Families, Friends, and Spectators,

Please let your team managers and coaches do their jobs by letting them communicate any issues with tournament staff.  Enjoy watching your player, and remember, these are children playing youth hockey. Yes, winning is fun and losing is disappointing, but at the end of the day, its just a game. Don't let your behavior ruin what should be a fun and memorable weekend for the kids.

 Our tournaments are run by volunteers and our refs are nominally paid so our children can play hockey.  Keep in mind that most of what you do in our rinks is recorded on audio and video.  There will be zero tolerance for abusive behavior.

Over the season, our tournament director has been compiling a list of reminders for spectators regarding behavior that is acceptable at the rink based on issues that have occurred in each tournament.  That list is below. Please conduct yourself in a way that does not add to his list this weekend.

(1) Non-Service Animals cannot come into the rink.  This rule applies the same to multiple animals. 

(2) If you are asked to leave the rink by an on-ice OR off-ice tournament official, you are done in the rink for the rest of the weekend.  This rule applies if you change clothes and try to come back in.

(3) Don't wander around the rink with alcohol.

(4) Your conduct in the rink is being recorded and the audio from the spectator section is clear.

(5) Livebarn ends up on Tik Tok.  Also, see #4. See also crazy.hockey.fans

(6) The boards at Nymore Gardens are older, but the bracing is not a step for parents to go above the glass to yell at the refs.  The glass is there for your safety, and if you are climbing the glass to yell at refs you probably need risk mitigation for your life in general. See also #4, #5,  (The same rule applies at all our rinks)

(7) Refs are cool.  Whistles are cool.  Spectators are cool. Refs with whistles are cool. Spectators with whistles are NOT cool (even if they are cute little kids).