Tournament Rules

• We will follow Hockey Canada Regulations. Players and coaches may be subject to additional penalties by their governing body.
• All decisions made by the officials on ice or by the FireStarter Tournament Committee are final.
• Teams will be responsible for any damages caused to hotels, dressing rooms or arena facilities.
• It is each teams responsibility to ensure the dressing rooms doors are locked, the facility is not responsible for lost or stolen items.
• For Sunday games the tournament reserves the right to change the order of games to assist teams with travel plans. Teams will be notified on Saturday evening of their play times for Sunday. An update will also be posted on the Calgary Firestarter website.
• Minimum Suspension Guidelines

Game Format

• Tournament will be a four game guarantee, with elimination games among the top eight teams on Saturday and the four top-point teams playing in the Bronze and Gold final, on Sunday.
• All games consist of 3 (20-20-20) stop time periods unless otherwise advised by Tournament officials. Ice will be cleaned after every second period. Due to time restrictions, the national anthem will not be played before games.
• 5 minute warm up begins immediately following ice cleaning. At conclusion of warm up teams must line up to play immediately or risk delay of game penalty.
• Designated home teams will wear light coloured jerseys and visiting teams will wear dark-coloured jerseys.
• Timeouts are allowed in Bronze and Gold games only; each team is allowed one 30 sec time out.

Standings Will Be Determined By:

• 3 points for a win
• 1 point for a tie
• 0 point for a loss

For the U18AAA Tournament:

• • Points will be calculated at the end of Friday's games to determine games and opponents for Saturday's games.
  • Aggregate tournament points will again be calculated among the winners of Saturday's #1 vs #2 games to determine the placement of those four winners in the Bronze and Gold games.

Point Tie Breakers in order:

1. 1. Head to head winner
   2. Number of wins
   3. Aggregate goals for minus goals against in round robin (and elimination games)
   4. Fewest total penalty minutes in round robin play (and elimination games)
   5. Fewest total goals allowed
   6. Flip of a coin

Overtime and Shootouts

• Overtime will only be used to determine the winner of the Gold game.
• If tied at the end of regulation, will play 5 min stop time OT, 3 on 3 plus goaltenders, sudden victory.
• If still tied will proceed to shoot-out, each team will select 3 players for round one.
• Players serving penalties that do not expire prior to the end of OT will not be eligible to shoot in the shoot-out
• Visiting team will shoot first, then teams will alternate shooters until a winning team is determined or until all three shooters from both teams have shot
• If at the end of round one the score is still tied each team will alternate one shooter each until a winner is declared.
• Players can only shoot once until all players on their bench have shot. This rule also applies to the first 3 shooters.