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Tied Playoff Games Will Be Settled

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The Playoff Shootout - Please Read This Important Playoff Notice

The following notice applies to the Intermediate League Only

 2003 Winter League Playoff Shootout 

The HNA Philadelphia Captain's have voted, and the majority vote of Yes won.

Totals:

 22 Intermediate Teams

 16 voted for it

 6 voted against it (this includes one Captain/Team abstaining from the vote.)

Here is the format for settling tied playoff games:

  1. After a 5 Minute Stop Time OT is played, the teams will immediately go into shootout.

 

  1. The shootout format will be 5 shooters from each team, shooting at alternating ends in a best of 5 format.

 

  1. The team with the higher number of goals after 5 shooters will be declared the winner of the game.

 

  1. If still tied after 5 Shooters, additional rounds will take place and continue on, one set of shooters at a time, until a victor is determined. The same 5 shooters, in their original order, will shoot again.

 

For Example: after 5 shooters, the score is still tied. Team A sends its original first shooter to try again. The player scores. Team B then sends its original first shooter to try again. The player misses. Team A is then the winner.

 

If, however, both players miss, the second shooters try again, and so on.

If any of the following occurs under the shootout format, the higher seeded team will be declared the winner (these are fallback scenarios in which the arena cannot, or will not, allow additional time): 

  1. If no OT can be played, the higher seeded team will be declared the winner in the event of a tied score.

 

  1. If OT is played but there is not sufficient time for a 5 round shootout, the higher seeded team will be declared the winner.

 

  1. If OT is played and 5 Rounds of a shootout occur, but a lack of time will not permit additional shooters, the higher seeded team will be declared the winner.

 

  1. If a game is ended prior to the expiration of regular time, but two complete periods are played, the team that is winning at the time of the game stoppage will be declared the winner. If the game happens to be tied under these circumstances, the higher seeded team is declared the winner.

This provision also needs to be made, which is: 

If a participating team is unable to field a team within 10 minutes of the start of the ice time, the game is forfeit. Please remind the referees, scorekeepers and teams to arrive and be ready to play on time – since time is the essential issue of this memo. 

Reason: HNA had a scenario years ago, in which a higher seeded team was eliminated because the lower seeded team was not ready to play by game time. 

The game was delayed for 20 minutes, and since everyone wanted to play, the teams started playing. Even though two complete periods were played (which would allow for a default scenario of the game being “official”), the full game was not played and the higher seeded team cited the inherent disadvantage of the game not being finished with 3 complete periods as would have been the case had the opposing team been ready to play on time.