Objectives of player evaluation: 
 

• To provide a fair and impartial assessment of a player's total hockey skills during the skating and scrimmage sessions
   

• 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.
   

• 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.
   

• 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
   

• 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.
   

• To provide feedback in order to develop players