@HockeyDayMN Twitter Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com If you happened to spend even 30 seconds scanning social media this weekend you know that Saturday was Hockey Day Minnesota. But…
Week 18 is for the girls and women as our MHR/LiveBarn Games of the Week highlight four great matchups between top girls’ and women’s teams from both sides of the border. For the third year…
MHR Week #17 Rankings have been released. It was another great week with our admin team, volunteers, members and GameSheet API adding nearly 17,000 new game results. MHR now has 246,000 counting…
For our Week 17 MYHockey Rankings/LiveBarn Games of the Week we provided a mix of tournament and league contests. Our marquee matchup was a showdown between the top-two USA Boys 18U Tier 1 teams as the…
It’s Week 17 of the 2022-23 North American hockey season, and as non-legue tournament play starts to wind down with a few remaining big events, many teams are jumping back into league play as we…
MHR Week #16 Rankings have been released. Records are meant to be broken. This past week our admin team, volunteers, members and GameSheet API set a record for the most game scores added in a single week…
Martin Luther King Day Weekend has become one of the great hockey weekends on the calendar every season. We love finding out where everyone played and how they did and seeing the flood of team photos …
Welcome to Martin Luther King Day Weekend, which probably is the biggest weekend of youth and minor hockey tournaments in North America every year. To get an idea of the scope of this weekend’s …
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com They come from all over North America. From the largest metropolitan areas and the smallest of towns. From hockey hotbeds and areas where many of the residents…
MHR Week #15 Rankings have been released! This past week our admin team, volunteers, members and GameSheet API added just over 16,000 new game results. MHR now has 210,000 counting game scores in the …
Each of our Week 15 Games of the Week came from a variety of tournaments being held last weekend in various locations and featuring some of the top Tier 1 boys, prep and Tier 2 girls teams in the United…
The fact that the International Ice Hockey Federation U18 Women’s World Championship was canceled because of the spread of COVID-19 two years ago while the men’s World Junior Championship …
The first few weeks of January – between the opening week of the new year and Martin Luther King Day – are reserved for tournament play by many youth and minor hockey teams in North America…
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com About the same time that my son started getting serious about hockey – and started to show that he might have the potential to play at a higher level…
We hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe holiday and New Year! We will resume our normal weekly update schedule, Wednesday mornings, starting this week. The first rankings of the 2023 year are now …
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com Well, just like that, 2022 has come and gone. Once again it wasn’t easy, but as usual we made it through with flying colors. Welcome to 2023! And although…
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com There are many reasons travel hockey teams choose to attend tournaments that are held in distant locations. Some teams just want to play competitive …
Canadian Press Photo By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com We often like to compare styles of play within a hockey league from division to division or conference to conference as a long…
For many North American youth and minor hockey families, the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day provides an opportunity to step back, take a deep breath and relax before the second half of…
Hockey Canada Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com So far, so good. Knock on wood. To date, the 2022-23 North American hockey season has resembled what we had come to recognize…
Winter holiday tournaments continued last weekend, and that was one of the focuses of our Games of the Week as we highlighted two games from the Pittsburgh Penguins Elite Midwinter Classic and one from…
MHR Week #13 Rankings are now available! This past week our admin team, volunteers, members and GameSheet API added around 15,000 new game results. MHR now has 180,000 counting game scores in the system…
Winter holiday tournaments continue this weekend, and that’s where we have looked once again for a few of our Week 13 MHR/LiveBarn Games of the Week. Our first two featured games are part of the…
Well, holiday tournament season is underway, and the upsets already have begun! Last week, for our Week 12 Games of the Week, we featured a game from the 16U Division of the Paul D. Merritt Holiday Classic…
MHR Week #12 Rankings are now available! This past week our admin team, volunteers, members and GameSheet API added around 16,000 new game results. MHR now has 165,000 counting game scores in the system…
Even though the winter holidays are still a couple weeks off, we already have entered youth and minor hockey holiday tournament season. The Paul D. Merritt Holiday Classic in Rhode Island has become …
The United States Hockey League (USHL) descended upon Rochester, N.Y., last weekend, bringing a pair of Tier 1 junior hockey games to a great hockey area and holding a youth tournament that included some…
MHR Week #11 Rankings are now available! This past week our admin team, volunteers, members and GameSheet API added over 17,000 new game results. MHR now has over 149,000 counting game scores in the system…
