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How do I submit a request for funds from my Kitty?

If you have extra funds in your kitty, or your child has completted his/her minor hockey career, you can request funds from the kitty to pay for an education or other sport related expense.

You should not request funds from your kitty if you do not have extra funds and have children still playing minor hockey.

In order to access kitty funds, please fill out the google form below.

Kitty Reimbursement Form

What is Female Under-7 program?

Under-7 refers to this program being for children who are under the age of 7 years.

Female refers to the group being open to female participants only.

This program is an AMHA specific program and is only for 5 and 6 year old female players as they share some ice times with the 7 and 8 year old female players.

For more information on levels please follow the link below to Hockey Nova Scotia's information page.

What I need to know about division and skill levels of hockey.

What are the different age groups for hockey?`

Age on Dec. 31 of Current Hockey Season	Age Division
4	Under-7 (U7) - IP4
5	Under-7 (U7) - IP5
6	Under-7 (U7) - IP6
7	Under-9 (U9) - Novice
8	Under-9 (U9) - Novice
9	Under-11 (U11) - Atom
10	Under-11 (U11) - Atom
11	Under-13 (U13) - Pee Wee
12	Under-13 (U13) - Pee Wee
13	Under-15 (U15) - Bantam
14	Under-15 (U15) - Bantam
15	Under-18 (U18) - Midget
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Click here to go to the Hockey Canada web site for more information.

How to Subscribe/Unsubscribe from AMHA emails

If you are no longer involved with hockey, send an email to admin@antigonishminorhockey.ca and ask to be removed from the Minor hockey system.

If you just don’t want to receive emails, then you our the member of your family with an account on the web site must log into the website and go to the Family Profile page. From there, go to the Family Members section and find the family member that wishes to have their subscription status changed. On the Actions menu option to the right of the member, choose edit. From here you can change the users email address and check or uncheck the option to receive email.

How do I Run the Score Clocks at KMC?

Here is a video with instructions on running the clock at the KMC. KMC Clock

What is the Ice Review Process?

Before I get into the ice review process there are a couple of terms I want to define for clarity.

Hockey Week - The season is broken up into 7 day periods. These periods start on Monday and finish on the following Sunday. For instance, this upcoming hockey week goes from Monday Dec 14th to Sunday Dec 20th inclusive.
Ice Review Cycle - This is the time period for which teams are required to review their ice requirements for a specified Hockey Week. The cycle starts on Thursday and end on the following Wednesday. This week, the cycle starts on Thursday Dec 17th and end on Wednesday Dec 23rd.

Ice Review Process
As stated, each week the Ice Review cycle will start on Thursday and end on the following Wednesday. During this time Managers should be reviewing their ice requirements for the specified Hockey Week. A Hockey Week starts on Monday and ends the following Sunday. This process allows us to meet the requirements for cancelling ice times within the 10 day cancellation policy set out by the facilities.

For example, this upcoming Thursday Dec 17th will be the start of the review cycle for the hockey week of Jan 4th to Jan 10th. This means teams need to plan for 2 weeks in advance. On Thursday an email is sent to remind teams/groups to review their ice for a specific hockey week. This email will contain a list of ice times the team currently has booked for that hockey week. It is the responsibility of the manager to confirm ice times are correct, as there are occasions where previously scheduled ice times get cancelled or rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances, facility closures, and possible scheduling changes to ensure fairness of ice times. You must submit your requests for changes by Wednesday of the scheduling cycle. After that no games can be added, except in special circumstances (late playoff game requirements). Practices can be added, but as with all late requests they are extra work to add in so please do not make a habit of late practice requests.

If you are not in a league and do not have a home game scheduled for a weekend that is part of the current review cycle, you should book an ice time for a home game and then let your league scheduler know what your home ice schedule is for that weekend. When booking away games, be sure to book a game that won't interfere with your home ice time as once the schedule is locked, you can't cancel your ice time, you can cancel officials, but not the ice time.

