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Pa Hockey Calander of Events – 2024 – 2025  26th Annual Damian Bearley Memorial (JV/MS) Fall Face Off (Franklin Regional) – Palmer Imaging Arena – August 22-26, 2024 The Franklin Regional Hockey Club is sponsoring the 26th Annual Damian Bearley Memorial (JV/MS) Fall Face Off This Event features a three-day event in August to kick off the 2024-2025 season. Your school is invited to apply for participation in a 8-12 JV/MS team showcase of the top Junior Varsity and Middle School Teams in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League Contact = Jackie Bearley ~ z19d26@comcast.net and Jeff Mauro jeffmauro@aol.com FLYER ATTACHED  21st Greensburg Salem Invitational (Greensburg Salem) – Varsity – Kiek Nevin Arena – September 2024 Greensburg Salem preseason tournament has been a staple within Westmoreland county for the past 20 years. The tournament is a great way to get ready for the regular PIHL season by matching up against some of the best teams around the area. The tournament is designed to not overload your team for one weekend but to build towards the regular season. Come play with some of the best around and get set for the 2024 - 2025 season now! Dates and Times • Tournament start date is Thursday September 5th • Games are played on Monday and Thursday evenings for the month of September • All start times are either 7:15pm or 9:00pm • Guaranteed a minimum of 3 games • 8-12 Schools Contact = Tony Ross - 412-477-3933 gshockeyross@gmail.com  31st St Margaret Fall Face Off (PIHL) – Varsity – The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League (PIHL) is sponsoring the 31st St Margaret Fall Face Off This Event features a five-day event in September to kick off the 2024-2025 season. Your school is invited to apply for participation in a 16 team showcase of the top Varsity Schools in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League Contact = Tom Halaburka ~ commissioner@pihlhockey.com Governor’s Cup Events – Varsity and JV 18th Annual National Invitational Scholastic Showcase December 6th - 8th , 2024~ Jamestown Savings Bank – Jamestown, NY 16 Commitments and Advanced Registrations Received ~ CANADA (1) EASTERN PA (1) ILLINOIS (2) INDIANA (1) MARYLAND (2) NEW YORK (1) OHIO (3) WESTERN PA (5) 28th Pa Hockey Scholastic Showcase December 29-31 2024 ~ Alpha Ice Complex – Pittsburgh, Pa. 16 Commitments and Advanced Registrations Received ~ Varsity - OHIO (3) WESTERN PA (5) JV ~ OHIO (3) WESTERN PA (5) 9th Annual Hoosier Cup Scholastic Showcase February 7-9, 2025~ Compton Family Ice Arena – South Bend, Indiana 13 Commitments and Advanced Registrations Received ~ CANADA - ONT (1) ILLINOIS (1) INDIANA (1) MARYLAND (2) OHIO (3) VIRGINIA (1) WESTERN PA (3)

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Ron Steedle Celebrating a victory is a moment in time where we all share in a team’s success in developing an idea of bringing the community together with one goal of achieving days and years of organization, love for the game, hard work and integrity into a champion. Whether it be the 3 World Series Championships of the Pirates, 6 Super Bowls Championships of the Steelers, 5 Stanley Cup Championships of the Penguins, or a local group of athletes into a scholastic or club program into a competitive juggernaut, my friend of 30+ years, Ron Steedle, taught me a life lesson. The process of developing people from grade school children into responsible young adults is a testimony to commitment, faith and friendship that drove the Cadillac of Life to the ballfields, arenas and stadiums across Western Pennsylvania mostly and around North America as a fan, coach, friend, mentor, father figure and role model. I would like to thank Ron’s Family, led by parents Joe and Mary and siblings Donny, Colleen and Eileen and all members of the Steedle Clan for giving us the blessing of Ron’s life of leadership, passion and friendship. Coach Ron was dedicated to the coaching profession volunteering his skill in the baseball and hockey community for over 50 years. As the ‘Father of Shaler Hockey’ under his leadership and mentoring, the program achieved 500 + Wins, a Penguins Cup in 2009, 5 WPIHL League Championships and 9 Divisions, mostly in Class AAA. In 20 + years with the Keystone State Games, achieved 2 Gold Medals in 1999 and, including the ‘Greatest Team in the Pennsylvania Summer Games History’ in 2000. Ron’s greatest achievement was the development and mentoring of countless players, coaches and administrators into difference makers in life. Ron served as an administrator and advisor in Baseball and Hockey for most of his life. As an administrator, umpire and manager in Baseball, he developed players and coaches in the Shaler Community eventually carrying skills and fundamentals learned into the highly successful High School Program. In the Hockey Community for over 30 years, Ron served as President, Coaching Director and Board Member for the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League and Founding Member of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League in 1999. As a board member of Pa Hockey Foundation, he advised and served to build the St Margarets Fall Face Off (1994), Pa Hockey Scholastic Showcase (1996) , National Invitational Scholastic Showcase – Jamestown NY (2006) and Hoosier Cup Scholastic Showcase South Band IND (2014). As a season ticket holder of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Steelers and Penguins, Ron was the consummate sports fan supporting the teams at their best and in tough times. He always found time for his family and friends attending every family event to celebrate reunions, birthdays and holidays. Thanks Ron for being a terrific role model, friend and leader. Please join us to celebrate all he gave to us. Visitation Sunday, July 7, 2024, from 2-8 PM at NEELY FUNERAL HOME, 2208 Mt. Royal Blvd., Glenshaw. Funeral Mass Monday, July 8, 2024, at 10 AM at St. Matthew Parish, St. Bonaventure Church. Everyone Please Meet At Church

