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The Mission of the Nutley Clifton Hockey Club (“NCHC”) is to provide a fun, safe and properly supervised atmosphere for hockey instruction that emphasizes skill development and also promotes the establishment of value-based life lessons on the part of its players, including the importance of hard work, dedication to goals, good sportsmanship and discipline. The NCHC seeks to accomplish this mission by ensuring that its players have a fun positive and developmentally appropriate learning environment from its entry level programs through its most advanced programs. NCHC strongly believes in the benefit of our children participating in organized sports, realizing that it can best accomplish its over-arching goals of helping its players be the best hockey players they can be by encouraging them to participate in a number of different sports throughout the year. We believe that participation in properly coached sports helps to build self esteem, promote teamwork, develop the body as well as the mind, and is an important part of a healthy development process. We strive to find coaches who not only provide sound, age-appropriate hockey instruction but also who serve as educators and provide good role models for our young players, encouraging each player to be the best they can be in hockey and in life. We discourage as an association undue emphasis on a team’s wins and losses and/or excessive competitiveness on the part of its coaches; in contrast, we seek to foster the development of the skills of all players. The ultimate goal of the NCHC is to provide an opportunity for young people of all backgrounds to participate in and enjoy the sport of hockey in a positive and wholesome environment and hopefully carry the love of the sport into their adult lives.
