10th Annual Emergency Services Charity Hockey Tournament
Join us on March 19th & 20th, 2025 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.
For accomodation suggestions, please see the ‘2025 Tournament Documents’ tab below.
Evening event details will be sent out prior to the tournament!
All players must fill out our waiver before playing.
We are excited to announce the 10th 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 19th & 20th, 2025. Thank you to all those who have continuously supported us throughout the years!
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 2025 Tournament Rules – Click Here
ALL PLAYERS must sign off on the electronic waiver prior to the tournament. You can access it here!
Hotel Accommodations
Wyndham Garden Niagara Falls Fallsview – 6141 Fallsview Blvd, Niagara Falls, ON L2G 3V7
$149 per night for March 18th and 19th 2025 + (13% hst, 5% dmc, $2 mat per room, per night)
Room Category – mix of city view rooms (2 queen beds or 1 king bed)
Self parking – $25 per car, per night
The booking is live! For reservations please call 1-800-363-3255 (between 8:00am and midnight) and request the Niagara Paramedics Association block of rooms.
Please advise you will have until Tuesday February 18, 2025, to book the reservations.
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“, for the awareness and prevention of 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. Now, with over 10 years of the tournament, we have widened to 40 teams and four divisions to help raise funds for the treatment, prevention, and research of neurotrauma injuries and mental health initiatives through Shoot for a Cure Campaign run by the Canadian Spinal Research Organization and StopConcussions Foundation.
