The Valley Jr. Warriors are an American

United States

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 junior

Junior ice hockey

Junior hockey is a catch-all term used to describe various levels of ice hockey competition for players generally between 16 and 20 years of age...

 ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 organization playing in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Haverhill, Massachusetts

Haverhill is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 60,879 at the 2010 census.Located on the Merrimack River, it began as a farming community that would evolve into an important industrial center, beginning with sawmills and gristmills run by water power. In the...

. They field two Junior and a number of Youth teams. The Junior A team plays in the Eastern Junior Hockey League

Eastern Junior Hockey League

The Eastern Junior Hockey League is an American Tier III Junior A ice hockey league. Founded in 1993 by Dan Esdale, the EJHL has fourteen teams from across the Northeastern United States. The EJHL is a member of USA Hockey, and the EJHL champion goes on to play for the National Championship...

. The Junior B team of the same name competes in the Empire Junior B Hockey League. The team plays home games at the Haverhill Valley Forum in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Haverhill, Massachusetts

Haverhill is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 60,879 at the 2010 census.Located on the Merrimack River, it began as a farming community that would evolve into an important industrial center, beginning with sawmills and gristmills run by water power. In the...

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The Warriors organization also fields a number of youth hockey teams at the Bantam, Peewee, and Squirt other various levels. The youth hockey teams compete in the New England Hockey League and the Mass State Select League.

The Warriors have been coached by distinguished hockey players including Stephen Leach, Bob Sweeney

Bob Sweeney (ice hockey)

Robert Emmett Sweeney is a retired American professional ice hockey center.-Career:Sweeney was born in Boxborough, Massachusetts. He was drafted out of high school by the Boston Bruins in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, and went on to play four years at Boston College...

, and Bob Carpenter.