Youth Hockey League

The NorthStar Youth Hockey League (formally the American Youth Hockey League) was formed in the late 1970’s to offer local youth hockey players the opportunity to play in a competitive league that’s conveniently located close to home as all games are played at NorthStar Ice Sports. The NYHL offers multiple divisions of play based on team ability with league parity adjustments held twice during the season. All Players, Coaches & Teams must be registered with USA Hockey to participate and the current USA Hockey Rule Book will guide all playing rules.

The league holds two parity round adjustments (October & November) to determine

appropriate team placement to ensure competitive balance within each age division. Each program’s

league director will have input on final placement.

The NYHL spans 28 weeks from September through March with playoffs to follow. League games are typically played over the weekends but the league does utilize many of the school vacation weeks and holidays to schedule games.

The NYHL will host two different U8/Mite offerings. All Games for both divisions are played 4 vs 4 in a Half Ice format with Intermediate sized nets for goalies and Blue pucks. Half Ice games are (2) 25 minute running time periods. The "Mite" division will offer a (25) game regular season followed by playoffs. The "Mite Development" division will offer a (22) game regular season followed by playoffs.

All Mite and Mite Development teams will qualify for the playoffs which is a single elimination format

(1 game minimum). Both divisions follow the USA Hockey ADM guidelines.