The Metropolitan Boston Hockey League1
The league was born and founded March 31, 1977, and incorporated in Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

 in August, 1979.

The Metropolitan Boston Hockey League
City	Boston, MA
Classification	Minor Hockey Minor hockey Minor hockey is an umbrella term for amateur ice hockey which is played below the junior age level. Players are classified by age, with each age group playing in its own league. The rules, especially as it relates to body contact, vary from class to class...
Founded	March 31, 1977
Colors	Gold Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and an atomic number of 79. Gold is a dense, soft, shiny, malleable and ductile metal. Pure gold has a bright yellow color and luster traditionally considered attractive, which it maintains without oxidizing in air or water. Chemically, gold is a...  and Black Black Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...

The MBHL is unique in youth hockey. The MBHL is classified as an "AAA" or "Tier I" league, but have not had a ranked team in the top 50 "AAA" nationally in several years. However, Assebet Valley has been on the fringe of these rankings several times over the past decade. Within the league, modified NCAA rules are played, the same as in U.S. college hockey. Slapshot

Slapshot

A slapshot in ice hockey is the hardest shot. It has four stages which are executed in one fluid motion:# The player winds up his hockey stick by raising it behind his body, sometimes raising the blade to shoulder height or higher.# Next the player violently "slaps" the ice slightly behind the...

s and body checking are allowed at all age levels.
MBHL league play begins the first weekend after Labor Day

Labor Day

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 and winds up with playoffs in late March of the following year. No other Minor hockey

Minor hockey

Minor hockey is an umbrella term for amateur ice hockey which is played below the junior age level. Players are classified by age, with each age group playing in its own league. The rules, especially as it relates to body contact, vary from class to class...

  organization in North America

North America

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 -- or the world, permits body checking or slapshots at the Mite & Squirt/Novice & Atom levels.

The MBHL had fourteen original organizations, five are still going strong -- Assabet Valley Patriots

Assabet Valley Patriots

The Assabet Valley Patriots are one of the longest standing members of the Metropolitan Boston Hockey League. Based in Concord, MA and founded in 1977, the Assabet Valley Hockey Minor Hockey Association has teams competing in the Minor hockey Divisions Mite, Squirt, Pee Wee, Bantam, and Midget...

, The Worcester Crusaders, Lowell Jr. Riverhawks, St. Moritz Devils and the Springfield Pics

Springfield Pics

The Springfield Pics are an American junior ice hockey organization playing in Springfield, Massachusetts. They field three Junior and a number of Youth teams.-History:...

. The Bay State Breakers

Bay State Breakers

The Bay State Breakers are a Tier III Junior A ice hockey team in the Eastern Junior Hockey League's South Division, The team plays home games at the Rockland Ice Rink in Rockland, Massachusetts...

, Boston Jr. Eagles, Boston Jr. Terriers, Bridgewater Bandits

Bridgewater Bandits

The Bridgewater Bandits is a Junior A ice hockey team from Bridgewater, Massachusetts playing in the Eastern Junior Hockey League. The team plays home games at the Bridgewater Ice Arena in Bridgewater, Massachusetts...

, Middlesex Islanders, Minuteman Flames, Providence Capitals, South Shore Kings

South Shore Kings

The South Shore Kings is a Tier III Junior A ice hockey team playing in the Eastern Junior Hockey League. The team plays at the Foxboro Sports Center located in Foxboro, Massachusetts...

, and Top Gun all left the MBHL in 2004 for the Eastern Hockey Federation

Eastern Hockey Federation

The Eastern Hockey Federation is an independent American Youth Minor ice hockey league. Established in early 2004, when the Bay State Breakers, Boston Jr. Eagles, Boston Jr...

.

Teams

The MBHL Currently Has 10 Member Organizations (see table at bottom).

Team	City	Home Rink
Assabet Valley Patriots Assabet Valley Patriots The Assabet Valley Patriots are one of the longest standing members of the Metropolitan Boston Hockey League. Based in Concord, MA and founded in 1977, the Assabet Valley Hockey Minor Hockey Association has teams competing in the Minor hockey Divisions Mite, Squirt, Pee Wee, Bantam, and Midget...	Concord, MA	Valley Sports Arena
Capital District Selects Capital District Selects The Capital District Selects is a Junior A ice hockey team from Albany, New York playing in the Eastern Junior Hockey League.-History:After several seasons as an independent midget team, the CD Selects joined the Eastern Junior Hockey League in 1998 as a part time member, joining full time in...	Troy, NY	Frear Park
Connecticut Lazers	Simsbury, CT	International Skating Center of Connecticut
Connecticut Wolves Connecticut Wolves The Connecticut Wolves were a soccer club that competed in the United Soccer Leagues from 1993 to 2002. Based in New Britain, Connecticut, and playing in Veteran's Stadium, the club started in the D-3 Pro League before moving to the A-League in 1997.-History:...	Northford, CT	Northford Ice
Edgewood Hawks	Cranston, RI	Schneider Arena
Lowell Jr. River Hawks	Lowell, MA	Janas Arena
New Hampshire Avalanche	Hooksett, NH	Ice Den Arena
St. Moritz Devils	Dedham, MA	Boston Ice Center
Springfield Pics Springfield Pics The Springfield Pics are an American junior ice hockey organization playing in Springfield, Massachusetts. They field three Junior and a number of Youth teams.-History:...	Springfield, MA	Olympia Ice Center
Worcester Crusaders	Worcester, MA	Buffone Rink

