District 3 Novice

2009-2010 Year-end Round Robin

Rules

1. Length of Periods: The first two periods will be 10 min stop time; the 3rd period being will be running time, the length being equivalent to the remaining ice time available (to make 50 minutes).
Reminder: Novice does not use the secondary running clock (that is they do not have to play the 10 minutes within the 15 minute running time). The periods are not to finish before the time on the clock has expired.

2. Players must have EQUAL ICE TIME regular seasonardless of the game situation or player’s talent (all divisions).

3. Rescheduling games: All teams are required to show up at all games. Round Robin games can not be rescheduled except due to inclement weather, and then only on the direction/approval of the District President Initiation/Novice. Failure to show for a game will result in disciplinary action by District in accordance with the Rules and Regulations.

4. There shall be no championship trophy awarded; however, we will keep track of team placement/standings.

5. Teams get 2 points for a win; 1 point for a tie; and 0 points for a loss. There will be no overtime.

6. In addition to mailing in game sheets, home teams will email the score of the game within 1 day of it being played, to the District President Initiation/Novice. Ensure that the email indicates the game number, the date played and the teams involved. For Novice B game scores are to be emailed the same day as the game is played so that we can quickly determine the placement of the teams for the 5th game.

All suspensions must be reported IMMEDIATELY (especially if playing following day) by the Association Novice Coordinator/VP by phone to the District President Initiation/Novice, Nanci Laroche (follow up with email).

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Match-ups

The 5 game "Round Robin" will be conducted over 3 weekends from February 20 through to March 7, 2010. Games may be played on weeknights if necessary starting February 18. The round robin may be extended until March 14 due to availablity of ice as the Nation/PGL playoffs will take priority.

Novice B

Teams will be placed in two pools based on standings at the end of the regular season as follows:

Pool A

1st place regular season

2nd place regular season

3rd place regular season

Pool B

4th place regular season

5th place regular season

6th place regular season

Each team will play a home & home round robin series against the teams in their pool (total 4 games). The 5th game will be scheduled as follows (home team listed second):

2nd Place Pool A vs 1st Place Pool A

1st Place Pool B vs 3rd Place Pool A

3rd Place Pool B vs 2nd Place Pool B

Novice C

Teams will be placed in two pools based on standings at the end of the regular season season as follows:

Pool A

1st place regular season

2nd place regular season

3rd place regular season

4th place regular season

5th place regular season

6th place regular season

7th place regular season

Pool B

8th place regular season

9th place regular season

10th place regular season

11th place regular season

12th place regular season

13th place regular season

Pool A Match-ups

2nd place vs 1st place

1st place vs 3rd place

4th place vs 1st place

1st place vs 5th place

6th place vs 1st place

3rd place vs 2nd place

2nd place vs 4th place

5th place vs 2nd place

2nd place vs 7th place

4th place* vs 3rd place

3rd place vs 6th place

7th place vs 3rd place

4th place vs 5th place

6th place vs 4th place

4th place vs 7th place

5th place vs 6th place

7th place vs 5th place

6th place vs 7th place

* game does not count for visitors

Pool B Match-ups

9th place vs 8th place

8th place vs 10th place

11th place vs 8th place

8th place vs 12th place

13th place vs 8th place

10th place vs 9th place

9th place vs 11th place

12th place vs 9th place

9th place vs 13th place

11th place vs 10th place

12th place vs 10th place

10th place vs 13th place

12th place vs 11th place

13th place vs 11th place

13th place vs 12th place