Tournament
HandbookU9 · Tier 3
Nov 20–22, 2026
Dates
Flames Community Arenas
Venue
5 teams
Field
4 guaranteed
Games / team
26-900258
HC sanction #
Welcome
Welcome to the U9 Tier 3 Lamplighter Series Tournament
Thanks for confirming your team for U9 Tier 3! We're glad you're joining us Nov 20–22, 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: U9 Glenlake Hawks 3 Blue
Tournament Lead: Sara Lambert
Team Manager: Darla Parsons
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 U9. Team names below are placeholders until rosters are confirmed; the final schedule with real team names goes out once registration closes. Some games run at the same time on different rinks — check the Rink column for your team's ice.
| Date | Time | Round | Matchup | Rink |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri Nov 20 | 5:30 PM | RR 1 | Host vs. Team 2 | FCA — Red |
| Fri Nov 20 | 6:45 PM | RR 2 | Team 3 vs. Team 4 | FCA — Red |
| Sat Nov 21 | 10:15 AM | RR 3 | Host vs. Team 3 | FCA — Red |
| Sat Nov 21 | 11:15 AM | RR 4 | Team 2 vs. Team 5 | FCA — Red |
| Sat Nov 21 | 3:45 PM | RR 5 | Host vs. Team 4 | FCA — Gold |
| Sat Nov 21 | 4:45 PM | RR 6 | Team 3 vs. Team 5 | FCA — Gold |
| Sun Nov 22 | 10:15 AM | RR 7 | Host vs. Team 5 | FCA — Gold |
| Sun Nov 22 | 11:15 AM | RR 8 | Team 2 vs. Team 4 | FCA — Gold |
| Sun Nov 22 | 3:15 PM | RR 9 | Team 2 vs. Team 3 | FCA — Red |
| Sun Nov 22 | 4:15 PM | RR 10 | Team 4 vs. Team 5 | FCA — Red |
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
U9 game format
| Ice slot | Half 1 | Half 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | 24 min (running time) | 24 min (running time) |
- Half-ice, split squad. This follows Hockey Calgary's 2026–27 U9 format, which is half-ice for all games until December 26. Every game is played on half ice. Each team splits its roster into two squads, and both squads play at the same time — one game at each end of the rink, against the other team's two squads.
- 4-on-4 plus a goalie in each half — so every team needs two goalies, one for each squad. Make sure your roster has enough players to fill two squads.
- Squads: evenly balanced is the default. An A/B split is allowed only if both coaches agree before the game.
- 5 minutes of warm-up/setup, two 24-minute halves with a continuous running clock (3 minutes to change ends between halves), then 3 minutes to shake hands and reset the boards for the next group.
- 90-second shifts, blue pucks, no offside or icing. Teams share benches — up to two coaches per team on each bench.
- Two half-ice games run side by side on each sheet, and some games run at the same time on different rinks — check the Rink column for your team's ice.
- This is a development division — no official score, no standings and no tournament winner, per Hockey Calgary policy.
- Hockey Calgary's 2026–27 Game Play Guidelines and Tournament Policy govern 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.