Objectives of player evaluation:
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To provide a fair and impartial assessment of a player's total hockey skills during the skating and scrimmage sessions
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To ensure that players have a reasonable opportunity of being selected to a team appropriate to their skill levels as determined during the on-ice evaluations of the current year.
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To provide coaches with the opportunity and flexibility to build a team based in part on their own coaching philosophy and knowledge of player skills and attitude.
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To provide uniformity and consistency in the evaluation process such that a player and parent expectations are consistent from year to year as players move through the various levels of the association's programs
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To form teams to maintain balanced and competitive play where the athletes can develop and participate equitably and have fun playing hockey during the season.
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To provide feedback in order to develop players