The Albert Lea Youth Hockey Association will hosts its sixth annual Hockey Day on Saturday at City Arena.

The all-day event, which is free to the public, and includes more than 300 young athletes and is expected to draw more than 1,700 visitors to Albert Lea, kicks off at 8 a.m. with a U-12 girls skills competition and an in-house Squirt game.

There will be skills competitions for each youth level in the morning and will feature hardest shot, accurate shot, faster skater and best move contests. A boys’ and girls’ varsity all-star game at 11:15 a.m., teams slated to be selected by captains tonight.

Dick Herfindahl, a longtime coach in the Albert Lea Youth Hockey Association, will drop the ceremonial first puck at the A Pee Wee game vs. Dodge County at 1 p.m., and there is a public skate at 1:30 p.m. followed by youth games until the final game — A Squirt vs. Rochester Gold — begins at 7 p.m.

Wristbands in honor of Jack Jablonski, a Benilde-St. Margaret’s School sophomore, who severed his spinal cord when he went head-first into the boards after being checked in a December game, will be sold at the concession stand for $2 with profits going to the Jack Jablonski Fund.

There will be bratwursts and hot dogs sold in the City Arena’s parking lot.