Dear Flyers Families,

This is a reminder that all registration fees for the 2025/26 season must be paid in full by October 1st.

• If you selected credit card with installments at the time of registration, your card will be automatically charged for the balance on October 1st.

• If you selected e-transfer, please ensure your remaining balance is sent to finance@flyershockey.ca before October 1st.

If you have any questions regarding payment, please feel free to reach out to our Director of Finance, Tara Amirault, at Finance@FlyersHockey.ca

Where would we be without our dedicated Officials?

If you or your player is interested in becoming an on-ice official, please check out this Hockey Nova Scotia page for more details.  

For brand new Level 1 Officials between the ages of 12 and 14 for the 2025-2026 season, there is a two-step process:

1. Hockey Canada Intro to Officiating Online Course
   This self-directed online course takes approximately 3 hours.
   Cost: $25
   This course must be completed in full before Hockey Canada will allow registration in an in-person session.
   
   
2. New Level 1 Official - In Person Clinic
   These clinics are offered in person at rinks and community centres all around Nova Scotia.
   This is no on-ice portion to this clinic.
   Cost: $50
   Lower Sackville Session Link for 9am-1pm this Saturday, September 27.
   OR: Search on the Hockey Canada Find A Clinic page for "New Level 1 Official" and choose a session time/location that fits your schedule.

Good evening Sackville Minor Hockey Rec Families.

We are very excited for the coming hockey season and hope you are as well! 

I would like to extend a warm welcome back and pass along a few important updates. 

Over the last several months, we have worked really hard to make the rec program one that represents the wishes of all of our members. Having said that, this was and is no easy task!  We listened to you, implemented some tweaks/adjustments and believe we have come up with a program with everyone's wants and needs in mind. 

The first item that we committed to improving was the rec evaluation time. We are proud to announce that all Flyers will be hitting the ice at the same time again this year!  That means that we will be conducting our rec evaluations alongside the competitive tryouts. The players who have signed up for rec will only be in groups with other rec players and will then be joined by those released to rec at the conclusion of the tryouts. There will be a short balancing period to make sure all our rec teams are as evenly matched as possible, where some player movement can happen. Once we are set, we get going with the season!

We wish all of the players in the tryout process the best of luck. Please know that for those players who come back to us, we are extremely glad to have you, and we remain focused on providing you with the opportunity to grow and improve your skills at the rec level. We have worked with our development team to come up with a revised hybrid development model that will continue to provide individual and team development for all of our players and coaches.

Stay tuned to the website for all dates, times and groupings for the next few weeks. Make sure to check out the "Tryouts and Evaluations" tab of our Flyers website! Here you will find all the information as our Rec evaluations get underway this weekend! 

Welcome back to all and lets make 2025-26 a great season!

Dan MacDonald 

vprecreation@flyershockey.ca

Good Morning Flyers Families,

If you have a player/goalie trying out for Competitive in U11, U13, U15, U18 or in U9 Evaluations, please sign up for a GrayJay account right away. We will not be able to evaluate your player/goalie without this registration. 

GrayJay Registration: 

September 18, 2025 - Update

• Friday Oct 3rd: 4pm - Arena, 5pm - Arena, 5pm - ECV, 6pm - ECV

• Saturday Oct 4th - 8am, 9am, 10am and 11am all at ECV

• Sunday - 8am and 9am at Stadium (Games)
  5pm - 6pm at Stadium (Games)

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U9 Division Contacts:

• VP U9: Shawn Wright VPU9@FlyersHockey.ca 
• U9 Division Coordinator: Jen Blair U9DivCoordinator@FlyersHockey.ca

U9 Jersey Pick up

Please note the following U9 Evaluations Jersey Pickup Time for U9. 

Monday, Sept 29, 2025 - 5:00-7:00pm @ Sackville Arena Mezzanine 

Requests for a specific jersey number cannot be accommodated. 

A parent or guardian will be required to initial at jersey pick up. If a player's assigned Jersey is not returned at the end of the Competitive Tryout Process or Rec Evaluations, there will be a Jersey Replacement Fee added to the player's HCR account. 

Please note players registered for the U9 division have the choice to opt out of Evaluations. These players will be automatically added to our U9 developxment teams. If your player would like to opt out, please email Jen Blair our U9 division coordinator above. 

About SMHA U9 Division

U9 is a development program aimed at meeting these 4 outcomes:

1. Have fun and be active
2. Learn fundamental skills
3. Refine those fundamental skills
4. Cooperation and fair play

U9 Season Structure

Each team will have four ice times: 

• Team Practice (weekly)
• Development practice (weekly)
• Game (weekly)
• Power Skating (bi-weekly)

The U9 Program plays half-ice 4v4 games, with 12 full-ice games allowed after a date set by Hockey Nova Scotia, usually in February.

The exact schedules will be shared to families by Team Managers once teams are finalized.

U18 Competitive Tryout Goalie Update - September 16, 2025

Please note our U18 Goalies trying out for U18 have a Goalie Evaluation scheduled with U15 ahead of regular U18 Competitive tryouts.

A4 - U15 and U18 Goalie Skill Evaluation - Friday, September 19, 2025 - 8:00 -9:00pm Sackville Arena

The U18A tryout page is currently listed under our "Tryouts and Evaluations" tab of our Flyers website. More information will be added to the page as it becomes available. 

All divisions- All Tryout and Evaluation pages are now live from U11 - U18. Please remember to check back regularly on your Tryout or Evaluation pages across Competitive and Rec as all updates and possible changes will be posted to the division pages. 

The SMHA Board and Executive are working extremely hard behind the scenes to prepare for the Tryouts and Evaluations process. Thank you for your patience while we work on getting out information to all divisions across SMHA.

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Competitive Tryout & Rec Evaluation Schedules Posted - September 15, 2025

Ice schedules and important information for U11, U13, and U15 divisions have now been posted under the "Tryouts & Evaluations" tab on the Flyers website.

Please continue to check back regularly for any updates related to your division.

Note: U18 schedules will be posted as soon as they become available.