Tampa Bay's Original Youth Ice Hockey Association
June 25, 2008
USA Hockey Coaching Clinics/Certification will be held over the weekend of July 19 and 20 at the Ice Sports Forum in Brandon.
Level 1 is required for ALL Mite and Girls U10 coaches.
Level 2 is required for ALL Squirt and Girls U12 coaches.
Level 3 is required for ALL PeeWee, Bantam, Midget non-national bound, High School, Junior C, Women U19 and U15 coaches.
Level 3 certification expires after three years and must be repeated. Or achieve Level 4 (coming to Tampa in August) must be acquired prior to the Level 3 certification expiring.
See the flier for more information.
UPDATED: April 19, 2008
On March 28, the
Mississippi Sea Wolves
of the ECHL signed John Hallas who completed his college career at St Lawrence University. The Sea Wolves are affiliated with the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League and the Tampa Bay Lightning.
John was in goal for a couple of games filling in due to an injury and a callup. He made 10 saves in 27 minutes, didn't give up a goal and was credited with a win when he came into the third period with his team behind 5 - 2. His ECHL stats for the team are online.
A news item has also been posted to the Lightning web site .
A few days ago, he signed with the
Bakersfield Condors as an emergency backup for the playoffs. Read the
Press Release for more information.
February 20, 2008
The USA Hockey Level IV Coaching Clinic is coming to Tampa the weekend of August 15 - 17, 2008 and will be held at the Marriott Airport Hotel at Tampa International.
Interested coaches can register now. The dealine for registering is July 11th. If you have your Level III certification and it hasn't expired, you can attend.
See the flier for more information.
Once you achieve your Level IV, you never have to get recertified. Levels I, II and III certifications do expire after three years and require you to repeat the same session.
Check the brochure for details and a registration form.
February 2, 2008
Ryan Dyer, Steve Shlemon and Pat Trizis made the Florida Chicago Showcase team. All three play for the Tampa-Pinellas Combined HS team which is part of TBJL. The Chicago Showcase is a high school ice hockey tournament for state-wide all star teams which takes place from April 15 - 19 in Bensenville, IL. This event is attended by numerous college, junior and professional scouts. Some of the past players from our high school teams who have participated in this tournament or tryied out for the team and ended up in juniors or playing college hockey including John Hallas (St Lawrence University 2004 - 2008), Guy Marcoux (Cincinnati Cyclones 2006-2007 and Cajun Catahoulas 2007-2008) and Adam Petsche (Cincinnati Cyclones 2006-2007 and Eastern Michigan University 2007-2008). All three have been featured in the "Where Are They Now?" portion of this web site.
November 11, 2007
John Hallas made his second start of the ECAC season against previously undefeated Princeton on Friday, November 9, made 31 saves and got a 4 - 3 win for his St Lawrence University team. This was the Saint's first win in league competition for the new season. John is now 2 - 0 this year.
John is competing with three other goalies for ice time this season. See the article on the ECAC Hockey web site.
November 1, 2007
A few weeks ago, John was featured in the inaugural "Where Are They Now?" entry on the web site (scroll down to see it). John is a TBJL alumnus.
In only the second start of his collegiate career, John earned a shutout against Union College this past week.
John was also named one of the ECAC Players of the Week for his performance.
March 18, 2007
Congradulations to coach Darren Whiffen and the TBJL Squirt AA team on winning the Congressional Cup in mid February. This tournament was held in Reston, VA.
An article appeared in the St PetersburgTimes on Sunday, March 18th.
January 17, 2007
The TBJL Pee Wee AA team won the International A/E Silver Stick Tournament held from January 11 through 15 in Pelham, Ontario in Canada. In past years, only two TBJL teams have advanced out of a southeast regional tournament to the Silver Sticks Finals - the 1996/1997 Midgets and the 2000-2001 Bantmas. However, neither team won the finals.
The TBJL Pee Wee team beat the Sylvania Maple Leafs 8 - 1, the host Pelham Panthers 12 - 0, the New York City Cyclones 3 - 2 and the East Gwillimbury Eagles 5 - 4 in the preliminary round. The Pee Wees then defeated the Brampton Battalion 4 - 1 in the semi finals and the Oakville Rangers 3 - 2 in the finals.
Scores and stats for all the games are available online at the International A/E Silver Stick web site
Congradulations to Coaches Jody Peavey, Jay Hebert and Andy Day and all of the menbers of the Pee Wee AA team: Cameron McKnight, Dylan Taylor, Matthew Peckham, Blake Peavey, Sean O'Brien, Zack Mitchell, Eddie Kawczak, Andrew Hebert, Toby Hase, Logan Day, J.B. Cline, Zack Capco, Hannah Bramm, Conor O'Brien and Dominic Calandra.
An article appeared in the St PetersburgTimes on Sunday, January 21st.
August 14, 2005
TBJL maintains various mailing lists via yahoogroups. In the past, we had to obtain email addresses from registration or other sources and invite people to join.
Now, you can do it from here. To join any of the mailing lists below, use the appropriate subscription box to enter youe email address and then click on the icon. We will add more groups soon.
If a team wishes to have a mailing list setup, please email me and let me know.
Last updated: 06/18/08