North American Senior A Pro Hockey Tournament

04/28/2026

Tournament Official Public Service Announcement - We would like to thank all the teams that we have spoken to over the last couple of years while trying to organize this event with plans to host it this June of 2026. Although we wish to host this tournament at the highest amateur, Senior A/Semi Pro level for teams like a professional national/international tournament, we unfortunately will not be going through with the tournament plans. It was hard enough to try and get sponsors to be involved in this event to make it worthwhile for teams across the USA & Internationally speaking but we don't think it would be worth teams spending $3000-$4000 for tournament fees before travel and hotel stays. Obviously this was based on 3 hour time slots, 2 officials, 2 linesman, Trophies, Elite Prospects, Live Game footage, photography etc.
Although we did have everything planned out with the hopes of having this tournament, it is a shame that we could not see it move forward. The only way to even pull this tournament off would be to potentially have multiple teams to balance out the expenses and finding availability a a multi sheet Arena.
We will try again down the road.
Thank you
- NASPHT MANAGEMENT
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08/28/2025

Tournament Official Announcement - PSA To All Senior A/Semi Pro/International Heritage Teams across the United States, South America, and Canada, etc! Rules are being updated and subject to change to for the foreseeable future. Powered by Serpenotics Hockey Wax!
The tournament will be open to all competitive teams in the various leagues & international teams across the US, South America and Canada as well as international teams. There will be a team organization entry fee, TBD, at a later date, along with the location of the games being hosted around the New York/New Jersey area, planned for June 2026. 8 teams minimum will be required to kick off the tournament with a max of 16 teams to cap the number of games. 3 game minimum round robin before playoff games, which will be broken down by wins/losses and goal differential in the event of a tie. For full transparency, the fees collected for the tournament will go to covering all ice costs, the officiating, trophy as well as the medals for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place.
The play style remains the same, full contact 18+ for 3 periods at 20 mins each period and NHL regulations featuring 2 linesman and 2 officials as full contact games. The games will be streamed online for home town viewing as well available to the public for an entry fee via tickets at door or online. Team staff and players will receive passes for the tournament. The public will be available to purchase event passes at the tournament or online. A sports photography company will be brought in as well for the action. We are looking into the possibility of doing mic'd up players.
Website is in the works as well to keep stats to be uploaded online as well as on Elite Prospects!
A hotel list will be provided for immediate area.
If your team or organization is interested in competing at this tournament, please feel free to reach out via messenger or shoot us an email via SerpenoticsHockey @ gmail.com! Stay tuned for more to follow! 🏒🏒🏒

01/02/2025

The NASPHT is still in the early stages, but hopefully will happen this spring/summer! We want to make this tournament a national event! Potential leagues we plan to reach out to for the tournament as followed:
1) Mountain Hockey League.
2) Ontario Super Hockey League - former WOSHL/COSHL
3) PowerPlay Senior Hockey League
4) Great Lakes Hockey League
5) Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League
6) Michigan Independence Hockey League
7) American Primier Hockey League
And so on. The first tournament in 2025 will be 8 teams to start. NASPHT IS INVITE ONLY - We will be reaching out to the leagues individually to let them know about the national tournament we are proposing. Most likely May/June of 2025. Invites will be extended to the first place teams that win in every league with at least 1 hosting team regardless of their place, but for the first tournament, being hosted will be a team of free agents for Serpenotics Hockey as the host and potential invites to 2nd place team if first place declines invite. Plans will be to move the tournament around every year if possible around North America for future dates via Hosting Organizations/Teams. At minimum, 8 team tournament, double elmination. Rules have been drafted with final details about gameplay and expected regulations. More to follow soon.
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09/06/2024

Potential leagues we plan to reach out to for the tournament as followed:
1) Mountain Hockey League.
2) Ontario Super Hockey League - former WOSHL/COSHL
3) PowerPlay Senior Hockey League
4) Great Lakes Hockey League
5) Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League
6) Michigan Independence Hockey League
7) American Primier Hockey League
And so on. The first tournament in 2025 will be 8 teams to start. NASPHT IS INVITE ONLY - We will be reaching out to the leagues individually to let them know about the national tournament we are proposing. Most likely May/June of 2025. Invites will be extended to the first place teams that win in every league with at least 1 hosting team regardless of their place, and potential invites to 2nd place team if first place declines invite. Plans will be to move the tournament around every year if possible around North America for future dates via Hosting Organizations/Teams. At minimum, 8 team tournament, double elmination. Rules have been drafted with final details about gameplay and expected regulations. More to follow soon.
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09/04/2024

We are in the planning stages for the ultimate Senior A Minor Pro Tourney in North America. Rulings will be based on the NHL gameplay. Rules are as followed:
1) The hosting organization will be only team allowed to participate in the tournament regardless of their standing in their own league. The hosting organization is also responsible for ice costs, staff coverage for events, refs, sponsorships, etc.... Further Details - TBD at a later date. Spring/Summer 2025 will be hosted by Serpenotics Hockey in NY/NJ area with no team entering currently. (Vegas, NV was mentioned for another year, as well as Quinnopiac NY, Western PA, Chicago, IL, and so on). It is highly recommended using an arena with seating to help cover the cost of the national tournament if not getting sponsored.