Trading ice times
Ice times can be traded between teams for practices, but not for games. Officials are scheduled according to there levels and trading game times will mess up their schedule. If a team wishes to trade a practice time with another team, all that is required is an email to the Ice Coordinator from both teams stating that they agree to the trade. This also applies should a team want to give up their ice time to another team.

Game Cancellations
If you are unable to get a team for an ice time you have booked for a game, please cancel as early as you can so the the officials can be reassigned if necessary. Game cancellations can be done on the web site.
If you are cancelling a game within the 10 day cancellation period then you are responsible for that ice and can use it for a practice, or see if another team would like to use it for a practice.

Weather Cancellations
If there is a cancellation due to weather related issues there are 3 options.
1. Cancel ice completely
2. Cancel game but keep ice for a practice
3. Cancel game and adjust ice time to a 1 hr session.

To cancel ice due to weather, you must contact the Ice Coordinator.

Also on Thursday, the previous hockey week is sent to the Arena, KMC and Coordinator of Officials for them to do a final review, book security at KMC, and assign officials. Once the block is sent to the Arena, KMC and Coordinator of Officials, the KMC and Arena are free to sell any ice that AMHA did not book. For this reason, any late requests that do come in for additional ice times, require approval by KMC or Arena. Late requests for games will not be accepted unless there are extenuating circumstances.

If there are questions or special requests for ice, these requests should come through the team manager. It is best to have one point of contact between the team and Ice Coordinator to avoid confusion on ice requests.

Hockey Week Status'
New - Not yet processed. Ice requests are accepted from teams or groups.
Team Review - This block of dates has been sent to the team for them to review and request changes.
Ice Review - This block of dates has been sent to KMC, Arena, and Coordinator of Officials for review. No changes accepted from teams without approval.
Published - This block has been reviewed and is considered set. It may contain ice times that have already passed. No changes accepted from teams without approval. The exception being cancellations due to weather.'
Complete - This block has all ice times completed. When a week is set to this the status of the Ice Time switches to used and it becomes part of the teams official billing.

Late Requests:
The list below applies to late requests only. If at all possible teams should avoid making late requests, but we understand that they do happen. For more information on Late Requests, please refer the the Late Ice Requests FAQ.
Additional Practice Ice times - These will be accepted but as stated, require additional approval.
Additional Game times. - These will be rejected unless there are extenuating circumstances. This is due to the complexity of scheduling the Officials and security at KMC.
Change of practice ice times. - These will be rejected unless there are extenuating circumstances.
Change of Game time. - These will be rejected as changing game times messes with the schedule for the Officials. You can not swap game times with another team as it may result in under-qualified officials being assigned to a game.

Related Information
Team Ice Management Documentation
Ice Allocation Policy

How do I Link another account to my Family Profile?

Linking Accounts:

If you are likely the only person from your household who will be managing your family's activities on the site, you can make one account for yourself and then add everyone, including your spouse, parent, etc. as a family member and manage registrations for them.

If more than one adult in your household also wants to manage registrations, they can create their own account and be linked to your family. The family members should only be created on one account.

Steps:

Person 1 makes an account, can start adding family members before or after linking
Person 2 makes an account
Person 1 goes to the MyHome page and selects "Link Account"
Person 1 links Person 2 to their account via email address
Now both people can manage the account, including adding/editing/registering family members
Person 1 will be able to view and manage linked account on their MyHome page.

This can be done with multiple accounts, so if other adults in your "Family" needs access, ex. grandparents, other caregivers.

Why can't Late Game Requests can be approved?

1) The policy of the facilities is a 10 day cancellation policy on ice rentals. This 10 day policy gives the facility time to sell ice that AMHA will not be using. The more ice they sell the better it is for them financially and then we as a large customer will not see large increases in ice fees. If an ice is cancelled late then AMHA still has to pay for it.

Note: at the beginning of the season, during tryouts there is a grace period as both facilities understand how fluid ice scheduling can be.

2) With the St.F.X. providing security for all games being played there, we need to schedule things well enough in advance for them to be able to schedule the security staff. They have been asking for our schedule to be locked 2 weeks in advance, but we have worked it out to be inline with our cancellation policy.

