North Hills Amateur Hockey Association

  Emergency goalie must be from a lower level team in the same age division.  If no such goalie is available you can:

·         Put pads on any player

·         Play without a goalie (6 players on ice)

·         Reschedule (which may be difficult and may get your team a fine)

Each Viper and Viper Stars team has the responsibility to utilize all ice time scheduled for them without causing unnecessary waste of ice time and money by causing ice time that is paid for to stand idle. It is the responsibility of each team manager to notify the ice scheduler of any black-out dates in which ice time cannot be used no later than August 15th. The blackout dates are to include not only weekends but any week nights the team will not be able to practice due to travel arrangements or any other cause. Any teams that do not report blackout dates at least one month in advance will be responsible for the ice time they are scheduled for. This will reduce the monetary burden of unused ice for the organization.

It is suggested but not required that teams which wish to participate in tournaments in addition to their regularly scheduled games first consider entering tournaments on dates which are already blacked out by the rink because those teams will not have any practice time or home games scheduled those weekends and it will have the least impact on game/practice scheduling.

Beginning immediately, we will enforce the following rules for scheduled ice time slots.

Any team determining it needs to blackout any ice after the August 15 deadline must notify the scheduler no later than 20 days prior to the first day of the month of the proposed blackout dates in order to provide sufficient scheduling and notification time.

Any team which will be using weekdays/nights to travel to and from tournaments or away games and will not be able to use those weeknight practices or which cannot use weeknight practices for any other reason must notify the ice scheduler at least 20 days prior or must follow the process below.

Once scheduling for a specific month has been done the following will apply:

1. Teams cannot cancel scheduled ice time except for extreme circumstances as determined by the ice scheduler/NHAHA Board without adhering to the following procedures. Not following these procedures places the team in the position of possibly receiving a future ice reduction or fine depending upon the circumstances of the cancellation. Such action would be determined on a case by case basis.

2. Any team that cancels their ice time is required to attempt find a replacement team for that time slot by notifying other teams in the association in a timely manner. The replacement team can either exchange time slots with the canceling team, or acquire the canceled time slot in addition to their scheduled ice time. However, if the replacement team merely exchanges its ice slot for the empty ice slot, the originating team is still responsible for the empty ice slot unless the receiving team agrees to use both slots and then doesn’t use both. The Ice Scheduler should be copied on all correspondence.

3. Any team which cannot get another team to accept an ice slot it cannot use should then notify one or more of our webmasters to put a notice on the web site advertising the availability of this slot so that teams from another association can purchase the ice or so that any NHAHA coach, including assistant coaches, can take the ice slot to use as a free “stick time” for any combination of NHAHA players. A coach must be on the ice for this time.

4. Any team which cancels its use of a shared ice slot is responsible to notify the team sharing the ice slot so that they can plan accordingly with a cc to the ice scheduler.

5. Teams that decline the full ice time available in September and October to attend tournaments must notify their members that full ice has been declined in order to attend such tournaments.

6. Before any team playing in PAHL schedules any tournaments during the months of September and October, they must take into consideration any requirements PAHL places upon those teams for mandatory placement scrimmages and/or appeal scrimmages.

7. No team which has followed the procedures described above would be subjected to any type of ice time or financial fine provided the ice scheduler has be cc ed on all correspondence.

In order for your team to play, as Team Manager, you will need to collect the following Forms and Credentials from everyone who is participating on your team. These mentioned forms can also be found on the FORMS page on the website:

Forms Required - Players:

• USA Hockey Individual Membership Registration (IMR)
• Click here to go to USA Hockey Online Registration.
• Participant Code of Conduct
• Consent to Treat
• Birth Certificate (if new to the association - please give to Registrar-DO NOT put in team notebook) 

Forms Required - Head Coach and Assistant Coaches:

• USA Hockey Individual Membership Registration (IMR)
• Click here to go to USA Hockey Online Registration.
• Consent to Treat
• Participant Code of Conduct
• Background Check - Mid AM screen
• If your coaches are active on more than one team, they must provide a copy of each form to each team.

Forms Required - Team Manager:

• USA Hockey Individual Membership Registration (IMR)
• Click here to go to USA Hockey Online Registration.
• Participant Code of Conduct
• Consent to Treat 

Forms Required - Other Participants/Volunteers: Any individual who has routine access to your minor children on your team, on or off-ice, such as locker-room monitors, must complete a Background Check.

NHAHA provides Team Managers a Binder to make it easy to organize your documents. All these Forms and Credentials are to be placed in to the team binder and available for the registrar at any time.