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WEEKEND FORMAT

Varsity quarterfinal games are single elimination.
National Anthem played before first game of the day on Friday and Saturday, and before Varsity championship game.
No player introductions before preliminary games. Starting lineups announced before the Varsity championship game.
If games are ahead of schedule, teams will take the ice no sooner than 15 minutes before the posted game time.
No blow horns or artificial noise makers will be allowed in the arena.

VARSITY POLICY - Section Ten: YEAR-END TOURNAMENT

1005: GAME FORMAT

(a) Regular-season game format applies except for overtime.

(b) If teams are tied at the end of regulation in a championship bracket game, the game continues with successive 10-minute, sudden-death overtime periods, with a 3-minute rest following the 3rd period and between each overtime period.

(1) Teams will switch ends at the end of regulation and after each overtime period.
(2) The ice will be resurfaced after the first overtime period and after every two successive overtime periods.

(c) If teams are tied at the end of regulation in the third-place game, the overtime format reverts to a 5-player shootout, followed by a 1-player, sudden-death shootout if needed. Players cannot repeat until the entire roster has shot once. A penalized player whose penalty minutes do not expire before the end of regulation time is ineligible to participate in the shootout until all other players have shot once. The home team will have the option of shooting first of second.

(d) The highest seeded team is the home team and will wear light-colored jerseys.

(e) Varsity game must begin the first period on clean ice. Follow the schedule below:

10-minute warmup
Scrape
First 17-minute period
Scrape
Second 17-minute period
Scrape
Third 17-minute period
Overtime if needed

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