Calumet Hockey Association

Congratulations to the Keweenaw Storm Girls 19U hockey team for placing second at the USA Hockey national tourney in San Jose, California!!

For a full recap of the championship game, click HERE for the Daily Mining Gazette article.

The Keweenaw Storm U19 Girls team will open Tier II USA Hockey National Tournament on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 3:45 PM PST against the Illinois Falcons.  The tourney will continue into Thursday at 1:30 PST against the Charles River Blazers and Pool Play will wrap up on Friday against Chazy Lady Flyers, with the puck dropping at 10:00 AM PST.  If the girls earn a position in the Championship round, the quartefinal games will be on Saturday, and the semi-finals and championship game will be Sunday. 

Scores will be updated here as soon as they are available. 

Game 1: Wednesday vs. Illinois Falcons:  4-0 WIN
Click HERE for Gazette article
Click HERE for TV6 article

Game 2:  Thursday vs. Charles River Blazers: 7-1 WIN
Click HERE for TV6 article
Click HERE for Gazette article

Game 3: Friday vs. Chazy Lady Flyers:  6-2  WIN
Click HERE for TV6 article

Quarterfinals: Saturday vs. Portland Jr. Pirates  5-1 WIN

Semi-finals:  Sunday vs. Colorado Jr. Tigers:  2-1 WIN

Championship Sunday vs. Chazy Lady Flyers 3-2 LOSS 2OT

A full schedule and stats can be found at the following USA Hockey website:  http://nationals.usahockey.com/page/show/776252-tier-ii-girls-19u-2013-

The Daily Mining Gazette Article written by Brandon Veale can be found here:  http://mininggazette.com/page/content.detail/id/529385/Another-Storm-rolls-into-nationals.html?nav=5009

The Mix 93.5 will have Mitch Lake calling all the action over the weekend.  You can listen in on the radio, or on the computer via pasty.net. 

The Keweenaw Storm Girls 19U hockey club completed their MAHA State Championship 'hat trick' this past weekend by taking their 3rd consecutive state title. 

The girls opened the tourney on Friday by defeating a familiar opponent, the Marquette Sentinals.  The Storm defeated Marquette by a 4-1 score. 

On Saturday, the Storm gathered two big wins by pounding the Mt. Clemens Wolves 8-1 and the Michigan Ice Dogs 13-0. 

The three wins put the Storm girls into the Championship game with a rematch against Marquette.  After only giving up 2 goals in their first three games, the ladies found themselves down 2-0 to Marquette in the all-or-nothing final.  The girls rallied for 3 straight goals to defeat Marquette for the second time of the tourney and take home the state championship. 

The girls will head to warmer weather as they travel to San Jose, California on April 3-7 to contend for the national title.  Keep posted to this website for further details about the Storm. 

On March 12th, the Michigan High School Hockey Coaches Association released their All-State Awards for the 2012-2013 season.  The Calumet Copper Kings placed the players on the Division III team for the year:

1st Team:  Brendan Jacques, Forward
2nd Team:  Lucas Lanhala, Forward
Honorable Mention:  James Sturos, Defense

For a full list of all divisions click HERE.

In addition, the following players earned Academic All-State Awards:

James Sturos      4.00 GPA
Bryce Johnson    3.60  GPA
Bradley Erkkila    3.59  GPA
Eric Mattila         3.56 GPA

Congratulations to the Copper King Award Winners!

The Jr. Kings Squirt AA team travelled to Sault Ste. Marie for the NIHL Playoffs this past weekend.  The squirts finished in second place during the regular season, 2 points behind Marquette.  The Jr. Kings would get thier revenge during the playoffs, as they went on to win 3 1-goal games in round robin play.  The squirts opened the tourney defeating the Soo 5-4 on Friday night.  They followed that up with a 1-0 shutout of Mackinaw City on Saturday morning.  To cap off the day, the Jr. Kings beat Marquette 2-1 to go into the Gold Medal game. 

