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2024-11-08 Email to Managers

Hey all. A couple of announcements.

First, Shawn has had to step down as deputy governor. Ryan Warawa has stepped up to take his place.

Second, as many of you have noticed, we aren't able to tap players in the roster in the gamesheet app to set Captains and Assistant Captains. Ramp is aware of the issue. You can set Captains and Assistant Captains through the website. Login to neahl.ca with your team login, open a player's record, and under the field called "Rank", you can give that player a C or an A. This should show up on their name anywhere their player record is used (I haven't had a chance to test it out though). If you have different Cs and As every game, you would have to login and change it each time.

2024-11-04 Email to Managers

Week 4 U18 Matchups - last tiering weekend

Here are the week 4 match ups. Per usual, post your game info in the google doc and we will get the games posted on the website.

[link removed - contact deputies for link]

Retier

This is the last tiering weekend. The league exec meets in the evening on Nov 12 for the retiering process. It is a VERY LONG meeting - hours and hours. So you can expect to see teams moved on the website that night, but you will hear from the deputies regarding regular season game expectations and scheduling on Nov 13. Please don't send us emails on Nov 12 asking how many games you have to schedule - if you are still awake when the teams get moved, we are still in the meeting dealing with other divisions or other season issues that need to get sorted out.

Goalie Stats

Record goalie stats (who the goalie is, shots). If your scorekeeper/timekeeper is inexperienced and can't handle it, then get someone else in the clock just counting shots or recruit the goalie parents. When entering stats - Team A shots are the shots that Team A took on Goalie B, and Team B shots are the shots that Team B took on Goalie A. When you enter the stats, you are entering the shots taken ON THE GOALIE. Eg Team A took 100 shots and scored 3 goals, and Team B took 50 shots and scored 2 goals, then Goalie A stats are 60 min of play, 50 shots, 2 goals against (what team B took against team/goalie A) and Goalie B will show 60 min of play, 100 shots, 3 goals against (the shots/goals by Team A).

Referee Issues

The league does not control the refs. If you have ref issues, your association can contact the other association or you can take complaints to Hockey Alberta and the Hockey Alberta Officials Committee.

2024-10-28 Email to Managers

U18 Week 3 match ups

Attached is the list of match ups. Once you have your games scheduled, please put the info in the google doc so we can get the games posted on the NEAHL website.

[link removed - contact deputies for link]

There are a number of cross tier games this week.

Although the deputies can see the incident reports after they have been posted on the website (either by the ref through the gamesheet app or by the manager if they are given a paper write up and upload it through the website based game portal), we still would like to get a text or email when a suspendable offence occurs in a game. That's any major, match, game misconduct or gross misconduct penalty. If you aren't sure, then let us know. We check the website frequently, but if we get busy or if the game wasn't marked as finished, we might not notice right away.

Since some people missed the first email, reminder that the deputy assignments (to be finalized at the tiering meeting) are:

Tier 1/2 - Kathy

Tier 3 West - Jenn (that's basically all the teams who were part of NAI previously)

Tier 3 East - Margaret

Tier 3B - Shawn (we haven't split out a tier 3B yet, so all tier 3 teams fall under either Jenn or Margaret right now)

All the deputies are cc'd on this email, and contact info is also here: https://www.neahl.ca/content/neahl-contact-information-24-25

2024-10-21 Email to Managers

U18 Week 2 match ups

GAMES

Week 2 match ups - please book games and record on the google doc as before and we will get games posted to the website. Excel of game match ups is attached.

Google sheet for entering game schedule info (it's the same one as before - a Week 2 tab has been added as the first page): [link removed - contact deputies for link].

Most teams got two games again. We are aiming for 6 games, so the last two weeks you may only have one game (but if we need info for placement, you could still get 2), but there's a much higher likelihood of being sent further away for that game in weeks 3 and 4.

