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9th Annual Emergency Services Charity Hockey Tournament

Join us on March 20th & 21st, 2024 at the Gale Center, Niagara Falls

A two-day round-robin tournament in beautiful Niagara Falls. Each team is guaranteed three games. Team pizza provided—licensed concession room on site.

All players must fill out our waiver before playing.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED, THANK YOU TO ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE REGISTERED.

We are excited to announce the 9th Annual Emergency Services Charity Hockey Tournament run by the Shoot for a Cure Campaign and Niagara Falls Paramedic Association. Our tournament will be held in Niagara Falls on March 20th & 21st, 2024.

We will again host multiple divisions of competition at the Gale Centre (5152 Thorold Stone Rd, Niagara Falls, ON L2E 0A2). All skill levels are welcome to come and participate. We will also be hosting our raffle again and we have some excellent prizes lined up this year!

This tournament is in support of Shoot for a Cure, which is a joint campaign of the StopConcussions Foundation and the Canadian Spinal Research Organization, whose mission is to fund research into a cure for brain and spinal cord injuries, while raising awareness for prevention of these injuries in contact sports.

NPA 2024 Tournament Rules – Click Here

ALL PLAYERS must sign off on the electronic waiver prior to the tournament. You can access it here!


Hotel Accommodations:

We have a block of rooms booked under Niagara Paramedic Association at the Wyndham Fallsview Hotel (formerly named Four Points Sheraton).

Located at 6455 Fallsview Boulevard, Niagara Falls, ON, L2G 3V9.

Cost: $109 per room plus tax based on double occupancy.
Parking: $20 per vehicle.
To book a room call 1-800-363-3255 and request the Niagara Paramedic Association block of rooms.
Cut off date to reserve rooms and prices is February 19th, 2024!
Room booking includes discounted vouchers to the following sites: IHOP, TGIF’s, Out Back Steak House, Apple Bee’s, Keg Steak House, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, and Niagara Fun Zone.

In January of 2014, four members of the Niagara Paramedic Association (NPA) were driving back to Niagara after just finishing playing in an out-of-town emergency service hockey tournament. This was the last of several out-of-town tournaments the NPA hockey team had played in over the season. During the long trek home, the four young paramedics started to wonder why nobody had started an emergency service hockey tournament in Niagara, at that point the seed was planted.

With no experience in organizing a hockey tournament, the paramedics began brainstorming and by the time they arrived home they had booked ice time, contacted multiple teams, called hotels for accommodations and started organizing a raffle. This car ride would prove to be the first official meeting that would lead to the inaugural Niagara Paramedic Association Charity Hockey Tournament just two months later in March 2014. Now that there was a charity hockey tournament in place, the tournament organizers, of course, had to find a charity to support, and as fate would have it one fell into their laps.

One of the Niagara paramedics put forward his brother’s charity called “Troy’s Run”, they’re all about awareness and prevention for traumatic brain injuries. They have some great initiatives like giving hockey and bike helmets to kids and running baseline concussion testing for teams. The NPA tournament organizer decided this would be a great charity to get behind and the motivation for the tournament had gained momentum.

The first tournament in March of 2014 saw the NPA host 8 teams in a single division in Niagara Falls. The next year still not knowing quite what to expect, the tournament doubled in size to 16 teams and has continued to grow each year.

In 2019 and saw 29 emergency service teams throughout three divisions helping us raise $21,000 for our cause. This event has seen great success since its inauguration with a tremendous amount of support from the community, the volunteers and the tournament participants. This year’s tournament will again be benefiting the Shoot for a Cure campaign, along with developing our new CONNECTED platform for Mental Health.­­

Shoot for a Cure is a fundraising campaign of the Canadian Spinal Research Organization and StopConcussions Foundation. Funds raised by the campaign go towards the treatment, prevention and research of neurotrauma injuries and mental health initiatives.

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