Peninsula McDonald’s Restaurants, the Peninsula Panthers Jr. Hockey Club, and the Peninsula Minor Hockey Association, have partnered to present another exciting Player of the Week Program (POTW) for the 2019/20 hockey season. Players in Novice, Atom and PeeWee who have not participated before, are invited to submit their names into a random draw for Player of the Week at the Friday night Peninsula Panther home games.

Benefits to Player:

Player of the Week will be part of the team including:

  • invited into the player dressing room pre-game.
  • participate in on-ice game warm up wearing a jersey very similar to the Peninsula Panthers team jersey.
  • sit on the bench during the first period.

The player of the week will also receive:

  • McDonald’s Player of the Week engraved plaque provided by MVP Crest and Trophy.
  • McDonald’s Player of the Week commemorative T-shirt.
  • McDonald’s Player of the Week ‘grab bag’ from McDonald’s.
  • Photo feature in the Peninsula News Review – Wednesday edition prior to the game.

Benefits to Team

  • Opportunity for team building night at the Peninsula Panthers’ Game.
  • Team will be announced during the game.
  • Tickets will be provided to the team at $3.00 (players) & $6.00 (parents).
  • Opportunity for team dinner at McDonald’s prior to the Game.

Don’t delay, enter your player at email: sponsorship@pmha.bc.ca

Please include:

  • Player’s name
  • Player’s Age
  • Players’s Division
  • Player’s Team (when assigned).

 

 

 

BC Hockey is excited to share that select Hockey Canada/NCCP coaching clinics are now open for registration. This is the first season in which we have been able to offer clinics months ahead of the upcoming season!

Please see the available levels and their corresponding registration links below:

Delivered Virtually via the Hockey Canada Learning Lab:
Hockey Canada Coach 1: (For U7 and U9 coaches)

  • Within this clinic, coaches are to complete the specific age group modules (U7, U9) of the category of play they are coaching.
Hockey Canada Coach 2:  (For U11 and U13 – U21 recreational level coaches)

  • Within this clinic, coaches are to complete the specific age group modules (U11, U13) of the category of play they are coaching.
Development 1 Part 1: (for competitive level coaches)

  • Development 1 is split into two parts. Part 1 delivered online via the Learning Lab while Part 2 is delivered in-person. Both must be attended to achieve “Trained” status.
  • Delegates must attend Part 1 before attending Part 2.
  • Part 2 will be available between September and December.
Hockey Canada Skills – Checking: (For U11, U13 and U15 head coaches)

 
We would appreciate you sharing this info with your coaches, so they are aware of the options available to them.

We suggest that current or prospective coaches first check our Team Requirements page before registering for a clinic, and verify the level of coach training they require.

 

Please note that additional clinics are regularly added to this list throughout clinic season (September to December). We recommend you bookmark this page and register.hockeycanada.ca/clinics so you can stay up to date on the most current listings.

Questions?

If you have any questions on coaching clinics, please contact coaching@bchockey.net

Below a message from VIAHA regarding the 2025-2026 Season Calendar, please read carefully to find the part that will apply to your child’s team/league
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Island League (U13/U15/U18 Rep)

Placement games will be played over three weekends commencing September 20-21, 2025. Teams will be placed in their applicable Divisions at the Executive Committee Meeting on October 18, 2025 and League Play will commence the following weekend, October 25-26, 2025.

Round Robin Playoffs will run for three weekends commencing on January 24-25, 2026. That weekend
may also be used for any games postponed from the regular season. The semi-finals, for those
Divisions requiring semi-final games, will be on the weekend of February 14-15, 2026 and the best of
three finals for the District Champions will take place over the weekends of February 21-22 and
February 28-March 1, 2026.

Island League teams should be familiar with Regulation 13.12 regarding restrictions on travel during
playoff weekends. Recreational teams, including Development, are not permitted to travel during
playoff weekends without the consent of the VIAHA Officer responsible for their league.

