Face-Off! NA3HL Showcase begins Sunday in Blaine
The 2023 North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL) Showcase is ready to face-off. Opening day is Sunday, December 17th and the event will take place from December 17-19, 2023, at the NSC Super Rink in Blaine, Minnesota.
This season marks the 13th year the NA3HL will hold a league-wide Showcase, which features some of the best junior talent in the United States. The event will be played in cooperation with the seventh NAPHL event of the season, which will take place from December 15-18, 2023, at the NSC Super Rink and feature teams from the NAPHL’s T1ER and SHOW Leagues.
View the 2023 NA3HL Showcase Schedule here
Download the Digital Event Program
All NA3HL teams will play three regular-season games at the Showcase, which is annually one of the most well-attended and scouted events of the entire season for the league, attracting college and junior scouts alike. The NA3HL Showcase brings every NA3HL team under one roof, which allows scouts to see all the great talent the league has to offer. The NA3HL Showcase was built to pair up evenly matched teams against one another based on the current standings and is also designed to have cross-divisional games with balanced competition. Not only does the showcase see a large presence of NCAA and ACHA scouts, but all the NAHL teams in attendance, furthering the chances for players to earn a call up to the NAHL.
For more details on the 2023 NA3HL Showcase, including hotel, rental car, scouting, venue, and schedule information, visit: na3hl.com/showcase.
All the games at the NA3HL Showcase will be broadcast live on NATV.
There will be no admission fee for the 2023 NA3HL Showcase.
Scouts will also receive complimentary admission to the NA3HL Showcase. Proper identification and team/league affiliation must be presented at the admission counter in order to receive a scout pass. Scout packet includes a pass for entrance into the Super Rink for all three days of the event, access to the scout room, which will include catered food and beverage throughout the event, a tournament program, scout gift, and line charts for each game.
Seminars: As an additional element to the program this season, an NCAA education and compliance seminar will be presented to all players, coaches and parents during the NA3HL Showcase on Monday, December 18th. This will be the same presentation used in NAHL seminars and the focus will be on differences between NCAA Division I, Division III and ACHA, the breakdown of NCAA I conference landscape, NCAA Initial Eligibility information including important new rules going into effect this season and how future players will be affected, the recruiting process and how to market yourself.
The NA3HL is in its 14th season in 2023-24 and serves as one of the top training grounds in the country by providing the best coaching, exposure and developmental vehicles available for student-athletes in Tier III junior hockey. It is the only USA Hockey-sanctioned Tier III junior league.
Thanks to the NA3HL’s unique Dual Advancement Path, no other league of its kind has had more movement and advanced more players onto play in the North American Hockey League (NAHL) than the NA3HL. Thanks to additional and enhanced initiatives in cooperation with the NAHL put in place several years ago, more players from the NA3HL play, practice, and earn NCAA Division I scholarships with the NAHL than any other league.
This past season not only did 35 NA3HL players sign a tender to play in the NAHL for the 2023-24 season, but 28 more players were selected in the 2023 NAHL Entry Draft. The NA3HL not only saw 63 of its players tendered or drafted by NAHL teams, but over 60 NA3HL alumni played in the NAHL this past season. The NA3HL also saw 10 current or former players make NCAA Division 1 commitments this past season.