MassLive.com photo By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com Just taking a minute to check in on the good folks of New England today and hoping that everyone is okay. In case you haven…
This weekend the United States Hockey League American Cup comes to Rochester, N.Y. It’s not the biggest youth tournament in North America, but it does include some of the top Tier 1 boys’ …
The MYHockey team would like to wish our friends in the states a Happy Thanksgiving! If you weren’t at one of the 4k rinks in North America this past weekend, hopefully you were able to enjoy…
Massachusetts held its girls’ Tier 1 and Tier 2 state tournaments during Thanksgiving weekend, with four USA Hockey National Championship berths being claimed. Tier 1 and Tier 2 Nationals berths…
Not too long ago, Thanksgiving weekend in the United States was one of the busiest youth hockey weekends of the year. The extra day off from school after the holiday made it easier for teams that didn…
MYHockey Week #9 Rankings have been released! This past week our admin team, volunteers and members added over 14k game scores. MHR now has nearly 120,000 counting game scores in the system. 13,803 …
U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Every four years, soccer fans around the world know they will get to see the best of the best competing in a true world-championship…
For the first time this season we head out to Western Canada for two of our MHR/LiveBarn Week 9 Games of the Week. Our Western Canadian matchups – U18 and U15 Boys contests – are from two …
For one of our MHR/LiveBarn Week 8 Games of the Week we zeroed in on Massachusetts, which is home to many split-season teams because so many of the state’s players also play for their local high…
MYHockey Week #8 Rankings are now available. This past week our admin team, volunteers and members added over 16,500 game scores. MHR now has over 105,000 counting game scores in the system. 13,109 …
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com The emergence of October Saves, which allows goalies at all levels from around North America to raise money for the fight against cancer simply by doing their…
In areas of the United States where high school hockey is strongest and split-season teams proliferate the club-hockey scene, state tournaments will be held to determine which teams will represent those…
MYHockey Rankings Week #7 Rankings are now live. This past week volunteers and members added over 13,400 game scores to MYHockey. We now have 11,510 teams that qualify for the rankings, an increase of…
Two of our LiveBarn/MYHockey Rankings Week 7 Games of the Week last weekend came from the CCM World Invite Chicago, while our other two contests were matchups of highly ranked girls’ teams from …
This weekend we head out to the Illinois for what likely will be the largest tournament of the year, the CCM World Invite Chicago, for two of our Week 7 MHR/LiveBarn Games of the Week. Our other two games…
For our Week 6 Games of the Week, we highlighted two games from the Eastern Exposure Cup, an event that featured more than 125 teams representing many of the top youth minor and hockey associations in…
Hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween weekend! MYHockey Week #6 Rankings are now available. This past week our admin team, volunteers and members added over 12,400 game scores. MYHockey Rankings …
OMHA.net photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com It’s almost that time. Thanksgiving in the United States is used as a traditional measuring stick for hockey. At the National…
Showcase Season continues during Week 6 of the MYHockey Rankings 2022-23 campaign. This weekend features more tournament action as highly ranked boys’ and girls’ teams from the United States…
MYHockey Week #5 Rankings are now available. This past week our admin team, volunteers and members added over 12,800 game scores. MYHockey Rankings now has over 63,000 counting game scores in the system…
The MYHockey Rankings’ team was fortunate enough to catch up with Ray Giroux, former NHLer and the current COO of LiveBarn, for a quick Q&A session. Ray touches on the youth hockey season, LiveBarn…
The MHR Week 5 Games of the Week brought us great matchups from some of the fall’s biggest North American Tournaments, including the Minnesota Tradition NIT for the girls and the CCM World Invite…
Hockey Canada Photo By Taylor Staden, M.Sc. Founder & Lead Consultant, Upper Mentality. For some, the hockey season has barely started. For others, you may already be right in the swing of things…
Another huge girls’ hockey showcase highlights our Week 5 Games of the Week as we head out to hockey-hotbed Minnesota for a pair of games featuring top-10 USA Tier 1 teams at the Minnesota Tradition…
Karl B. DeBlaker, Associated Press Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com I’m happy to say that for the first time in a several years, the National Hockey League season actually snuck up on…
MHR Week #4 team ratings and rankings are now available. This past week our admin team, volunteers and members added over 11,600 game scores. MYHockey Rankings now has over 50k counting game scores in…
Our MHR Week 4 Games of the Week included boys’ and girls’ action in the U22, 19U, 18U and 2009 age groups from around the United States, Our featured games came from several showcase events…
Our MHR Week 4 Games of the Week feature boys’ and girls’ action in the U22, 19U, 18U and 2009 age groups from around the continent. It’s showcase season, so we bring you action from…
