Girls Northern Icebreaker Invitational
10u, 12u, 14u, 16u

Tournament Sanction #: NYT2526121
October 10th-12th, 2025

**Each team is required to submit a USA Hockey or Hockey Canada official signed roster**

**No changes to rosters are allowed**

**All games will follow USA Hockey Rules**

Game Times/Rules:

Game Duration:
10u and 12u: 13 minute periods
14u and 16u: 15 minute periods
The assigned home team shall wear white or light jersey color. Visiting team will wear dark colored jerseys. 
All games will start with an ice resurfacing and then a 3 minute warm-up period.
There will be no overtime play in round robin games.
If there is a greater than a 5 goal spread to start the 3rd period or at any time during the period, the remainder of the period will be played as running time.
Time outs are not allowed in any preliminary round robin games. One time out per team will be allowed only in championship games.
All teams MUST be prepared to begin warm-ups 15 minutes before their scheduled game times. Games will start early if possible.
All teams must assign someone to work their penalty box during games.

Disputes & Protests:

Protests of games shall not be accepted or considered for any reason.
Decisions of on-ice officials are final. Decisions by the Tournament Committee related to game suspensions and tiebreakers as outlined in these tournament rules are final.

Penalties:

Each minor penalty is 1.5 minutes; major is 3 minutes, and a misconduct is 10 minutes.
This is a USA Hockey sanctioned tournament. All USA Hockey rules for penalties shall apply.
Game misconducts will result in a one game suspension.
Fighting will not be tolerated and will result in that player being suspended for the remainder of the tournament. If an on-ice official assesses a fighting penalty to any player on the score sheet it will not be disputed for any reason.
Any Match or Gross misconduct penalty will result in expulsion for the remainder of the tournament.
                                                              

Point System:

All game points shall be awarded as follows:
2 points for a win.
1 point for a tie.
0 point for a loss
Tie breaking formula (for teams tied in points in round robin play):
Head to head result
Most wins
Highest Differential of: (Goals For) – (Goals Against)
Fewest goals against
Fewest penalty minutes
Coin toss (if two teams remain tied). Roll of the dice (if three or more teams remain tied).

Championship Round:

Prior to each Championship game, in the event a shootout is required to determine a winner after overtime, each team must submit an order list of shooters for their team. (Shootout rules below)
One 60-second timeout per team is allowed including an additional time out during overtime.
Any game that ends in a tie at the end of regulation play will be decided as follows:
Sudden death for 5 minutes (played 3 on 3 with goalies)
Shootout: A 3-player alternate shot shootout will apply with the higher seeded (home) team having the right to choose who shoots first. If there is no winner after the 3-player shootout, the shootout will continue in a sudden death format. Players are not allowed to repeat as shooter until all players rostered for that game have shot.