About SuperSeries
Background
Founded by Jeff Brown of the St. Louis AAA Blues and Dan Pouliot of the Dallas Stars Elite Hockey Club, the SuperSeries is the fastest-growing tournament series in youth hockey. The SuperSeries’ goal is to ensure that youth hockey teams, which frequently travel long distances for quality competition, can attend tournaments with superior competition relative to expenses and ensure that the competition brings out the best in each and every athlete.
In 2011, Youth1 Media took over operations of the SuperSeries in order to bring an infrastructure to the popular tournament series without sacrificing any of its original goals.
Goals
- Minimize Overall Cost
- No gate fees
- Ice, referee and time keeper costs spread evenly across participating teams
- No overhead costs
- Maximize Efficiency
- Two (2) games per day
- Two (2) nights in a hotel (when possible)
- Games scheduled early in the afternoon and evening (allows for morning arrivals)
- Maximize Playing Time
- Guaranteed six (6) games *
- 15 or 17-minute periods
- Maximize Competition
- Participation is generally restricted to the top 25 teams in the United States and Canada according to MYHockeyRankings.com with priority given to the top 20 AAA teams. Teams should be Tier I for the 18U, 16U, 14U, and 12U age divisions.
* Dependent on the tournament format; in 5-team and 10-team formats, two teams play five games.