3) Officials need to be scheduled as early as possible as when they don't have games locally, some officials will travel to other communities to do games, or simply make other plans and not be available.

4) Also with scheduling officials there are times, like this coming weekend, where the availability of Officials is limited because a lot of them are St.F.X. students and a lot of them are writing exams this weekend. When this happens and AMHA has time to plan for it, our Officials Coordinator can go to neighboring communities to ask for officials to come in and take some games, but this requires extra planning and therefore can not be done at the last minute.

5) Each level of hockey requires an official at a different level of officiating. We couldn't have a first your official at the age of 14 out doing a U18 AA game and on the same token you don't want a senior official taking games that they are overqualified for.

6) We have teams that have prime ice time booked that other teams would really like to have. When these teams cancel their ice time every team with a bad time would like to reschedule into that slot but then we run into the issues mentioned above.

7) We are one of the few associations that have flexible ice times. This flexibility allows teams to get "prime" ice and not be stuck with a home ice time of every Sunday at 4:30pm on the KMC Aux. The price of this flexibility is teams have to do a bit more planning at times when schedules are in flux like they are now. When you are looking to schedule late exhibition games you need to look at the ice times you currently have booked and schedule accordingly. You can't just cancel your home game to go play an away game.

So with all this, you can see how complicated it actually is to try to schedule a game when the request comes in late. The 10 days is not just an arbitrary policy that we put in place.

How do I Run the Score Clock at the Arena?

Here is a manual with instructions for running the clock at the Arena Arena Clock

I would like to help my beginner child on the ice, what equipment do I need?

In order to go on the ice to help you must have skates, and a helmet. It is also recommended that you have hockey gloves and a stick.

What equipment does my child require to play hockey?

Click here for more information on what equipment is required.

I would like my child to try hockey, but we don't have any gear and not sure where to start.

Antigonish Minor Hockey has gear that can be borrowed. If you wish to borow gear please contact our Equipment Manager through the following email address:

Equipment@antigonishminorhockey.ca

How do I register my child with Antigonish Minor Hockey?

The first step in registering is to create an account on the Antigonish Minor Hockey web site.

Click the Create an Account option in the upper right corner of the web page. If you are on a mobile device you may have to click the menu button in the upper right corner to bring up the popup menu.
Enter your First Name, Last Name, a valid email address and a password, then click the Register button.
An email will be sent to the email you provided to confirm your registration. Click the link in this email to confirm your registration and you account will become active.

Note: If you do not see the email, check your junk folder as some email systems tag emails like this as junk email.

The second step is to create/enter your Family/Household* information.

Log in with your account and then go to the My Home page of the web site. You should see this option in the upper left corner of the page, or at the top of the dropdown menu on a mobile device.
On the My Home page you will see a Family Management section. Click the Family Information link and you will go to a page where you can create your Family Profile.
Enter a name for your family. We recommend using the guardians names for the family name. For example Bobby and Melissa Orr.
Enter your address information as well as an email address that will be associated with your AMHA lottery account. It is important that this email address is correct in order to make sure your account gets credited with lottery funds.
Once all the information is entered, click the Submit button and you will go to the Family Profile page.

Note: When creating a household it should be the primary address for all members of that household. We understand their are circumstances where there is shared custody of a child and could be listed under two addresses, however HNS has a requirement to have the Primary address of a member due to boundary restrictions on where a child can play.

The third step is to add family members to your Household. You must add a Primary(Adult) to the family profile in order to be able to register a child for hockey. This is required as at least one parent must have the Parent Respect In sport certification in order to register with Hockey Nova Scotia.

Click the Add Family Member button.
Enter the information requested on the form.
For Family Role there can only be one Adult(Primary) in a family. All other adults should be listed as Adult(Other).
For Position please choose Skater or Goalie for your child. For an adult wishing to volunteer with a team you can choose the role on the team you wish to volunteer as. If you do not want to volunteer with a team, leave this value set to None.
For Email and Phone Number, it is not necessary to enter the phone number or email address for a child unless you want the coach/manager to have the ability to contact them directly, however any adults who wished to be notified need to have a valid email address entered and the Recieve Email option checked.
Once all the information is entered, click the Save button.

