Teams of the Piedmont Hockey Club’s (PHC) 10U, 12U, 14U and 18U Co-ed Youth Recreational Division age groups will compete in the Capital Corridor Hockey League (CCHL). The CCHL is a competitive league at a house and recreational hockey skill level. The CCHL is sanctioned by USA Hockey and is an affiliate within the Southeastern District of USA Hockey and a member of the Potomac Valley Amateur Hockey Association (PVAHA).
Male players rostered on 2025-2026 Travel Teams may not play in the CCHL, however they may participate in scholastic (Middle School and High School) hockey teams. Female players registered on girls travel teams in the CBHL may play in the CCHL.
The 2025-2026 PHC Recreational Division regular season will run from September 2, 2025 through February 15, 2026 ending with the Joe Loschiavo Tournament. All players wishing to participate must be registered with USA Hockey for the 2025-2026 season prior to registering with the Piedmont Hockey Club and be in the age range specific to the 10U, 12U, 14U or 18U categories. Note: The 16U age group is contained within the CCHL 18U age group. USA Hockey age groups for the 2025-2026 season are comprised of the following Birth Years:
NOTE: All players and goalies of Birth Years 2007 AND 2008 must complete USA Hockey SafeSport training prior to being rostered on a team.
A complete set of ice hockey equipment is mandatory fall all practices and games, inclusive of mouthguards and neck protection.
We intend to field two teams in each of the four CCHL age categories. Teams will consist of a minimum of 10 skaters and a goalie to a maximum of 18 skaters and 2 goalies. Players who register after the teams are full will be wait listed unless we have enough players for another team at a specific age division
Teams in each CCHL age category will be formed to be equivalent skill; there will be no A and B level teams. Individual requests for specific team assignments to be with friends, carpools, neighbors, etc. will be considered and permitted if team equivalence can be maintained. PHC Rec division intent is for all players on a team to receive approximately equal playing time per game, commensurate with the game time lost while a player is in the penalty box or serving a coach-directed bench time-out.
JERSEY UPDATE: The Piedmont Hockey Club is changing CCHL jerseys for the 2025-2026 season. You can see the new jerseys here. The jersey store will be open from August 1st through September 1st. ALL 10U and older (CCHL age) players will be required to obtain new jerseys. Each player must have personalized PHC home and away CCHL game jerseys, pant shells, and a matching set of hockey socks. Go to piedmonthockeyclub.com/housejerseynumbers to confirm your child's jersey number. Returning players should see their child's name and jersey number there.
Jersey Sizing: We will have jerseys and shells available in the party room to try on at the following times:
Season Schedule: Following a short period of player assessments and team-forming, team practices, and a pre-season scrimmage or two, CCHL League play will commence on/about October 12th. There is a 6-game home and 6-game away league seasonal per-team minimum; additional non-league home games may be scheduled by each PHC team. League schedules will be developed and published in late September.
NOTE: The Piedmont Hockey Club will distribute CCHL league team schedules as soon as we receive them. Some CCHL clubs do not have training ice to skate on until late in September; these clubs are the pacing function for CCHL schedule development.
Regular season CCHL games are held predominately on Sundays with occasional games on Saturdays as necessitated by ice availability. Expect that during seasonal play one team of each PHC age group will play at home and one team will play away on any given weekend.
14U and 18U age levels will play checking hockey; 10U and 12U age levels are competitive contact only. The terms “checking hockey” and “competitive contact” are defined by and contained in USA Hockey rules. Checking instruction/clinic will be provided during practices prior to the start of league play. On-ice game officials are members of the Southeast Hockey Officials Association and are USA Hockey affiliated and certified.
Complete information on the CCHL, including rules and bylaws, is contained on its website: www.capitalcorridorhl.com
Prerequisite Skills:
Players registering in the 10U and above age divisions must:
Players registering in the 6U and 8U divisions must:
14U Checking Clinic **NEW**
We will hold a three night checking clinic for all 14U (2011-2012 BY) players. The purpose is to increase safety and effectiveness of children moving into or continuing in the first division of full body checking. This three night session is available ONLY to those registered for 14U house/rec. There is no additional cost or registration for this clinic. Checking clinic dates:
Goalie Training
PHC Recreational Goalies who are registered prior to July 15 may attend the Travel Goalie Mini-Camps without charge. Additionally, registered Recreational goalies will each receive a $500 credit toward training with Paddledown Goaltending. and a $250 discount on registration.
10U-18U Recreational goalies will have one on-ice group practice per week during the regular season. Day and time will be announced at play commencement
Registration Priority and Discounts
10U-18U House/Rec registrations through June 25 will be limited to current and former Piedmont Hockey Club players and goalies. On June 26 registration will be available to all interested players/goalies. Registration will close by age groups when team quotas are reached, but not later than August 15th
A $100 early registration discount per player is available through July 1. Credit card payments may be spread across three installments.
A $100 family discount is available for each player greater than one from the same immediate family. This discount will be processed as a credit against the registration fee previously paid.
Recreational Division Registration Fees For the 2025-2026 season
Prospective registrants with the PHC are invited to compare the fees below against those of other hockey clubs in the Northern Virginia area. In your comparison, please note that PHC is the ONLY hockey club that provides more than two hours of practice time per week for each of its Recreational/CCHL teams and the only club that does not cancel House/Recreational practice times when major travel tournaments are held at their home rink.
10U-18U Rec/CCHL $2,295 ($2,195 prior to July 1)
All fees quoted herein are inclusive of 22 weeks of practice ice (two practices per week per team), 12 league games, up to two scrimmage/preseason games; CCHL league fees and a per-team end-of-season tournament fee.
