Ryan Metivier from Breakout Magzine has wrote an article on the Canadian Deaf Hockey Team and its Journey to The Top in the December issue.

The magazine is in circulation to the players and members of the Greater Toronto Hockey League and current National team member Matthew Sheffield

plays in this league.  Two other players have also played in the GTHL, they are  Dimitri Theofilakitidis, and Captain Steve Devine.

Follow the link to the article http://issuu.com/lushluxury/docs/breakoutmagazine/27#share

Congratulations to Dave Wright

Former Canada Deaflympic Hockey team therapist Dave Wright (1991-1995) is now currently the Toronto Argonauts Athletic Head Team therapist winning the 100^th Grey Cup recently in Toronto.

Congratulation on winning the 100^th Grey Cup and we are all proud of your team accomplishments.

Roy Hysen

December 13, 2012

Executive Director Roy Hysen and Head Coach Don McKee are excited to annouce the addition of Patrick Escalambre to the Canadian National Team roster.

Patrick a defenceman who hails from British Columbia competed at the Canada Deaf Games for Team BC, as well as at the August selection camp in Toronto.

 Patrick will add speed, grit and youth to the defence!

Congratulations Patrick!

Roy Hysen, Executive Director of the Canada National Deaf Hockey is pleased to announce that Donald McKee has received the 2012 Sports Award for Leadership from the Canada Deaf Sports Association.  

Donald has provided us with so much inspiration both through his astounding energy and his insightful and informed views of our Canada National Deaf Hockey team.   Donald is a tremdous motivator and has excellent communication skills and has created a real positive movement for the Canadian National hockey team.  This positive attitude could not have been more helpful after the cancellation of the 17^th Winter Deaflympic Games.  The way he handled this situation helped our team gain strength and move forward.

 He continues to work with me and others in preparing for the 2nd  World Deaf Hockey Championship in Helsinki, Finland   He is well respected by many of the Deaf & Hard of Hearing hockey players, assistant coaches, volunteers and others.  Former Executive Director of the CDSA Kim Rizzi also has tremendous respects for McKee.  She once described Donald is a “Generalissimo” who take in charge of our hockey team moving forward, then our success will be takes care of itself.

 Donald McKee has been with our team since September 2010 and he also received several awards over his long career in ice hockey from junior to professional level.   He also served as Assistant Coach to Team Canada that won gold at the Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland in 1997.

 In 1998, Donald received the Gordon Juckes Award for Development in Canadian Hockey.   McKee is a Level 4 certified coach and served on many provincial and national coaching organizations.  He is also instructor/evaluator for the Hockey Canada National Coaching Certification Program.

McKee is married to Shirley, a retired teacher.  The couple has two children; daughter Margo is a teacher and son Phillip who is the Executive Director of the Ontario Hockey Federation.

On behalf of the players of the Canadian Deaf Hockey team and myself we congratulate Coach McKee for this well deserved honour! 

Sincerely,

Roy Hysen,

Executive Team Director

We are Tweeting and Liking things in the socail media realm!

CDIHF is now online posting information and updates about the activities of the CDIHF, the Canadian National Team and other deaf and hearing sporting activities.

 Be sure to like us on Facebook at Canadian Deaf Ice Hockey Federation or follow us on Twitter @CDNDeafHockey

The players and staff of the Canadian Deaf Hockey Team are working together to help raise money to send our team to Finland.

 The management and staff have created a Sweater Sponsorship package which the players are currently working hard on selling to local businesses

in order to help defer the costs of travel and accomodations while in Finland.  There are a number of companies who have jumped on board with this program

and over the next few weeks will recognize the companies and people who are helping our players and staff realize there dream and continue on the

Journey To The Top!

The Canadian Deaf Ice Hockey Federation together with the coaching staff and management are proud to annouce the roster of players who will compete for gold at the 2nd World Deaf Hockey Championships in Vantaa, Finland March 30th to April 6th of 2013.

 The process began in Edmonton, Alberta at the Canada Deaf Games where players showed there skills and played for the Roy Hysen Cup.  It was an intense weekend of hockey and the coaching staff and management had a number of great players to choose from.  Players were selected from this tournament to attend a selection camp in Toronto at the new Mattamy Athletic Centre on the campus of Ryerson University.

 The August selection camp was a huge success and players had the added bonus of skating under the old roof of the former Maple Leaf Gardens.  The camp was intense and the level of play was very high which made for some tough decisions for the coaching staff.

Canadian Deaf Ice Hockey Federation announces the newly elected board of directors for the term of 2012-2016.

The staff, players and current board of CDIHF are happy to welcome the new board of directors from Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. The organization is working hard to extend its reach and include a diverse group of individuals from different provinces with different background experiences.

The new members joining Canadian Deaf Ice Hockey Federation Board of Directors are Beau Cockburn, President (Ontario), Mark Dunn, Vice President (British Columbia); Warren Miller, Treasurer (Ontario); Anthony Rumolo, Director at Large (Ontario) and Audrey Beauchamp, Director at Large (Quebec).

Continuing board of directors include: Danny Daniels, Past President (Ontario), Eugene Franciois, Interim Secretary (Ontario) and Hannah Reisman, Director at Large (Ontario).

Please join us in congratulating the new board of directors and wish them the best as they work together to uphold the organization’s objectives.