Welcome back 2024-2025 managers and coaches!  
Thank you for volunteering your time so that our young athletes can enjoy another hockey season.

Scheduling Guidelines

1. There WILL be infrequent mistakes or unfavorable circumstances throughout the season when it comes to scheduling; preparing yourself now to remain calm and keep your team calm will pay off if your team is impacted by such an event.  Expecting perfection is not realistic.
2. The EHMHA Ice Scheduler does not schedule league games; contact your league representative if you have questions regarding game schedules.  
3. League Game conflicts with tournaments should be reported directly to your respective recreation or competitive coordinator.
4. EHMHA does not control East Hants Sportsplex Ice availability or schedule; EHMHA is a customer.
5. The EHMHA Ice Scheduler does not directly assign referees and is unable to find referees short notice.  The Referee in Chief is responsible for all referees and time keepers scheduling.  The Ice Scheduler works closely with the Referee in Chief ensuring the Referee in Chief has the updated game schedule for the upcoming weeks and notifies of any last minute game changes.
6. Once the schedule is complete and posted; the ice assigned to each team is the responsibility of the team. (See Conflicts, Cooperation, NOTES below)
7. For instances where two East Hants teams play each other, the game counts towards the yearly total for the home team listed on the league schedule.
8. Winter weather will not mean scheduled ice will be cancelled and made up at a later date.  Every individual should assess their comfort level travelling in winter or other potentially unsafe conditions and do what is best for your own safety.  
   1. The East Hants Sportsplex almost never closes therefore schedule ice is allotted to the team scheduled for it
   2. Games may be cancelled because of weather conditions; that game ice is assumed to be used by the team for practice and will be allotted to the team scheduled for it.
9. The Ice Scheduler tries to be fair with all ice times week to week.  A lot of time was spent to create the complete season schedule so parents and players can plan ahead as much as possible.  If you see mistakes, please contact the Ice Scheduler.
   1. Ice times are scheduled based on many factors such as:
      1. ice time availability
      2. age of the teams (how early or how late the team should practice)
      3. proximity to other practice and home game times scheduled
      4. the number of weekly practices the team gets according to their budget
   2. U9 and U11 will be scheduled for the early afternoon times

Conflicts, Cooperation (Ice Swapping)

1. The intention of providing a complete yearly schedule is so teams can see their practice times well ahead of time and find conflicts with tournaments, games, school events as soon as possible and start working towards finding suitable ice swaps with other teams.
2. Every effort has been made to minimize the number of consecutive days a team is on the ice, but there could be weeks where a team is on the ice 3-4 days in a row.  This gets even trickier when it comes to finding ice swaps, so please be aware of this.
3. When you make a successful ice swap, you DO NOT need to inform the EHMHA ice scheduler, but you should notify the Sportsplex front desk so they can update the digital board to reduce confusion.

Extra Ice, Exhibition games

1. The East Hants Sportsplex will no longer allow teams to book ice and charge back to EHMHA as part of their yearly budget.  If teams book extra ice, they are responsible for the cost directly to the East Hants Sportsplex or any other facility according to their booking rules.
2. The EHMHA Ice Scheduler will not schedule exhibition games this season.  If teams have exhibition games planned, they are fully responsible for scheduling and paying for the ice and referees directly.

End of the Season

1. Every effort is made to get teams on the ice for about 21 home games and all of their allotted practice time.  Be prepared that winter weather, makeup games, or other unplanned interruptions to the schedule may mean any individual team may receive slightly more or slightly less game or practice time than planned at the beginning of the year.  For example if winter weather cancels a game for a recreation team, that ice is allocated against practice hours but also means fewer home game hours are now available.  Depending on how many times something like this happens to an individual team, it could mean they will not play 21 home games.  It will likely also mean that teams will run out of practice ice before the league ends.  This is mostly what your miscellaneous budget is for.  Plan wisely.

 Schedule Revision History

Apr 04 09:40

• final edit for the season; added a time for U9 Int Gold Apr 10

Mar 29 09:25

• fixed typo for 7pm Saturday night 

Mar 27 15:53

• changed Wednday playoff game to practice for U15C teams

Mar 24 12:05

• slight changes to schedule to reflect U11AA time change on the 30th

Mar 21 18:05

• added week 22 schedule *will not always be and east hants team playing in the usual slot

Mar 17 17:35

• added week 21 schedule *will not always be and east hants team playing in the usual slot

Mar 12 11:05

• changed a time for U9 Silver

Mar 08 09:25

• complete season posted
• please check your league schedules for home game opponents
• DWRHL teams - please note you will be allocated games in East Hants that you may not be part of.  Every MHA supplied ice for the round robin games.

Mar 01 11:40

• slight changes to week 20 schedule; accommodate upcoming games

Feb 24 16:30

• slight changes to week 20 schedule

Feb 23 13:40

• posted game schedule for week 19

Feb 16 14:40

• posted game schedule for week 18

Feb 04 10:44

• posted game schedule for week 16, 17

January 18 12:22

• posted game schedule for week 14, 15
• modified a few days to account for some of the ice changes out fo our control over the first half of the season for U9 Intermediate black, gold, and U11AA

January 7 9:52

• posted game schedule for week 13
• note Sunday Jan 14 game times are 1 hr different than league schedules but that is getting fixed at the league level

December 31 21:29

• added U18 game Friday
• adde file to show teams ice used for first half of the season

December 29 17:25

• posted game schedule for week 11; U18 Black moved to Saturday

December 16 09:09

• posted game schedule for week 10

December 7 09:14

• posted game schedule for next week

December 4 21:27

• posted a new schedule for the second half of the season up to week 20
  • this was 100% my fault for not looking at the correct schedule when I originally posted on Dec 1
  • I know this will cause some pain for teams that already made swaps based on the Dec 1 schedule, all I can do is appologize

December 1 8:50

• posted the complete season schedule; *note that a communication about ice swaps for weeks 19 and 20 will be sent to coordinators
• updated U9 Black to be U9 Silver

November 30 11:55

• removed ice times for Sportsplex closure Monday November 27; teams will nt be billed for these times
• added game schedule for current week
• changed ice times on Saturdays games to accommodate U9 games on IPB
  • notifying leagues to updates online schedules with new times
  • notified U7 of time change for practices

October 29 13:30

• removed some Oct 31 times as directed by EHMHA
• added schedule links for all teams except U9

October 11 18:23

• changed schedule so that U9 and U13 were not sharing ice
• fixed typo with U13AAA game time on Nov 25

October 11 9:45

• fixed typo in Friday times for U11 AA; thanks MK for catching that

October 11 9:38

• small adjustment for Oct 22 early morning times
• 2 games moved to IPB but same time

October 11 9:00

• first 10 weeks posted including preseason ice, or "week 0"