Creation and Division of Teams

Dividing of Teams

Following the difficulty of balancing teams while honoring many large friend pairing requests for Summer 2025, we will move forward with the plan to allow for a single pairing request per player (this allows a couple or a pair of siblings to still play together). Both players will need to request pairing with each other when signing up for a season.

After friend request pairings have been completed the remaining rookie/newbie players will be randomly assigned to whatever spots remain across the teams. Then we will continue as planned to equally distribute higher level players among the teams.

There will be no team managers, but once teams are divided, each team is welcome to elect a captain to help make sure everyone is getting a fair amount of ice time.

Season to Season

The current plan is to change up and re-randomize teams from season to season so that players get the chance to meet and play with new people and develop new team dynamics.

Substitutes

Beginning with the Fall 2025 Season we are looking to allow players to join a substitute list rather than signing up for the full season. This will allow players who may not be able to make the majority of the games to still get a game here and there without having to pay the $160 fee. That being said, the number of teams we form for the season will be based on the number of full time players who sign up, which means if we only have 4 teams there may not be room for subs at most games.

Goalies

Goalies will be assigned to teams on a first come first serve basis (e.g. if we have 6 teams and 8 goalies sign up for a season, the first 6 goalies to have signed up will be randomly assigned to those 6 teams). Once a goalie has been assigned to a team, they are assigned to that team for the duration of the season. As we approach games we will send out any coverage needs to all Rink Rat Goalies so other goalies have an opportunity to substitute in.