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Cold Creek Silver Stick
Rules & Regulations
(2008)
Playing Rules
MS Word Version
OWHA playing rules
apply
- Except - in Bantam round robin &
Quarter finals games there will only be two officials.
- Protests will be handled as per the
OWHA procedures.
- The Home Team shall wear their White
Sweaters and occupy the Bench designated for the home team.
- Players assessed the following
penalties will be suspended for the remainder of the tournament:
- Match Penalty; and
- Fighting Penalty.
Game
Procedures
- Novice: 3 x 10 minute stop time
periods.
- Atom: 3 x 12 minute stop time periods.
- Bantam: 3 x 12 minute stop time
period.
- There will be a two-minute warm up for
all games.
- Teams must be ready to start any game
15 minutes prior to the published game start time.
- There is no overtime in Round Robin
games.
- There are no Time-outs in Round Robin
games.
- The clock will run straight time if one
team is leading by 5 goals or more at the start or any time during the third
period.
- Once straight time commences, stop time
will not be reintroduced.
- In three team divisions/groups one of
the round robin games will be against a team in the other three-team
division/group.
- Final positional standing after round
robin play will be based points then the tie-breaking formula unless
otherwise indicated in the published schedule.
- There are five points per game awarded
as follows:
- Win - 2 points,
- Tie - 1 point,
- Win a period - 1 point; and
- Tie a period - ½ point.
Standings – Points
There are five points per game awarded as
follows:
- win – 2 points
- tie – 1 point
- Period
- win – 1 point
- tie – ½ point
Divisions
Semi-finalist (quarter-finalist) will be
determined as follows:
- 5 Teams – One Division (four
round robin games, plus)
°
the top two teams will play in the Finals
- 6 Teams – Two Divisions
(three round robin games, plus)
°
Semi-Finals – 1st in one division
plays 2nd in the other
°
Winners play in the Finals
* Note: one of
the round robin games will be against a team in the other division
°
Semi-Finals – 1st in one division
plays 2nd in the other
°
Winners play in the Finals
° Division
A to consist of 5 teams. Each team in Division A to play against the other four
teams in the same division. Top 2 teams in Division A will advance to
semi-finals.
° Division
B to consist of 6 teams. Each team in Division B to play against 4 of the 5
other teams in the Division. Top 2 teams in Division B will advance to
semi-finals.
° Semi-Finals
– 1st in Division A plays 2nd in Division B and
° 1st
in Division B plays 2nd in Division A.
° Winners
of semi-final games play in the Finals.
Tie Breaking Formula
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In the event of a tie in points, positions will
be determined as follows, in order of priority:
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Number of wins,
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Record against other tied teams,
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Goals scored minus the goals against in round
robin games,
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Fewest goals allowed in round robin play,
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Most periods won in round robin play,
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Fewest penalty minutes in round robin play,
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First goal scored in series,
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Flip of a coin.
Play-Off Game
Procedures
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There will be a three-minute warm up for all
games.
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Games will start no sooner than their published
start time.
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There may be overtime in any Quarter, Semi or
Final Game.
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Each team may take one-30 second time-out in a
Quarter, Semi or Final game. There is NO additional time out if the game
goes into overtime.
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The clock will run straight time if one team is
leading by 5 goals or more at the start or anytime during the third period.
-
Once straight time commences, stop time will
not be reintroduced.
Overtime
- Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals & Finals
ONLY
If a final, semi-final or quarterfinal game is
tied at the end of regulation time the following procedure will apply:
- A 12-minute straight time sudden
victory period will be played.
- The teams will not change ends.
- Teams will play three players + goalie
per side.
- Teams must change on the fly; no
changes may be made on a whistle.
- Penalties in overtime will result in a
penalty shot.
- If a penalty was in force at the end
of regulation time the non-penalized team shall play with four skaters at
the start of overtime and the penalized team with three skaters. Once the
penalty expires teams shall play four skaters aside until the first stoppage
of play. At that stoppage each team will remove one player from the ice, but
make no other change of players.
- If a penalty was in force at the end
of regulation time the remaining time will be straight time once overtime
commences.
- The referee may stop the clock for an
injury.
- If a team has not used it's 30 second
time-out it may do so in over-time. The Referee shall stop the clock for
this and the clock shall start again on the puck drop.
- If the game is still tied at the end
of overtime a shootout shall be conducted as follows:
- Each coach shall identify three
players to the referee, all of whom shall shoot,
- If the score is still tied then an
additional three players shall be identified to the referee, this will
be sudden victory; this process will be repeated until there is a
winner,
- No player may shoot again time
until all players on the bench have shot; and
- Players shall shoot simultaneously.
Note 1: One 30 second time-out per team
per game will be permitted in Quarter, Semi and Final Games.
Note 2: The Home team in the Final
Game will be the team with the better record in Round Robin play.
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