GAME SHEET APP

Please work on using the gamesheet app. This is the way Hockey Alberta is heading, and if anyone looked at the provincial bid package, they are not even providing paper gamesheets for provincials. Online gamesheet entry only.

GAME SHEET NOTES/PAPER

You should have some kind of notes when scorekeeping. Unless you are live updating the game as it goes along such that the other manager can see the entry for each goal and penalty as it is entered, it is a courtesy to give the other manager a copy of the paper game notes after the game. If you are using the gamesheet app as your main scorekeeping (as you should be), keep it updated. If you can't keep up during the periods, then do the entries during the floods and finish it up immediately after the game. The visiting team manager should be able to see the whole game before they leave the arena so that any discrepancies they note can be dealt with before they leave. If you do NOT have the game fully entered before the visiting team leaves, then you MUST give them a copy of the paperwork you are going off of. And if you know that you are not going to be live updating, you should be keeping good game notes in some fashion that someone else could follow if the notetaker were incapacitated and someone else had to finish entering the game. You can use old NEAHL gamesheets, your association game sheets, a lined piece of paper, or the gamesheet scratch paper (attached). Give them something. It is so easy to make a data entry error, and it is good to have some kind of back up. If the visiting team parent who is working the penalty box asks what the calls are, please share the info with them. We want gamesheets to be accurate, and we want people to be confident that they are accurate. [Gamesheet Scratch Pad - download at the bottom of this page: RAMP Gamesheet App

SUSPENSIONS

The deputies are requesting that you add a user note when a team member is serving a suspension. It makes it easier for us to track. Once the season is in full swing and we have the full schedules posted, it will be easier for us to mark suspensions on the roster from our end, but right now, things are wild.

FINISHED GAMES

When you are done entering game info, please make sure that you mark the game as finished (either the scorekeeper using the app or the home manager through the website). There are things the deputies need to see that we don't get until the game is marked finished, and FYI the points don't get added to the standings if the game is not marked finished.

GOALIE STATS

Please record the shots and add the goalie stats. If you forgot to write down which goalie it was or they switched and you didn't notice what the shots were at, ask the manager to ask the goalie parent - they always know. And they care a lot about having the stats up. Unlike players, their stats don't show up unless we add the goalies to the game (under the shield icon in the app or go into the website and add them there).

BENCH MINORS

Bench minors should never be given to the player who serves them. If you put the bench minor as being incurred by the player, then those penalty minutes get added to their total, and we have supplemental discipline ie suspensions for penalty minute accumulation (100 min is U18 first threshold). If you are entering a bench penalty in the app, choose "Bench Penalty" for the Player, and then under "Optional Served" you can add which player served it. If you are entering game stats on the website, if you enter it using Add Home Penalty or Add Visitor Penalty, then leave the "#" box blank and enter the player who served the penalty under the "Serv #" box. If you use the Add Coach Penalty tabs, you don't even get the option to put a player number on the penalty, you just choose from the bench staff names.

If any of your games have players being charged with bench minor penalty minutes, just send one of the deputies the game number, the player #, and the time of the penalty, and we can easily fix it. If you notice it in a game before the game has been locked out, just let the home team manager know and they can fix it. It is a very common error.

QUESTIONS

Keep asking questions if anything is unclear. We have several brand new managers this year and some managers who haven't managed in a few years. We don't mind at all when you ask questions, and it makes things easier for the deputies when everyone has accurate information. It lets us know if there's something we need to send out to all managers, and sometimes it gets us to learn something new as well. Questions are good.

If you weren't on the email list and missed some previous emails, I've been posting them on the U18 Information and Announcements page which you see above the tiers when you click the U18 menu tab on the NEAHL website.

2024-10-17 Email to Managers

More U18 Information

Hey all, we've been getting some questions.

Suspensions

There are 3 ways to mark a player as suspended on the gamesheet app.

