BELLEVILLE DANGLE CUP 4V4 RULES 2024

 

DIVISIONS

 

-   Boys U9 (2016 & younger)

-   Boys U10 (2015)

-   Boys U11 (2014)

-   Boys U13 (2013)

 

TEAM ROSTERS

·       Teams must provide a final official game roster prior to the start of the FIRST game.

·       Team may have a total of 12 skaters and 1 goalie

·       Teams may not add players to the roster after the tournament has started unless approved by the tournament director

·       A player can only play for one team during this tournament, except team with 2 rostered goalies. Failure to do so will disqualify said player.

 

GENERAL RULES

·       Each team will play 3 games

·       Pre-game warm-ups will be two minutes continuous time.

·       Each team should be present at the arena 20 minutes before the scheduled game time

·       A team that does not present itself to a game may be subject to a disciplinary committee and expulsion from the tournament. A defaulted game will be recorded as 3-0 for the winning team and 0-5 result to the losing team.

·       Each game will start with a face-off.  This will be the only face-off. 

·       Whistles will result in loss of possession and give-up your zone (i.e. players must be on their side of the redline)

·       Penalties will result in a penalty shot with all other players chasing from the opposite blueline.  Chasers may leave once the player taking the penalty shot touches the puck

·       The ice will be resurfaced after every other game unless approved by the Tournament Director

 

GAME FORMAT

PRELIMINARY ROUND

·       All games will consist of 1 x 30-minute run-time period

·       Timeouts are not allowed in the preliminary round

·       Games may end in a tie and overtime will not be played

 

PLAYOFF RULES

·       All games will consist of 1 x 30-minute run-time period

• One 30-second timeout per team per game will be permitted only in playoffs
• If there is a tie game at the end of regulation during the playoff rounds, a sudden death shootout will take place (i.e. minimum one round) and will continue until a winner is declared.  All players must shoot prior to being allowed to shoot a second time. 

 

STANDINGS RULES & RANKING

1.     The point system for teams ranking in the standings will be as follow: 2 points for a WIN, 1 point for a TIE, & 0 point for a LOSS.

2.     In the event of a tie between 2 or more teams, for a playoff seed after applying ranking criteria in Rule 3 the following criteria will apply through 1 to 9 listed below until 1 team and only 1 team is identified ahead of all other teams tied. That team has the next position in the standings while we repeat the whole process from step 1 with the remaining teams to determine the team's ranking in the standings:

2.1           Head-to-Head (head-to-head only used first if all teams tied have played each other)

2.2           Highest BR (GF÷(GF+GA))

2.3           Most games won

2.4           Least Goals Against (GA)

2.5           Most Goals For (GF)

2.6           Fastest goal between the teams concerned.

2.7           Best BR and if GA=0, that team will be ahead of everyone

2.8           Least penalty minutes during the tournament

2.9           Flip of a coin

 

PROTESTS

No Protests allowed in this tournament. Tournament Director reserves the final word on the interpretation of the rules.