the forum default. This them is call ORTEM. It has the ability to show lots of forum statistics and is much more robust than the built-in theme that came with the software.

Just as an FYI, the new forum has a fully optimized mobile browser version. No app needed...

Hello Everyone! I am pleased to welcome you to the brand-new Western PA Hockey forum. The new forum has 100x the features of the old forum but best of all we are free of the restrictions placed on us by the former "free" forum provider. I can speak from experience the old forum setup was sub-par both in terms of technology and the way they treated their forum clients. I couldn't wait to get off that platform and this new forum took lots of time and planning to implement, plus the software is not free (I went with a proven, robust forum platform). As I had previously noted, the prior forum provider claimed full ownership of all the forum content, so we we…