Columbus Day weekend is a big youth hockey tournament weekend. Another 9,600 games were entered into MYHockey this week. A total of 6,306 teams have now reached the 5 game minimum and are being ranked…
In honor of the International Ice Hockey Federation’s World Girls’ Ice Hockey Weekend, which was held for the 11th time Oct. 8-9, we featured four girls’ matchups for our Week 3 edition…
Photo Courtesy of Middlebury College By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Nothing is more indicative of the health and growth of girls’ and women’s hockey in the United States than…
In honor of International Ice Hockey Federation’s World Girls Ice Hockey Weekend, being held for the 11th time Oct. 8-9, we are featuring four girls matchups for our Week 3 edition of MHR Games …
MYHockey Rankings has released Week #2 of our 2022-23 season rankings. This week’s rankings brings another level of data maturity as the number of reported game scores in the database grew by 7,…
Here is a recap of our Week 2 Games of the Week, which featured three games that were decided by a total of four goals and a 2021-22 league-championship rematch: Week 2 MHR Weekend Wrap #4 Fraser…
Welcome to the first edition of our MYHockey Rankings Games of the Week. For this week’s contests we first head to Western Canada for a BCEHL Girls 18U Championship Finals rematch before checking…
MYHockey Rankings is excited to release the first rankings of the 2022-23 season! The first rankings includes USA Boys national, district and state rankings (2013 through 18U), USA Girls Tier 1 and Tier…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com For most people, the onset of October conjures up thoughts of pumpkin spice, sweater weather, Halloween and fall colors. That's not the case for North American hockey…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com As the final days of summer wind down and autumn approaches, many North American junior hockey leagues already have begun play, with those that have yet to start …
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com It’s a safe bet that if you were to drop in on any NCAA men’s college hockey team this week you would notice that something is different. For the…
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com This is the most exciting time of year for many young hockey players, and the level of excitement can be even greater for those playing on new teams or competing…
Sportsnet.ca Photo By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com This time it’s the same, but different. Later today in Denmark when a pair of familiar rivals meet yet again with a gold medal on…
MYHockey Rankings is rolling out another new feature to enhance the youth hockey community’s experience on our platform! On top of the previous off-season announcements you may have seen over the…
BY & Motts open up the mailbag this week plus bring you an interview with Neil & Ian Lodin of MYHockey Rankings! Before bringing on the MHR guys and answering your questions the guys catch up …
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com When it comes to international hockey, no matchup is more revered or anticipated than games between Canada and the United States. They are the world’s top two…
Associated Press Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com It was about this time last year that the puck dropped on perhaps the most anticipated and talked-about women’s international ice hockey…
MLive.com Photo By Scott Lowe – MYHockey Rankings Latvia’s preliminary-round upset of Czechia for its first victory in 28 World Junior Championship games proved to be a major turning point…
CBC Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com The energy, excitement – and hopefully fan interest – is expected to ramp up in Edmonton at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior…
BY & Motts are back for Episode 82 fresh off of the Rink Shrinks first ever street hockey festival which took place last Saturday. Thank you to everyone who came out to play, work, watch, and support…
Yahoo photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Last week I turned on one of Team USA’s preliminary-round World Junior Championship games – I can’t remember which one, because…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com No matter when or where the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship is played, the tournament has evolved into an annual battle among the United…
Pembroke Lumber Kings Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com This article is reposted from June 2021. If you ask multiple people to describe a junior hockey main camp, you’re likely…
This is the third in series of articles examining in detail what hockey coaches and scouts at the NCAA, junior, AAA and prep-school levels look for when watching potential prospects. By…
Photo Credit: Honeybaked Hockey Club Traditionally, MYHockey Rankings (MHR) has not provided ratings for girls teams at the 10U age level. There were a few different reasons for this. MHR has continued…
Chippewa.com photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Re-posted from July 12, 2020 If you have a kid playing AA or AAA hockey who is over the age of 14 you’ve probably heard…
Sportsnet.ca Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com During the last few years we’ve been treated to much more high-level summer hockey than usual thanks to COVID-impacted National Hockey League…
