WHL
Team Alberta Male Program
The Team Alberta Male program development path begins at the U14 age level and progresses to U17, with a goal of identifying and evaluating players in the selection process for Team Alberta. The Team Alberta Male program feeds into Hockey Canada’s Program of Excellence. The overall goal is to create an environment where players, coaches, trainers and administrators can meet new friends, compete with their peers, and approach levels of commitment and excellence that each has the potential to achieve.
Players participate in zone selection camps, with a goal of participating in either the Prospects Cup or the Alberta Winter Games.
Alberta Winter Games
The Alberta Winter Games are held in February of even-numbered years. Teams compete for the right to represent each of the eight Alberta Winter Games Zones to compete in the Games.
The 2024 Alberta Winter Games ran February 16-19 in Grande Prairie.
PROSPECTS CUP
The Hockey Alberta Prospects Cup program is the start of the Hockey Alberta Development program and is held annually. The 2025 Prospects Cup takes place at the Gary W. Harris Centre from May 7-11.
The U15 program is the second stage of the development and identification process that feeds Team Alberta, and features the annual Alberta Cup.
The U16 Male Program is the third stage of the development and identification process to select a roster for Team Alberta to compete at either the WHL Cup or the Canada Winter Games, beginning with the Alberta Cup. The Games are held every four years, with the next event set for 2027 in Quebec. Players in the U16 Male program will be challenging for the opportunity to compete on one of the three teams that represent Canada each year at the World U17 Hockey Challenge.
Alberta Cup
The Alberta Cup Program begins in April each year with hundreds of players trying out for a spot on one of the six regional teams. The camps include top level instruction and evaluation from Hockey Alberta officials. The teams will then compete in a tournament later in the month, with players being evaluated for selection for the Team Alberta U16 Male Summer Development Camp in July. Coaches, trainers, officials and director of operations also are evaluated to continue in the development path.
The 2025 Alberta Cup will be open to 2010-born male players from across Alberta. The 2025 Alberta Cup will run April 23-27 in Red Deer at the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre.
summer Selection Camp
Eighty players, coaches and trainers are identified and invited to this week-long camp in July. Through high intensity on and off ice training as well as classroom sessions, they are given the opportunity to develop their skills within the game of hockey and as people. From the U16 Provincial Camp, a shortlist is set, with the players scouted with their club teams prior to final roster decisions on the 20 players selected to comprise Team Alberta.
Team Alberta
Twenty players will be selected to the roster of Team Alberta and will compete at either the WHL Cup or the Canada Winter Games. The WHL Cup is usually held in late-October of non-Canada Winter Games years, with Alberta competing against teams from the other three western provinces. Canada Winter Games are held every four years.
EVENT HISTORY
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Team Canada
Players are evaluated with their club teams early in the current season, at Canada’s National Under-17 Development Camp in August, and during the previous season, including at three regional under-16 events: the Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup, OHL Gold Cup and QMJHL Excellence Challenge. Sixty-six players from across the country are selected to form three teams (Red, White and Black) to represent Canada at the World U17 Hockey Challenge.
World Under-17 Hockey Challenge
The tournament is made up of 10 teams; five (5) from Canada - Quebec, Ontario, Pacific (Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Atlantic (New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island) and West (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut), and five (5) International teams - Germany, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic and the United States.
- 2011 Team Pacific - Bronze Medal over Quebec
- Mike Dyck (Lethbridge, Head Coach); Mike Mueller (Grande Prairie, Assistant Coach)
- 2012 Team Pacific - 5th place - Roster >
- 2013 Team Pacific - 5th place
- 2014 Team Pacific - Silver Medal, losing to Ontario in final - Roster >
2016
Team Canada Black, Silver medal: Ty Smith, Eric Florchuk, Chase Wouters
Team Canada White, 4th: Jonathan Tychonick, Elijah Brown and Tristen Nielsen
Team Canada Red, 5th: Carl Stankowski and Josh Tarzwell
2017
Goaltender Taylor Gauthier (Calgary), defencemen Bowen Byram (Lethbridge), Jake Lee (Sherwood Park), Rhett Rhinehart (Lloydminster), and Matthew Robertson (Sherwood Park), and forwards Connor Bouchard (Cochrane), Kirby Dach (Fort Saskatchewan), Peyton Krebs (Okotoks), and Brayden Tracey (Calgary)
2019
Defencemen Corson Ceulemans (Beaumont) Kyle Masters (Edmonton) and Olen Zellweger (Fort Saskatchewan), and forwards Jayden Grubbe (Calgary), Dylan Guenther (Edmonton), Matthew Savoie (St. Albert), Sean Tschigerl (Whitecourt) and Kai Uchacz (Okotoks) are among the 66 players chosen to represent Canada in Medicine Hat and Swift Current.
Team Alberta Inline
2012 Alberta Summer Games
Eight teams from around the province met in Lethbridge to compete for inline supremacy at the Alberta Summer Games. Teams were formed from regional try-out camps and 92 athletes were able to travel and participate in the Inline Hockey event.
In the final game the Zone 6 athletes from Edmonton were able to outlast the team from Zone 4 - Parkland (Red Deer area) winning the game 6-2. The game was very fast and filled with great moments. It was a true testament to the sport. In the Bronze medal game the Zone 3 team from Calgary beat the Black Gold Zone 5 squad to take home third place.
