2026 End of Season Tournament Schedule

All,

Below are links to the End of Season Tournament Schedule as well as the Tournament Rules.

Tournament Schedule

Tournament Rules

As mentioned previously, due to ice availability, each bracket will play a two-game round robin with the top two teams advancing to the Championship. This year, we will follow a points-per-period system. Each team will receive 2 standings points for each period won, one standings point for tying a period, and 4 standings points for winning the game. All tiebreaker scenarios will follow this order: Most Period Points --> Most Periods Won --> Goals For --> Goal Differential --> Fewest Penalty Minutes --> Coin Toss 

A couple reminders: 

- We will once again be using GameSheet. We will not have iPads or tablets at each rink. Similar to the regular season, this is expected from whoever is listed as the home team. Scores, standings, and schedules will be populated on the website once we get the embed code. 

- Each team will need to provide two off-ice officials. One for the penalty box and one for either scorekeeping or timekeeper.  

- On the schedule spreadsheet, a Tournament Director is listed at each rink and will be the primary point of contact on site over the weekend for any needs. Regular Season Champions for each division will be notified to pick up their banners from the Directors at each rink. 

Good luck to all teams and safe travels! 

BTHL Board 

Final End of Season Brackets

Please see the attached document for FINAL End of Season Brackets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18y4MHKFvexSirpOCp93J73aPr4utqU3l6nHdqcKH4ho/edit?usp=sharing

Your tournament weekend as well as rink location is listed as well. This was a collaborative effort from all Division Directors as well as Executive Board members to ensure the most competitive end of season tournament possible. We thank all participating organizations, coaches, managers, players, and parents that make all of this happen and expose our young athletes to the greatest game of all. 

The game schedule, tournament rules, as well as other details will be published and communicated no later than Saturday, February 21st. 

Good luck the rest of the way and thank you all for a great season! 

BTHL Board 

2025-2026 Final Divisions

2025-2026 Final Divisions are attached in the following link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18y4MHKFvexSirpOCp93J73aPr4utqU3l6nHdqcKH4ho/edit?usp=sharing

Scheduling Instructions are in the document for each division. You will recieve another email from GameSheet no later than Wednesday inviting you to the Regular Season. Home teams are responsible for uploading games into the system. Please reach out to the league if you miss that email or don't recieve it. 

Notes for End of Season Tournament: 

We will be finalizing the dates for this tournament soon. Brackets for the tournament will be based upon the MyHockey Rankings that are released the week of 2/11/2026. We tentatively have the weekend of 2/28-3/1 scheduled but due to rink availability, some divisions may not play until the following weekend so please do not schedule games until that is finalized. 

BTHL Board 

25-26 Preliminary Divisions

Thank you for your participation in the Seeding Tournament this past weekend!

Attached in the following link is the Preliminary Divisions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jm21nEX37vH5-724DvpRAmWFJRPdF0OMhMtTsVT_DFo/edit?usp=sharing

PLEASE NOTE:

Appeals will be accepted through 8pm Saturday evening, September 20th. Please send all appeal requests to president@buckeyetravelhockey.com - State your team name, age group, and reasoning behind the appeal request.

Final Divisions and scheduling instructions will be published and communicated on Monday, September 22nd. Please do not begin scheduling until then.

Thank you!

BTHL Board

2025 Annual Meeting

Our 2025 Annual Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, May 18 at 7pm.  This will be an online (Zoom or Google Meet) meeting.  

Per the league by-laws, each member association is to select an Association Rep who is the one to attend this meeting.  Association Presidents are welcome as well.  

If your rep has changed since the 24-25 season, please email info@buckeyetravelhockey.com with both the OLD rep name and the NEW rep name and email address so we can update our lists.

The Google Slides presentation is HERE