(1) Deputy marks it on the back end of the NEAHL website. We can ONLY do this for offences that occurred in an NEAHL game and the suspension has been entered into ramp electronically (that is the game stats are on the website). Therefore we can't mark the carryover suspensions (including ones from NEAHL games last season), tournament suspensions or exhibition game suspensions. Also, once we mark it, there's no way for managers to remove it, so if you have a player marked suspended, but the suspension gets served at a tournament, let the deputy know so they can remove it.

(2) Home team manager can mark the player as suspended when they go to the game ON THE WEBSITE (can't do it on the app). Click the player as on the roster and then click the suspended box. Player will show as suspended on the app. Deputies can also go into individual league games to do this.

(3) Either manager can add a User Note in the gamesheet app. Write it the way you would on a game sheet (#16, Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, susp 2 of 3).

Some managers go into the player record and click the suspended box. That DOES NOT RECORD a suspension on the game. Once you unclick that, there will be NO record that the player was marked as suspended for a game. All it does is put "suspended" beside the player's name where it appears on the website or the app (just like clicking the overage box puts "overage" beside their name, or changing the spelling of a player's name and then changing it back wouldn't leave a record on a the electronic game sheets). You are certainly welcome to do that whenever you have a player serving a suspension if you want, but you must also make sure it's recorded on the gamesheet in some way.

Penalty Box; Warm Ups

Visiting team is still required to supply someone to work the visitor's player box. This was put in place last year to address some unsavory behaviour in the clock/penalty boxes. It is a league rule, and it is the recommended procedure in the Alberta One Regulations under the Game Play heading. https://cloud.rampinteractive.com/hockeyalbertaone/files/24-25%20AB1%20RegulationsPoliciesProcedures.pdf.

I was also asked about warm ups - that is addressed under Game Play as well - 5 min max on the clock at game start time, then puck is dropped (no flood). There's a chart based on length of game slot and an exception to make it longer if you want to go read it.

Rosters/HCR/HCR Files

The rosters import from HCR. However, once a member is pulled from HCR and put onto the team's roster on NEAHL, the system does not update our NEAHL website with any changes made in HCR later. When I say that the system refreshes every hour, what I mean is that it checks if there have been any additions to the roster and brings those over. Therefore if the players didn't have jersey numbers in HCR or the coach had the wrong phone number on her profile when it was pulled over, then we will have to change it ourselves on NEAHL - managers can add jersey numbers to players, and for changes to names or contact information, you will have to let us know that a change needs to be made. You can (1) fill in the team roster edit form (which goes to me); (2) email your deputy; or (3) email admin@neahl.ca, which is also me.

All of the NEAHL teams have had their rosters submitted from HCR. If you think someone should be on your team and they are not showing up on the roster on NEAHL, please first check your official HCR roster or check with your association's registrar to make sure that they have actually been added to the team. If they have not been added on HCR, then they cannot participate in games.

We want to see email and phone info for TWO people on the roster - one must be manager, and the other is usually head coach, but doesn't have to be. There should be a second person in case someone can't get in touch with the manager. For the rest of the bench staff, you can request that their contact information be hidden on the website.

The other important thing to note is that the system pulls over EVERYONE on the roster, but it doesn't give us their status. If someone was released or not approved, their record will still show up on NEAHL. We can deactivate those players/bench staff when we know about them, but either the manager has to let us know or we will find them when we compare the official HCR roster to the NEAHL roster.

THE HCR ROSTER is what determines whether a player or bench staff is eligible. The NEAHL roster is supposed to reflect the HCR roster. You cannot rely on an error on NEAHL to escape an ineligible player or ineligible bench staff suspension. Every team has access to their own official HCR report (ask your registrar if you do not have it).

We will not add anyone to the NEAHL website if they are not on HCR, and if they are on HCR, their record will be brought automatically. The one exception we make is for non-HCR managers; some associations do not add managers to their team rosters, but we need to have their contact information available, so we manually add them to the team roster and make their position Manager Non-HCR. That means they cannot be on the bench, and it also means that they shouldn't be signing the game sheets. If the manager is not on the HCR roster, then someone on the bench staff (e.g. head coach) should be signing off before games.

