Before each game, your team will have 15 minutes to warm up. If we are running behind schedule, warm-up shall be reduced to 5 minutes. This warm-up begins when the teams playing the previous game leave the ice. This will occur approximately half an hour before the scheduled game time, and on the old ice. Please note you must be ready to go ahead of time if necessary. The warm-up pucks will be there for you. After the warm-up, please pick up the pucks. When warm-up time is over, players must leave the ice promptly! The ice will be flooded between the warm-up and the first period.

After each game, your team will be asked to line up on the blue line for the MVP Awards. Coaching staff will select your own MVP (be ready 10 minutes before the end of your game). After the MVP Awards have been presented, the teams will shake hands and make their way off the ice as quickly as possible so the following game may get underway.

The Committee reserves the right to shorten warm-up, do game MVP presentations off the ice, and/or delete a flood if games are running behind schedule. If this becomes necessary, the person on duty at the rink will advise both teams and the on-ice officials of the change before it happens.

Each game will consist of three 15-minute stop time periods. No touch icing, no red line, and no man short during coincidental minors, etc. in effect for all tournament games. There will be a flood after the warm-up, and between the 2nd and 3rd periods. You will warm up on the old ice.

If a team does not show-up to play, the other team shall be awarded a 5 to 0 victory and shall also be awarded 5 wildcard points. If both teams do not show-up, it shall be recorded as no game (i.e. no points are awarded to either team).

In the event of a tie game during the playoff portion of the tournament, one ten minute, sudden victory period will be played and will begin with teams playing three on three (not including goaltender). The ice condition will be evaluated and a decision will be make if a flood is required after this initial ten minute sudden death period. If teams are still tied, we will play one twenty minute period of 3 on 3 and we will continue until we have a winner.

In the case of penalties during the overtime, for each penalty assessed, the non-penalized team adds a player; the penalized players jumps on the ice at the end of his/her penalty; teams then play 4 on 4, or 5 on 5 until the next whistle.

The Championship game will also have three 15-minute stop time periods, but with a flood between each period.

Teams must be ready to start a game 15 minutes before the schedule start time.

SPECIAL NOTE: If games are cancelled due to inclement weather, tournament games will be shortened in order to complete the preliminary round.

The home team (second one listed on the schedule) will wear their white jerseys; the visiting team their non-whites.

Teams will be allowed one time out per game for all games.

Divisional winners and one Wildcard Team shall advance to the semi-finals. Wildcard points shall be used to rank the teams for the semi-finals. The Wildcard team will play against the team with the highest Wildcard points between the winners of the other two divisions while the other semi-final shall be between the remaining two divisional winners. The team with the most wildcard points shall be the home team. The Wildcard Team shall always be the visiting team throughout the playoffs. In the final, the team with the most wildcard points shall be the home team except for Wildcard Team if they make the final.

The following procedure shall determine a divisional winner:

Two Teams Tied
If two or more teams are tied at the conclusion of a round robin series, then the following procedure will be used to determine the final ranking before the semi-final and final games are played.
In the event that teams are tied for a playoff position, the following procedure will apply:

If two teams are tied:
- The winner of the round robin game between the two tied teams gains the higher position.
- The team with the most wins in the round robin gains the higher position.
- The team with the fewest goals against during all preliminary games gains the higher position.
- The team with the most goals during all preliminary games gains the higher position.
- The team with the fewest penalty minutes during all preliminary games.
- The team which scored the first goal in the game between the tied teams gains the higher position.
- A single coin toss will determine which team gains the higher position.

Three or More Teams Tied

Note: The three-team tiebreaker is used to determine the seeding of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd seed. If any step in the tiebreaker only seeds one team, that team assumes that position. The three-team tiebreaker will continue to determine the seeding of the two remaining teams. At no time will teams using this formula go back to the two-team tiebreaker.

- The point record established in the games among the tied teams only will be used as the first tie breaking formula in deciding which team(s) shall advance.
- The team with the most wins, in games among the three teams, would gain the highest position.
- The team with the fewest goals against during all preliminary games gains the higher position.
- The team with the most goals during all preliminary games gains the higher position.
- The team with the fewest penalty minutes during all preliminary games.
- Draw straws, team with the longest straw gains the higher position.

We shall only use one iteration to determine rankings.

