COVID-19 Guidelines for Warrior Families

GNH Warrior Families, 

We have been so fortunate to start our hockey season and want to keep it going. We’ve had quite a few questions related to COVID-19 recently and wanted to send this email to address those questions and provide guidance moving forward.  Please find our protocols below for dealing with COVID that we have developed based on USA Hockey and CDC Guidelines. It’s important to remember that for most of you, these rules are for your children, but we expect Coaches and Parents to follow the same guidelines for attending practices and games.    

1. If your player has a fever, cough, shortness of breath, loss of taste and/or smell, vomiting, diarrhea, or showing any COVID symptoms, they must be free from all of these symptoms for 24 hours before returning to the team for a game or practice.

2. If your player was sent home from school due to illness, they should not come to a game or practice the same day and not return until they are symptom-free for 24 hours.

3. If your player was told to quarantine for any amount of time from school due to contact tracing, they should not be at a game or practice for the same time as the school quarantine.

4. If your player had a COVID test, the player may not go to a game or practice while awaiting test results.

5. If your player had a Negative COVID test without having close contact with someone diagnosed with Covid they may not play in a game or practice until you have given a physical copy of the Negative COVID test results to your Parent Manager and they have been symptom-free for 24 hours. The Parent Manager will then give them to a GNH Warriors Executive Board Member.

6. If your player had a Negative COVID test after having close contact with someone diagnosed with Covid, they may not play in a game or practice until you have given a physical copy of the Negative COVID test results to your Parent Manager and 14 days have passed since their last exposure to the person diagnosed with Covid. The Parent Manager will then give them to a GNH Warriors Executive Board Member.

7. If your player had a Positive COVID test you must immediately notify Dennis Mastriano President of GNH Warriors, at [email protected], in addition to the other notifications you should be doing per CDC recommendations. We will maintain confidentiality in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws and regulations. Dennis will in turn notify Chuck Wilkerson, CHC President, and Amy Landino, CT Player Safety Coordinator in addition to the teams impacted.

8. If your player had been in contact with someone that has tested Positive for COVID you must let your Coach and Team Manager know and the player should have a COVID test.

You can find additional information on how these guidelines were developed at USA Hockey Returning to Rinks and the CDC Youth Sports Guidelines.  Please adhere to these guidelines so we can keep all of our players and family’s safe and healthy. 

Thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.

Executive Board

GNH Warriors

2020 FALL LEARN-TO-PLAY HOCKEY CLINIC 

REGISTRATION OPEN

Fall program runs for ten weeks! 

October 10th to December 20th

The Warriors Learn-to-Play Hockey clinic is a preparatory program designed to teach new and returning players 4-10 years old proper skating and introductory hockey skills. This program is for players who have recently completed GNH Warriors First Strides or similar program and want to advance to the next step in learning the game of hockey. It consists of 20, one-hour sessions at the Northford Ice Pavilion.

Equipment: 

Full equipment is required. Discounted equipment packages are available from The Pro Shop at the Northford Ice Pavilion or  Hamden Sports on Whitney Ave in Hamden. Players will receive a Warriors jersey.

Times:

Saturdays 8:40-9:40 AM

Sundays 8:40-9:40 AM

Cost: 

$400 (New participants must register at USA Hockey Registration prior to participating.)

For more information, contact President Dennis Mastriano @ [email protected] or Bryan Leitch  [email protected] 

It is with great sadness the GNH Warriors program says goodbye to Dan Kelly. Dan will be remembered as a loving Husband, Father, Coach, and Friend. Dan passed away Monday, September 28th, 2020 at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dan is survived by his wife Michelle and four boys Daniel, Ethan, Matthew, and Rocco. Daniel played goalie for the Warriors Bantam A team while Mattew and Ethan currently play for the Warriors PWA team. Their youngest son Rocco was coached by Dan and Michelle on the West Haven Squirt A team. Dan grew up at the West Haven ice rink and has been involved in coaching for years. He loved coaching and supporting his boys as they play the game they love. Dan will be missed greatly by everyone around the rink. Here is Dan’s obituary. 

The GNH Warriors Peewee A team is organizing a gift card collection for the Kelly family. 

(Visa, Stop & Shop, Amazon, BJs, Costco, Kohl’s, Walmart, local restaurants, Northford Pro Shop, Hamden Sports, Whities/Ferguson’s, etc) in any denomination. 

Gift cards can be given to Gina Porto or dropped in the box outside the Warriors office labeled PEEWEE A – KELLY FAMILY GIFT CARD by  October 15th.  The Peewee A team will present this to the Kelly Family shortly after.  

Additionally, the West Haven Youth Hockey organization set up a Go Fund Me page for the family. Please consider helping the Kelly family in any way you can.  https://www.gofundme.com/f/who-are-we-coach-dan-kelly…

1.) Masks must be worn by anyone entering the facility at all times unless you are on the ice.

2.) No one may enter the facility until 15 minutes prior to your ice slot.

3.) One spectator per skater.

4.) Absolutely no loitering in the front lobby.

5.) When your skater’s session is over, we require you to follow signage to exit the facility.

6.) Please follow 6 ft. distance from others in the facility.

We are mandating that these rules be followed, we are trying to make the rink a safe place for all.

Thank you for your cooperation,

The Northford Ice Pavilion Staff

Congratulations – Warriors earn player awards!

Players can earn an award for the following:

• Hat Trick Award – a player scoring 3 goals in one game

• Playmaker Award – a player with 3 assists in one game

• Zero Award – a goalie allowing 0 goals, playing a complete game

• Playmaker – William Emerson (PeeWee Black)

• Hat Trick – Thomas Melillo (PeeWee Black)

• Zero – Owen Hamm (PeeWee B Black)

• Hat Trick – William Emerson (PeeWee B Black)

• Hat Trick – William Miller (PeeWee B Black)

• Hat Trick – Evan Conlan (PeeWee B Black)

• Hat Trick – Cameron Gauvin (PeeWee B Red)

• Hat Trick – Luca DiLegge (PeeWee B Red)

• Hat Trick – Chase DeSanto (PeeWee B Red)

• Playmaker – Cooper Savoy (Bantam A)

• Playmaker – Griffin Manske (Bantam A)

• Hat Trick – Bryce Montabana (Bantam A)

• Playmaker – Luca DiLegge (PeeWee B Red)

• Hat Trick – Zachary Hooper (PeeWee B Red)

• Hat Trick – Alexander Cretella (PeeWee B Red)

• Zero – Daniel Hooper (PeeWee B Red)

• Zero – Ben Amarone (Bantam A)

• Zero – Dillon Brockett (Squirt A)

• Zero – Dante DiLegge (Bantam A)

• Zero – Benjamin McGovern (Squirt A1)

• Playmaker – Paul Mastriano (Bantam A)

• Zero – Tyler Ferraro (Squirt A1)

Here are the player age and level guidelines for the 2018/2019 season:

Bantams 14U – Birth years 2006 & 2007

PeeWees 12U – Birth years 2008 & 2009

Squirts 10U – Birth years 2010 & 2011

Mites 8U – Birth years 2012 & 2013