If a player was put on HCR as a goalie and was brought over to NEAHL, that position will show on the NEAHL roster. If they are changed to player on HCR, we won't change it on NEAHL until we see it on an official HCR roster. Goalies cannot play out. Players can play out or play as goalies. You are not required to designate goalies unless all of your skater/player spots are used up (max 18 players and 2 goalies per roster).

Please upload your official HCR roster to NEAHL. Your registrar can download it as a PDF and send it to you. Login to the NEAHL website with your team login credentials, select HCR File, then upload it. If there are changes later (e.g. everyone is pending on the roster you uploaded and later they are changed to approved or members have been added or released, or you have added AP players), you can upload a new version.

Overage players need to be marked on the system. I did a bunch of them, but not all rosters were posted yet when I went through the players. If you have an overage player who is not marked yet, let us know and we can go in and click the overage box.

Suspension, Misconduct, Game Misconduct, Game Ejection

Misconduct, Game Misconduct, and Game Ejection are all infractions that can be called by a ref in a game. A suspension is a disciplinary consequence that is imposed on a member AFTER the game by the league or Hockey Alberta. Since we have some new managers this year, I am including the write up I did about them last year, with a few edits.

Suspensions

When a player is removed during a game due to a major or match penalty or game or gross misconduct, that removal is not a suspension. I'm pedantic about this because Hockey Alberta has minimum suspension guidelines, and the list of minimum suspensions has grown over the years to include all major penalties, all match penalties, most game misconducts, and all gross misconducts. Even ten years ago, many major penalties did not have a minimum suspension. This has led to a lot of confusion for coaches, managers, and parents who were familiar with the old way when a player would receive an infraction during a game and be ordered to the dressing room, but would be allowed to play the next game as long as the infraction occurred before the final ten minute mark. In those cases, there was no suspension. The removal from the game was just what happens for a game misconduct per the playing rules.

A suspension is issued AFTER the game after the league or Hockey Alberta has reviewed the gamesheet and incident report. A suspension is served at the NEXT game or games. A player CANNOT participate in a game when serving a suspension. No suspended Player or Team Official is allowed on the player's bench, in the timekeepers box or in the penalty box during a game. Therefore, by definition, the game in which the player received the infraction is not a suspension, even if he or she was removed for the remainder of the game.

Please note there are some changes to suspensions in the minor hockey regulations (https://www.hockeyalberta.ca/uploads/source/BylawsPolicies/202425/MinorHockey.pdf), and I encourage you to read section 11 regarding discipline. I note in particular, they have removed "within 50 feet" and "dressing room" from the areas where a suspended member is not allowed to go, and they have changed the rules regarding participating in Hockey Alberta in other capacities while suspended (in short, for the most part, you can continue to participate in other roles while suspended).

The minimum suspension guidelines are available as appendix V of the Hockey Alberta bylaws and regulations, there is a link on the NEAHL website under the Hockey Alberta menu tab, and I am attaching a copy of the 2024/25 guidelines to this email. Please consult the guidelines or contact the deputy governors for a ruling any time there is a suspendable offence. Coaches are expected to know and follow the guidelines and sit a player out if a suspension applies even if they have not received a ruling from the league or Hockey Alberta. New this year, intent to injure match penalties receive an indefinite suspension and will be ruled upon by Hockey Alberta.

There will be at least a one game suspension for every major penalty. Every time a major penalty is assessed, a game misconduct is also assessed (this is in the Hockey Canada playing rules for every offence, and the game misconduct is the reason the player leaves the game after the incident). A game misconduct that occurs in the last ten minutes of the game will result in a one game suspension IN ADDITION to any other suspensions that apply. Some game misconduct penalties carry a suspension on their own (e.g. 11.2 Abusive Behaviour carries a minimum 2 game suspension). The suspensions are longer for any gross misconduct or match penalties. Some penalties carry an indefinite suspension (e.g. 2.2 ineligible player or 11.4 discrimination), and those will be ruled on by Hockey Alberta. 11.4 discrimination will result in a minimum 5 game suspension.

