How much does youth hockey cost in Connecticut?

All-in season cost by level

This is the full season, not just registration. Ice, travel, tournaments, and equipment usually add up to more than the sign-up fee.

Where the money goes

A typical 12U A season in Connecticut, about $11,700. Follows the age picked above.

Hidden costs

• Registration is a minority of the bill at every non-prep level of the site's Connecticut model, topping out at 48% of an AAA 8U season.
• It is $750 of a $2,825 House 8U season, or 26%.
• At AA 12U it is $3,950 of $11,625, or 33%, and tournament travel is the next largest line at $3,276.
• At AAA 14U it is $8,625 of $22,000, or 39%, with tournament travel at $7,236, a third of the season on its own.
• Prep school is a different category: 2025-26 boarding runs about $78,800 with fees at Salisbury and $78,200 at Avon Old Farms.
• Two Connecticut families have typed in a full season total so far, $17,500 for a Connecticut Jr. Rangers 14U THF season and $11,000 for a Yale Bulldogs Youth 12U A season.

Hockey in Connecticut

Your child's team will have a letter: House, B, A, A1, AA or AAA. That letter is the row to read in the table above. Most Connecticut teams play in CHC Open, and that name is not a skill level. It is a non-declared catch-all bracket. chchockey.org lists only an Open division at 10U and 12U. 70 of Connecticut's 83 rated 10U teams and 68 of its 86 rated 12U teams play one, and the ratings on the 190 rated CHC Open teams run from 62.9 to 90.4. Most Open teams sit at A or A1 here. Declared brackets come later. CHC lists Tier 1, Tier 2 and Open at 14U, and Tier 1, Tier 2 and State Tournament Bound at 16U and 18U. Its girls divisions carry Tier 1, 2 and 3 from 12U. Those are CHC seeding brackets, not USA Hockey Tier I and II. CHC Tier 1 is the AAA row and Tier 2 is AA. Clubs also enter regional leagues under their own names: EHF, AYHL, THF, UT1HL, EJEPL, NEPack, MVHL and, for girls, CGHL and NEGHL. The table is our estimate of a full season.