League Notes:

Teams

«  Hants East Tigers

«  Cobequid Educational Centre Cougars

«  Northumberland Night Hawks

«  North Nova Gryphons

«  Dr JH Gillis Royals

Game Format

ü  Home team will supply warm up and game pucks.

ü  O Canada will be played, if possible.

ü  1 fifteen-minute period and 2 twenty minute periods will be played with a flood between the 2nd and 3rd periods.

ü  Points will be awarded as follows: Regulation win is 2 points; Tie game is 1 point. Overtime periods will NOT be played b/c of ice time availability.

ü  Each team is permitted one 30-second time out per game.

Schedule

ü  The schedule will consist of each team playing 2 home and 1 away versus each team in the league (or vice-versa). This will flip flop next year.

ü  Make up Games- the home team will present two dates and reasonable times to the visiting team. The visiting team must not already be playing on the date(s) presented. The visiting team will select one of the dates presented and the make-up game will take place. If, for any reason, the visiting team cannot select one of the dates the home team will be awarded the victory. Every effort is to be made to reschedule pre-Christmas break games before the Christmas break.

ü  All games are to be completed by February 12^th. Any games that cannot be played by this date will be lost. The final standings will be determined at this time.

ü  The 5^th place team in the league standings will be dropped from the regional championship process.

Game Results/Scores

Please report all game scores to Sandy Totten – she has agreed to keep track of the regular season game results/scores. sandytotten87@gmail.com

Suspension reports

Reports must be sent to the Northumberland Regional Director Scott Hudson fax 902-522-2336, e-mail scott.hudson@srsb.ca. Scott is registered on the web page that officials use for submitting game reports. Teams are to ensure local Referees are advised of Scott’s contact information and that he is registered on the system.

League Standings and Regional Play-Offs

ü  Regional Play-offs will begin the week of February 18, 2019.

ü  The last day to determine a Regional Winner is March 2, 2018. Provincials are the week of end of March 8, 2019

ü  To determine the ranking for Regional Play-Offs, each teams’ points for the entire regular season schedule will be used to determine placement within their respective Division.

ü  The NSSAF tie breaker for hockey will be used to determine positions if two teams are tied. It will read as follows which include adjustments for our league.

o   After regular season play, if two or more teams are tied in points in a division, the following is the tie-breaker:

§  Total points earned in games amongst the tied teams.

§  Most regulation wins in games amongst the tied teams.

§  Most OT wins in games amongst the tied teams.

§  Goal differential in games between the tied teams (goals for minus goals against) with the team with the higher number being awarded the higher standing.

§  If still tied, repeat steps 1 to 4 but include the record of all the teams in the division, not just the tied teams.

§  If still tied, the higher standings will be determined on the ratio of goals for, to goals against to three (3) decimal places (goals for divided by goals against). In calculating this ratio only the records of the teams tied against each other shall be considered.

ü  Overtime for Regional Play-offs will be a five minute 4 on 4 followed by 3 on 3 sudden victory until a winner is decided. Time will be stop time. Penalties will be two minutes. A penalized team will not go below 3 skaters. If there is a penalty, the teams will play 4v3. If the penalized team receives another penalty, the teams will play 5 on 3.  When the penalized player's penalty is over, the player (s) will return to play until the next stoppage of play.