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The North Jersey Avalanche are proud to present our tryouts for the 2012-2013 season. This will be the 13th season of the program and we are still doing our best to improve the program every year. Please see the Program Details to see what has been added to this year's program. Also make sure to check back after February 21 to see our full coaching staff.

2nd Annual Road to Prep School

The North Jersey Avalanche are proud to announce our 2nd Annual Road to Prep School to take place August 20-22, 2012. The event is available exclusively to Bantam Minor, Midget 16 American, and Midget 16 National AAA players playing for the North Jersey Avalanche. In 2011 we hosted a series of practices and seminars designed to provide young players and their parents with essential information on the prep school process. In 2012 we have expanded our program to include 1999 birth year players. Read More...

The 2011-2012 season was an exciting season for the Avalanche. Here are some of the highlights:

2 Players received committments to play Division 1 College Hockey (Alex Rauter - Cornell University, Ryan Rosenthal - University of Vermont)
Nick Ebert was named to the Canadian Hockey League Top Prospects Game and won the Hardest Shot at the Skills Competition
Justin Selman was named to the USHL Top Prospects Game. Justin is committed to the University of Michigan.
6 Players were selected for the NHL Central Scouting Report (Matt Morris, Nick Ebert, Alex Rauter, Justin Selman, and Bron Loiselle)
8 Players were on Division 1 College Hockey Rosters (Kevin Clare - University of Michigan, Alexx Privitera - Boston University, John Parker - University of Maine, Max Novak - Union College, Ben Carroccio - Yale University, Craig Wyszomirski - Providence College, Dan Colvin - West Point)
11 Players were on rosters at New England Prep Schools (Luke May - Choate Rosemary Hall, Daniel Casey - Kent School, John John Ganss - Taft, Greg Liautaud - Canterbury, Ryan Melvin - Canterbury, Jarrid Privitera - Gunnery School, Alex Rauter - Choate Rosemary Hall, TJ Roche -Kent School, Ryan Rosenthal - Kent School - Jake Thoubboron - Deerfield Academy, Elliott Vorel - Milton Academy)
Ice House hosted it's first Prep School/College Seminar to provide pertinent information on how to play prep school hockey. the event was attended by numerous prep school coaches. Prep school coaches were also a fixture at Midget practices throughout the year thanks to the efforts of Todd Johnson, Avalanche Prep School liaison.
Our teams continue to play as competitive schedule as possible to ensure development and exposure for our players.

Please use the following links to get more information on tryouts, coaches, and program details