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RESULT: WA fell 6-3 to Queensland this morning in Newcastle in Nationals action.

Queensland jumped out to an early lead, but WA answered with two third-period goals to make it a genuine contest down the stretch.

Final scoring: QLD 2-1-3, WA 1-0-2.

We move on to tomorrow💛🖤

What a great start !!
Well done team WA 🖤💛

What a start!

This page will have all game updates and pictures of the games.

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2026 IHA National Championships The Ice Hockey Australia (IHA) National Championships bring together the nation’s top talent from across multiple divisions and age groups, all competing in one exciting, action-packed tournament.

Starts tomorrow.
Let’s go WA 🖤💛

Ginsberg Leadership Group - Reggie Bowers (C), Rowan Macnamara (A), Wes Bavin (A)

The adventure begins.

Today I’m leaving Perth and heading to Pittsburgh for the NHL Coaches’ Association Global Coaches’ Clinic. It’s a long journey, but one I’m incredibly grateful to be making.

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be learning from some of the best coaches and hockey minds in the world, sharing ideas, asking questions, and continuing to grow as a coach. I’ll also be taking a little piece of Australia with me, including Task Sketch, to gather feedback from coaches whose work has inspired me for years.

Every conversation is an opportunity to learn, and every lesson will come home with me to help develop players and coaches here in Australia.

Looking forward to sharing the journey.

Please join us in congratulating our players selected to the 2026 WA team!

On ice session available …

Friday 29th May 5.45am.

Full time session
Mondays 6.45am starting 25th May.

Drop me a msg to book either.

Inside the Constraint: Developing Coaches 4:8 is now live on The Coaches Site.

A huge thank you to The Coaches Site for continuing to give coaches a platform to challenge ideas, share experiences, and push the game forward.

This article explores a simple question:

What if coaches don’t develop through information… but through the environments they learn in?

Too often coach development becomes drill replication and system copying. But the game is unpredictable, dynamic, and constantly changing.

We don’t build adaptive coaches by giving them more answers.

We build them by designing environments that force exploration, reflection, and problem-solving.

Inside this article:• Why traditional coach education struggles to create adaptable coaches• The shift from instruction to exploration• Mentorship through guided attention instead of control• Why experimentation matters in coach learning• How Task Sketch was built to support ecological coach development

The goal isn’t better drills.

It’s better thinkers.

Because better coaches create better environments, and better environments create better players.

By Barry Jones

Inside the Constraint: Developing Coaches 4:8 Inside the Constraint: Developing Coaches 4:8 By Coach Barry Jones - IIHF Level 3 High Performance - USA Hockey Level 3 Performance We Don’t Develop Coaches by Telling Them What to Do Coach development has traditionally followed a simple mo...