This form should be completed by players interested in listing themselves as Free Agents. The league will share your submitted information with existing COHL captains. Captains will contact Free Agents if they have a spot on their team to fill.
Definitions of Skill Levels:
A (Elite): Recently played professional hockey.
B Upper (Advanced Semipro): Recently played semipro or collegiate hockey.
B Lower (Advanced): Very skilled hockey players who play at a high level. Often these are people who played hockey since they were young. Generally, these players have at least 10 years experience, over 4 years of organized/coached hockey experience, and a complete understanding of the rules of play. These players have great stick handling skills and can confidently skate both forwards and backwards with ease.
C (Intermediate): The most popular skill level of hockey players is somewhere in the “C” range (i.e. average skill). Players typically have at least 5 years of experience, 2 years of organized/coached experience, and have a complete understanding of the rules of play. Players have average stick handling skills, are comfortable skating both forwards and backwards, and can easily perform a “hockey stop”. The COHL breaks out the C skill level into the following two divisions: Upper C (Intermediate): 5-10 years recent experience playing at C level. Lower C (Intermediate): 2-5 years recent experience playing at C level.
D (Novice): For players with lesser defined skating and stick skills. Players should be comfortable skating forwards and backwards, and performing a “hockey stop”, but have a good amount of work to do on their stick-handling and shooting skills.
D (Beginner): The COHL encourages adults to take up the game of hockey and this skill level is ideal for those that have been skating and playing some hockey for at least a year and are ready to try organized hockey. Players typically have 1-3 years experience of skating plus at least 1 year of completely some sort of beginner hockey training/coaching. Prior to joining any league, players should be comfortable skating forwards and performing a “hockey stop”, but likely have work to do on their backwards skating, stick-handling, and shooting skills.
Note to players with NO hockey playing experience: We love adult players that are new to the game, but at this time the COHL does not offer a skill division for completely new players to the game of hockey. It is too dangerous to the new player and the players and officials on the ice. Every COHL player should have at least 1-3 years experience skating AND 1-2 years playing in pickup hockey games and or 1-2 years of basic hockey skills development (e.g., completing a Hockey 101 coached session) before playing in a COHL league setting. Once these skills are acquired, then the best next step is our D (Beginner) skill division noted above.