WILDCARD FORMULA

Teams will be awarded points in the following manner 2 pts for a win 1 pt for a tie 1 pt for each period won ½ pt will be given to teams earning a tie in any one period If two or more teams are tied, the following order will be used to break those ties:

Result of games between teams Most wins Fewest losses Fewest goals against during all preliminary games Most goals for during all preliminary games Fewest penalty minutes Upon exhausting all the above method a toss of a coin will determine those who advance

We shall only use one iteration to determine rankings.

Please note that the TIMES AND LOCATIONS for Sunday’s semi-final and final games will be determined by the Tournament Committee and the decisions as to the TIME AND LOCATION of these games are final.

Wildcard Formula shall be used to rank teams in the division. For the playoffs, team with most wildcard points shall be ranked highest and have home ice for semi-finals and finals. For the semi-finals it shall be Team Rank#1 vs Team Rank#4 and Team Rank#2 vs Team Rank#3.

WILDCARD FORMULA

Teams will be awarded points in the following manner 2 pts for a win 1 pt for a tie 1 pt for each period won ½ pt will be given to teams earning a tie in any one period If two or more teams are tied, the following order will be used to break those ties:

Result of games between teams Most wins Fewest losses Fewest goals against during all preliminary games Most goals for during all preliminary games Fewest penalty minutes Upon exhausting all the above method a toss of a coin will determine those who advance

We shall only use one iteration to determine rankings.

Please note that the TIMES AND LOCATIONS for Sunday’s semi-final and final games will be determined by the Tournament Committee and the decisions as to the TIME AND LOCATION of these games are final.

The following procedure shall determine the rankings:

Two Teams Tied
If two or more teams are tied at the conclusion of a round robin series, then the following procedure will be used to determine the final ranking before the semi-final and final games are played.
In the event that teams are tied for a playoff position, the following procedure will apply:

If two teams are tied:
- The winner of the round robin game between the two tied teams gains the higher position.
- The team with the most wins in the round robin gains the higher position.
- The team with the fewest goals against during all preliminary games gains the higher position.
- The team with the most goals during all preliminary games gains the higher position.
- The team with the fewest penalty minutes during all preliminary games.
- The team which scored the first goal in the game between the tied teams gains the higher position.
- A single coin toss will determine which team gains the higher position.

Three or More Teams Tied

Note: The three-team tiebreaker is used to determine the seeding of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd seed. If any step in the tiebreaker only seeds one team, that team assumes that position. The three-team tiebreaker will continue to determine the seeding of the two remaining teams. At no time will teams using this formula go back to the two-team tiebreaker.

- The point record established in the games among the tied teams only will be used as the first tie breaking formula in deciding which team(s) shall advance.
- The team with the most wins, in games among the three teams, would gain the highest position.
- The team with the fewest goals against during all preliminary games gains the higher position.
- The team with the most goals during all preliminary games gains the higher position.
- The team with the fewest penalty minutes during all preliminary games.
- Draw straws, team with the longest straw gains the higher position.

We shall only use one iteration to determine rankings.

Semi-final match ups shall be cross-overs, that is first place in one division goes against 2nd place in the other division. In the Championship Game, a divisional winner will have home ice, but if both teams are divisional winners or both teams finished in 2nd place in their division, the team with the best goal against during their preliminary schedule shall have home ice, if they are still tied, then a coin toss to decide the home team.

Please note that the TIMES AND LOCATIONS for Sunday’s semi-final games will be determined by the Tournament Committee and the decisions as to the TIME AND LOCATION of these games are final.

NBIAA regulations will be used, except in the following cases:

1. Any player who has been assessed a major penalty will automatically receive a game misconduct. As well, he/she will be suspended from his/her next game in the Classic. A second such infraction will result in the player being suspended from the Tournament.

2. A 10-minute misconduct penalty will not result in any further action being taken by the Tournament Committee. However, the Tournament Committee reserves the right to impose further penalty or sanction in the case of a second 10-minute misconduct penalty assessed by the Game Officials.

3. Any player who receive a 5 major and game misconduct shall be suspended for the next game. If a player receives a game misconduct in the last 10 minutes of a game, that player shall be suspended for the next game.

4. Any player, coach, or manager receiving a match or gross misconduct penalty is automatically suspended for the remainder of the Tournament.

5. If, in the opinion of the Tournament Committee, a player or coach is behaving, on the ice, behind the bench, in the stands or in any venue associated with the tournament, in a manner contrary to the Tournament theme of fair play and sportsmanship, the team will be issued a warning. If the player or coach does not adjust his/her behavior immediately and permanently, that person will be suspended from further participation in the Classic.

None of these sanctions is subject to appeal. The decisions of the Tournament Committee’s discipline board are final.