VACHL A 2024-25 Playoff Schedule

PLAYOFF FORMAT

Round Robin

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All teams will play a total of 5 games (3 Round Robin and 2 playoff games)

Sat Feb 15

10:45 PM

Britannia

Wolverines

4

Knights

3

Sun Feb 16

10:15 PM

Trout Lake

Hornets

6

Replicants

7

1) Teams will be divided into 2 Groups (A and B) based on regular season standings.

Sun Feb 16

10:30 PM

Killarney

Rush Hour

2

Direwolves

3

Group A will have #1,4,6

Sat Feb 22

9:15 PM

Britannia

Replicants

4

Rush Hour

9

Group B will have #2,3,5

Sun Feb 23

8:45 PM

Trout Lake

Direwolves

4

Wolverines

2

Sun Feb 23

9:45 PM

Kitsilano

Knights

4

Hornets

5

2) Teams will play 3 round robin games.

2 games will be within the group with 1 cross-over game with other group (1v5, 2v6, 3v4).

Sat Mar 1

7:45 PM

Trout Lake

Rush Hour

7

Knights

3

** Round Robin games will only have 4v4 sudden-death overtime (no shootout)

Sat Mar 1

9:15 PM

Trout Lake

Replicants

1

Direwolves

9

Sat Mar 1

9:15 PM

Britannia

Wolverines

8

Hornets

4

3) Teams are then ranked by points (2pt win, 0pt loss, 1pt tie or OTL) within their group.

Semi-finals

Sun Mar 9

1

9:45 PM

Kitsilano

Wolverines

2

Rush Hour

4

Thu Mar 6

2

10:00 PM

Trout Lake

Direwolves

1

Hornets

2 [OT]

4) The Medal Rounds: The 1st ranked teams from each pool will faceoff with the 2nd

ranked team in the opposite group in the semi-finals.

Classification Playoffs

[Best of 2* for 5th place]

Fri Mar 7

9:45 PM

Hillcrest

Knights

6

Replicants

4

GroupA #1 vs GroupB #2 (Semi-final 1)

Sat Mar 15

6:00 PM

Britannia

Replicants

4

Knights

6

GroupB #1 vs GroupA #2 (Semi-final 2)

Finals 3rd Place

The winners of the above two games will play for 1st while the losers will play for 3rd.

Sat Mar 15

7:30 PM

Britannia

Wolverines

5

Direwolves

6

Finals 1st Place

5) Classification Games: 3rd place team of each pool will play in a 2 game mini-series

Sat Mar 15

9:00 PM

Britannia

Rush Hour

4

Hornets

0

Classification Series Notes:

** If the series is tied 1-1 after regulation time of Gm2, we will have a 5 min "mini-game 3" (not sudden death)

** 3-player shootout if still tied after "mini-game 3" to determine the winner of the series

** If the series is tied 1-1 after OT or shootout of Gm2, we go to a "mini-game 3" or

immediately to 3-player shoot-out to determine winner, time permitting

*** If a game ends in a tie during the semi-final/final/classification rounds, there will be a 4v4

sudden-death overtime (time permitting, changes on the fly only),

followed by a 3 player shootout (teams can repeat shooters once 1 team's roster has cycled through)

General Playoff Notes:

PIM Threshold for playoffs is reset to 15PIM.

Once surpassed, players will be suspended 1 game or rest of playoffs/season

if it is their 2nd suspension of the season.