also coached Carrick good choice

Franklin Regional - Promoted Assistant Coach to Head

To be considered for the Eastern and Western Pennsylvania Selection Committees, please submit your selections to PAHF. Ø The Top 10 Players and Coaches for your school Ø The Top 15 Players and Coaches of Eastern and Western Pennsylvania Ø Officlals, Founders, Builders and Teams Nominations with Support Letter Summary (100 Words or Less) The Nomination Form is now available for ALL and should be submitted to Jeff Mauro at jeffmauro@aol.com (no later than July 1st). NOMINATION FORM IS ATTACHED Pennsylvania High School Hockey Hall of Fame REV 2024 + Criteria FORM.xlsx

Exciting News The Pa Hockey Foundation has begun the process of honoring Players, Coaches, Officials and teams for over 50 years in Pennsylvania. The goal is to have an induction of the Inaugural Class in March 2025 for Eastern and Western Pennsylvania. The respective Committees will convene in June 2024 The initial process of nominations has been expanded and will include Names of Players and Coaches for over 50 years for the Pennsylvania High School Hockey Hall of Fame. Special Categories will be considered for Officlals, Founders, Builders and Teams. To be considered for the Eastern and Western Pennsylvania Selection Committees, please submit your selections to PAHF. Ø The Top 10 Players and Coaches for your school Ø The Top 15 Players and Coaches of Eastern and Western Pennsylvania Ø Officlals, Founders, Builders and Teams Nominations with Support Letter Summary (100 Words or Less) The Nomination Form is now available for ALL and should be submitted to Jeff Mauro at jeffmauro@aol.com (no later than July 1st). NEW Ø The Pennsylvania High School Hockey Hall of Fame Committee has begun to develop a 25-point inspection Criteria Form to help summarize and rate players and coaches hockey careers and rate them for Pennsylvania High School Hockey Hall of Fame consideration. Ø Criteria includes o High School Coaching and Playing Career o High School Team Accomplishments o High School Individual Honors and Accomplishments o Junior and Collegiate Coaching and Playing Career o Professional Coaching and Playing Career Ø Once Nominations are in, the Committee will verify these forms by using content accumulated in both Eastern and Western Pennsylvania.

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That is nonsense. Look at NA and Peters, Andrew Seiss and Chris Clackson learned from two of the best Mike Bagnato and Rick Tingle + Mort and earned a shot. PR's Jordan Yoklic just won States as did South Fayette Matt Schwartz, John Zeiler at TJ. Most of these guys have a playing pedigree or coach as assistants and earn a shot. Cody Black at Mars Chris Cerutti Penn Trafford and Mike Schall at Bethel are other Examples. Good Luck to Brian Bearley, 11 years coaching at FR and gets his chance. This list is long and there are many more examples.

I wish Anthony the best at Central which is a huge challenge. WHEN he wins there and he will youll see SV made a miscalculation. He built a great organization at Seneca Valley with development at JV (2) and Middle School (2)teams and was successful every year he coached. Its not easy to win a State Championship (Congrats Pine Richland !)

Did anyone from Western Pa make the finals at Nationals ? National Bound ? Maybe ?

The last time the FR club experienced something like this in 2011 - 2015, the Varsity went 1-80-1 over 4 years. Thank god for the FR Little Panthers, who led the program to two Penguins Cups and 10 straight winning seasons under Brian Kurtz and John Winebrenner.

Canevin has had a great program for a long time at AA and won over 600 Games and 8 Penguins Cups and 4 State Titles. They can play in Non PIHL Tournaments and compete. It would be nice to see them in AA but would mean the players from Seton LaSalle and Keystone Oaks would have to enroll in Canevin and they would be pure. Commitment to the School and Program. Costs money and can be done. People always want o have things both ways and the reality is the the league has rules to follow. Vaccaro played at Ringgold FYI. https://teampages.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/534810/CANEVIN2020F.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA3I4H7LHCZ6EPI72U%2F20240404%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240404T012100Z&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=33768ac2039199d2518fc9347beb05e66e17dfc9bf1a66915549e6c39336e868