Category Assignments

The LAHOA Board of Directors would like to congratulate the FIVE officials that worked USA Hockey Nationals this year. You may or may not know but USA Hockey Level 4 Officials all get invites to National Championship. They get notified in February and asked for their availability on which tournaments they are interested in working. Let’s give a big shout out to the following officials!

Girls Tier II 14u, 16u & 19u – Denver, CO – April 29th-May 3rd

Brent Tubbs – Girls’ 16u semifinals and the Girls’ 19u quarterfinals!

Rebecca MacFarland – Referee’d the 14u semifinal and lined the final!

Dylan Freed – 14u semifinal!

Matthew Zucker – 14u quarterfinal!

High School – Omaha, NE – April 15th-19th

Chris Arvizu – Linesman for the semifinal!

Congratulations to our officials! Lets send 10 next year to USA Hockey Nationals!

The LAHOA Board of Directors would like to congratulate Rebecca McFarland, Jordan Watt, Dylan Freed and Brea Benedict on their selection to work the 2021 Pacific District Championship Tournament! The tournament was held April 8-11 in the Phoenix, AZ metro area with the games being played in Scottsdale and Chandler. The officials represented themselves and LAHOA well! Dylan worked the lines of the Boy’s 15u AAA Championship. Rebecca refereed the Girl’s 14u AAA Championship. Brea lined the Girl’s 14u AA Championship and Jordan was selected to referee the Boy’s 14u AAA Championship! Great job officials!

The LAHOA Board of Directors would like to congratulate Dylan Freed on his selection to work the NA3HL playoffs! What is the NA3HL? It is the Tier 3 league for the NAHL! Hence the 3… Dylan has worked 28 games this season in the NA3HL. Having refereed 19 and lined 9. He has been assigned to the semifinals in the Frontier division. The best-of-3 game series will feature the #2 seed Great Falls Americans vs the #3 seed Gillette Wild. Game 1 will be played in Gillette, WY on Thursday, April 1st, and will continue in Great Falls, MT for games 2 and 3. Dylan has been assigned to line game 1 and will referee game 2 and the if necessary game 3! The winner of the series will move on to the division finals with a chance to advance to the Fraser Cup which is the championships for the NA3HL. Dylan, perhaps, is in the running for that as well! In talking to Dylan, he is very humbled by this selection, as this season was his first in the league. This season has been a HUGE learning experience for him, given the circumstances. He said he will do his best to represent LAHOA well!

Congrats to Dylan on his playoff assignments!

The LAHOA Board of Directors would like to congratulate the following officials on their selection to work the championship game in the Los Angeles Kings High School Hockey League. The JV and Varsity Championships will be heath March 8th at the Toyota Sports Performance Center.

JV – 10:15am – Alex Kaganovich, Garo Simitian, Sara Parras, Kenny Brzezinski

Varsity – 12:15pm – Jason Zech, Neil Liberotti, Ryan Spear, Dylan Freed

Congratulations on a great season!

The LAHOA Board of Directors would like to congratulate the following officials on their selection to work the ADHSHL JV Finals! The Harbor and the Lincoln Conference championship games will be held February 29th at the FIVEPoint Arena!

Harbor Conference – 4:30pm – Matthew Zucker, Darius Newhall, Jake Herzog, Alexander Kitano

Lincoln Conference – 6:15pm – Dylan Freed, Darius Newhall, Jake Herzog, Benjamin DuBow

Congratulations on your assignments!

The LAHOA Board of Directors would like to congratulate the following officials on their selection to work the 2020 CAHA Tier II Play Downs. There will be two locations. The 12u & 14u divisions will be played in Simi Valley at the Ice-o-Plex while the 16u & 18u divisions will be played in Valencia at the Ice Station. The events will be held the weekend of February 28th-March 1st.

Kosta Karvelas, Alison Ellner, Matt McClelland, Dave Grifman, Alex Kaganovich, Ryan Spear, Austin Sebesta, Ken Nichols, Ira Derdiger, Toyota’s Own, Ian Arougheti, Adam Bell, Jason Lhamon, Greg Tukalski, Ilya Gorelic, Neil Liberotti, Christopher Hahn, James Huff, Matthew Epstein, Kyle Waters, Louis Magnifico, Jason Zeck, Evan Freedman, Matthew Zucker, John Mattila & Christopher Arvizu

Congratulations on your assignments!

The LAHOA Board of Directors would like to congratulate the following officials on their selection to work the 2020 CAHA High School National Bound State Championships and the 2020 CAHA Tier I 11u AAA, 12u AAA & 13u AAA State Championships. Both events are being held simultaneously in Riverside at the the LA Kings Ice-Town February 28th-March 1st.

Armand DeForest, Ryan Flores, Alec Rounds, Jake Herzog, Tyler Carreon, Franco Khnanisho, Matthew Brodeur, Dylan Freed, Alexander Kitano, Steve Appley, Preston Fox, Brandon Barnette, Andrew Martin, Benjamin DuBow, Michael Pecolar, Jacob Rozenberg & Jordan Watt

Congratulations on your assignments!

The LAHOA Board of directors and the Anaheim Ducks High School Hockey League would like to congratulate the following officials on their selection to work the ADHSHL Varsity Finals February 22nd at FIVEPoint Area in Irvine, CA.

Varsity 3 – Commissioner’s Cup – 2pm – Jordan Watt, Darius Newhall, Todd Siegel, Louis Magnifico

Varsity 1 – Schulman Cup – 4:15pm – Jake Rozenberg, Ben DuBow, Bradley Roberts, Matt Norman

Varsity 2 – H&S Ventures Cup – 6:30pm – Ryan Flores, Dylan Freed, Bryan Syjud, Brett Martin

Congratulations to these officials and the rest of the ADHSHL crew on a great season!

The LAHOA Board of Directors and the Executive Board would like to congratulate the following officials on their selection to work he 2020 CAHA Tier I State Finals in San Jose, CA at Sharks Ice February 7-9.

Alec Rounds, Philip Kasko, Christopher Hahn, Michael Pecolar, Matthew Norman

Congratulations to those 5 officials who will join officials from SDHRA and IHONC!

The LAHOA board would like to congratulate the following officials on their selection to work the 2020 Western Collegiate Hockey Conference playoffs. The playoffs will take place at The Rinks – Anaheim Ice, February 7-9.

Benjamin DuBow, Sotaro Yamaguchi, Norman Kitano, Jordan Watt, Bryan Vest, Brett Martin, Ian Miller, Chris Arvizu, Ryan Nugent, Brandon Barnette, Franco Khnanisho, Andrew Martin, Niko Diehr, Arthur Kitano, Ryan Flores & Braden Grinstead