2) First place teams will be invited from various amatuer leagues around North America. The team/organization will have 3 days after winning their league championship to accept the invite once announced. If the team opts out of joining the tournament for whatever reason, the invite will be extended to the second place team in their place. This will be an at minimum 8 team tournament. Every team should be aware that this tournament could be as long as a week. Hotels should be within reasonable distance of the event.

3) The rosters are being set for 22 Players and 3 goalies per team, being 25 total in case of injury or suspensions during the tournament. Rosters must match final championship game roster. 20 will be allowed to dress for games.

4) There will be 2 Officials and 2 Linesmen per game. Official abuse will not be tolerated from any of the players, coaching staff and public attendees.

5) Format for the tournament will follow Double Elmination for 8 to 12 teams. If there is more than 12 teams, the tournament will be Single Elmination. The team that wins it all receives a big trophy as well as bragging rights to say they are number 1 in the North America! 2nd and 3rd place will receive trophies as well. We will be aiming for Spring/Summer of 2025 for the first one ever. More Rules to follow.

6) NASPHT Staff must be present at the tournament.

Stay tuned for more to follow.

09/04/2024

The Senior A/Semi-Pro Tournament is still in the early planning stages and plans to be held in the New York/New Jersey Area for the first National level Tournament in the late Spring/early summer of 2025. Rules will be posted shortly.
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03/07/2024

Due to the recent events that have now come to light, we will not be putting a team into the Union Hockey League or associate with anyone that was in control of the UHL. This is after promising a different better league. Exhibition games can be set up with teams across the USA if we want to play as an independent organization if we do not join a league. The NASPTH will also not recognize any league/team ownership that doesn't have full transparency with their players and fans. 🏒🏒🏒

Due to the recent events that have now come to light, we will not be putting a team into the Union Hockey League or associate with anyone that was in control of the UHL. This is after promising a different better league. Exhibition games can be set up with teams across the USA if we want to play as an independent organization if we do not join a league. The NASPTH () will also not recognize any league/team ownership that doesn't have full transparency with their players and fans. 🏒🏒🏒

02/01/2024

We are in the planning stages for the ultimate Senior A Minor Pro Tourney in North America. Rulings will be based on the NHL with rosters being set for 22 Players and 3 goalies per team, being 25 total incase injury or suspensions. Rosters must match final championship game roster. 20 will be allowed to dress for games. There will be 2 Officials and 2 Linesmen per game. Format will follow Double Elmination for 8 to 12 teams. If there is more than 12 teams, the first round will be Single Elmination than go to Double Elmination. The team that wins it all receives a big trophy as well as bragging rights to say they are number 1 in the country! 2nd and 3rd place will receive trophies as well. We will be aiming for Spring/Summer of 2025 for the first one ever. Stay tuned for more to follow. 🏒🏒🏒

01/02/2024

As previously stated, we are in the planning stages for the ultimate Senior A Minor Pro Tourney in North America. Rulings will be based on the NHL with rosters being set for 22 Players and 3 goalies per team, being 25 total incase injury or suspensions. Rosters must match final championship game roster. 20 will be allowed to dress for games. There will be 2 Officials and 2 Linesmen per game. Format will follow Double Elmination for 8 to 12 teams. If there is more than 12 teams, the first round will be Single Elmination than go to Double Elmination. The team that wins it all receives a big trophy as well as bragging rights to say they are number 1 in the country! 2nd and 3rd place will receive trophies as well. We may give this a trial run in Spring of 2024. Stay tuned for more to follow. 🏒🏒🏒

12/30/2023

The first ever North American Senior A Pro Hockey Tournament will be coming soon! We basically are going to take the 1st & 2nd Place Teams from around the Senior A Minor Pro teams from the North American Region. Our plans will include the Union Hockey League, the Michigan Independent Hockey League, Mountain Hockey League, along with the Great Lakes Hockey League. Possibly some teams from Canadian Senior A Pro leagues. Stay tuned for more!

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