One of the best things about walking into a facility that has multiple ice rinks during a large youth hockey tournament is the flood of colors you see on and off the ice. It’s so much fun to cruise…
Sportsnet.ca Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com It happens this time every year, and it’s as predictable as Pavlov’s dogs, the swallows returning to Capistrano and Canada geese heading…
NHL.com photo By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com With the Stanley Cup finals already underway, when the puck drops to open play in the Memorial Cup Monday at 6 p.m. EDT, the long journey that…
PTBOCanada.com Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com It happens in youth sports all the time. A special group of athletes that just happened to be born during the same year randomly comes…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com As we prepare for Game 1 of the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup Finals, it’s almost like déjà vu all over again. You see, almost 40…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Apparently, the best path from point A to point B isn’t always a straight line. After one of the most evenly matched preliminary rounds in Under-18 Women…
Hockey Canada Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com One argument as to why international women’s ice hockey hasn’t become more popular among casual sports fans is a lack of parity. …
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com When the United States and Canada meet in women’s hockey, the forecast usually calls for a high-energy, fast, super-intense and chippy battle that likely…
Hockey Canada Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com They come from all over North America, hailing from hockey-crazed Canadian locales such as London, Etobicoke, Kelowna, Halifax and Cornwall…
After finalizing the 2021-22 season, MYHockey has released 2022-23 season data. The process mostly consists of copying last seasons data as a starter for the current season. While this creates…
MYHockey Final Rankings for the 2021-22 season are now available. We added another 2800 game scores over the past month and end the season with over 298k. We end the season with 18,303 teams…
NHL.com Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com It’s nice to be able to make your own rules and get some vindication – or at least a little bit of redemption. At the same time, it&rsquo…
This week, The Shrinks are back for Episode 70 where they answer questions from concerned hockey dads. BY and Motts begin the episode by catching up on Motts’ weekend at the NHL Network, share…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com While many kids and families are still unwinding from their youth hockey seasons – with tryouts in a good number of areas completed and the spring weather finally…
Global News Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Missed it by THISMUCH. The opening round of the National Hockey League playoffs is over, and what a first tound it was with five of the eight …
Hockey Canada’s U18 male and female national championships got underway on Monday, May 16 and run through Sunday, May 22. The men’s tournament is being hosted by the Sydney Rush in Okotoks…
Yes, you read the headline correctly! In light of our big announcement last week at the Project Play Summit, hosted by the Aspen Institute, MYHockey Rankings is proud to announce we will be making major…
ADMKids.com photo By Scott Lowe - MyHockeyRankings.com There comes a time when every young person reaches a crossroads and faces important decisions. Hopefully the choices they make are fueled by their…
Denver Post Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com For what seemed like an eternity, the Washington Capitals and San Jose Sharks were the epitome of National Hockey League playoff futility. …
Sportsnet.ca Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com With the Vegas Golden Knights’ elimination from playoff contention late Wednesday, the field of 16 for the Stanley Cup Playoffs was finalized…
While the top-tier United States Hockey League (USHL) and Major Junior Canadian Hockey League get most of the attention when it comes to North American junior hockey, some great U20 hockey is being played…
MYHockey Week #30 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members entered just over 2900 games this past week. We've been working to update all playoff games for Hockey Canada…
ADMKids.com Photo By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com While there was much negativity and frustration when the world shut down as COVID spread like wildfire during the spring and summer of 2020…
MYHockey Week #29 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members entered just over 2500 games this past week. We currently have 18,058 teams ranked, topping the 18k mark for the first …
Ontario Postseason Hockey Hub Ontario Hockey Federation Championships The Ontario Hockey Federation (OHF) Minor Hockey Championship is three-day event that determines OHF Champions at the U13 A…
MinnesotaHockeyMag.com Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com While young hockey players hoping to one day play at the highest levels face many ups and downs throughout the course of …
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Sometimes, even when coaches have the best of intentions, it can be challenging to keep young athletes from focusing on wins and losses, especially when a team is…
MYHockey Week #28 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members entered just over 3300 games this past week. We continue to work on geographic pockets of teams that do not have much/any…