High school programs fed

The MBHL feeds many High School programs.

• Catholic Memorial High School
• Cushing Academy
  Cushing Academy
  Cushing Academy is a coeducational college preparatory boarding school for grades 9 through 12 plus an optional postgraduate year located in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1865 in fulfilment of a bequest by Thomas Parkman Cushing and opened in 1875, and is sometimes cited as the...
  
  
• Lawrence Academy at Groton
  Lawrence Academy at Groton
  Lawrence Academy at Groton, , is a co-educational preparatory school located in Groton, Massachusetts, in the United States...
  
  
• Malden Catholic High School
  Malden Catholic High School
  Malden Catholic High School, founded in 1932, is a private, Catholic secondary school for young men located in Malden, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The school was founded by the Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier , an international...
  
  
• Matignon High School
  Matignon High School
  Matignon High School is a co-ed Catholic school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.-Campus:...
  
  
• Middlesex School
  Middlesex School
  Middlesex School is an independent secondary school for grades 9 - 12 located in Concord, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1901 by a Roxbury Latin School alumnus, Frederick Winsor, who headed the school until 1937. Winsor set up a National Scholarship Program for the school, the first of its kind...
  
  
• Phillips Andover Academy
• Phillips Exeter Academy
  Phillips Exeter Academy
  Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...
  
  
• Saint Peter-Marian High School
  Saint Peter-Marian High School
  -Campus and location:Saint Peter-Marian's campus is situated upon a hill in a residential neighborhood. It is less than one mile to the town of Holden, Massachusetts. There is one main building with an annex that houses the senior high school, while another building is home to the junior high...
  
  
• St. John's High School
  St. John's High School (Massachusetts)
  Saint John's High School is a private Catholic boys' high school located in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester...
  
  
• St. John's Preparatory School
• St. Mark's School
  St. Mark's School
  St. Mark’s School is a coeducational, Episcopal, preparatory school, situated on in Southborough, Massachusetts, from Boston. It was founded in 1865 as an all-boys' school by Joseph Burnett, a wealthy native of Southborough who developed and marketed the world-famous Burnett Vanilla Extract . ...
  
  
• Saint Sebastian's School
  Saint Sebastian's School
  Saint Sebastian's School, also known colloquially as St. Seb's or Seb's, is an independent, all-boys Catholic secondary school located in Needham, Massachusetts on , in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The school instructs young men in grades seven through twelve...
  
  
• Thayer Academy
  Thayer Academy
  Thayer Academy is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory day school located in Braintree, Massachusetts. The academy, conceived in 1871 at the bequest of General Sylvanus Thayer, the father of the United States Military Academy, was founded in 1877...
  
  
• Worcester Academy
  Worcester Academy
  Worcester Academy is an independent coeducational preparatory school spread over in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States. The school is divided into a middle school, serving approximately 150 students in grades six to eight, and an upper school, serving approximately 500 students in...
  
  

Players

• Tony Amonte
  Tony Amonte
  Anthony Lewis Amonte is a retired American professional ice hockey player. He played right wing for the New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and the Calgary Flames, all of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Tom Barasso
• Al Bourbeau
• Phil Bourque
  Phil Bourque
  Phillipe Richard Bourque is a former American professional ice hockey player. He was never selected in the NHL Entry Draft; instead, he was signed as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Penguins on October 4, 1982.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Bobby Brooke
• Doug Brown
  Doug Brown (ice hockey)
  Douglas Brown is a former American ice hockey right winger. After playing four seasons with Boston College, Brown was signed as an undrafted free agent by the New Jersey Devils on August 6, 1986....
  
  
• Ed Campbell
• Jim Campbell
• Bob Carpenter
• Eddie Caron
• John Carter
  John Carter (ice hockey)
  John A. Carter was a professional ice hockey player who played for the Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks of the NHL.-Regular season and playoffs:-External links:...
  
  
• Ted Crowley
  Ted Crowley
  Ted Crowley is a retired professional ice hockey player.-Playing career:He was drafted in 1988 by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 4th round, 69th overall. He played 21 games for the Hartford Whalers in 1993–94. He was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Avalanche in August 1998 and played 7...
  
