Knights' CS Program

Important Information

The St. Louis Knights hockey club is a joint venture between the Chesterfield Hockey Association, the Kirkwood Youth Hockey Association and the St Louis Rockets Youth Hockey Club; and registration is only open to members of those clubs. It is considered an elite-level hockey program which participates in the Central States Development Hockey League, based in Chicago.

For all other programs & skill-levels, please reach out to your club registrar.

2024-2025 Regular Season

The St. Louis Knights Central States teams participate in the Chicago-based CSDHL, an elite Tier II league of teams administered by the Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois . This program offers players the opportunity to compete against the best AAA and AA talent from around the midwest. The CSDHL program includes excellent coaching, additional practices & games, and the opportunity participate in high level tournaments, beyond the scope of traditional AA programs.

Please read all of the information on this page, before registering at the very bottom of the page.

Birth Years & Head Coaches

U9 - 2015 - Henry U10 - 2014 - Rickermann U11 - 2013 - Johnston U12 - 2012 - Crory U13 - 2011 - Herweck U14 - 2010 - Billmeyer

Looking for 2006 - 2009 Birth Years? - Visit the Chesterfield Hockey Central States webpage.

Camp, Tryouts and Program Cost

Camp & Tryouts

  • $100
  • This fee can not be split.

Program

Following the conclusion of Tryouts, selected players will be charged the following for the season. This is a program cost and does not include other cost such as USA Hockey membership fee, uniforms, bags, team fees or etc. If you have any questions regarding this, please reach out PRIOR to signing up for camp & tryouts.

Payment Options:

  • Pay it all at once: $3,350 (Due after tryouts - if accepted to a team) -OR-
  • 6 installment payment plan: $558.35 (Due after tryouts - if accepted to a team) AND $558.33 due on Sept 1st, Oct 1st, Nov 1st, Dec 1st & Jan 1st (all automatically billed - grand total of $3,350)

You may pay via the following methods: Online checking account information -OR- via credit / debit card (2.0% transaction fee added per charge by our merchant)

What To Do & Bring Every Day!

  1. Make sure all skates are sharpened PRIOR to arriving at the rink. There will not be time to sharpen them before they get on the ice.
  2. Check-in every day.
  3. Arrive 45 minutes before on Day 1 of Tryouts; and no later than 30 minutes before on all other days.
  4. Bring a water bottle every day
  5. Follow the jersey instructions below (THIS IS IMPORTANT)

Goalies

Bring MULTIPLE practice jerseys that are COLORED - Not Black or White. No game jerseys. No names on jerseys. You may flip practice jerseys inside out if necessary.

Forwards / Defense

Bring a BLACK practice jersey AND a WHITE practice jersey. The reversible jerseys handed out during Spring Development are okay. No game jerseys. No names on jerseys. You may flip practice jerseys inside out if necessary.

Schedules & Tryout Status

All Camps & Tryouts will be held at the Maryville University Hockey Center.

**If you have an unavoidable or an emergency situation where you will need to miss a Knights Central States Camp or Tryouts, please fill out this form. Please do NOT email this information.

After the conclusion of St. Louis Knights Tryouts - A note from Missouri Hockey - Players who participated in their AA-CS Pod tryouts and were not selected by their POD CS Team (in this case the St. Louis Knights) are eligible for the pool tryout. There are no fees for the pool tryout. Tryouts date and location will be announced by Missouri Youth Hockey. Please see there website for details.

Uniform

The cost of game jerseys, game socks, equipment bag and other required items ARE NOT included in the program cost. Participants will be required to purchase them. You will own them. Fittings will take place during the first team skate on Saturday June 29th.

Team Fees

Program fees cover practice ice and league home game ice times. These fees do not include any potential Team Fees.

Team fees are determined by the individual teams AFTER teams are formed for the season. An example of what team fees may cover include but are not limited to:

  • Tournament fees
  • Party fees
  • Travel fees
  • or any other necessary fees the individual teams and coaches deem necessary to provide the best experience for the team.

Team fees are not optional so in fairness to all individuals on the team, we require any additional team fees to be equally split among the families of those teams, unless other mutual agreements have been put into place by the teams.

Questions

Gary Tockman

Hockey Operations - Coaches & Player Development

Brooke Schaub

Registrar - Chesterfield Hockey

2024-CS-Regular Season

Registration

Please read all of the information above, before registering below.

2024 / 2025 USA Hockey Number - Your child will be required to have a 2024 / 2025 USA Hockey number before registering. Some of you may have already created one for Spring programs. Note - Technical item. If you create it right now, it may take a few minutes for it to update on the USA Hockey servers before CrossBar will be able to validate it.

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