When Peter Karmanos Jr. sold Compuware Sports Arena to The USA Hockey Foundation and  announced the sale of the Plymouth Whalers to investors who moved the team to Flint, MI in the spring of 2015, some observers thought the Compuware Youth Hockey program would move or cease to exist. Nothing is further from the truth. 
In fact, Mr. Karmanos is keeping Compuware Youth Hockey in Plymouth, MI at USA Hockey Arena for good.  According to Mr. Karmanos, plans are confirmed with USA Hockey that will allow the very successful Compuware Youth Hockey program (which he founded) to remain in the re-branded USA Hockey Arena on Beck Road. 
“USA Hockey wants us to continue that program,” Karmanos said.  “Not only will we continue the program, but we are going to put a few things in there that we’ve learned over the last 30 years to make it the best one in the country.”
Jim Smith, President of The USA Hockey Foundation and USA Hockey stated: “We have relocated the National Team Development Program to the facility and also plan use it to host and showcase other USA Hockey programs and international events.  In addition, keeping current users of the building is important to both us and Pete Karmanos.”
Karmanos continued: “With the name ‘Compuware Youth Hockey’ now trademarked, we are going to retool the youth hockey program and again have it be one of the best in the country.  “This area is blessed with great youth programs and we turn out a tremendous amount of players. “
On what separates the Compuware program from others in the area: “I don’t think there’s anything to separate it. I’m glad there are a lot of great programs. Caesars was going on when we built ours, and a lot of it was tailored after that. “The difference — and we’re going to go back to it — is we didn’t have parents coaching.  (When we started the program) we had guys who were coaching because they love to do it. I went out and got some fellas who had played college hockey who were in their mid-20s to late-20s, didn’t have any kids involved, and they ran the program.  We’re always looking for people like that. Occasionally good fortunes fell, and you had a parent with a kid who was a good coach. You wouldn’t tell him to go away, either. The thing that really separated us is we tried to run the amateur hockey program so it was self-sufficient. We ran arenas and hockey schools and put it all back into the program, which was fairly novel at the time.”
​On the process of strengthening Compuware program today: “I’m about to have a meeting with all the coaches and talk about what we want to do with the program, where we want it to go. I don’t want to accept the status quo.”
On his continued involvement in the program: “Most people thought that the minute my older boys got out of hockey that I would drop out. It was too much fun and too many good stories, so we just kept it going.” 
The Compuware Youth Hockey program is an organization with 15 National titles and 34 state Championships over the last thirty years.