Congratulations to IYHA Coach Rich Sonterre for his achievement!

The Irondale Squirt A team hardhat is featured on the front page of the Minnesota Youth Hockey Coaches Association December 2008 e-newsletter!  Coach John Fuhr talks about the hardhat and why it is important.

Check out the article by clicking HERE

There are good websites to share with your Players.

Refer Parents to the Irondale Website Hockey Parents tab along the top.  There is information about Heathy athletes and the information is geared towards families.  This information is geared toward coaches.

Concussion
The Department of Disease Control (CDC) has a comprehensive toolkit for coaches
Click here to visit the CDC website

Minnesota Sports Medicine has a health library for various sports injuries
Click here to visit the MSM fact sheet about concussion

Minnesota Hockey has a Coaches Resource Center.  Scroll down their page to see info on concussion
Click here to visit the Coaches Resource Center

Skin Infection

The Minnesota Department of Heath has a comprehensive website on skin infections in athletes
Click here to visit the MN DPH website

Water Bottles

The Virginia Department of Health has information on the effects of sharing water bottles
Click here to visit the VA DPH website

This is YOUR page on the Irondale Website.  If there is any information you would like to see or share, let the Irondale Web Administrator know by clicking at the top to send an email or click on the Feedback button on the Irondale home page

SuperRink Clock Simulator

A great tool for parents and team managers:

This is the same clock used at the SuperRink and at Shoreview

Hockey Clock Simulator

Click here for instructions in pdf format (revised 12/05/2009)

Click here for instructions in Microsoft Word format (revised 12/05/2009)

Coaching Documents

Coach - Student Coach USA Form * - This form is designed to comply with requirements of USA Hockey governing the use of minors under the age of 18 as student coaches on a registered hockey team.

Screening Form page 1 * - Minnesota Hockey Screening Form, Page 1

Screening Form page 2 * - Minnesota Hockey Screening Form, page 2

Screening Instructions * - Minnesota Hockey Screening Form-Instructions

* Note some or all of the preceding documents can be downloaded and displayed and/or printed in Adobe's Acrobat format.  If you do not already have Adobe's free Acrobat Reader software, click here to download it now.