Hockey Summit of the Arts
Register as a Team
To be eligible for the Hockey Summit of the Arts each team must complete the general registration by January 22, 2025. The remainder of your application, including payment, must be completed by February 15, 2025.
1. Understand and be committed to all the rules of the tournament
3. Complete the General Team Registration Form
4. Brief Description of Team’s Artistic Contribution to the Hockey Summit
5. Register Team Administrator on Website to Manage Team Website
6. Enter your roster for the Summit.
7. Enter your Logo & Sweater colours.
8. Read reminders for the weekend of the Hockey Summit
Submission Deadline: Registration Form due January 22, 2025. All other registration components and team fees are due February 15, 2025.
We have room for 36 teams. Returning teams are guaranteed a spot if their submission is completed before the deadline. For new teams it is first come first served. All teams can see their submission status and whether their submission is complete or not
All specific questions can be sent to submissions-at-hockeyaa.net
· All teams in southern central Ontario have to have all their GTHLA fees paid in full before they can pay for this tournament.
2025 Fees:
$1310 (GST included) for teams within 150KM
$1130 (GST included) for teams from beyond a 150KM radius and within a 300KM radius of Toronto
$1025 (GST included) for teams from beyond a 300KM radius and within a 600KM radius of Toronto
· Teams from beyond a 600KM radius pay $120 (GST included) per player on their roster who is a resident within a 150KM radius of Toronto and $80 (GST included) per player who is a resident beyond 150KM but within a 600KM radius of Toronto. Teams with an entire roster of players who reside beyond 600KM of Toronto play for free.
Interac payments can be emailed to finance-at-hockeyaa.net.
**Make sure you hit the submit button after this portion of the form is completed**
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5. Register Team Administrator on Website
Please make sure you are a member of the Summit website, www.hockeysummit.org. Members of the GTHLA (Good Times Hockey League of the Arts; www.gthla.ca) and MHLA (Montreal Hockey League of the Arts; www.montreal.hockeyaa.net) websites are automatically members of the Summit website. To become a member, hit the “Join” button near the top of the page and register.
Once you’re registered as a member and logged in, please take the following steps to complete your team’s on-line registration…
1. Hit the “Teams” button in the left margin menu below the “2025 Summit” header.
2. Find your team on the “Teams” page and hit the “Team Info” button beside your team. If your team is not on the list created in 2024 please email julie@hockeyaa.net to be added.
3. Follow the directions to make yourself your team’s administrator.
6. Enter your roster for the Summit.
If you have any players who aren’t 100% committed yet, include them. You are allowed up to 20 players on your roster, including a goalie. If you currently have more than 20 players because of unsure commitment, post all your possible players. We need to trim your roster down to 20 before April 4.
1. Make sure the “Toolkit” button is on. The “Toolkit” button is at the top of the page under the banner ad. If it says that the “Toolkit” button is off, just hit the button and it will turn on. Throughout this entire process always make sure it is on. It will turn off if there is an extended time without any entries.
2. Once the “Toolkit” is on, hit the “Roster” button on the 2nd grey line below your team’s header on the teams’ page.
3. If you are a returning team, we will import your roster from the last tournament as a default and you can modify it for this year. Please email submissions@hockeyaa.net if you do not see last year's roster.
4. Enter all new players under the “Add New Player” header. After an individual’s information is inputted in each cell, hit the “Add Player” button.
5. After your roster has been entered, hit the “Roster Grid” button in the team admin menu in the grey bars
6. Make sure all the cells are full. Hit the “Update” button beside any players after they’ve been edited. (The email addresses will only be used for distributing internal HAA news and information and will not be shared with outside sources.)
7. To enter player background, hit the “Roster” button in the team admin menu (grey bars). Then, beside each player hit the pen and paper icon button.
In each “Player Bio” box put…
i. TOWN OF RESIDENCE(if different than team’s)
ii. ARTS COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT (If the player isn’t involved in the Arts, please do not make something up. We simply ask this to help build familiarity among the players and promote the involvement that each player has in the Arts)
iii. PLAYER BIO (optional)
iv. After the bio info is inputted, hit the “Update Player Information” button
You can input a photo of the player in this window also.
7. Enter your Logo & Sweater colours.
a. Hit the “Team Profile” button in the team admin menu (grey bars). Upload a graphic of your team logo. If the website isn’t uploading the graphic, please email it to submissions-at-hockeyaa.net.
b. Under the “Team Jerseys” header, please input the main colour of each set of sweaters your team has. Please be as specific about the colours as you can (e.g. Navy Blue or Powder Blue). For each sweater set, hit the “Add Jersey” button to enter it. We strongly encourage all teams to have 2 sets of sweaters. Any team that has been in at least 2 Hockey Summits, should have 2 sets. If there are any sweater colour conflicts in any games in the tournament, the junior HAA member team gets to keep wearing their sweaters and the senior member team must find an alternative set of sweaters with contrasting colours to their opponent.
Reminders for the weekend of the Summit
1. Gift Exchange
Before each game, the Captains from each team are to exchange gifts at centre ice.
2. Charity Donations
We will be collecting non-perishable food for the Daily Bread Food.
3. Visors
Every player must wear at least a half visor, if not full facial protection. Players not wearing facial protection will not be allowed on the ice.
4. Volunteers
Outside of all the mandatory volunteering from the teams there is a lot more help needed to pull off this tournament. If anyone can throw in additional time we need help with preparation and on the weekend of the event. Contact submissions-at-hockeyaa.net with any help you can give.
5. Point System and playoff qualification
2 points for a win
1 point for a tie
.5 point for a game with no penalties assessed to your team
A team must have less than 19 penalty minutes to qualify for the playoffs. Too Many players and Delay of Game penalties aren’t included in the tally. Misconducts and game ejections count as 2 minutes when regarding this tally.
6. Lodging
If any Toronto residents have room for billets please let us know. If any out of town players and teams need assistance in finding a place to stay, please let us know sooner than later. Contact submissions-at-hockeyaa.net.
7. Division Seeding
Teams are seeded based on their record at the previous tournament. Adjustments are then considered based on anything that may have changed the general skill level of the team since the previous year. Only changes specific to the team are considered, not general changes that affect every team, like aging. New teams are measured with teams that they have played with from the previous tournament. After seeding, the divisions are set as even as possible based on the total number of teams in the tournament.
8. Ringers
We expect teams not to add new players to their roster who don’t have any relationship to our community and values and significantly increase the skill level of their team.
Submission Process:
Each team is responsible for ensuring that their submission is complete. We are not responsible to inform you that your submission is incomplete.
Joining the H.A.A.
* H.A.A. teams must have an Arts based roster that understand and promote all the values and principles of the H.A.A. Teams must have a core roster that plays together regularly. To be eligible to participate in the event, hockey teams within a 150 km radius of Toronto must be members of the Good Times Hockey League of the Arts. Teams that are outside of a 150 km radius of Toronto, but are within 150 km radius of Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Peterborough, Guelph, St. Catharines, London, Sudbury, Edmonton or Vancouver must play at least 1 exhibition game with a H.A.A. team from the city or cities they’re close to before they apply. New teams from outside any of these areas must demonstrate that they understand our values and will promote them at HAA events and in their own area.
Photots by Priscilla Yu (Lookin' to Score) & Chris Hazard (Screaming Unyons)
Hockey Association of the Arts
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