Western Canada Postseason Hockey Hub Alberta After a two-year COVID-induced hiatus, March and April playoff hockey has returned to Alberta. Host locations were announced for the province’s 29 …
The Shrinks are joined by Cushing Academy Coach, Paul Pearl, for a mailbag episode! BY and Motts recap their weekend where Motts played in a few Bruins alumni games and BY shaved his head in support…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Patience is a virtue. Good things come to those who wait. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Many of us were reared on those time-honored sayings. …
Last week The Shrinks are joined by former New Jersey Devil and 2x Stanley Cup Champion, Colin White. BY and Motts discuss The Frozen Four, some silly trivia of The Hobey Baker Award, players taking…
MYHockey Week #27 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members entered just over 4000 games this past week. USA Hockey completed its youth and girls National Championships over …
The automatic berths have been earned and the at-large bids have been awarded. Teams have been seeded and placed in pools, and the schedule is set. All that’s left now is for the puck to be dropped…
MYHockey Week #26 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members entered 5300 games this past week. USA Hockey Youth Tier 1 Nationals begin today and all remaining (Girls & Tier…
Hockey Canada Photo This is the second in series of articles examining in detail what hockey coaches and scouts at the NCAA, junior, AAA and prep-school levels look for when watching potential prospects…
On episode 62 of The Rink Shrinks, BY and Motts are joined by Merrimack Assistant Coach, Josh Ciocco, for a mailbag episode. As a former teammate of BY’s for three years at UNH, Josh gives…
MYHockey Week #25 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members entered 6500 games this past week as the USA youth hockey season winds down except for the highly anticipated National tournaments…
As we enter the two-week lull between state and district tournaments and USA Hockey National Championships in the United States, postseason play in Canada is heating up as teams compete in league playoffs…
MYHockey Week #24 rankings are now available. We ran a day early this week to assist in getting the latest data available to USA Hockey as they look to fill at-large spots for Nationals. Thanks…
MYHockey Rankings (MHR), the premier source for youth hockey information in North America, and The Rink Shrinks, a youth hockey podcast hosted by Brian Yandle and Mike Mottau, are excited to announce…
We are now through Week 24 of the 2021-22 youth hockey season, and that means the final automatic berths for USA Hockey’s National Championship tournaments have all been decided! This week, …
It’s Week 24 of the 2021-22 youth hockey season, and that means the final automatic berths for USA Hockey’s National Championship tournaments will be decided by the end of the weekend. Next…
MYHockey Week #23 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members approxmiately 10,200 games this past week. That's another impressive weekly game total by volunteers, members…
USA Hockey National Championship tournament fields continued to round into form over the weekend as more boys’ and girls’ Tier 1 district champions were crowned around the United States. …
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com March Madness has become a phrase so commonly associated with NCAA basketball postseason play that it actually has been trademarked for that sport. That doesn…
MIHOCKEY.com photo Tier 1 District Tournament play gets into full swing in the United States this weekend as USA Hockey National Championship berths will be earned around the country. For our Week 23…
MYHockey Week #22 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members added nearly of 12,000 games this past week. As we enter March, we enter post-season tournament time. Please …
Four tickets were punched to the USA Hockey Youth Tier 1 National Championship tournament over the weekend in Irvine, Calif., as Pacific District champions were crowned at the 14U, 15U, 16U and 18U levels…
Sportsnet.ca Photo This is the first in series of articles examining in detail what hockey coaches and scouts at the NCAA, junior, AAA and prep-school levels look for when watching potential prospects…
MYHockey Rankings (MHR) is looking for motivated, driven and creative individuals that enjoy working as part of a team in a high-energy environment to lead our platform's day to day operations…
It’s that time of year again. Already. District Tournament play has begun in the United States as boys’ and girls’ Tier 1 teams embark on the the final legs of the journeys that they…
Usually, our Games of the Week end up being exciting, close and hard-fought contests when they actually are played out on the ice. That’s what we hope for when we select the matchups each week. …
MYHockey Week #21 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members added just shy of 13,000 games this past week. A big tournament weekend has increased team movement in the rankings…
By Scott Lowe – MyHockeyRankings.com This wasn’t the article I originally planned to write. Don’t worry. It’s coming. Over the next several weeks I will be posting valuable information…
USA Hockey Photo Approximately 40 of the top United States Girls youth hockey programs at the 14U, 16U and 19U levels come together just outside Washington, D.C., for this weekend’s Junior Women…