There are also accumulation sanctions for penalties (this is separate from the league accumulation of penalty minutes sanctions), so the suspension increases. See the end of the guidelines for the accumulations (fighting major accumulations are listed in the chart). The major penalties (except fighting) are lumped together, so a second major penalty will result in a longer suspension (the majors do not have to be the same infraction for the accumulation to apply).

Some examples of minimum suspensions:

Cross checking major & Game Misconduct at 12:45 in the second - minimum 1 game suspension

Cross checking major & Game MIsconduct at 7:30 in the third - minimum 2 game suspension (one for the CC major, one for the GAME in last ten minutes)

11.2 Abusive Behaviour Game Misconduct at 12:45 in the second - minimum 2 game suspension

11.2 Abusive Behaviour Game Misconduct at 7:30 in the third - minimum 3 game suspension (two for the 11.2, one for the GAME in the last ten minutes)

CFB minor & Game Misconduct at 12:45 in the second - no minimum suspension (there are no minimums for minor penalties)

CFB minor & Game Misconduct at 7:30 in the third - 1 game suspension for GAME in the last ten minutes

The minimum suspension guidelines are set by Hockey Alberta, and the league has NO authority to waive the minimums.

Misconduct, Game Misconduct, Game Ejection

I've mentioned this before, but there is a difference between these penalties.

Misconduct is a ten minute non timed penalty that a player serves. They return to the game after the penalty is served. It is written as MISC on a gamesheet. (Non timed means the player serves the penalty but immediate substitution is allowed, so the team does not have to play shorthanded. Because of the immediate substitution, the player does not leave the penalty bench until the first whistle after the penalty has expired. If he or she were to return to the game immediately upon the expiration of the penalty, that team would have too many players). Sometimes a player is sent to the dressing room if they receive a misconduct in the last ten minutes of the game because the game will be over before they have finished serving the penalty. If the scorekeeper is not sure whether a player has been sent because of a misconduct or a game misconduct, please ask the ref.

Game Misconduct written as GAME on a gamesheet. It is a ten minute penalty, but a player who receives a game misconduct is removed from the game, so no one serves it in the penalty box. This is a more serious penalty. It is always assessed with a major penalty, and it is always assessed with a Check From Behind penalty, even a CFB minor. It is also used for abusive behaviours and discrimination. There will always be an incident report for a game misconduct.

Game Ejection - occurs when a player accumulates 3 stick infractions or 3 head contact infractions in a game (those are counted separately - if a player has 2 stick infraction and then gets a head contact infraction, they would NOT be ejected). No penalty minutes are attached to a game ejection. There are no suspensions for receiving a game ejection. The stick infractions are slashing, cross checking, high sticking, butt ending and spearing. Any 3 of those stick infractions will result in a game ejection (e.g. player gets slash, cross check, slash - they would be ejected after the 2nd slash because it is the third stick infraction). It is written as GE on the game sheet.

2024-10-09 Email to Managers

U18 - week one tiering match ups

This is the exciting email where you get the first round of match ups, but please come back and read this after you look at the attachment.

Once again, if you are not a U18 manager, please forward this to the U18 managers in your association and send me the correct team contact information. This is the second email I have sent. If you missed the first, the email is posted on NEAHL under â€œU18 Information and Announcementsâ€ which you will see if you click on the U18 tab.

If you are the team manager but your information is not on NEAHL - please let me know.

Managers who are brought over from HCR will not have a phone number, so you need to send that. If you will be on the roster but your association hasnâ€™t submitted your team yet, I can add your info as a non HCR manager for now and then delete it later when you come over with the roster sync. Other teams will be trying to contact you.

