Midget U16 T2

CCYHA Midget Tier 2 u16 Team

Congratulations on being selected to participate on the CCYHA U16 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 advanced to 3 USA Hockey Nationals, Central CT Youth Hockey (CCYHA) will be, once again, forming a split season National Bound Tier 2 team at the U16 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:

U16 - Anthony Giusto - Current President, Central CT Youth Hockey. Current Cheshire High School Head Coach. Former tier 1 youth and college coach.

Assistant Coach:

Assisting this year will be Justin Heinke. Justin played for me many years ago and coaches our defense. He has been with me for the past 3 years.

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 9 declared tier 2 teams at the u16 level. If this holds true for this season, we can expect to play 8 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 and weekly “week ahead” emails will be sent out.

Roster:

Bonini, Gavin

Cline, Joshua

Dempsey, Colin

DiCioccio, Dylan

Dixon, Will

Fisher, Jameson

Fox, Nicholas

Hooper, Zachary

Hooper, Daniel

Iacampo, Michael

Kelly, Paxton

Klopfer, Cameron

Laskin, Mark

Mann, Isaac

OShaughnessy, Kyle

Paul, Dylan

Power, Gavin

Roche, Ken

Rydecki, Nathan

Yakimishan, Conrad

I communicate alot throughout the season. I will be adding a google group as my main way of emailing. If there are any email addresses that you want added, that are not on the crossbar site, please email me at anthony@newingtonarena.com and I can add them.

I look forward to meeting all the new families.

Regards,

Anthony Giusto (Juice)