Q&A's

Several questions arise each year about the evaluation process. For details about the process, please review the below questions and answers for quick reference.

1. What are the evaluation criteria used to rank my player?  
2. Depending upon the level of hockey being evaluated, and the position (Defense, Forward or Goaltender,) players will be evaluated serval different criteria. Each criteria has a weight assigned to it, with some criteria (skating ability, game understand/hockey IQ, for example) being assigned a heavier weighting than other criteria (such as shooting, passing and scoring).
3. My player played with a particular player (or group of players) over several seasons but ended up on a lower tier team than those players – what gives?
4. The best, and worst, part of the evaluation process is that players are given the opportunity to display their skillset on the ice, against a group of like-skilled players. While your child may have played with certain individuals in past seasons but not this season can be for a wide variety of factors:

•   Some players develop strength, speed, or agility at different rates as they grow physically and return year-over-year with different strengths. The player that had no strength to battle in the corner suddenly dominates in puck battles and receives much higher scores than in previous years.
•   Some players make the effort to improve their hockey skills or overall fitness over the off-season; some put in a tremendous amount of effort and improve their placings dramatically.
•   There are times when evaluators pick up on the good, or the bad, parts of a player’s game and that helps or hinders the player’s overall evaluation. While every evaluator does their level best to see as much of a player’s games, certain shifts can make or break that game’s evaluation score for that player. This is one reason to encourage your player to make sure EVERY shift is their level best – if a players stays on the ice too long, evaluators may notice that and can negatively score the player on not knowing when to come off the ice, or may see that player give up on a crucial back-check because they are tired, again resulting in a negative score.

I hope this information helps with understanding the evaluations and why as a club we have this process in place. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out anytime. My email is president@kcsouthhockey.com

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Thank You, 

Amber Anderson

KC South President