Welcome to the 2019-2020 Major Atom Select Hockey season!
The coaching staff and I are very excited to start our journey with another great group of players and parents.
Over the next two Saturdays, all of the players in the House League (HL) sessions will be reviewed as a possible candidate to tryout for the Major Atom Select team.Our evaluations will be focused on several key areas including player attitude, sportsmanship, being a team player and skill level. Everyone has a chance to make the team. The coaching team is very familiar with players from last year and we'll be looking at new players within the division. We supported the bench at the recent MD try-outs and have some great feedback from coaches within Major Atom. All of this information will assist our decision making process over the next two weeks.
Last year we had the privilege of coaching the Kitchener "Storm" (Minor Atom) and we'll be bringing our "Storm Hockey" philosophy and Code of Conduct with us to the Kitchener Jr Rangers Major Atom Select Team.
This year our coaching team has decided we'll send invitations for the Select Draft via email instead of handing them out after each game. Invitations will be sent after the first House League tryout (by the evening of Sunday September 22) however the process won't be complete until after the second HL tryout.
Unfortunately we have only one team to fill.
If you do not receive an email invite, we want to thank-you in advance for your interest and we hope you have an awesome 2019-2020 season.
Select Tryouts will occur on September 29th and on October 4th. We'll also be holding a team (Player/Parent/Coach) meeting on October 7th at 7:00pm to 8:30pm with details to follow on the Select invite.
On behalf of the coaching team, we wish you the very best,
Peter Owen
Head Coach
Major Atom Select Kitchener Jr. Rangers