A printable calendar can be found below

U11 Development (Rep)

The U11 Development Integrated League Placement games will be played over 5 weekends
commencing on September 27-28, 2025 and ending on November 1-2, 2025. League play will
commence on November 15-16, 2025 and will end on February 21-22, 2026. Elimination/quarter final
playoff games, where necessary, will take place on the weekend of February 28-March 1, 2026 and
the semi-final and final playoff games will take place on March 7-8, 2026.

All recreational hockey (House)

In all other recreational leagues in Mid-Island, South Island and Female, league play will commence
on the weekend of October 18-19, 2025 and will conclude on the weekend of February 21-22, 2026.
Elimination/quarter final playoff games will take place on February 28-March 1, 2026 and semi-final
and final playoff games will be played on March 7-8, 2026.

Blackout Weekends

Blackout weekends will be Thanksgiving, October 11-12, 2025, Remembrance Day, November 8-9,
2025, and three weekends over Christmas Break, December 20-21, 2025, December 27-28, 2025 and
January 3-4, 2026. There will be no other Blackout weekends during the season however teams may
request that they be booked out of league play for one other weekend during the season to attend a
tournament. There is no guarantee that all requests can be accommodated, however schedulers will
make every effort to do so. Once a schedule is released it will be the responsibility of the teams
involved to reschedule their games to the satisfaction of the League Commissioner/Managing Director.
The VIAHA Officer responsible for the league has final discretion in these matters. Requests should
be sent to the League Commissioner/Managing Director as early as possible in the season. All MHAs
and teams should acknowledge that league play always takes precedence.

2025-2026 VIAHA Calendar

June note:

We are excited to have had so much interest in PMHA this season that we are waitlisting most divisions at this time. If you would like to register, please note that you may be waitlisted.  If you complete the new player/waitlist form you will be contacted by the registrar regarding space availability in your division.
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We are always excited to welcome new Eagles to Peninsula Minor Hockey!

For details on how to register a New Player, please visit the New Player Registration page.

If you are a returning player who missed returning player registration that closed April 30th, please visit the New Player Registration page and scroll to the Attention Returning Players Who Missed Returning Player Registration section.

The 2025 PMHA Scholarship Program

Applications will be accepted until: June 30th, 2025.

All scholarship candidates must be current registered PMHA members, or PMHA On-Ice Officials, or former PMHA members playing for a recognized Junior or Major Midget team (U18AAA), who are in their graduating year of high school.

This application MUST BE ACCOMPANIED by:

a) Letter of recommendation from applicant’s hockey coach or referee-in-chief.

b) Copy of applicant’s most recent school report.

c) Copy of Letter of Admission/Acceptance to Program or Post Secondary School.

PMHA will offer a maximum total of $1000.00 in scholarships.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Academic achievement

2. Sportsmanship

3. Hockey participation and/or quality of contribution.

4. School and community participation and service.

Please email completed applications to:

treasurer@pmha.bc.ca

Apply Here: 2025 Scholarship Application

Good luck to all the applicants!

 

(Update: the application window is now closed) PMHA is accepting applications for coaches of all age levels.  If you want to coach or be an assistant with a PMHA team, at representative or recreational – you need to put in an application.

All successful PMHA coach applicants will need to make sure their Respect in Sport, Criminal Record Check, Concussion Awareness Training and Safe Return to Play qualifications are all up to date through Hockey Canada.

Applications will be accepted from parent and non-parent applicants – PMHA policy allows for non-parent coaches of U13, U15 and U18 representative teams to receive, subject to board approval and application, a stipend of $3,000 for Head Coaches and $1500.00 for Assistant Coaches to a maximum of 2 paid coaches per team (see PMHA policy 4.3.12).

All applications are reviewed by a coaching selection committee, which has at least two PMHA members. The coaching selection committee is set up so that conflict of interest is reduced as much as possible – and that the process is as transparent and open as possible. Coaching applications will be reviewed based on merit, experience, development plans and team focus.

The committee will contact successful applicants for interviews – and then bring their recommendation to the PMHA board for approval.

We want to thank everyone who applies for coaching at PMHA, and to your dedication to helping kids develop as hockey players and as people over the next season.

Application Form