If you are a manager who will not be on the roster AND you are not listed on the website, then I was probably not told that you are the team manager. I donâ€™t post info for team contacts otherwise because a lot of the time itâ€™s a registrar or director who is only listed temporarily until the managers are lined up. If your info should be posted, let me know.

Tiering Games

Tiering games will be sent out week by week - we are aiming for Mondays. For this first round, we are sending the match ups now so you can play this weekend if teams are available and you have ice and refs. We are giving everyone two games this round. Some rounds you will only get 1 game.

If the team you are playing is amenable, you can book a game on a weeknight. This will help alleviate the ref shortage. Otherwise, games must be played by Sunday (Oct 20 for this round) so we can have a look at results and get the match ups for the next weekend figured out.

Managers must contact each other to schedule the games. We are not designating the home and away teams. If managers are unable to work it out between themselves, contact us, and we will make the decision. Some associations have a much harder time getting ice slots and some have all kinds of flexibility and copious ice time.

If there is no manager or other contact listed for the team you are playing OR you cannot get a response, you can get association contacts here: https://www.neahl.ca/content/associations. Every association has the president and one other contact listed. A president getting a dozen emails asking to book games will probably do more to get team contact info submitted to the league than anything I can do.

In addition to the excel sheet attached where each team is listed with the two other teams they are playing this round, we have a google doc where all of the games are listed. The list is split into tier 1 / 2 and tier 3. The games are on the list alphabetically according to the first letter of the team that comes first in the alphabet. So if Elk Point plays Athabasca, it will be listed as Athabasca Elk Point. If Elk Point plays Wabasca, it will be listed as Elk Point Wabasca. It is not intended to imply that either team must be home. It was just a way to organize the list to make sure that I didnâ€™t miss any games.

Managers, please go to the google doc to put in the game information once you have the game booked - which team is home, which team is away, date, time, and location (arena/town). As the games come in, the deputies will post them on the website and assign game numbers. If you have a hard time with the google sheet, you can send us an email with the details and we will put the info in. We donâ€™t care which manager enters the info, but we are asking home team managers to ensure that the information gets to us. If the game doesnâ€™t get posted on the NEAHL website, then it is NOT sanctioned. You also need the game posted in order to get gamesheet app codes.

Here is the game list:

[link removed]

We will use the same document throughout tiering. There will be a new page each week (click on tabs at the bottom to switch pages - right now, there is only one page).

Suspensions

I know itâ€™s hard to imagine that these fine young people might go astray in a game, but if there are any major, match, game misconduct or gross misconduct penalties, the home team manager must make sure that the officials have entered a write up, or if they are old school and give you a paper write up, get it scanned and uploaded to the game through the website (like we did before the gamesheet app). We the deputies can see when a suspendable offence has occurred, but it wouldnâ€™t hurt to send an email or text to let us know about it too. We also get busy.

The league applies the Hockey Alberta minimum suspension guidelines (posted on the website under Hockey Alberta links). I think the only change this year is that intent to injure match penalties are now INDEFINITE SUSPENSIONS, which means they will go to Hockey Alberta who will do the investigation and make a ruling.

Kathy is going to handle the suspensions for any Tier 1 or Tier 2 team. Jenn will cover Tier 3 West and I will cover Tier 3 East. Shawn is going to watch and learn. For now, weâ€™ll use the same east/west split as last year. We will be tracking suspensions to ensure they are served. After tiering is done, the deputies will pass along the tracking info for any teams that are moved so that the appropriate deputy is tracking accumulation of major/match and game/gross misconduct penalties (look at the last page of the minor hockey section of the minimum suspension guidelines for info on those accumulations).

