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 AAU Ice Hockey - MAHA - St. Louis Knights
Elite, Travel and B level ice hockey for St. Louis and the region.

St. Louis Knights offers youth ice hockey opportunities for; AAU sanctioned league games, AAU sanctioned tournaments as well as Missouri State Playoffs. Yes, State Playoffs for Mites. This club is not affiliated with the Missouri Hockey (MOHOC) or Missouri Hockey Youth Division and therefore their District boundaries and rules do not apply.
 
 
 
We are initially offering classifications including;
  • Mite Travel (for players born 2003 or later)
  • Mite A & B Full-Ice (for players born 2003 or later)

Coming 2012 - 2013 Season:

  • Learn to Skate (All Ages) 
  • Mini-Mite (Cross-Ice/Full-Ice Combo) 2007 - 2006 Birth Years
  • Mite A and B (In-House League) 2005 - 2004 Birth Year
  • Mite Major Elite AA (Travel) 2004 Birth Year
  • Mite Minor AA (Travel) 2005 Birth Year
  • Squirt A and B (In-House League) 2003 - 2002 Birth Year
  • Squirt Minor AA (Travel) 2003 Birth Year
  • Squirt Major Elite AA (Travel) 2002 Birth Year
  • Peewee A  1999 - 2000 Birth Year
  • High School C-Team League Hosted by MAHA
The Mite Travel Elite and Mite A Full-Ice classifications are intending to play conventional Full-Ice 5 v 5 hockey, although Teams (Clubs) are NOT prohibited from also participating within Cross-Ice and/or Half-Ice scrimmages and/or tournaments (just no mandate). Teams within the Mite House or B Half-Ice classification are intending to play Full-Ice games Full-Ice scrimmages and/or tournaments (just no mandates).
Although the Mite leagues have begun, AAU Mite Select (All-Star) teams may form throughout the season in order to play within AAU full-ice tournaments. These teams may include players from existing Cross-Ice programs. They may also include; Missouri, non-Missouri and Canadian based teams, provided that they obtain AAU membership.

* St. Louis Knights is a “Non For Profit” organization that is affiliated with Missouri Amateur Hockey Association, and AAU Ice Hockey. St. Louis Knights has a Board of Directors and operates out of the HPC Ice Arena and Training Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Missouri Amateur Hockey Association is looking to expand, if your club would be interested please contact moamhockey@yahoo.com .

 

LEGAL GUIDANCE ISSUED @ USA HOCKEY

 

With the remarkable growth of AAU ice hockey at Mites, as well as at the High School level in New York and at Juniors in the western United States, it’s important to note that within some USA Hockey affiliates there have been issues and resistance to AAU growth. Mite growth could have been even more dramatic if not for rumors of potential reprisals against players, coaches and referees for choosing to participate within non-USAH programs.

AAU has informed USA Hockey of such actions directly. And some AAU affiliates have notified the US Olympic Committee (USOC) as well. The USOC has supervisory control over all National Governing Bodies (NGB) of any Olympic based sports. This includes the power to discipline and/or remove USA Hockey from serving as a NGB.

Apparently in response to these actions, the USA Hockey - General Counsel (their Legal Department) recently issued USA Hockey Guidelines Regarding Non-Sanctioned Play to USAH affiliates, which have now been accepted as official USAH policy.

To help summarize this guidance, please consider the following quotations;

  • Membership in or registration with another sanctioning body may not be used as a basis to deny membership in USA Hockey, its Affiliates or local programs.
     
  • No Individual Participant may be penalized for participating in a program that is notsanctioned by USA Hockey.
     
  • No USA Hockey official may be penalized, threatened, excluded or made ineligible for officiating USA Hockey games based on that official being certified by or officiating games that are not sanctioned by USA Hockey or are sanctioned by some other entity.

Also front and center during this season has been the memoranda issued in the federal antitrust lawsuit of Minnesota Made Hockey, Inc versus Minnesota Hockey, Inc. et al, case number 0:2010cv03884. A USAH affiliate had created a rule, which would have suspended players who dared to participate within an alternative non-USAH youth hockey program. US District Court judge Tunheim found that such a rule was an attempt to create and maintain an unlawful monopoly, which is a felony under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Such violations cary potential criminal and civil damages, as well as being grounds for removal of a NGB.

However, it’s important to note that USA Hockey has asked to be kept informed about any similar violations of USAH affiliates, leagues or local programs. Any large organization will alwa ys have members who don’t get the memo and/or who act as loose canons. The question is how an organization responds to such incidents. If USAH corrects its members and repairs any damage that occurs then they should be commended. Therefore, we should be willing to aid them in these efforts.

To this end, we ask that any such incidents be reported to Clem Placke clem@hpcstl.com and/or Keith Noll Keith slapshot@wwt.net. Details will be logged and reported to USAH. Then monitored for compliance. Of course, individuals always have the right to address such incidents with USA Hockey and/or the USOC directly.