Tournament
HandbookU7 · Senior
Nov 19–22, 2026
Dates
Flames Community Arenas
Venue
5 teams
Field
4 guaranteed
Games / team
26-900257
HC sanction #
Welcome
Welcome to the U7 Senior Lamplighter Series Tournament
Thanks for confirming your team for U7 Senior! We're glad you're joining us Nov 19–22, 2026 at Flames Community Arenas. This handbook is everything you need for the weekend — schedule, game format, scoring, awards and who to contact — so save the link and check back if anything changes before you arrive.
Flames Community Arenas — 2390 47 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB T2T 5W5
Host team & contacts
Who's hosting this weekend
Host team: U7 Glenlake Hawks Sr Penguins
Tournament Lead: Johanna Felske
Team Manager: Johanna Felske
Your Tournament Lead is your primary contact for this tournament — schedule questions, ice issues and day-of logistics.
Schedule
Round robin schedule
5 teams, 10 round-robin games — every team plays 4 games. This is a Hockey Calgary development division: there are no standings, no playoffs and no declared tournament champion at U7. Team names below are placeholders until rosters are confirmed; the final schedule with real team names goes out once registration closes. Every game is its own ice time, played split squad: both teams split their roster in half and play two cross-ice games side by side, one on each half of the ice. Check the Rink column for your sheet.
| Date | Time | Round | Matchup | Rink |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu Nov 19 | 5:15 PM | RR 1 | Host vs. Team 2 | FCA — Blue |
| Thu Nov 19 | 6:30 PM | RR 2 | Team 3 vs. Team 4 | FCA — Blue |
| Sat Nov 21 | 7:45 AM | RR 3 | Team 2 vs. Team 3 | FCA — Red |
| Sat Nov 21 | 9:00 AM | RR 4 | Team 4 vs. Team 5 | FCA — Red |
| Sat Nov 21 | 1:45 PM | RR 5 | Host vs. Team 3 | FCA — Blue |
| Sat Nov 21 | 3:00 PM | RR 6 | Team 2 vs. Team 5 | FCA — Blue |
| Sun Nov 22 | 7:45 AM | RR 7 | Host vs. Team 4 | FCA — Gold |
| Sun Nov 22 | 9:00 AM | RR 8 | Team 3 vs. Team 5 | FCA — Gold |
| Sun Nov 22 | 3:30 PM | RR 9 | Host vs. Team 5 | FCA — Blue |
| Sun Nov 22 | 4:45 PM | RR 10 | Team 2 vs. Team 4 | FCA — Blue |
Arrive 30 minutes before your ice time to allow for dressing room turnover.
Teams & rosters
Who's playing
Confirmed teams and rosters appear here automatically as each team is confirmed and submits its roster.
Format & rules
U7 game format
| Ice time | Half 1 | Half 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | 24 min (running clock) | 24 min (running clock) |
Games follow the Hockey Calgary U7 format in the 2026–27 Community Hockey Game Play Guidelines (Section 4). The 24-minute halves are Lamplighter's planned split of the 1-hour ice time.
- Split-squad cross-ice. Each team splits its roster in half; the two halves play side-by-side cross-ice games (board-to-board, blue-line-down) at the same time.
- 4 on 4 plus two acting goalies. Acting goalies become players after their shift. Alternatively, a player may play in goal for half of a half (12 minutes) before another player takes over.
- 90-second shifts. The main score clock times both cross-ice games at once, running clock throughout.
- Two face-offs only — one to start the game and one to start the second half. No offside and no icing.
- Blue pucks. Coaches are on the ice on skates; a maximum of 4–5 players in each bench area. Tag-up applies when fewer than four players are on the bench.
- No official score is posted, no standings are kept and no tournament winner is declared.
- 5 minutes of warm-up/setup before puck drop; 3 minutes after the game to shake hands and reset nets for the next group.
- Sanction #26-900257 — HC Tournament Policy 2026-27 governs anything not covered here.
Game-day roles
Off-ice officials & volunteers
- When a Glenlake team is competing, Glenlake supplies the scorekeeper, clock operator, and music for that game.
- When no Glenlake team is competing, the home team is responsible for the clock and music, and the away team is responsible for the scorekeeper.
Scoring
Games are scored in TeamLinkt this season
New for 2026-27: every game is scored digitally in TeamLinkt instead of paper gamesheets, a Hockey Calgary requirement. Every team joins the Lamplighter league in TeamLinkt before the tournament — the why and the how are at lamplighterserieshockey.ca/join-teamlinkt. Scorekeepers score in a web browser at games.teamlinkt.com; each game's code appears in TeamLinkt 24 hours before the game. As a development division, games here don't carry an official score — every game is still logged in TeamLinkt, submitted as 0-0.
Awards & swag
What every player takes home
Every player goes home with Lamplighter swag and a participation medal, and every game hands out MVP and Heart & Hustle awards.
Fundraising
Fundraising
Details coming soon — this section will be updated closer to the tournament.
Thank you to our sponsors
Tournament sponsors
Sponsor details coming soon — this section will be updated closer to the tournament.
Conduct
One rink, one standard
Hockey Calgary's Code of Conduct applies to every player, coach and parent at the arena and at team hotels, for host and guest teams alike. Please treat officials, volunteers and other teams the way you'd want your own team treated.
Zero tolerance for abuse of officials. Lamplighter has zero tolerance for abuse of the officials working our games. The Lamplighter executive committee reserves the right to eliminate a team from the tournament if official abuse occurs — that team forfeits its remaining games in the tournament, and no refund is issued.