Associated Press Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Well, this certainly wasn’t what most people expected. Casual hockey observers – and there are many of them every four years …
MYHockey Week #20 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members added about 12,700 games this past week. We are eagerly anticipating another great week of hockey coming up with the Presidential…
Toronto Star Photo The Exposure Hockey Group’s Paradise Cup turned out to be all it was cracked up to be as 14 of the nation’s top-30 USA Boys 2009 teams competed and crowned champions in…
It seems as though most of Canadian youth hockey finally is back up and running, and this week in the United States we have the top 2009 boys tournament of the year. So why not mix it up a little for …
USA Hockey Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Let’s take a little quiz. Connor McDavid. Sidney Crosby. Alex Ovechkin. Evgeni Malkin. Marc-Andre Fleury. Patrick Kane. Nathan MacKinnon…
MYHockey Week #19 rankings are now available. Volunteers and members added about 13,400 games this past week. That bump up from last week is a direct result from Ontario resuming play this…
Well, it looks like we pretty well nailed it with our Week 19 Games of the Week. Two of the games were decided by a single goal, one went to a shootout and the other was a 1-0 game late into the third…
Graphic by Molly Scarborough By Scott Lowe - MYHockey Rankings This one isn’t for all the marbles, but that usually doesn’t matter. Tonight at 11:10 p.m. Eastern when the women from Canada…
In youth hockey, February means that it’s playoff time, and that is evident already as we enter the first weekend of the month. While state, district, provincial and national tournaments are still…
Sporting News Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Hockey fans around the world were disappointed to hear the news not too long ago that the National Hockey League would not be sending its players…
Pretty soon highly youth hockey teams are going to ask to be left out of our MHR Games of the Week feature if the upset trend continues That’s right, after three upsets in Week 17, our Week 18 …
We hope everyone survived last weekends blizzard (bomb cyclone) and is ready for this week's winter storms. But while you are pinned inside, we thought we'd entertain you with MYHockey Week #18 …
Peterborough Examiner Photo By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Last weekend I watched from a distance as a young hockey player on an NCAA college team was pulled from his locker room and berated by…
The crazy weather crushing the Northeast right now has shut hockey down there this weekend. Too many schedule changes, postponed games and cancellations to keep track of. So, this week we turn to the …
MYHockey Week #16 rankings have been released. Volunteers and members added over 12,100 game scores to MYHockey over the past week and we've added over 100 teams to the rankings again this week. Never…
Penticton Western News Photo Every now and then we get lucky and pick some incredible games for our Games of the Week Feature. Week 17 was one of those weeks. Three of our four games resulted in minor…
While it was disappointing to see parts of Canada shut down hockey rinks because of the spread of the Omicron variant, in turn shutting down youth hockey for a few weeks, it's great to see leagues and…
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com It’s an exciting time of year for young hockey players. We’re approaching the clubhouse turn and nearing the home stretch of the season. League…
We hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend! MYHockey Week #16 rankings have been released. Volunteers and members added over 11,000 game scores to MYHockey over the past week. Close to …
With so many games being played in the United States during the holiday weekend, we were provided with a great opportunity to dig into some top matchups of Tier 2 teams that might not normally get the…
Martin Luther King Day Weekend has become one of the busiest hockey weekends of the year in the United States. It's a weekend during which many teams travel outside their leagues to partcipate in one …
MYHockey Week #15 Rankings have been released. Volunteers and members added over 10.5k game scores to MYHockey over the past week. We added 624 new teams so there are now 16,200 teams that qualify for…
Our first Games of the Week for 2022 lived up to expectations as everyone in the hockey world returned to action following a holiday break for many. Our featured games included contests from the CCM 2010…
Happy New Year and welcome to the first full hockey weekend of 2022! While it seems like the end of the 2021-22 season is still way off in the distance, the truth is that before you know it we will be…
We hope everyone had a nice and safe holiday and New Year! MYHockey Week #14 Rankings have been released. Volunteers and members added over 7k game scores to MYHockey over the past two weeks. That…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com NHL.com Photo For most people around the world, late December is considered the winter holiday season. But for hockey fans it’s WJC season. That’s right…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Boston Globe Photo The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s the holiday season, a time to celebrate, reflect and look ahead. Another year…
MYHockey Week #13 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added over 13,100 game scores to MYHockey. After releasing a number of new rankings this week, the number of ranked…
