Games Centre

Season Start Dates for 2024-25
The AAA program begins on September 30th.  AA and A programs begin on October 7th.

Under 17 & 18 “A” and “AA” Seasonal Breaks
Please note the Under 17 and Under 18 “A” and “AA” programs are scheduled to have no games during the following periods:
January 20th to January 30th
March 8^th to March 17^th
These breaks are part of our programming to encourage participation in these age groups.

Winter Break
This season the winter break will be from Dec. 24^th to Jan. 1^st

Tiering for divisions of 15 teams or larger
The GTHL will review the Tiering program for the 2024-2025 season.

Home Days Listed
Scroll down for the latest news on team home days. The chart is a good guide to managing practice days or letting players know which days could be generally open for other interests. Now a big thing to remember is that 80% of our game ice is on weekends. When you and another team find that you are playing a game on a day that is neither team’s home day then you realize the shift in ice scheduling when teams are out of the schedule because of tournament play.

Requesting Time Off, Exemption Use
Please note exemptions as always may be used for what teams feel is important. As always they are used for tournaments but they can be used to block-out dates teams need off such as fundraisers, school trips or religious holidays.
Is your team planning a fundraiser? They can use multiple days to build some time off to plan , enjoy and get some rest after a fundraiser.
Does your team need time off for a religious holiday? They can use it to take time off,
Is there a school trip involving many of the players? You can use an exemption to get that time off.
Each team can decide which three time periods in the season are most important and submit exemptions.

Altered Flood Schedule
Please note, an Altered Flood Schedule will be used in SOME arenas to ensure our game program can be completed within our allotted times.  This takes place when two games from Bantam to Midget are scheduled.
The first game will follow the regular flood schedule with floods before the start of the game and another in-between the second and third period. As soon as that game ends, the second game in the back to back will begin without a flood and play the first period. In-between the first and second period, the only flood of this game will take place and those teams will play the second and third period on the fresh ice.
If the first game did not have a flood due to a five goal spread then we revert to a regular flood schedule in Game #2.

Altered Flood Programs for 2024/25 season: TBD

The format for each group gets set once we have a finalized slate of teams in place. Early in the season the GTHL monitors the size of each group to determine the formats.

Play-Off Formats will be posted once they been finalized.  The GTHL Board and a Member Advisory Council will review timelines to determine play-off formats.
Teams in Under 10 to Under 13 will follow a first round using a round robin format as per the Hockey Canada Pathways.

Click here for more information.

https://gthlcanada.com/2024-gthl-playoff-formats/

Club Home Days 2024-2025 Season
Home Days for clubs for the 2024-2025 season are available. This chart will be updated periodically as home dates are submitted by each club. Click here for Home Days 2024-25

Tournament/Exemption Form 
A tournament form is needed for every tournament you take part in. It acts as an insurance form; it also acts as an exemption form and most importantly if  your team is not in a tournament but needs to be exempted it serves this purpose as well. You can use this form for a non-tournament but please remember it would still count as 1 of 3 exemptions.

The Mulligan? 
Please note that some scheduling changes took place to some of the league schedules in the first three weeks of the schedule. This was related to each club being given one ‘mulligan’ on situations when a team failed to request a schedule exemption. The ‘mulligan’ is a GTHL rule that allows a club to get an exemption after the schedule is released. This year the use of the ‘mulligan’ at the start of the year is a little bit more than usual so please double-check your schedule.

Incorrect Scores
From time to time, a score will be reported incorrectly on the GTHL website. This may be due to an error on the game sheet which is electronically uploaded each day. If you spot an error in the final score, then please contact your club executive to touch base with our office. Corrections will not be made to individual player statistics.

Exhibition Games
All season long… Any time you play an exhibition game you must have your club GM or President submit your game particulars. Your GM needs to know the date, location, time, and opponent. The GTHL’s Central Registry can then be contacted to arrange officials at cr-gthl@bell.net or 905-951-7946. If your team is traveling outside the GTHL boundaries, you must submit the 2024-2025 Exhibition Game Application.

Check out Canlan Ice Sports-York for practice ice throughout the season.

Need extra practice ice? 
Check out Chesswood Arenas or Westwood Arenas for ice time throughout the season.

Looking for extra ice in Mississauga? 
The Mississauga Recreation & Parks Dept. has recently enhanced their “Connet2Rec Communication Channel” to allow visitors the opportunity to check ice time availability at any of the City’s 12 Arenas (20 rinks). To grab some extra ice for your team, please click here.

Ford  Performance Centre Policy on Warming up Off-Ice
Please be aware that playing with pucks, balls, golf balls, balls of tape etc. is not allowed in the dressing rooms or anywhere around the perimeter of our rinks or lobby of the MasterCard Centre.  Failure to comply will result in ejection from the facility. Your co-operation and help with this would be appreciated and would assist in keeping our facility safe and clean.

City of Toronto Policy on Warming Up in the Arena
Please speak to your coaches, parents, officials etc. and let them know that hockey playing with pucks, balls, balls of tape etc. is not allowed in the dressing rooms or any where around the perimeter of our arenas. Any cooperation and help you can give us with this would be appreciated and would assist in keeping our arenas clean.