• Provide a fair and impartial assessment of a player’s total hockey skills during the skating and scrimmage sessions.

• Ensure players have a reasonable opportunity of being selected to a team appropriate to their skill levels as determined during the on-ice evaluations of the current year.

• Provide coaches with the opportunity and flexibility to build a team based in part on their own coaching philosophy and knowledge of player skills and attitude.

• Provide uniformity and consistency in the evaluation process such that a player and parent expectations are consistent from year to year as players move through the various levels of the minor hockey association’s programs.

• Form teams to maintain balanced and competitive play where the athletes can develop and participate equitably and have fun playing hockey during the season.
• Provide feedback in order to develop players.

Minor Hockey association leaders must manage all aspects of player evaluation in a way that makes the process as transparent as possible. Evaluator objectivity, clear and concise lines of communication, effectively run ice sessions, and a succinct feedback mechanism all play a vital role in developing an effective player evaluation process.

For more information coaching and player development visit the Minor Hockey section of the Hockey Canada website at: www.hockeycanada.ca.