Ten teams from New England will have a chance to win a championship at the 2021 USA Hockey Nationals. The local representation is spread out between the four divisions. The 16-U and 18-U tournaments will be held at Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. The 15 Only and...
Ten teams from New England will have a chance to win a championship at the 2021 USA Hockey Nationals.
The local representation is spread out between the four divisions. The 16-U and 18-U tournaments will be held at Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. The 15 Only and 14-U divisions will take place just outside of Dallas in the Children’s Health StarCenter in Euless, Texas. All four tournaments will take place from April 28 through May 3.
Boston Junior Eagles, Minuteman Flames and Mid Fairfield Rangers will compete to win a title at the 14-U division. At 15 Only, Mid Fairfield Rangers and Mount Saint Charles will vie for the trophy. Mount Saint Charles and Seacoast Performance Academy will represent the region in the 16-U division. Boston Junior Eagles, Mount Saint Charles and Maine Nordiques will get a chance for glory at the 18-U division.
New England District, which includes all the states from the region besides Massachusetts, held its tournament last weekend. Mount Saint Charles earned the district’s automatic bid at 14-U, 16-U and 18-U while receiving an at-large birth at 15 Only. Mid Fairfield won the NED Championship at 15 Only. Seacoast (15 Only) and Maine Nordiques (18-U) were given at-large bids out of the district.
Massachusetts Hockey was the only district in all of USA Hockey to refrain from hosting a tournament. As a result, a few very deserving teams from the state were prevented from going to nationals.
At 16-U, Cape Cod Whalers, Boston Junior Eagles and East Coast Wizards all had a good shot to do some damage at the national level. In 15 Only, the Neponset Valley River Rats and Springfield Rifles would have been vying for the state’s automatic bid.
Massachusetts Hockey was shut out of the national tournament at both 15 Only and 16-U. The Boston Junior Eagles (14-U and 18-U) and Minuteman Flames (14-U) received at-large bids.
