The IceForum Hockey Association (IHA) is committed to the pursuit of excellence in athletics, academics and life. With the only Tier-I AAA program in the state of Georgia, players have the choice of playing House, A, AA or AAA. Progression through each level develops superior skills and game understanding.

AAA is the platform junior and college scouts seek talent. The IHA guides and develops players through the entire process. IHA players have successfully advanced to the NHL draft, USA National team, Juniors, Prep Schools and the NCAA. The number of these players advancing continues to increase every year.

Former New York Islander, Moscow Dynamo, and Russian National Team player Yan Kaminsky has served as the Director of Hockey since 1999. Yan is very active working with players and coaches to ensure consistent and effective teaching success across the entire program.

The IHA coaching model has proven successful in accelerating player development. We provide an environment where student-athletes can achieve their full potential both in their athletic endeavors and in life.

Players will be grouped into teams of like abilities, with the overall focus on evenly distributing the player ability pool across all teams. Team composition is ideally at a maximum of 9 to 13 skaters per team.  Each team will be divided into three groups of equal ability. (Top 1/3; middle 1/3; bottom 1/3)  

The goaltender position will be rotated between team members. In the situation where a player only wants to play goalie, we will make an exception to this rule, with the understanding that if someone else wants to try the position, we will rotate. 

WHPC concept is as follows:

• Four teams on the ice at the same time. Example, MT 1 vs. MT 2 on one end and MT 3 vs. MT 4 on another end
• There will be a 3 minute warm up. (Example, MT 1 and MT 2 warm up together on one end of the ice, and MT 3 and MT 4 on the other end)
• After the warm-up, the game clock will be set at 20 minutes.
• The rink will then be divided in three zones. In the neutral zone we will have players improving on their hockey skills. At the same time, we will have games being played in the other two zones at the end of the rink. (Example: A lines on each team will play a fifteen minute runtime game against each other. At the same time, the B and C lines from all 4 teams will be working on specific hockey skills in the neutral zone). After the 20 minute runtime is complete, same concept will be used for B lines, with A and C working on specific hockey skills in the neutral zone lines while the B lines are playing against each other. After the next 20 minute runtime, the C lines would move to the game play area.
• During the WHPC (weekend high performance competition) the more advanced players (the “A” line) will be playing against each other, intermediate players (the “B” line) will be playing against each other and the beginner & less skilled players (the “C” line) will be playing against each other. This is to balance the competition equally. Players can move between these groups as they progress through the season.
• After all games are complete, the results will be combined (A vs. A, B vs. B and C vs. C lines on each team).
• After all results are tallied, points for the game will be rewarded:

• After all games are complete, we will have shootout. Same teams that played against each other will compete again. Every player must participate in the shootout. If one team has more players, then someone will have to go twice on another team. Coaches must assign a different player if shooting twice.
• Points for the shootout: winner - 2 points, tie - 1 point, loss - 0 points
• If the players on the same team having a good weekend, your team can have as many as 4 points per WHPC