Tournament

The 2025 PCOT Annual Charity Tournament will be held from April 14th to the 20th

For 56 years we have held our annual charity hockey tournament that raises over $100 000 dollars and goes directly to local charities.

Registration

Annual Charity Tournament Registration

Registration Payment

Please Note, that this page is only for Teams that have already been accepted to the 2025 tournament. DO NOT use this form unless you have already been contacted by our registrar.

Fee options

Full Fee $925.00 CAD
Deposit $325.00 CAD
Balance (after deposit) $600.00 CAD

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Rules

Tournament Rules and Regulations

Age

Depending on the Divisional age requirements, all players participating in the P.C.O.T. Invitational Tournament must meet the minimum age requirements and be 35, 50, or 60 years of age or older, on or by their first game played. In the event of contestation, proof of age must be provided if requested by the Tournament Committee. Any and all games played using an underage player will be forfeited by a score of 2-0.

Rules acknowledgement & agreement:

All players participating in the P.C.O.T. invitational tournament will be required to sign a form acknowledging and agreeing to the tournament rules before their first game.

Equipment

As per current Quebec law governing sports regulations, approved helmets, full face mask protection, neck protectors and skate guards are mandatory.

Roughing Play

Any team(s) displaying rough play will be given one (1) warning. Team(s) will be expelled by the tournament if the warning is ignored.

Game Plan

60 minutes – 2 periods of running time

Warm up 3 minutes
First period 20 minutes
Second period 24 minutes
Scrape & Flood 10 minutes

The last minute of the 2nd period will be stop time if the score is tied or if there is a 1 goal difference.

Number of Players

There is no limit to the number of players. As many as you wish can be dressed for the tournament. We suggest a minimum of fourteen (14) so as to be competitive.

IMPORTANT

All players must have played at least two games in the Three-Game Round Robin before competing in Semi-Final or Final games. No player is permitted to play on more than one team in the tournament.

Roster sheet

The number of players dressed for any game must be the same as on the roster sheet provided to the timekeeper.

Standings

A team is awarded 2 points for winning a game, 1 point for a tie and 0 point for a loss. The ranking of teams is based on the following rules.

1- Highest points total

2- Most head to head wins

3- Most wins

4- Highest goal differential

5- Highest head to head points total

6- Least goals against

7- Highest head to head goal differential

8- Least penalties in minutes

9- Most goals for

10- Most head to head periods won

11- Most periods won

12- Manual ranking, decision by the board of directors

The rules apply in sequence with no reverting back to determine placement of teams.

Replacement Goaltender

(Due to illness, injury, or absence) Teams with only none or one (1) goaltender dressed must accept a replacement provided by the P.C.O.T. Invitational Tournament Committee.

Canadian Adult Recreation Hockey Association (CARHA) Rules

Any player who loses his helmet during play, shall not be allowed to continue to participate in the play. A minor penalty will be assessed for any infraction to this rule.
Penalty duration – 2 minutes
Slap shot or faking a slap shot: face off in offending team’s zone (no penalty).

Icing Rule

At equal strength, when a player shoots the puck from his own end or before crossing the center ice line and the puck cross the goal line, the icing is call and the face-off is in the end zone of the team shooting the puck.

Time Out

No time out are allowed during the round robin. During the final games, in the last 3 minutes of the 2^nd period each team will be allowed a 30 second time out.