Each team is composed of players from local minor hockey associations within its region.
Teams from five national hockey associations competed, in one single preliminary round group.
Players for each of the teams are selected from the local minor hockey associations within their respective regions.
It was founded in 2000 in cooperation with the national hockey associations.
She helped to form the first ever girls minor hockey association in Calgary in 1989.
The team played two seasons in the American Hockey Association.
Burns spent most of his career in the American Hockey Association.
The federation comprises 32 provincial hockey associations, and between them had 45,982 registered players in the 2012 winter season.
The league was merged into the American Hockey Association after 1935.
Six districts formed their Hockey Association the same year.
