District 15 Tournament Director (email: district15hockey@gmail.com)
Phone: 218-731-5899
Click on this link and it will take you to the Minnesota Hockey website to check to see if your tournament has been approved and is sanctioned.
Click on this link to apply for Tournament Sanctioning for association tournaments.
https://minnesotahockey.sportngin.com/register/form/282180573
District 15 Tournaments: February 16-18, 2024
D15 Squirt A, B, and B2 Tournaments- February 2-4, 2024
MN Hockey Regional Tournaments: March 1-3, 2024
MN Hockey State Tournaments: March 15-17, 2024
BEFORE EMAILING THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR:
1. Check the District 15 website "Tournaments Page" , League Pages, and/ or "Home Page".
2. Read the District 15 Handbook. This can be downloaded off the District 15 "Home Page".
3. Ask your association president or other association parents. Association or Association Representatives attend the District 15 meetings and will likely know the answer to your question.
4. If you still cannot find the answer to your question, please email the Tournament Director, Cyndi Young (district15hockey@gmail.com).
The Tournament Director works with about 100 team managers and coaches during the season. It is difficult to keep track of so many emails so please follow the above procedure BEFORE emailing the Director.
(Squirt A, B, and B2- February 2-4, 2024)
1. If you are hosting a district or regional tournament please refer to and follow the District Region and State Tournament Rules on the MN Hockey Handbook which can be found online at the Minnesota Hockey website.
2. All teams must declare at Fall Meeting which teams will be playing in the District 15 Tournament. Declarations are noted on the Homepage of the District 15 website at www.d15.pucksystems.com. If teams back out of the District 15 Tournament, the association will NOT be refunded their team fees that are paid by Dec. 31st.
3. ***After declarations, all associations must register the declared teams on the D15 website and pay the team dues $190/ team at registration.
4. District Hosts keep all gate fees. 2024 Gate fees are $250.00 per team and should be paid by each team to the host association before the start of the tournament.
5. There is no team entry fee for District Tournaments. The district pays each association a team subsidy to help pay for tournament expenses. District Tournament Hosts are responsible for all tournament expenses including ice time, referees, and EMT's.
6. District and Regional Tournament Hosts are responsible for scheduling and paying referees and EMT's. Hosts are also responsible to provide and schedule penalty box officials, announcers, timekeepers and scorekeepers for all district tournament games and any other help that may be needed to operate the tournament.
7. The District does NOT do any tournament apparel. It was decided this will be left up to the host associations if they would like to sell apparel as a fundraiser for their team or association. Please check with the host sites regarding apparel for the District tournaments.
8. District Brackets are not final until after being approved at the Winter District 15 meeting in February 2024. Teams will be seeded into brackets at the February District Meeting or after weekend district games are completed.
9. There is a maximum goal differential of 6 goals in all Squirt, 10U, PeeWee B2, Bantam B2 non-advancing tournaments.
SQUIRTS
SQUIRT A: 7 teams declared & will be hosted by Brainerd (Feb. 2-4, 2024). Tournament is set up by Random Draw.
SQUIRT B: 10 teams declared. There will be 2 Squirt B divisions (Feb. 2-4, 2024). Tournament is set up by Random Draw.
SQUIRT B2: 6 teams declared. Hosted by Benson. Tournament is set up by Random draw.
12 U GIRLS:
PEEWEE:
BANTAM
15U GIRLS
Level | # advance | Region | Regional Host |
---|---|---|---|
Bantam AA | 2 | North | Rock Ridge |
Bantam A | 2 | North | Warroad |
Bantam B | 2 | North | Hibbing- Chisholm |
PeeWee AA | 2 | North | Bemidji |
PeeWee A | 2 | North | International Falls |
PeeWee B | 2 | North | Greenway |
15U A Girls | 2 | North | Duluth |
15UB Girls | 2 | Bemidji | |
12U A Girls | 2 | North | Roseau |
12U B Girls | 2 | North | Thief River Falls |
Click on this link to go to the MN Hockey website for all the information needed for the Regional Tournaments.