The Peak Performance spring high school hockey league is open to all 8th-graders, freshman, sophomores, and juniors. 
This will be a draft style league that will focus on the development of varsity level players. 
"The goal of the Peak Performance Spring League is to give the area high school players an opportunity to play in a competitive draft-style league that has a focus on having fun and getting a lot of ice time,” Peak Performance co-owner Eric Short said.
The Peak Performance staff will select the teams with the goal of making all the teams in the league as balanced as possible.
We will take input from the area high school, prep school and youth hockey coaches on the ability of each player in the draft.  We will try to place players from the same high school on the same team, but may split certain programs to create balanced teams. 
If, after the first week, we find that a team is much stronger or weaker than the other teams, we will simply make a trade to balance out the teams. The league has used this draft style the past 6 years and has always produced balanced teams.
The league will play on Saturday and Sunday mornings, beginning at 8 a.m., at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham. 
“Ice hockey is not a sport that you can play for just three months a year,” Leominster High ice hockey coach Cory Beaulac said. “The Spring League gives these players an opportunity to work on their skills, and at the same time improve the things they have learned this past season.”
“With only one game per week the spring league is a great opportunity for players to get back on the ice after a long high school season,” Short said.
Each team will play 10 games and each game will consist of three 17-minute running time periods.     
“Hockey is definitely a sport in which playing in the offseason is beneficial to development of high-level skills,” Short said. “Players that are on the ice year round are much better skaters and usually have more advanced hockey skills.”
The league will follow the rules set forth by the National Federation of State High School Hockey. Each game will have two on-ice officials and an official scorer.