2010 Tryout Information:

Burlington, Vermont
July 31-August 1
Cost: $225
@ GUTTERSON FIELD HOUSE-UVM

Wayne, New Jersey
August 7-8
Cost: $230
@ ICE VAULT

Marlboro, Massachusetts
August 6-8
Cost: $215
@ NESC

Tryout times are all now posted on our CALENDAR link as well as with rink addresses.

TRYOUT APPLICATION

2010 Clarification by age group:

1990's (Eligible for Pro and College Division only)-If you do not receive invitation by May 15, we suggest you tryout and are eligible for the Pro Division. Like last year players may still be added by invitation if our scouts see you play during summer tournament and festivals but we strongly suggest that you send in your tryout application and check to secure a spot at tryouts. At certain locations we will sell-out tryouts and will turn players away. Also like last year, we will be taking an entire team from the tryout process for the Pro Division.

1991's (Eligible for Pro and College Division only)-If you do not receive invitation by May 15, we suggest you tryout and are eligible for the Pro Division. Like last year players may still be added by invitation if our scouts see you play during summer tournament and festivals but we strongly suggest that you send in your tryout application and check to secure a spot at tryouts. At certain locations we will sell-out tryouts and will turn players away. Also like last year, we will be taking an entire team from the tryout process for the Pro Division.

1992's (Eligible for Pro and College Division)-If you do not receive invitation by May 15, we suggest you tryout and are eligible for the Pro Division. Like last year players may still be added by invitation if our scouts see you play during summer tournament and festivals but we strongly suggest that you send in your tryout application and check to secure a spot at tryouts. At certain locations we will sell-out tryouts and will turn players away. Also like last year, we will be taking an entire team from the tryout process for the Pro Division and up to four teams to fill the Futures Division.

1993's (Eligible for Pro Division)-If you do not receive invitation by May 15, we suggest you tryout and are eligible for the Pro Division. Like last year players may still be added by invitation if our scouts see you play during summer tournament and festivals but we strongly suggest that you send in your tryout application and check to secure a spot at tryouts. At certain locations we will sell-out tryouts and will turn players away. Also like last year, we will be taking an entire team from the tryout process for the Pro Division and up to four teams to fill the Futures Division.

1993's- (Eligible for the Pro and Futures Division)-If you do not receive invitation by May 15, we suggest you tryout and are eligible for the Pro Division. Like last year players may still be added by invitation if our scouts see you play during summer tournament and festivals but we strongly suggest that you send in your tryout application and check to secure a spot at tryouts. At certain locations we will sell-out tryouts and will turn players away. Also like last year, we will be taking an entire team from the tryout process for the Pro Division and up to four teams to fill the Futures Division.

1994's- (Eligible for Futures Division)-If you do not receive invitation by May 15, we suggest you tryout and are eligible for the Pro Division. Like last year players may still be added by invitation if our scouts see you play during summer tournament and festivals but we strongly suggest that you send in your tryout application and check to secure a spot at tryouts. At certain locations we will sell-out tryouts and will turn players away. Also like last year, we will be taking an entire team from the tryout process for the Pro Division and up to four teams to fill the Futures Division.

1995's- (Eligible for Prospects Division)-TBA

1996's- (Eligible for Prospects Division)-TBA

1997's- (Eligible for Prospects Division)-TBA

1998's- (Eligible for Prospects Division)-TBA

In 2002, the Junior Bruins, in conjunction with several scouts (who coached the tournament teams) of various NHL teams, held a small tournament in the Boston area over the course of one weekend in August. The purpose was to include the best concepts of all tournaments we have been involved with or observed along with the top players from the New England area. Our hope was to provide the best venue for the top players to showcase their talents in front of the entire college and NHL community. It was a smashing success. In the first year, we attracted the top talent (rosters) on the East Coast along with the top scouts in the area.

The Evaluation process is a long and time consuming one. It starts in early fall and goes until the end of the EJHL, Prep and State Championships. The final selections are made Beantown Classic Staff. After reviewing the rosters, it was the assessment of the Junior Bruins that most of the top talent was in attendance but there were some top players that got were overlooked and not invited. Maybe a player was sick or injured when a Beantown scout came to watch his team play. Maybe the line was not clicking that day or the team a player was playing on was just overpowered by it's opponent and an individual talent was hidden. There are so many reasons why a skilled player might be overlooked. So it is the natural progression to want to turn over every stone to provide every worthy player the opportunity to get in front of the Beantown Classic selection staff.

We have added four tryout weekends this year, one in Burlington, VT, one in Wayne, NJ one in Atlanta, GA and the other at the home of the Beantown Classic at the New England Sports Center in Marlborough, Mass. The tournament invitation process is an ongoing process that invites a number of players in March and as various summer events happen (Mass Select Festival, USA select Festivals, Prospects, Eastern Spring Junior Showcase, Hub Cup and the Eastern Summer Junior Showcase), more invitations will be sent out based on players performance. This season, with the new tryout opportunities, there will be spots left open for tryout participants for both Pro and Future's divisions in the Beantown Classic. For more information on the divisions please go to the Divisions Page.

Tryout teams will consist of 10-11 forwards, 6-7 Defensemen and 3 goalies. The tryout format varies at each location and is dependent on the number of tryout teams per location. The format at each location will be for participants to play in games. The variance will be in number of games played.

If you have not been selected by invitation and would like to get a chance to play in this one of a kind tournament, please print out a tryout application and send it in ASAP. There are a limited number of tryout teams and the spots will fill quickly as we have been inundated with e-mails and phone calls inquiring about tryouts.

If you have additional specific questions about the tryouts,
please call Peter Masters at 781-862-4033.