RED DEER – More than 40 tournaments are scheduled across Alberta this weekend, and hosts are ensuring participants have the opportunity to pay their respects on Remembrance Day, and throughout the weekend. Many tournament hosts are ensuring that poppy stickers are placed on each player’s helmet for the duration of the tournament as well as […]

RED DEER – Applications are now being accepted from Hockey Alberta member organizations for the Local Hockey Leaders EDI Grant program. The Local Hockey Leaders EDI Grant program provides up to $5,000 in funding towards general EDI fundamentals training, or for a specific awareness and education project proposed by the Member. “This exciting new grant […]

RED DEER – As part of the second annual Maltreatment Awareness Day (11.4 Day), Hockey Alberta is continuing an initiative that began last season. Starting last year on November 4 (11.4 Day), Hockey Alberta partnered with 17 AAA and AA programs around the province to circulate ‘These Don’t Belong’ banners. “Our goal is to nurture […]

RED DEER – The hockey competition at the 2024 Alberta Winter Games will have a slightly different look than previous events. New for 2024, the competing teams at the Alberta Winter Games will be club teams – U15 AA for the Male competition and U13 AA for the Female competition. The Games take place February […]

RED DEER – Hockey Alberta is excited to announce the dates for the 2024 Spring Showcase. The three-week event features the Alberta Cup (April 24-28), Alberta Challenge (May 1-5), and Prospects Cup (May 8-12), and is returning to the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre at Red Deer Polytechnic. For the Alberta Challenge and Prospects […]

Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day honours the children who never returned home and survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process. […]

RED DEER – The puck drops on the 2023-24 regular season this weekend in the Alberta Female Hockey League (AFHL) and the Alberta Elite Hockey League (AEHL). The AEHL U18AAA and AFHL U18AAA divisions open tonight with one game on their respective schedules, while the AEHL U15AAA has two games on the docket. The AFHL’s […]

The past two years have seen Hockey Alberta undertake several initiatives and engage numerous individuals to help us better understand the challenges faced by participants in our sport related to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Hockey Alberta hosted an Indigenous Hockey Summit in August 2021, and then created and hosted the inaugural 11.4 Awareness Day in […]

RED DEER – Player registration is open for the 2024 Arctic Winter Games Selection Camps.  Team Alberta North is sending a Junior Female and U15 Male team to the 2024 games in Matanuska-Susitna Borough (Mat-Su), Alaska, March 9-16.   The U15 Male Selection Camp is in Peace River, Nov. 24-26. Male athletes born in 2009-2010 and […]

RED DEER – Fifty-three players from the Alberta Female Hockey League (AFHL) are graduating to the post-secondary institutions to begin the next level of their sport  careers. Each year, the AFHL is proud to graduate many players to the next stage in a variety of sports. The expanding list below features 51 players who will […]