Junior Gold B

PLAYDOWNS

BEFORE THE FIRST GAME:

JGB Metro Playdown Fee: $1,250 per team (top 8 teams each JGB Division league standings (excluding Outstate and WI teams) qualify for a double elimination playdown at the Super Rink with 7 teams advancing to the State Tournament).

Outstate JGB Playdown Fee: TBD per team (Duluth, Rock Ridge, Rochester, Moorhead, Grand Rapids) double elimination playdown at Rochester with 1 team advancing to the State Tournament.

Please bring the Playdown Fee payable to Minnesota Hockey to your first playdown game.

No check, no play.

BEFORE EACH GAME:

The Head Coach needs to check in at the Arena Tournament Headquarters before each game to set the roster and sign the GameSheet iPad.

AT EACH GAME:

Dressing Area assignments will be posted on monitors.
Warm-ups and game pucks will be provided.
The home team will provide a clock operator and a home penalty box person.
The visiting team will provide a GameSheet scorekeeper and visitor penalty box person.
JGHSL will provide iPads for scoring.

AFTER EACH GAME:

Score sheets are online and available via GameSheet.
Results will be posted on the JGHSL website as games are completed.

JGHSL Playdown Game Procedures:

Enter the start and end time of the game on the iPad along with scorekeeper's name and cell number
Reminder to enter penalty end time
Three penalties result in Game Ejection
One time-out per game
Resurface before each game
4-minute warm-up
3-15 minute periods
1 minute break between 1^st & 2^nd period
11 minute resurface between 2^nd & 3^rd period
Overtime listed below

PLAYDOWN BREAKING OF TIES:

The following overtime format shall be used for Playdown and State Tournament games. The teams shall change goals after the third period and stay that way through all overtime periods.

a. A two-minute rest, then a first sudden victory overtime period – ten minutes – five on five

b. A two-minute rest, then a second sudden victory overtime period – ten minutes – five on five

c. Resurface the ice, then conduct additional ten-minute sudden victory overtime periods, five on five, with two-minute rests between and resurfacing after every three periods.

d. Refer to the “Ice Resurfacing” paragraph herein for additional resurfacing requirements.

ICE SURFACING:

In playdown and state Minnesota Hockey tournaments, the ice shall be resurfaced before each game and at intermission between the 2nd and 3rd periods. If the game goes into overtime, resurfacing shall occur at the end of the 2nd and every three overtime periods thereafter. The tournament director may use discretion as to whether resurfacing is needed after an overtime period before the next scheduled game begins.