In the Gold Medal game, the Jr. Kings beat up on the Soo by a 5-1 score to take the crown for the weekend.  Congratulations to all players and coaches!!

Congratulations go out to the following Ice Kings teams for making the District 8 Playdowns over the next couple weekends:

Squirt B:  The River Valley Bank Squirt B team went to Iron River over the past weekend.  RVB went 3-0 in round-robin play, defeating Marquette 8-2 on Friday night, and besting Ironwood by a 6-3 score on Saturday morning.  On Saturday evening, RVB was already established as the #1 seed out of the American Division, and proved thier position by beating up on Iron River 9-5. The story changed on Sunday, as RVB played their semi-final game against Iron Mountain.  IM came out and took the win over RVB by a 7-2 score.  Iron Mountain would go on to win the District 8 Championship over Ironwood later in the day. 

Pee-Wee B: The Lake Linden Lions Pee-Wee B team traveled to Munising for the District 8 Tournament on February 8-10. The Pee-Wees started out strong with 2 big wins in their first two games. The Lions defeated Newberry 11-4 on Friday, and started Saturday off with an 11-3 drubbing of Escanaba. In game 3 on Saturday afternoon, the Lions dropped their first game to the eventual tourney winner, DAHA. They lost by a 5-1 score. Going 2-1 in the Round Robin, the Lions advanced to the Semi-Finals on Sunday morning, where they played a familiar foe: CCJHA Tervo Agency. The Lions played a good game, but lost a heart-breaking 5-4 overtime game to Tervo. Tervo moved onto the final and got defeated by DAHA 8-4.

Bantam B:  The KML/Jilbert's Dairy Bantam B team traveled to Iron Mountain, and lost both of their games in the round robin play to CCJHA KRC 6-4 and to Newberry 8-4.  The nine team tournament format didn't allow for a chance on Sunday as they didn't earn the one runner up spot for the semi-finals either.  Iron Mountain eventually went on to defeat Ontonagon 7-0 in the Final game, and will be representing District 8 down in Big Rapids.

Midget BB:  Michigan State Police in Iron Range on Feb. 15-17

Please get out and support your Calumet Ice Kings!!

All three of the Jr. Kings AA Travel teams were in District 8 action over the February 1-3 weekend.  The following is how our teams fared in their respective division:

Squirt AA:  The Jr. Kings Squirt AA captured the District 8 crown by defeating the Marquette Sentinels 2-1 on Friday night and 7-0 over the CCJHA Keweenaw Storm on Saturday morning. The squirts will head to Trenton on March 15-17 to try to capture the state title. 

Pee-Wee AA:  The Jr. Kings Pee-Wee AA team went 0-3 in a hard-fought weekend of district action.  The Pee-Wees fell to CCJHA 4-2 on Saturday morning and lost a heart-breaking overtime game to Escanaba 2-1 on Saturday night.  The Pee-Wees wrapped up the weekend by dropping a game to Marquette on Sunday morning. 

Bantam AA:  The Jr. Kings Bantam AA team went 1-1 on the weekend, and lost the District 8 crown to Marquette in an exciting, fast-paced game on Sunday afternoon.  The Bantams defeated CCJHA 4-2 to open the weekend, but could not find the back of the net on Sunday and fell to Marquette 2-0.  The Bantams captured the District 8 Runner-Up trophy for their efforts. 

USA Hockey Coaching Clinic information for the 2012-2013 hockey season has been released.  There are clinics for Levels 1-3 in the Copper Country and in Marquette.

Please see the Coaches page for full information and how to register for the clinics. 

The Calumet Hockey Association has openings for squirt, pee wee and bantam travel coaches for the 2013-14 season.

If interested, please send a letter of intent by May 15th to:

Calumet Hockey Assn
PO Box 385
Calumet, MI 49913

Friday, May 10 @ Colosseum @ 7:00 PM