AHL Adult Tournament Fundraiser
Welcome to the AHL Fundraiser Tournament!
July 12th and 13th
We are thrilled to have you join us in support of the Asheville Hockey Leagues. All proceeds from this tournament will directly benefit our ongoing efforts to secure a new, permanent home for the league.
In October 2024, Hurricane Helene devastated our facility, leaving our community without a rink. Since then, we’ve been renting rink time in Greenville to keep our players active and engaged. Many of our dedicated members travel one to two hours just to play the sport they love.
By registering and participating in this tournament, you are playing a vital role in helping us cover the costs of securing or building a new rink. Your support means everything to our players, families, and the future of hockey in Asheville.
Thank you for being part of our journey.
SCHEDULE:
We are expecting 12 teams:
4 Gold/Silver, 4 Bronze and 4 Club
We will not hold team spots. Once a division fills up with its four teams, no one will be able to sign up for that division.
Games will start at 10am Saturday morning and run until 1030pm. On Sunday, games will start at 10am and finish around 4:30pm.
Below are the rules and gameplay for our tournament.
GENERAL RULES
- Every player must sign a waiver before playing
- Rosters must be in a week before the event
- You can only add emergency players if your team drops down to 4 skaters and 1 goalie. In that event, you are allowed to add 1 additional skater.
- In the event a goalie is late due to circumstances out of their control, a team may use an EBUG. However, this EBUG cannot be from a higher division, but it can be a goalie in the same division. We will not hold games for late goalies.
- Adult divisions are for players ages 16+.
- 8 goal mercy rule
- Games can start 30 minutes early
- Teams must be ready to play (4 skaters 1 goalie ready to take a faceoff) by the end of the 3 minute warm up, regardless if the tournament is running ahead, on time, or behind. If a team is not ready to play, then they will forfeit. If both teams are not ready to play, then the game will result in a tie/double forfeit. Teams can use their timeout (60s) to delay the start of the game.
- Club players may ONLY play Club. This is to ensure that the club division is truly for club level players.
- Each team may have a maximum of two players playing down one division, for adult divisions only.
- Your player level is the highest level you are playing at for that tournament. Meaning that we are no longer going to allow players to "play up a division". For example, if you are playing in Silver and Bronze, then you are a Silver level player for that event. That is regardless of whether or not you more regularly play Bronze.
- Players can only play down one division. Gold players shouldn't want to play bronze anyway. Most importantly, the bronze players don't enjoy when that happens.
- If a team has clinched a playoff spot prior to playing their last round robin game and they no show their remaining round robin game(s), then the will lose their playoff spot to the next available team
- Players must play in round robin in order to play in playoffs
GAMEPLAY
- 3 penalties in one game results in an automatic ejection of that player for the remainder of just that game.
- Two 15 minute run time periods
- 90 second minors, 180 second double minors, 5 minute majors
- Round Robin games that end in ties will go to a 3 player shootout. If it is still a tie after 3 shooters, each team will choose one player until a winner is determined. A player may only shoot once until all players have gone.
- Stop Clock last 2 minutes when games are within 2 goals.
- Clock stops on penalties.
- Playoff games that end in ties will go 4v4 continuous, sudden death overtime
- Teams are given 1 timeout per game
TIE BREAKERS
- Wins are worth 3 points, SO wins are worth 2 points, SO loss is worth 1 point, regulation loss is worth 0 points
- Points > Head to Head > Wins > Regulation Wins > Goal Differential > Goals Against > Goals For