Scheduling and Referees

Declaration Season consists of 3 phases. These games are used to determine if teams have been correctly placed within their age level. Declaration season typically runs from early October until early November.

Starts soon after Declaration Season and runs until mid-February.

Typically start the weekend after President's Day and last until the first weekend of March.

A practice game is a game against another team that a) includes refs and b) does not fit into any of the Missouri Hockey seasons. When you schedule a practice game, you do not need to notify Missouri Hockey, but you must sign up for officials on MIHOA's website. You will find instructions for that below. 

After the Missouri Hockey Coaches meeting prior to Declaration Season, Missouri Hockey representatives will provide guidelines on how many games to schedule and might even instruct you to play games against teams at different levels.

Plan to attend this meeting with your coach. Have your initial ice schedule printed and with you so you can set up games.

You can schedule games on any full ice practice sheet that is assigned to your team.

Missouri Hockey will hold a scheduling meeting between the end of Declaration Season and the start of the Regular Season.

Your age level commissioner will hand out the final division placements for each team along with instructions on how many regular season games you will be required to play against each team.

Once these divisions are handed out, you will be able to schedule your regular season games. Once again, you should attend this meeting and bring a printed copy of your schedule to schedule games.

This meeting may also be held virtually. You are free to start working on your game schedule prior to this meeting, but you may not know the number of required games per opponent until the scheduling meetings occur.

Every team in Missouri Hockey qualifies for and is required to participate in the Blue Note Cup playoffs. 

Missouri Hockey will handle the scheduling of the games.

Late in the season a bracket will be available that outlines where each seed plays.

Any game you enter on Missouri Hockey's website will be shared with MIHOA for scheduling referees.

Check MIHOA’s website to verify that officials are assigned to your game. If not, you may have to reschedule a game or contact MIHOA.

For practice games, you will need to schedule your own officials on MIHOA's website (do not go through Missouri Hockey to schedule officials).

If you need to reschedule a game for any reason after your schedules have been finalized, you must fill out a Game Rescheduling Form through MIHOA.

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You are responsible for trading any ice your team has been assigned by the Club and is unable to use. Ice can be traded by connecting with other team managers individually, or by sending a group email to all managers. If you are unable to trade, notify the ice scheduler as soon as possible prior to the date of the ice. You will not be given additional ice for ice you are unable to trade.

Off-ice training is provided for each team, Squirt and above. These are typically once every other week for 1 hour at All American.

The off-ice schedule will be emailed to team managers once the schedule is determined. It is your responsibility to communicate these times to your team and notify the scheduler if your team has a conflict.

Coaches are not required to attend off-ice sessions.