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Tryout Information

Thank you for your interest in playing for the Bismarck Bobcats. We are set to host our coaches camp for the 2024-25 season in June 2024, looking for the next wave of Bobcat players!

For the first time ever, the Bismarck Bobcats will be hosting its first ever Bobcats Coaches Camp. This camp will include on ice practices (1 practice per team) and 4 guaranteed games per team. Practice sessions will allow for 1 on 1 instruction from our coaching staff. There will be 4 total NAHL teams at this camp. We are joined by the Austin Bruins, Chippewa Steele, and the Minnesota Wilderness. This camp will give you the best opportunity to be seen by 4 NAHL teams over the course of a three-day period. We are excited to welcome the next wave of future Bobcat players. Over the years, these camps have produced some major impact players in the NAHL who went on to play NCAA Hockey and beyond. More than two dozen Bobcats from just the last three seasons have committed to play Division I hockey, including Carl Fish (Minnesota), Ryan Taylor (Clarkson), Ian Shane (Cornell), Jonathan Ziskie (Niagara), Tommy Bergsland (Colgate), Austin Schwartz (Air Force) and more. Check out our college commitments page for the full list!

This season, the Bobcats are fielding four teams of 2 goalies, 6 defensemen, and 12 forwards for their Las Vegas, Nevada Coaches Camp.

For more information, please contact Bobcats Assistant Coach Hunter Laslo at 949-285-2797 or via email at hlaslo23@gmail.com.

Our camps will be at:

• Las Vegas, NV — America First Center (Henderson, NV) — June 7-9, 2024
• Hotel information: When booking Please type “Bismarck Bobcats” for the team name. https://app.eventpipe.com/event/9d0cca6c-af22-4b7b-b8b3-28620d2edacc/book/

All players must have their current 2024 USA Hockey Registration Number before they will be permitted on the ice.

ACCEPTED REGISTRATIONS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE

HOCKEY OPERATIONS

LAYNE SEDEVIE – HEAD COACH & GENERAL MANAGER

The 2023-24 Season will mark the 14th as Bobcats head coach for Bismarck native Layne Sedevie. Sedevie, 40, joined the Bobcat bench as an assistant coach under Byron Pool in 2009 after a long playing career that spanned the junior, collegiate and professional ranks. After winning the Robertson Cup in his first and only year as assistant, Sedevie took the head coaching role prior to the 2010-11 season. Prior to his days as a Bobcat coach, Layne spent two years as a goaltender in the USHL with both the Sioux Falls Stampede and Topeka Scarecrows before moving on to a four-year career in net at Bemidji State University, compiling a 29-21-4 record as a Beaver. After graduation, he spent a year in the Central Hockey League, split between the Wichita Thunder and the Youngstown Steelhounds. The Bobcats have qualified for the playoffs in 9 of 11 seasons (the 2020 season was cut short due to COVID-19.) Under his command, more than 100 players have accepted NCAA Division I hockey commitments.

 

HUNTER LASLO – ASSISTANT COACH

E-mail: hlaslo23@gmail.com Hunter Laslo enters his third season as the Bobcats’ assistant coach. Laslo, a southern California native, comes to Bismarck from the New Hampshire Jr. Monarchs of the United States Premier Hockey League, an organization with whom he spent three seasons as a player. Laslo served as head coach of the 16U team, his first coaching job out of college, before joining the Bobcats for the 2021-22 season. Laslo is a 2020 graduate of NCAA Division III SUNY Brockport in Brockport, N.Y. where he played in 98 games over four seasons.

 

NIKO KAPETANOVIC – ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER

Kapetanovic has been with the Bobcats since 2017 and the team’s head scout since 2020. Niko was named assistant GM in 2023. He also works in the USHL, currently with the Tri-City Storm as their Minnesota regional scout.  Originally from southeastern Wisconsin, Niko resides in the Twin Cities currently and is an assistant coach at Cretin-Derham Hall High School.   His playing career started in Bismarck and ended in Albert Lea, playing in the NAHL for 3 seasons before heading to UW-Eau Claire.  At Eau Claire, Niko was a member of the 2013 NCAA Division III National Championship Blugolds along with multiple other Bobcat alumni.

 

JACK CALLAHAN – SCOUT

Callahan was drafted in the 7th round by the Lincoln Stars of the United States Hockey League (USHL) and played junior hockey in both the North American Hockey League (NAHL) for the Springfield Jr. Blues/Fairbanks Ice Dogs and the Eastern Junior League (EJHL) before advancing to the college hockey ranks. Callahan spent one year at Quinnipiac University competing at the Division 1 level in the ECAC, before transferring to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he won the National Championship and earned 1st and 2nd team All-American honors at the Division 3 level. Following graduation, Callahan played professional hockey overseas in France and in the US. Callahan also received his Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from American University.

 

GREG ANDERSON – SCOUT

Anderson is entering his first year working with the Bismarck Bobcats. Greg played several seasons at the AAA level before moving on to play Junior Hockey for the St. Louis Jr. Blues (CSHL). He continued his playing career at Marian University and at Robert Morris University. Residing in St. Louis, Missouri, he enters his fourth season as Head Coach for the CarShield AAA Hockey Club (2007). Prior to joining CarShield he coached ten seasons with the St. Louis Jr. Blues of the NA3HL.

 

BRENDON EHRLICH – ATHLETIC TRAINER

 

Ehrlich is entering his second season as the Head Athletic Trainer of the Bobcats. He is a native of Bismarck and attended Bismarck High School before going on to study at the University of Mary, where he received a Bachelor’s in Athletic Training and minor in Wellness in 2017. He then continued his time at the University of Mary and received his Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2020. Brendon works for Sanford as an outpatient physical therapist and athletic trainer.

 

FRONT OFFICE

THOM BRIGL Team Owner & CEO gobobcathockey@aol.com	BRAD FELDMAN Director of Sales & Marketing Feldybobcats@gmail.com	PATRICK GESHAN Director of Media & Broadcasting psgeshan@gmail.com
HOLLY HENDRICKSON Food Services Manager	TRINA GILHOOLY Housing Director	AUSTIN HAYES Scorekeeper
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