Pacific
Coast Amateur Hockey Association
33rd ANNUAL MIDGET SCHOLARSHIP TOURNAMENT
PHILOSOPHY AND
FORMAT
A. General Philosophy:
The Pacific Coast Amateur
Hockey Association hosts the annual Midget Scholarship Tournament to actively
promote the ideals of scholastic achievement and sportsmanship combined with
participation in Minor Hockey at the Midget level, and within this context to
recognize the talents of graduating Midget players (17 years olds) in both the
educational and athletic fields.
B. Coaching
Selection:
Coaches and other team
officials for the four Tournament teams have been selected by the PCAHA Special
Events Committee on the basis of their philosophy of the game, past coaching
record, and personality. No coach or other team official who has incurred a
10-min. Misconduct, Game Misconduct, Gross Misconduct, or Match Penalty during
the current season was considered, and all coaches are required to hold at
least National Coaches Certification Program Intermediate Level or
Developmental 1 certification.
C. Player Eligibility
and Selection:
Players meeting the
Tournament’s participation criteria have been nominated by their club teams and
have been invited to attend a number of try-out sessions, from which the
coaching staffs have selected the final teams. The basic player selection
criteria are as follows:
(i)
Graduating Midget players only (17 years old as of December 31st of the
current year), registered with a PCAHA-member Minor Hockey Association on a
male/integrated "A" or "C" team in the Midget Division.
(ii) Scholastic Ability
Requirement - A player must have attained a minimum C+ grade average in the
most recent school reporting period. A C+ average is defined as a minimum 2.50
Grade Point Average based on a 4.00 grade point scale, with A=4, B=3, C+=2½,
C=2, C-=1½, D or I=1, E or F=0.
(iii) Sportsmanship
Requirement - Any player having incurred a Match Penalty or Gross
Misconduct during the current season shall be ineligible for participation in
the Tournament. In addition, players may be disqualified for excessive penalty
minutes upon review of their penalty record.
(iv) Hockey Ability.
(v) Minimum Association
Representation - A minimum of one player from each Association entering a
Midget "A" team will be selected to the final Tournament teams,
provided the Midget "A1" team from that Association nominated players
(not including goaltenders) and the players attended the try-out session(s).
D. Tournament Format:
Two teams each will be
selected from each of the two PCAHA Conferences, the Fraser Valley Conference
and the Greater Vancouver Conference. These teams will participate in a four
team single round-robin, with a 3rd place game and a championship final game. A
total of 8 games will be played.
E. Tournament Awards:
(i)
Special Bursaries - Four (4) Vancouver Canucks Alumni Association
Special Bursary Awards in the amount of $500.00 will be awarded to the player
on each team adjudged to have best exemplified excellence and sportsmanship
during the course of the Tournament (1 award per team). Winners of the Special
Bursaries will be announced at the awards ceremonies following the final games of
the Tournament. Bursaries must be applied by the recipients towards
post-secondary study according to the guidelines of the PCAHA Scholarship
Program.
(ii) Game M.V.P. Awards
- In each game, the player on each team adjudged to have best exemplified
excellence and sportsmanship will receive the Game M.V.P Award.
(iii) Team Awards -
The winning team will be awarded the Fred "Cyclone" Taylor Memorial
Cup. Participants of the competing teams will receive the following:
Winning Team - gold medals.
Runner Up Team - silver medals.
Third Place Team - bronze medals ("3rd").
Fourth Place Team - bronze medals ("4th").