Maine Nordiques Photo We cruised into amateur hockey's holiday break with four great matchups that comprised our Week 13 Games of the Week last weekend. In our featured contest, a battle of the top two…
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Welcome to our 12th Drill of the Week, powered by Kenny Brandt and SkilledAdvantageHockey.com. This week we move from our stickhandling progressions to the realm…
Welcome to the last big hockey weekend before the winter holidays. Every week that we present our MyHockey Rankings Games of the Week it gets harder to believe how fast the season is flying by. Many people…
MYHockey Week #12 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added over 12,500 game scores to MYHockey resulting in 14,297 ranked teams, an increase of 404 over last week. Now to…
Our Week 12 Featured Games of the Week turned out to be all we expected and maybe even a little more as Canada's top-ranked Boys Prep team from St. Andrew's College split a pair of games with Culver Academy…
We bring Canada back into the mix for our Week 12 Games of the Week, with three of our contests taking place north of the border. One of the matchups, our featured games of the week, include the No. 3…
MYHockey Week #11 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added over 15,000 game scores to MYHockey. This week 580 new teams qualified for the rankings bring the total…
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Welcome to our 11th Drill of the Week, powered by Kenny Brandt and SkilledAdvantageHockey.com. This week, once again, we are at the “pro” level as …
USA HOCKEY PHOTO CLICK HERE FOR OUR VIDEO WRAP-UP WITH GAME HIGHLIGHTS Another great weekend of youth hockey action is behind us, and as we dive deeper into the holiday season, the 2021-22 hockey…
After a holiday weekend off, our Games of the Week return for Week 11 of the 2021-22 season. This week we head to the Chicago are for some great Tier 1 and Tier 2 USA girls hockey action from the CCM …
We hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! MYHockey Week #10 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added over 12,500 game scores to MYHockey. This week 822 new teams…
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Welcome to our 10th Drill of the Week, powered by Kenny Brandt and SkilledAdvantageHockey.com. This week we move back to the “pro” level and continue…
MYHockey Week #9 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added over 12k game scores to MYHockey, quickly approaching the 100k mark. Thanks to our volunteers and members …
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Most people love our rankings and look forward to their release each week, but there are many others who may not like them or understand their need or purpose. …
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Welcome to our ninth Drill of the Week, powered by Kenny Brandt and SkilledAdvantageHockey.com. This week we move back to the “pro” level and continue…
New England Hockey Journal Photo Whenever the NorthEast Pack gets together for an event it usually provides us with more than enough matchups of highly ranked teams to fill our full slate of weekly Games…
MYHockey Rankings (MHR), North America’s premier source for youth hockey rankings and information, and Athletic Performance Insight (API) are excited to announce a data-sharing partnership …
MYHockey Week #8 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added over 13k game scores to MYHockey so that we now have over 10,248 teams that qualify for the rankings, …
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Welcome to our eighth Drill of the Week powered by Kenny Brandt and SkilledAdvantageHockey.com. In the first seven lessons we followed a stick-handling progression…
Richmond-News.com photo Finally! As we enter Week 8 of our 2021-22 rankings season and after being able to post Canadian rankings for the past several weeks, we are able to highlight some great…
MYHockey Week #7 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added over 11,400 game scores to MYHockey. MHR now has over 9,515 teams that qualify for the rankings, an increase of…
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL After our six-week off-ice stickhandling progression, it’s time to take it to the ice (or your online skates) for our Drill of the Week 7, powered by Kenny…
We head to the Chicgo area and one of the nation's biggest youth tournaments for all four of our Week 7 Games of the Week. The CCM World Invite features more than 500 teams, more than 10,000 players and…
MYHockey Week #6 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added just under 10,0000 game scores to MYHockey. With hundres of new teams reaching the 5 game minimum and…
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Welcome to the sixth of our MYHockey Rankings Drill of the Week features powered by Skilled Advantage Hockey. We are thrilled to have partnered with Kenny Brandt…
MIHockey.com Photo For our Week 6 Games of the Week, we turn our attention to the hockey hotbed of New England where a couple of the fall’s biggest and best showcases are taking place. The Eastern…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Hockey is a huge investment for everyone involved. First, there is the time commitment required of the players and their families, the coaches who often don&rsquo…
MYHockey Week #5 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added over 9,600 game scores to MYHockey. Now to the interesting rankings material you all care about! …