Supplemental Discipline

Speaking of penalty minute accumulation - NEAHL has a supplemental discipline policy. Any player who accumulates 100 min of penalties in U18 will receive a one game suspension in addition to any other suspensions that apply. Every additional 25 minutes, that will double (2 games at 125, 4 games at 150). PENALTY MINUTES DURING TIERING GAMES **WILL** COUNT TOWARDS THE TOTAL. Per the Alberta One regulations, at the end of the regular season, if a player has not met the first threshold (ie is under 100 min), we STOP tracking. If a player has reached the first threshold (100+ min), then we continue to track penalty minutes and apply accumulation suspensions through the playoffs. PLEASE WATCH YOUR PENALTY MINUTES. Remind those kids that those 10 minute misconducts really add up.

If you want to know the other thresholds: U11 - 50 min; U13 - 75 min; U15 - 75 min.

Rosters

I talked about rosters in the last email, but Iâ€™m getting a lot of questions about why rosters are not showing up on NEAHL.

Four things happen to get rosters on NEAHL.

(1) Association opens teams in HCR and adds players/bench staff

(2) Web admin (thatâ€™s me) creates teams on the NEAHL website

(3) Association logs into Alberta One to submit their HCR teams to NEAHL. They can do this as soon as the team exists in HCR, even if there is no one on the roster and even if the team isnâ€™t created on NEAHL yet.

(4) I see the submitted teams and do a little clicking to connect the submitted team to a team in NEAHL.

After that, the rosters will import. In theory, the system refreshes every hour so whoever is on your HCR should show up on NEAHL within an hour of me finishing step 4. In practice, if a lot of teams are submitted at once, the system can be slow and take several hours to bring over players or even get hung up so that ramp has to reset it. Please do not let your association wait until the day before your game to submit your roster, because if there is a problem, then it is not going to be uploaded in time. Every association has received multiple emails about this.

If your team roster is missing, first, check with your registrar to find out if they have submitted the team through Alberta One (if you canâ€™t get an answer from your registrar, you can ask me, and actually either tonight or tomorrow, Iâ€™m going to make a master list of teams and mark off which ones have been submitted, so you will be able to check that - Iâ€™ll probably post a link on the front page of the NEAHL website). If the team has been submitted, get a copy of your official HCR report from your registrar to make sure that the missing people are actually in HCR. If they are not, then they canâ€™t be imported, and thatâ€™s good because if they are not in HCR, then they cannot be in a game. Putting them on the NEAHL roster if they are not in HCR does not make them eligible. If the sync has been done and the missing people are on HCR but not on NEAHL, then let me know, and Iâ€™ll contact ramp to look into it. If your registrar says that the teams have been submitted but they are not on the list, then either I havenâ€™t seen them yet (I donâ€™t get notified, I just login to the website several times a day to check for more teams), or something went wrong with the submission - maybe they closed the window before it saved or maybe they accidentally sent the teams to the wrong league (which has happened before, and I have no way of seeing any teams that are not sent to north eastern alberta hockey league).

I donâ€™t mind if you ask me about rosters, but once Iâ€™ve done my clicking, I have no control over when the roster is imported into NEAHL. If you are less than 24 hours from a game, all the steps have been done, and the roster still isnâ€™t up, let me know so I can keep an eye on it.

2024-10-07 Email to Managers

Welcome to the NEAHL 2024-25 season!

U18 Managers

This email is going out to all U18 teams. If you have received it and you are NOT a U18 manager, then we do not have a manager contact for your U18 team yet. Please forward this to your U18 team manager and reply with the team manager info (name, phone, email). Please get manager contacts to me asap, because we would like to send out the first round of game matches in the next day or two.

League Contacts

https://www.neahl.ca/content/neahl-contact-information-24-25

Governor - John Ermel

Deputy governors with probable tiers for the season:

Tier 1 & 2 - Kathy Kretschmer

Tier 3 West - Jenn Hoogerdijk

Tier 3 East - Margaret Bayduza

Tier 3B - Shawn Tracinski

We expect to end up after preseason with a similar set up to what we had last year. During preseason, deputies will be working together to manage the game scheduling, website changes, and suspensions.

