U18 2023-2024 Playoff Format

REGULAR SEASON ENDS: February 3, 2024
7-10 Seed Playdown ENDS: Feb 11, 2024 (Best of 3 Modified) (click here for bracket - ensure that you choose 7-10 Playdown from the drop down)

ROUND 1 ENDS: February 28th, 2024 (Best of 3)
ROUND 2 ENDS: March 15, 2024 (Best of 3)
ROUND 3 ENDS: March 31, 2024 (Best of 3)

• Playoffs will start immediately after Regular Season end
• Please refer to the Playoff Bracket link in your Menu Bar for placings (placings are based on Win %)
• Overtime shall be played in all playoff games (other than a 2 game total point series) ending in a tie at the end of regulation time, according to the Hockey Canada rule (Rule #83). As follows. a. Following the end of the game the teams will take a 2-minute break on the ice. The clock will be set for 10-minute sudden death victory overtime period. Teams will not change ends. b. If still tied the teams will go to the dressing room while the ice is resurfaced. The clock will then be set for 20-minute sudden victory period. Teams will change ends.

• Jan 20 (MHL All-Star Game - Preeceville)
• Feb 2-4 (Sask First)

Modified Best of 3 Regulations

• In the case of a tie in team standings at the end of Regular Season, Hockey Sask tie breaking rules will apply
• Playoff Gamesheets MUST be faxed/emailed immediately following the game. Failure to do so will result in a fine
• The games will be played using Regular Game timing procedures – Three (3) twenty (20) minute Stop time periods.
• If the first game is tied, it will remain tied.
• If one team wins game 1 and ties game 2, the team with the win will be the series winner.
• If the teams split the two games, or if the first two games both end in a tie, then a Mini-Game will be played to decide the series winner regardless of what the score was in the first two games.

Mini-Game Rules

• When it is necessary to decide a series by virtue of the Mini-Game, the teams will take a two (2) minute break at their respective benches.
• The teams will play a ten (10) minute period, stop time.
• This will not be sudden victory, the full ten (10) minute period will be played.
• If the teams remain tied at the end of the Mini-Game, there will be an ice cleaning and the teams will continue to play twenty (20) minute stop time sudden victory periods.
• A separate game sheet will be completed for the Mini-Game.
• A time penalty from the end of Game two (2) will not be carried over to the Mini-Game as the Mini-Game and possibly subsequent overtime is viewed as a separate Game.
• Any player or coach who committed an infraction in Game two (2) of the series would sit the Mini-Game and subsequent possible Overtime. The Mini-Game, although separate, is not considered a full game so missing the Mini-Game would not count towards that player or coach’s suspension.
• If a player and/or Coach was suspended before the series or after the first games of the series, and his/her suspension was up or served in its entirety after the second game of the series, that player and/or coach would be eligible to participate in the Mini-Game as it is deemed a separate game.