  
• Marvin Degon
  Marvin Degon
  Marvin Degon is an American professional ice hockey defenceman, currently playing for the ERC Ingolstadt of the DEL.-Playing career:...
  
  
• John Doherty
  John Doherty
  John Doherty may refer to:*John Doherty , senior executive in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation*John Doherty , first baseman for the Angels, 1974–1975...
  
  
• Ted Donato
  Ted Donato
  Edward Paul Donato is a retired American ice hockey player who played in the NHL. Since he retired from professional hockey as a player in 2004, he has served as the head coach for the Harvard University hockey team.-Career:...
  
  
• Hal Gill
  Hal Gill
  Harold Priestley "Hal" Gill III is an American professional ice hockey defenseman and an alternate captain of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  
• Mike Grier
  Mike Grier
  Michael James Grier is a retired professional ice hockey winger who most recently played for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League . He has also played professionally for the Edmonton Oilers, Washington Capitals, and San Jose Sharks...
  
  
• Bill Guerin
  Bill Guerin
  William Robert Guerin is an American former professional ice hockey player and current player development coach for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Guerin played eighteen seasons in the National Hockey League winning two Stanley Cup championships with the New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins teams...
  
  
• Ned Havern
  Ned Havern
  Ned Havern is an American former professional ice hockey player. Havern was drafted 273rd overall, in the 9th round of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, by the Dallas Stars...
  
  
• Steve Heinze
  Steve Heinze
  Stephen Herbert Heinze is a former National Hockey League right wing. He was drafted in the third round, 60th overall, by the Boston Bruins in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft....
  
  
• Scott Horvath
  Scott Horvath
  Scott Horvath is an American former professional ice hockey player.-Playing career:Scott Horvath was selected in the 6th Round, 184th overall, by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2001 National Hockey League entry draft....
  
  
• Jeff Lazaro
  Jeff Lazaro
  Jeffrey Adam Lazaro is an American former professional ice hockey player. Lazaro played 102 games in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and the Ottawa Senators, with 14 goals, 23 assists and 114 penalty minutes...
  
  
• Jordan LaVallee
• John Lilley
  John Lilley
  John Lilley is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, guitar teacher and landscape gardener, best known for being a member of rock band The Hooters.-Early life:...
  
  
• Shawn McEachern
  Shawn McEachern
  Shawn K. McEachern is an American ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. He is the current head boys' varsity ice hockey coach at The Rivers School, an independent 6–12 school in Weston, Massachusetts....
  
  
• Jeff Norton
  Jeff Norton
  Jeffrey Thomas Norton is a retired American ice hockey defenseman.He grew up in the town of Acton, Massachusetts and attended Cushing Academy...
  
  
• James Pemberton
  James Pemberton
  Sir James Pemberton was an English goldsmith who was Lord Mayor of London in 1611.Pemberton was born in Wrightington, probably the son of a farmer of Heskin, Eccleston, Lancashire. He went to London in 1567 to take an apprenticeship with Francis Heaton...
  
  
• Jeff Pietrasiak
• Tom Poti
  Tom Poti
  Thomas Emilio Poti is an ice hockey defenseman and an alternate captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. He attended Saint Peter-Marian High School for two years. A graduate of the Cushing Academy, Poti moved on to play for Boston University of Hockey East...
  
  
• Jeremy Roenick
  Jeremy Roenick
  Jeremy Shaffer "J.R." Roenick is a former American professional ice hockey player who played the majority of his career in the National Hockey League . He played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, and San Jose Sharks over the course of his 18 NHL...
  
  
• Kevin Stevens
  Kevin Stevens
  Kevin "Artie" Stevens is a retired ice hockey player and current NHL scout for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He played left wing on a line with Mario Lemieux during the Penguins' Stanley Cup championships in 1991 and 1992...
  
  
• Bob Sweeney
  Bob Sweeney
  Bob Sweeney may refer to:*Bob KO Sweeney, , American boxer*Bob Sweeney , , American professional ice hockey player*Bob Sweeney , television actor, director and producer...
  
  
• Keith Tkachuk
  Keith Tkachuk
  Keith Matthew Tkachuk is a retired American professional ice hockey player who played for four teams and three franchises in his 19-year career. He is one of only four American-born players to score 500 goals, and is the sixth American player to score 1,000 points.- Playing career :Tkachuk began...
  
  
• Dan Travis
• Noah Welch
  Noah Welch
  Noah Paul Welch is an American professional ice hockey defenseman who currently plays for HV71 in the Swedish elite league Elitserien while under contract to the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
  
• Jim Carey
• Scott Young
  Scott Young (ice hockey)
  Scott Allen Young is a retired American professional ice hockey right winger. He is currently the varsity ice hockey coach at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts.-Playing career:...