CSB Youth Hockey is a volunteer, community-based youth hockey organization composed of players from many different towns and school districts. As an open youth hockey organization, CSB enables all players that wish to play ice hockey to do so, regardless of their skill level and prior playing experience. 

The primary focus is on fun, teamwork, and physical exercise the secondary focus is on individual player development. CSB strives to teach players life lessons through the sport of hockey that will help them develop into healthy, happy and successful adults.

CSB encourages players to participate in multiple sports and not to play hockey year round. Our season and weekly schedules are built around enabling players to participate in other sports and activities.

We utilize independent 3rd party evaluations at the start of each season, for 10U and up, to remove bias from the team placement process and to recognize that players development timelines vary. Each player is evaluated based on their performance at the start of the season.

CSB strives to follow the USA Hockey American Development Model (ADM) that is built around developing players to go into the national player development system in that we attempt to have teams of “like skilled” players and we emphasize station-based practices. 

However, as an open-to-all youth hockey organization, sometimes our registration numbers do not allow for strict adherence to all of the best practices laid out in the ADM model. Additionally, due to the significant cost of ice time, CSB is unable to follow the ADM recommendations of between 95-160 on ice sessions per year.

Additionally, we believe that players should play at their appropriate age group since it supports their long-term development needs, and allows the social and emotional growth of players. As a result, we do not consider play up requests other than on a limited basis at the 8U level and in exceptional situations where it may be required to have a combined age group team due to insufficient registered players to support a team in a single age group.

What does this mean?

  1. Your player will have fun playing hockey while also developing important values including good sportsmanship, respect, and integrity.

  2. Your player may have the opportunity to expand their friendships by playing with children outside of their normal group of friends.

  3. Your player may be on a team that is bigger or smaller than the ideal team size.

  4. Your player may be on a team with teammates with a wide variety of skill levels.

  5. Your player may be on a team with players from multiple age groups.

  1. Your player will not receive one-on-one skill development training.

  2. The team experience will not be identical among all teams.

  3. Your player may not end up on the same level team that they previously played on.