Congratulations to Atlantic District Official Dave Brown. Dave was selected to officiate the2010-2011 IIHF World Junior Championships in Buffalo, NY.

Dave is shown here during the gift exchange between Canada and the Czech Republic in their game on December 28 that was televised in North America by TSN and the NHL Network. (Photo courtesy of the NHL Network.)

Dave serves on the District Officiating Staff as the Northern Area Liaison for the Atlantic District Evaluation Program. He is also the president of the Metropolitan New York-New Jersey Chapter of NIHOA. He officiates at the pro, collegiate, high school, and youth hockey levels, and works as a professional firefighter in New Jersey.

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The Atlantic District Officiating Program is pleased to announce a series of follow up seminars called the Atlantic District Level 1 Officials' Continuing Education Program.

Note: These seminars are intended only for officials who have already completed a 2010-11 Officiating Seminar— they cannot be used as an initial seminar for 2010-11 USA Hockey Referee Registration. We may hold one or two full-day seminars that will satisfy 2010-11 USA Hockey Referee Registration requirements in late March. Details about these seminars will be made available on AAHArefs in early February.

These one-evening, classroom-only training sessions will take place in several arenas or nearby facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania throughout January and early February 2011. Each seminar will be led by a senior officiating supervisor with Seminar Coordinator experience. They will be joined by a team of experienced officials who have been through the Seminar Instructor Training Program and will be focused on the questions and concerns of first-year officials. Local Officiating Assignors are also being invited so they can meet first year officials and possibly offer game assignments to them.

First-year Level 1 officials are urged to pre-register and attend one of these seminars.

For more information, including dates, times, and locations of the Follow Up Seminars, please look at our event calendar:

• Follow Up Seminar Event Calendar for January
• Follow Up Seminar Event Calendar for February

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This week, USA Hockey's Playing Rules Committee published the 2011-2013 Playing Rules Change Proposals. The document we are providing on AAHArefs is a summary of 103 major rules change proposals, and 27 proposals that are specific to the Junior "A" and "B" Playing Rules.

The Playing Rules Committee met on November 13 in the Chicago area to discuss all of the proposals submitted by November 1, and to vote on each of them in order to give other constituencies within USA Hockey recommendations on the disposition of each proposal.

The Playing Rules Committee will review each proposal one more time during the USA Hockey Annual Congress in June. This review will take place in an open forum prior to final consideration by the USA Hockey Board of Directors.

If anyone has any questions about any of the proposed Rule Changes, or wants to provide feedback through our Atlantic District representatives at the Annual Congress, contact Tony Mariconda at tonyrefx3 [at] aol.com.

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Kerry Fraser will be at the following locations to do a book signing for his new book-- "The Final Call."

• Friday, December 17: Nashville Predators at New Jersey Devils game at The Prudential Center in Newark at 7pm.
 
• Saturday, December 18- NY Rangers at Philadelphia Flyers game at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Doors open at 11:30am and Kerry will be on the main concourse at the Flyers Charities kiosk where the book will be sold and personally signed. He will be signing there through the end of the 1st intermission. Then he leaves there to go to...
• Saturday, December 18- Borders Bookstore, 1 South Broad Street, Philadelphia from 3pm to 5pm.
 
• Sunday, December 19- Barnes & Noble, 200 W Route 70, Marlton, NJ from 3pm to 5pm.

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