Updated: May 22, 2022

The 2022-2023 season will be opening for registration on June 1. For those who are contemplating taking up ice hockey officiating, you are invited to join our family of over 500+ Connecticut officials. For returning officials, we're glad to have you back.

Returning officials, your 2021-2022 certification will take you through November 30, 2022. After that date, you MUST be fully certified for the 2022-2023 season and have your USA Hockey crest before you can officiate again. New officials, you cannot officiate games until you are fully certified and have your USA Hockey crest. Registration for the 2022-2023 season closes at midnight on December 31, 2022.

Everyone who will be 17 years old or older on Dec 31 MUST, MUST, MUST be SafeSport certified in order to work games. You will not receive your crest unless you successfully pass your SafeSport certification.

Registration and certification requirements can be found on the USA Hockey web site. Note that when you have completed all your certification requirements (seminar, self-paced online education modules, online test, SafeSport certification for those 17 years old or older on  Dec 31, and background check if 18 years old or older), you will need to be a member of one of the six organizations in the state that assign games to officials. The officiating organizations generally service specific geographic regions. A map of the geographic regions served by the officiating organizations is below. Rinks are indicated by stars. If you are a new official, the map should help guide you on which officiating organization to join. A list of contacts for each officiating organization is below the map. You may join multiple officiating organizations to maximize the number of potential game assignments. Multiple youth hockey organizations may play out of the same rink, so multiple officiating organizations may assign games in the same rink. Rinks that are assigned by multiple officiating organizations include Shelton (HRACT and CCHRA), Trinity (IHONC and CCHRA), Cromwell (IHONC and CCHRA), Danbury (Stripes and HRACT), Wonderland of Ice (CCHRA and HRACT), and Webster Bank Arena (CCHRA and HRACT).

Hockey Referee Association of Connecticut (HRACT)

Alan Miller - alanmiller670@att.net

Central Connecticut Hockey Referee Association (CCHRA)

Dave Shore - david.shore@pw.utc.com

Southeastern Connecticut Referees Association (SECRA)

Ed Collette - edcollette@comcast.net

Ice Hockey Officials of Northern Connecticut (IHONC)

Steve Levins - sjlevins@gmail.com

Enfield Hockey Referees

TBD

Northwest Stripes

Chris Pimentel - cpimentel3240@gmail.com

Kevin
Redding
USA Hockey Referee-in-Chief for Connecticut