The Northland Hockey Festival is designed to get teams prepared for the upcoming 2012 AAA Tournament season by offering four pre-determined games with certified officials. Each game will be two 30 minute halves followed by a five player shoot-out (which is use by all AAA tournaments to break ties). Sign up early - Last year over 100 teams participated in the Festival and it will fill again in 2012.

The Mountain Dew Blast will be played in the finest arenas in the Central Minnesota! The Host arena will be the National Hockey Center in St. Cloud and the MAC arena will be used in addition as well. The Mountain Dew Blast offers two levels of competition: The Open level (newer AAA teams) and the Invite Level (strong, established AAA teams). Teams applying for the Invite level may be asked to provide past tournament results to be accepted into this level.

The NHG Cup presented by Toughjersey is a newly created AAA Open Division Tournament for newer programs who want to compete in a Summer AAA Tournament. The NHG Cup will offer Boys 2004/03, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998 and 1997 age divisions and Girls 10U, 12U, 14U and 16U. The boys tournament will be played at the Schwan's Super Rink in Blaine and the Girls division will be played at Vadnais Heights, WBL and Roseville. The NHG Cup will also feature a player of the game who will receive a Toughjersey tournament memorabilia. Register early, the NHG Cup will fill early.

Welcome to the Headwaters Classic Tournament! This Open division tournament will be played at the SANFORD CENTER (Home of the BSU Beavers) and Neilson Reise in Bemidji. We are excited to bring our tournament series to the Bemidji area and we plan to fill the division with 6-8 teams per age division. Take advantage of this opportunity to play in one of the nicest division I college arenas while enjoying the great north land!

The Miken Cup will be played at the new Vadnais Sports Center in Vadnais Heights in the East metro Twin Cities. This state-of-the-art two sheet facility will be the host site and White Bear Sports Center, Roseville Skating Center and Centennial Sports Arena (all located in the East and NE Twin Cities Metro Area) will be used for overflow games. The Miken Cup is a AAA Open Division Tournament.