Fees do not account for game jerseys and socks or for any personal costs incurred while travelling to/from CCHL hockey venues. Overnight travel for regular season away games is not anticipated but cannot be ruled out.
PHC Recreational Practice Schedules: PHC Recreational division teams will each have two weekly practice ice slots, shared with the other team in the same age group. One slot weekly will emphasize power skating and skill development and the other slot used primarily for team-level training.
Planned Practice days/times are as follows:
NOTE: the plan below is predicated upon having two CCHL teams at each age level. Should any level have a team count other than two the listed plan will require adjustment.
10U Blue, Gold, Silver
Tuesdays 5:10pm-6:20pm (Gold and Silver)
Wednesdays 6:00pm-7:10pm (Blue and Silver)
Saturdays 8:40am-9:40am (Blue and Gold)
12U Blue, Gold
Wednesdays 7:20pm-8:30pm
Saturdays 9:10am-10:20am
14U Blue, Gold
Tuesdays 7:30pm-8:40pm
Thursdays 7:30pm-8:40pm
18U Blue, Gold
Tuesdays 8:50pm-10:00pm
Thursdays 8:50pm-10:00pm
NOTE: Major Tier II coed youth hockey travel tournaments are being scheduled at the Haymarket Iceplex during four 2025-2026 holiday weekends; the tournaments will necessitate realignment - not cancellation - of some practice times for these weekends. Parents/Teams will be notified of adjusted practice times at least one week prior.
All teams will have a practice session during the week prior to their Joe Loschiavo tournament participation.
Holiday No-Skate Dates:
October 11-13*
November 7-9*
November 27 – November 30, 2025
December 22, 2025 – January 4, 2026
January 17-19
February 14-16
*No home ice. Could have away game.
PHC Recreational CCHL Home/Away games.
PHC regular season league games will be played against CCHL Southern Division teams. The roster of clubs competing in the Southern Division will be determined in mid-September. PHC Recreational teams are expected to take maximum advantage of “non-league” games that may become available with CCHL Northern or Southern Division teams as well as games with non-CCHL opponents.
Formed to be a “weekend league”, CCHL league games are scheduled for play primarily on Sundays. On occasions necessitated by ice availability at area rinks, games may be scheduled on Saturdays. No game may begin before 6:00am. Rarely, CCHL games may be scheduled on weekday nights; weeknight games may begin not before 6:00pm and end not after 10:00pm. Games conducted when the following day is a school day can begin no later than 7:00pm.
Home games: PHC regularly-scheduled CCHL home ice times at the Haymarket Iceplex on Sunday can accommodate multiple game starts between 7:00am and 1:30pm. Should visiting team availability preclude use of the regularly scheduled time slots, alternate ice times may be made available.
Away games: Away games will be scheduled at times commensurate with the availability of ice times for the home team at their individual venues. As mentioned above, no game may begin before 6:00am. The PHC has no control of game times at away rinks.
PHC Recreational Division Participation in Non-CCHL Tournaments
Age-group coaches who wish to develop invitational tournament teams to compete in skill-level specific (A, B, C) non-CCHL activity may do so on a voluntary pay-as-you-go basis. The PHC Recreational director will assist in coordination and approval of these endeavors on an individual basis. Non-league initiatives may not interfere with scheduled CCHL activities.
*In sanctioned tournaments where PHC teams are competing, PHC rostered players may participate only as members of PHC-sponsored teams.*
Coaches, Managers and Off-Ice Assistants
We are actively seeking on-ice coaches, assistant coaches, team managers, volunteers (timekeepers, scorekeepers, penalty box and locker room monitors) for each age group in our Recreational division. Team coaches and assistants must be fully USA Hockey certified prior to being rostered as coaches. Coaches, Team Managers, and Monitors must be USA Hockey members with a background screening every two years and must have completed USA Hockey SAFESPORT training (SAFESPORT refresher training is required every season).
You need not have played Junior AAA-level hockey to be a good hockey coach; experience in and knowledge of the sport, an ability to skate, dedication, perseverance and patience are the foundation to build on. For information about any of the positions please contact Jeff Woods, the PHC House/Recreational Division Hockey Director at rechockeydirector@haymarketiceplex.com
Note: Although PHC Recreational coaches receive no remuneration for their service. They are provided with a set of warm up wear; also, expenses incurred for their coaching certification is reimbursable (receipts required) via credit applied against their player’s registration account.
Commitment to Play.
Every PHC Recreational/CCHL team is comprised of a set of rostered players, coaches, asst coaches and managers. Coaches have diligently assigned players to teams that provide equal skill levels among PHC teams in the same age group. Coaches have also committed to provide equal playing time to all players. The expectation is that all players are physically, mentally and emotionally “all in” every practice and game…that’s commitment.
The Piedmont Hockey Club believes that maintaining skill balances and playing time equality is best achieved when all players attend all practices and games as involved, positively contributing teammates. The PHC expects that signing up to play on a team includes prioritizing other activities behind hockey so that absences from or late arrivals to practices and games are a rare exception. A series of repeated absences or tardiness may lead to reduced playing time for the player involved.
Every player on every team is a valued individual and teammate who shall be treated positively by all players at all times as a member of their family. There is no room for bullying, fighting, disrespect and/or abusive language. When players enter the rink parking lot for practice or a game their focus changes to hockey. Period. What happens at school stays at school and does not get brought to the rink.
Piedmont Hockey Club Director
Piedmont Hockey Club House Hockey Director
The Piedmont Hockey Club relies on the volunteer efforts of parent coaches. Please submit the coaching application below and be a part of our team.