COVID-19 Game & Practice Policies 2020-2021 Season Updated 9/26
If ANYONE (including all players):
· Have a temperature of 100 degrees or more you must stay home!
· Feel sick for any reason – stay home!
· Please use common sense!
Masks & Social Distancing
· Players must always have masks on until right before they put their helmets on. Masks must be put back on immediately following practices or games.
· Coaches and Spectators always need to wear masks in the rink.
· In addition to wearing a mask, all INDIVIDUALS should be keeping themselves 6 feet apart from one another while in the rink.
Spectators
· Only ONE spectator per player is allowed in the rink for practices and games. There will be NO exceptions, including a parent bringing another child as a spectator.
Rink Protocols
· Players and Coaches can only enter the rink 20 minutes before the start of their practice or game time. Only the Goalies can enter the rink 30 minutes before games and practices and get dressed in the Locker rooms.
· Players must arrive as fully dressed as possible before entering the rink for practices and games. If you need to, you can finish dressing in the parking lot.
· Spectators can only enter at the start time of their player's game.
· Players and Coaches must exit the rink within 15 minutes after their practice or game has ended.
· Spectators must leave the rink immediately after the game.
· Temperatures will be taken for everyone entering the rink.
· The rink facilities are cleaned every night. If you have any questions regarding the cleaning at the facility, please contact John Ferguson at the rink.
Locker-Rooms
· Players will be allowed to bring their hockey bags into the rink and the locker room. Skates can be put on in the locker room, if social distancing can be maintained.
· Players cannot get fully dressed or undressed in locker rooms or anywhere in the rink.
· No additional parents in the locker-room, Younger players who still need help with their skates should do so in the lobby area.
· No sharing of equipment; each player will need to bring a water bottle labeled with their name.
· No team meetings in the locker room; all teams are asked to meet outside the rink or at one end of the rink for their pregame talk.
· Entry will be 20 minutes before the practice or game, and masks must be worn until they put their helmets on. Masks are to be worn by all in the locker room.
· Showers will not be available.
Protocols for persons testing positive for COVID-19, or testing negative but in close contact with person testing positive for COVID-19:
· If a player or coach tested negative but an immediate family member of the player/coach tested positive, the entire family, including the player/coach will not be allowed at the rink for 14 days and they all need to quarantine for 14 days.
· If a player or coach tested positive, the entire family, including the player/coach will not be allowed at the rink for 14 days and they all need to quarantine for 14 days.
In addition, the executive board will need to inform the team, and decisions will need to be made in terms of a team quarantine, and if that is necessary depending on the circumstances.
· The player’s family or coach will need to communicate their situation (one of the above) to the Team Manager of their team.
The Team Manager will bring it to the Director of Team Managers who will work with the Executive Board on all decisions that need to be made, as well as confirm player/coach/family is quarantining and inform the rink.
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