The final step is to register your child for a program for the upcoming season.

Once Registration is open, you will see a Registration option on the right side of the table containing the family members. Click this menu to see a list of options for registering.
Choose the program you wish to register that member.
Once this is done, your child is now regiistered for AMHA. Should you change your mind you can unregister your child if you do so before they are assigned to a team/group within AMHA. Once that happens you must contact the Registrar in order to withdraw from AMHA.

What is a Female Rep. Goalie registration?

AMHA offers goalies who have there own equipment a discount on registration fees for minor hockey.

AMHA House league goalies do not get a dicount as the registration fees for House League are lower than the Rep Goalie registration fees.

Rep. Hockey refers to the team being a travel team that would play against other teams in the same age group and skill level outside of Antignish.

Female refers to the team being open to female participants only.

For more information on levels please follow the link below to Hockey Nova Scotia's information page.

What I need to know about division and skill levels of hockey.

What is Minor (Mixed) House League?

House League hockey refers to a program when the players do not travel outside of Antignish for games.

Minor (Mixed) refers to the team being open to both male and female participants.

House League players normally have 1 skills session per week and 1 house league game per week.

House league players also normally have a jamboree at Christmas and then another jamboree at the end of the season.

What is a Minor (Mixed) Rep. Goalie registration?

AMHA offers goalies who have there own equipment a discount on registration fees for minor hockey. AMHA House league goalies do not get a dicount as the registration fees for House League are lower than the Rep Goalie registration fees.

Rep. Hockey refers to the team being a travel team that would play against other teams in the same age group and skill level outside of Antignish.

Minor (Mixed) refers to the team being open to both male and female participants.

For more information on levels please follow the link below to Hockey Nova Scotia's information page.

What I need to know about division and skill levels of hockey.

What is Minor (Mixed) Rep. Hockey?

Rep. Hockey refers to the team being a travel team that would play against other teams in the same age group and skill level outside of Antigonish.

Minor (Mixed) refers to the team being open to both male and female participants.

For more information on levels please follow the link below to Hockey Nova Scotia's information page.

What I need to know about division and skill levels of hockey.

What is Sledge/Para Hockey?

Sledge/Para Hockey is a 10 week program that normally has 5 house league games before Christmas and 5 games after Christmas. These games are played with novice age players, normally on Sunday mornings after the Novice House league games.

Sledge/Para participents also participate in a game during the Novice Jamboree as well as games at the end of season Novice House league jamboree.

What is U-7 Mixed (4,5,6 Yrs) Initiation hockey?

U-7 refers to this program being for children who are under the age of 7 years

Mixed refers to the group being open to both male and female participants.

For more information on levels please follow the link below to Hockey Nova Scotia's information page.

What I need to know about division and skill levels of hockey.

How do I Create an Account with AMHA?

Click the Create an Account option in the upper right corner of the web page. If you are on a mobile device you may have to click the menu button in the upper right corner to bring up the popup menu.
Enter your First Name, Last Name, a valid email address and a password, then click the Register button.
An email will be sent to the email you provided to confirm your registration. Click the link in this email to confirm your registration and you account will become active.

Note: If you do not see the email, check your junk folder as some email systems tag emails like this as junk email.

What is Female Rep. Hockey?

Rep. Hockey refers to the team being a travel team that would play against other teams in the same age group and skill level outside of Antignish.

Female refers to the team being open to female participants only.

For more information on levels please follow the link below to Hockey Nova Scotia's information page.

What I need to know about division and skill levels of hockey.

What is Female House League?

House League hockey refers to a program when the players do not travel outside of Antigonish for games.

Female refers to the team being open to female participants only.

House League players normally have 1 skills session per week and 1 house league game per week.

House league players also normally have a jamboree at Christmas and then another jamboree at the end of the season.

What is Learn To Play?

Learn To Play is a 8 week program than normally starts after Christmas. The program was introduces as an extension of the MultiSport program but is open to anyone wishing to try hockey.

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