Communication Protocol

Please remember the communication protocol:

http://cloud.rampinteractive.com/neahl/files/Documents/NEAHL%20Communication%20Protocol.pdf

Parents go through managers, managers/head coaches contact deputies, and we will bring things to the governor if we need him looped in. Association presidents can contact governors directly.

Season Dates

Preseason - Oct 18 to Nov 10 (4 weekends)

Regular Season - Nov 15 to February 23*

*If we have a huge tier 3 again, we may need to end regular season a week early in order to have enough time for playoffs. Hockey Alberta mandates that all teams make playoffs, and there is a hard deadline to determine league champion if they are going to provincials. We would let the tier know prior to regular season beginning.

Playoffs - Feb 28 - Mar 16

Preseason Games

The league wants each team to play 6 preseason games.

Official preseason start is Oct 18, but you are welcome to schedule games this weekend. We are trying to get the first round of game match ups out in the next day or two.

We will do our best to have the game matchups for the rest of preseason sent out on Mondays.

Expect there to be some travel.

Rosters have to be submitted to NEAHL by your association before you begin league play. Every association that has not yet submitted rosters has received a reminder.

If you play any exhibition games, please forward a copy of the game sheet to us as an additional data point for retiering.

Rosters

After your association submits teams through Alberta One, rosters will be imported from HCR to the NEAHL website. Any changes on the website will have to be made by:

(1) Contacting your deputy

(2) Contacting me at admin@neahl.ca

(3) Submitting the Team Roster Edit form https://www.neahl.ca/form/6292

Phone numbers (manager, coaches) did not import with bench staff contacts. If we do not already have it, you will need to provide the managerâ€™s phone number and a number for one other point of contact on your team (usually head coach). You can also ask for contact information to be changed (whatever was on your HCR profile at the time of import is what gets brought over and it does not get automatically updated). You can also request that we hide the team contact info for any bench staff except manager and the second contact person.

Although rosters are locked for editing, managers have access to jersey numbers. Please add jersey numbers if they are missing. You do not have to add jersey numbers for APs, but you might want to make them all 99 to move them to the bottom of the roster. You can add/change their jersey number in the gamesheet app if they appear in a game.

Overage players must be marked O/A on the roster. League will monitor for impact players.

Everyone on the HCR roster comes over, including released players. Please let us know if anyone needs to be removed from your roster on NEAHL.

Affiliated players are not permitted during preseason because we need to judge the true strength of your team. After preseason, they may play. There is still a grid for AP players, but the rules have changed (e.g. you are no longer restricted to original roster size). League does not have to approve APs before they play, but they must be on the roster and they must follow the grid. League will monitor APs for impact players.

ONLY PLAYERS AND BENCH STAFF WHO ARE ON THE OFFICIAL HCR ROSTER CAN BE ON THE BENCH. If for any reason someone is not on HCR (e.g. waiting on respect in sport parent certificate, waiting on a transfer), they absolutely cannot be on the bench.

We are still asking teams to upload their current official HCR roster pdf (get it from your registrar) under the HCR Files tab when you login to the NEAHL website using your team login credentials. As players are added or approved, please upload new HCR files.

Suspensions

We will notify teams if any players have carryover suspensions.

We follow the minimum suspension guidelines. Coaches are expected to know and follow the guidelines as well.

Team Logins

Get your team login for the NEAHL website from your association. Login to NEAHL.ca to get gamesheet codes, view or verify gamesheets, update jersey numbers, and upload the PDF of your official HCR roster.

RAMP gamesheet app

Lots of information here: https://www.neahl.ca/content/ramp-gamesheet-app. There are codes for practice games. Encourage anyone new to the app to try the app in a practice game before using it for real.

Gamesheet entry locks out after 24 hours. If you need to make a change after that, contact your deputy.

I donâ€™t know if the league is mailing out paper gamesheets this year.