After the success of our 1st annual Friendship Tournament in 2016, the Kitchener Ice Pirates will be hosting our 2nd annual Friendship Tournament February 18-19, 2017. This tournament will comprise of 21 teams with players of varying abilities.
The Kitchener Ice Pirates is a hockey program consisting of players with developmental delays, who range in age from five through to adults. The players have a wide variety of diagnoses, including; Autism, Down Syndrome, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Global Developmental Delays and more. We are affiliated with the Kitchener Minor Hockey Association and Hockey Canada. The program now has four teams: Senior, Intermediate, Junior and Fundamentals of Hockey (each team being based on player ability, not age). This year we will have almost 80 players participating in the Kitchener Ice Pirates program.