As a result of happenings over the 2013-2014 year, there are a couple of rule changes being proposed:

1) Beginning with the fall season, registered JAHA players will be required to display a sticker on their helmet. This is to assist on- and off-ice officials quickly identify you as an eligible player. Ineligible players on the ice during JAHA games can potentially cause USA Hockey to withdraw their insurance coverage for everyone on the ice at the time, which could pose a serious threat to all players on the ice, the rink, and JAHA in the case of injury.

2) In the past, the rules governing JAHA tournaments has been incomplete, leading to misunderstandings by players and officials. As a result, a new section of rules is proposed to be added to resolve this.

The full text of these rules is attached to this post.

Per JAHA’s bylaws, these proposed rule changes are being distributed to the membership (see attached), posted to the website, the Juneau Hockey Officials association, and posted at Treadwell Arena for a period of 10 days. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns with the proposed rule changes at juneauadulthockey@gmail.com before August 23rd. After the 10 day period elapses, the rule changes shall go into effect immediately.

You can reference JAHA’s current rules by following the “JAHA Rules” link on the left.

The deadline for the Fall 2014 JAHA season is August 22nd, however it is highly recommended that you register early to ensure you are placed on a team! Late registrations are subject to a $75 late fee and tier/team availability.

You can register by clicking on the Register for JAHA on the left.

Teams and schedule will be posted as soon as possible after the registration period has closed. The season will start on September 7, 2014.

See you on the ice!

Do you have photos of past JAHA games, events, or anything else JAHA-related? We’d love to see them!

Shoot us an e-mail at juneauadulthockey@gmail.com with your JAHA-related photos and we’ll post as many as we can on this site and feature the best over on the Facebook as cover photos.

Winter season teams and schedule have been created. Click on your tier in the navigation bar above to view the teams, schedule, and stats for your tier. A quick reference schedule is also attached to this post.

Individual team pages have been created and games scheduled on the website. These pages are where you’ll go to find stats, information on upcoming games, and contact your teammates through the site. The site has the ability to set up RSVP’s for games, so if you’re not going to make it to a game, you can indicate that with a single click. You may also be interested in the TeamPages app, which will give you all of your team(s) information in one place. It’s all up to how many or how few of the features you want to use.

Thanks much for your patience as we worked through team creation and scheduling. Every season is different and this one proved that. This is the first season in many years that there have been 5 women’s teams, which is a really great thing to see. Tier A will be very high level play and with the comeback of full slapshots, very fun to watch. B tier looks to be even faster and more competitive than last season and Tier C is poised to send a new batch of players into the intermediate tier next season, making room for some rookies. And last, but certainly not least, Tier 40+ looks just as fun as always.

The first games are on January 12th, so start digging out that smelly gear you stashed away in November and get ready. See you on the ice!

— Commissioner Soza