Midget U18 T2

CCYHA Midget Tier 2 U18 Team

Congratulations on being selected to participate on the CCYHA U18 Tier 2 split season team. Hopefully this is the longest email that you get from me all season. It is long but there is very important information included.

Building off the success of the past several seasons where our U16’s and u18's advanced to 5 USA Hockey Nationals, Central CT Youth Hockey (CCYHA) will be, once again, forming a split season National Bound Tier 2 team at the U18 level for the 2025-2026 season. This team fills a void in our area at the Tier 2 level. We will be competing in CHC Tier 2 with the winners of the CT State Tournament advancing to the USA Hockey Tier 2 National Championships. Teams will practice and play at Newington Arena.

Judging from tryouts, this teams appears to be very strong and will give us a great opportunity to get back to Nationals !!!!!

Head Coach:

U18 - Bryan Healy

Assistant Coaches:

Alex Rodriguez, Dan DeConti and Anthony Giusto.

Team Manager:

Valerie Calciano

Cost:

$2,350.00

Includes:

1 full ice practice per week

1 skills practice per week

Game fees (ice, officials, etc….)

2 tournaments, plus state tournament and Nationals (if qualify)

Bauer Reakt Helmet

ProCrease Goaltending on-ice instruction (every other week)

Schedule (Games):

We will play a very competitive schedule. Last season there were 10 declared tier 2 teams at the u18 level. If this holds true for this season, we can expect to play 9 required CHC games. We will be playing in the following 2 tournaments; SuperSeries Boston Breakout in MA (various rinks) Sep 5-7) and Beast Series Jr Bulldogs Showcase in CT (Sept 19-21). In addition to these two tournaments we will also be looking to schedule 10+ additional (home and away) games to fill our schedule against Tier 1 and Tier 2 teams. Our non-league schedule will be challenging. Because of our success over the past few years, we have made connections with other “local” teams that historically compete at Nationals; NY Apple Core, Worcester Railers, BC Jr Eagles, Springfield Pics etc…..

Schedule (Practices):

We will be starting practice the week of August 18th. The team will have one full ice practice each week and one skills practice each week. Because this is a short split season, the primary goal is skill development to get each player prepared for their high school season. The skills session practices will be stationed based skills practices. Practices will be up tempo and challenging for the players.

Schedule (Summer Ice):

CCYHA provides our players with free summer ice weekly. This is completely optional and starts in mid/late June and runs through the start of the season. There will be one hour of ice each week for skills / 3v3. The format of these sessions are 15-20 minutes of skills and 40 minutes of 3v3. This schedule will be loaded on the CCYHA website.

Roster:

Bulger, Michael

Calciano, Dom

Cantele, Preston

DiCioccio, Dominic

Doty, Owen

Eisenberg, Jack

Leahy, Jack

Maxwell, Drew

McGlinchey, Carter

McGoldrick, Torin

McHugh, Connor

Miller, Ryan

Ocone-Krause, Luca

ODea, Liam

Royer, Logan

Smith, Dylan

Soderlund, Jake

Stambaugh, Emerson

Torneo, Dillon

Westfall, Evan

Sending on behalf of Bryan Healy (he is not the best communicator)

Regards,

Anthony Giusto (Juice)