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Welcome to the fifth of our MYHockey Rankings Drill of the Week features powered by Skilled Advantage Hockey. We are thrilled to have partnered with Kenny Brandt…
Chicago Mission Photo USA girls’ Tier 1 hockey takes center stage this weekend as Minnesota hosts many of the top 14U, 16U and 19U programs from all over the United States as part of the CCM High…
MYHockey Week #4 Rankings are now available. This past week volunteers and members added over 10k game scores to MYHockey resulting in 7123 ranked teams, an increase of 1200 over last week. We released…
New England Hockey Journal Photo It’s another big tournament weekend for youth hockey around the United States as we inch a little closer to releasing our first Canadian rankings in more than two…
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Welcome to the fourth of our MYHockey Rankings Drill of the Week features powered by Skilled Advantage Hockey. We are thrilled to have partnered with Kenny Brandt…
Week #3 brings another 8600 games scores posted to MYHockey and total of 5906 teams who have now reached the 5 game minimum and are being ranked, up 942 from last week. The database…
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com For years hockey fans have trolled ESPN, the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader” in sports programming, for being apathetic toward the NHL …
While more hockey is being played all over North America each week, in Minnesota they’ve been going strong since mid-August and are already starting the district tournament process to determine …
MYHockey Rankings is proud to release Week #2 of our 2021-22 season rankings. Week #2 of the rankings brings another level of data maturity as the number of reported game scores in the database grew by…
By Scott Lowe – MyHockeyRankings.com NHL.com Photos This is one of the busiest times of year for hockey recruiting and scouting. Junior coaches have just settled on their final rosters …
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Here is the third of our MYHockey Rankings Drill of the Week features powered by Skilled Advantage Hockey. We are thrilled to have partnered with Kenny Brandt…
What a great time of the year for youth hockey! Our first set of rankings weas released this week, and top teams from all over the United States are traveling to other parts of the country to take on…
We've released our 2021-22 Week #1 Rankings. It includes USA boys Squirt Minor 2012 (9U) thru Midget Major 18U and Girls 14U thru 19U. The remainder of the rankings (Girls 12U, Junior, College, Canadian…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com The hockey community is excited about everything it seems. As rinks all over North America finally spring back to life after a crazy and uncertain 18 pandemic-ravaged…
CLICK HERE TO SEE A VIDEO OF THE DRILL Here is the second of our MYHockey Rankings Drill of the Week features powered by Skilled Advantage Hockey. We are thrilled to have partnered with Kenny Brandt…
By Scott Lowe - MyHockeyRankings.com New York Times photo It’s September and ice rinks around North America are once again filled with the joyful sounds of hockey. One sure sign that things…
Click here to check out this video showing how the drill is done properly. We are thrilled to have partnered with Kenny Brandt and Skilled Advantage Hockey to bring you our new “Drill of the Week…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com AJHL.ca photo The date was April 19, 2021, and the Ontario Hockey League was pulling the plug on its season. There would be no games because of COVID-19. Wait, …
Working hard while mixing in a little creativity from beginning to end, the North American Hockey League successfully navigated an uncertain 2020-21 season. A year after not being…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com USA Today Photo Like most people who were alive on Sept. 11, 2001, the unthinkable and devastating events of that day have had a lasting impact on me. Every year…
By Scott Lowe - MyHockeyRankings.com The last 18 months have been extremely difficult for all of us, and coaches are no different. Unfortunately, after blindly navigating an unprecedented pandemic and…
MYHockey Rankings (MHR), the premier source for youth hockey rankings and information, and Skilled Advantage Hockey are excited to announce an interactive social-media partnership focused on skills…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com HockeyJournal.com photo Junior hockey is back! Or it’s about to be back, and not just in the United States. That’s right, September marks the return…
The 2021-22 hockey season is finally underway in some parts of North America. And once again, MYHockey is seeking volunteers to enter scores and keep the system as complete and accurate as humanly possible…
By Scott Lowe - MYHockeyRankings.com Duluth News Tribune Photo Every four years USA Hockey makes changes to its playing rules. There usually are a number of changes – this year there are nearly…
By Scott Lowe – MYHockeyRankings.com NBC Sports photo When the puck drops today, finally, on the 2021 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship, it will have been 859…
By Scott Lowe - MYHiockeyRankings.com TSN.ca photo Has there ever been a sporting event with more storylines than the upcoming International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship? …
By Scott Lowe - MyHockeyRankings.com It’s been a refreshing summer around the ice rinks of North America, and not just because it’s a great way to get out of the sweltering heat many of us…