“Our goal at this tournament was to re-energize the sport for the kids who were eligible to play and to facilitate a good experience that they will remember for many years to come,” said South Regional Development coordinator for Hockey Alberta, Troy Muspratt. “We were able to recruit some ice players to participate and we hope the inline sport will be able to continue to gain momentum and have some traction in all zones in the province. We saw some excellent skill here in Lethbridge and the goaltending was shockingly good even though some of the scores were high.”
2013 Canada West Cup
In total, 21 players and four goalies born in 1997 or later were selected to compete against teams from Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Players attended an identification camp from May 31st to June 2nd in Red Deer before getting selected.
“This is Hockey Alberta’s premier inline competition,” says Hockey Alberta’s Coordinator of Programs and Recruitment, John Engelhardt. “The competition is modeled after international competitions to help athletes better prepare themselves for competitions at the next level.”
The players competing in the Canada West Cup are eligible to try out for the Team Alberta team that will compete at next year’s State Wars competition.
Team Alberta Blue
| NO. 1 30 98 97 91 4 89 94 7 88 17 16 |
POS. G G P P P P P P P P P P |
FIRST NAME Jayden Koadi Donovan Alex Max Matt Cole Owen Jackson Ryan Cull Caden |
LAST NAME Borle Kozma Allen Askin Carr Halkovic Martel McKibbon Oborne Oborne Scott Shybunka |
CITY Sherwood Park Strathmore Sherwood Park Calgary Sherwood Park Strathmore Sherwood Park Sherwood Park Red Deer Red Deer Calgary Red Deer |
Team Alberta Red
| NO. 1 60 15 5 88 89 12 77 81 4 51 91 71 |
POS. G G P P P P P P P P P P P |
FIRST NAME Justin Kirt Cody Tate Matt Shane Bryce Matthew Brady Mitchell Chris Kenny Brad |
LAST NAME Anderson Fortney Albertson Barnett Brelis Frisneth Munro Paccagnan Park Pinsent Rebeyka Sevim Tingey |
CITY Red Deer Red Deer Calgary Strathmore Strathmore Sylvan Lake Sherwood Park Edmonton Red Deer Calgary Strathmore Calgary Hussar |
Alberta Sledge Hockey
Alberta Sledge is proud to announce the 15 player roster for the Provincial Sledge Hockey Team that will represent Alberta for the 2015-16 season. The roster was finalized following a two-day selection camp in Wetaskiwin. The camp included a skills evaluation and two intrasquad games. Alberta’s roster includes two goaltenders, four defense and nine forwards. Head coach Steve Arsenault (Spruce Grove) assembled the roster with support from associate coach Kieran Block (Edmonton), and team manager Dean Krawec (St. Albert).
Team Roster
Canada Russia Series 2017 - Team WHL
Forwards Jaret Anderson-Dolan (Calgary), Tyler Benson (Edmonton), Dillon Dube (Cochrane), Matthew Phillips (Calgary), Sam Steel (Sherwood Park), and Tyler Steenbergen (Sylvan Lake) will all suit up for Team WHL up front. On defence, Jake Bean (Calgary), Kale Clage (Lloydminster), Josh Mahura (St. Albert), and David Quenneville (Edmonton) will all be part of an Albertan-heavy blueline, in front of goaltenders Carter Hart (Sherwood Park) and Stuart Skinner (Edmonton).
2019
Defencemen Bowen Byram (Lethbridge/Cranbrook) and Ty Smith (Lloydminster), along with forwards Kirby Dach (Fort Saskatchewan), Dillon Hamaliuk (Leduc), Peyton Krebs (Okotoks) and Brayden Tracey (Calgary) will represent their league in games five and six of the annual series, set for November 13 in Saskatoon, and November 14 in Prince Albert.
World Junior A Challenge
2017
Defencemen Jacob Bernard-Docker, Jarrod Gourley, T.J. Lloyd and Jonny Tychonick, along with forward Dylan Holloway (Bragg Creek), are among the 22 players who will compete in the WJAC with Team Canada West. Albertans Rick Swan and Jamie McCaig, both Assistant Coaches, will be part of Canada West’s coaching staff.
Canadian Men’s National Team
2018 - Pyeongchang Olympics
Ben Scrivens (Spruce Grove) is one of three goaltenders selected by Team Canada, and will be joined on Canada’s back end by defenders Mat Robinson (Calgary) and Karl Stollery (Camrose). Rene Bourque (Lac La Biche), Rob Klinkhammer (Lethbridge), Brandon Kozun (Calgary), and Mason Raymond (Cochrane) are among the 14 forwards named to Team Canada.
Hlinka Gretzky Cup
2018
Bowen Byram, Kirby Dach, Taylor Gauthier, Dylan Holloway, Peyton Krebs and Matthew Robertson took home a gold medal with Team Canada on Saturday at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Edmonton, defeating Sweden 6-2. All six players were members of Team Alberta’s gold-medal winning U16 Male squad at the 2016 WHL Cup.
2019
Defenceman Kaiden Guhle (Sherwood Park), and forwards Ridly Greig (Lethbridge), Connor McClennon (Wainwright), Jake Neighbours (Airdrie) and Ozzy Wiesblatt (Calgary) are among the 22 players selected to represent Canada for the annual international under-18 tournament in Czech Republic and Slovakia.
IIHF World Juniors
2021 - Edmonton
Goaltender Taylor Gauthier, defencemen Bowen Byram and Kaiden Guhle, and forwards Kirby Dach, Dylan Holloway, and Peyton Krebs will all skate for Canada. Byram is among the six returning players who won gold at the 2020 World Juniors.
