About Us

The Providence Capitals youth hockey organization offers the most comprehensive hockey development program in southern New England for the highly motivated and skilled youth hockey player (outlined below).  The Caps now offer teams at the EHF "AAA Elite", "AAA" and "AA" divisions.  The Caps organization strives to develope and prepare our players to compete at the highest level of hockey and to reach their full potential as a player and person.  We develope our players  by competing in a league that regionally offers the highest level of play, convenient league game travel, train with age appropriate on-ice and dryland traing with highly qualified coaches and trainers.  Most of our coaches are former pro or college hockey players.  We train the Caps players with the latest developmental methods both on and off the ice.  On-ice practices are high-tempo with innovative skills and training techniques.  We use our dryland facility at our home rink the RI Sports Center to further develope our players with "age appropriate"  training for agility, balance, coordination, strength, speed, stickhandling, shooting, etc.  Northest Sports Training and Rehab (NESTR) trains our Caps players and are the current trainers of the Providence Bruins (AHL).  We want to best develope their motor skills during the most important years of motor skill development ages 7-12 years old (IIHF; Ages of Optimum). 

The Caps are original members of the Eastern Hockey Federation (EHF).  The EHF is the most competitive and highly skilled youth league in New England and New York.  Several teams from the Caps and the EHF are nationally ranked youth teams each year and are regularly invited to participate in the premier tournaments throughout North America.  Caps teams annually compete in premier tournaments throughout USA and Canada such as (Bauer in Chicago, Silversticks in Whitby, Ontario, Bell Cup in Ottawa, PeeWee World Championships in Quebec, etc.).  Each year several of our Caps players go on to the USA National camps, prep schools, Catholic schools, juniors, college hockey and professional hockey. 

Five '91 Caps commit to Div. 1 Hockey programs - Mac Bennett ( drafted with 79th pick in 3rd round by Montreal Canadiens) has accepted a scholarship to The University of Michigan, Derek DeBlois has accepted a scholarship to the University of Michigan, Paul Cinquegrana has accepted a scholarship to the University of Connecticut, Mike Borge has commited to Brown University and TJ Powers has committed to Sacred Heart.  Congrats on all your hard work!!  

The Providence Caps program offers the following:

• Set practice/game schedule for the year
• Convenient interleague travel
• 15 minute period games (Squirt and older) 
• 3 practices/ skills sessions per week (Mite thru PeeWee - AAA Elite)
  • 2 practices per week AAA teams and Bantams
  • 1 full-ice practice per week (Squirt thru Bantam - AAA Elite)
• Goalie clinics/ instruction - Mike Doneghey is the Caps goalie coach - head coach Bridgewater Bandits (EJHL) and scout with Chicago Blackhawks (NHL). 
• Games on weekends, easy travel to away games
• Private locker rooms with individual stalls (AAA Elite Teams)
• A portion of skills is developed through Variable Goal Training (VGT) model, used in the Czech Republic by world renown and former olympic coach Ludek Bukac - Graeme Townshend skating coach for Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) is the skating and skills coach for the Caps
• Dryland training is on-site, professional trainers (NESTR), age appropriate, shooting and stickhandling (Squirt and older)
• High quality coaches (see coaching staff tab), high-tempo practices
• Most competitive "AAA Elite" youth league in New England and New York, member of Eastern Hockey Federation (EHF)
• Convenient rink location, travel time, game times and practice times!