U16 JUNIOR ELITE LEAGUE TEAM LIST 2010 - AUCKLAND

Commencing in 2010 the New Zealand Ice Hockey Federation, (NZIHF), has introduced a National league for the Under 16 age group. This has been named the New Zealand Junior Elite Ice Hockey League (NZJEL) and there are three teams involved in this competition, Auckland, Canterbury and Southern. The goal of the NZJEL is:

• to improve the quality and skill levels of youth ice hockey players in New Zealand
• to increase the awareness of the ice hockey throughout NZ
• to grow the number of participating youth

This exciting new League will have our players playing much more ice hockey at a higher level than ever before. Each team play two 'home' and two 'away' games against each other. Then all 3 teams come together for a weekend to play one final game against each other team. Points are tallied and the team with the most points will be named the NZJEL National Champion

This format replaces the existing weekend of the NZ Nationals for the U16's, however players will get 10 games as opposed to 4 at Nationals. Being involved in this League will be exciting and full of new adventures for our 'Elite' players, part of the experiences will be the travelling to new places, playing ice hockey in different rinks and of course meeting new people. The players will be staying with host families and getting to know other under 16 players from around New Zealand.

NZJEL will run from mid June to mid September with the team travelling to 'away' games three times and having 'home' games twice, this involves leaving Saturday, staying overnight and returning home Sunday. One game will be played on Saturday and one game Sunday. Auckland has done their budgeting for NZJEL and, including the away trips and trainings, have found the costs to be very similar to the cost of the current lead up to and one weekend of Nationals.

The schedule has been finalised as follows: