VIAHA 2025-2026 Season Schedule

Below a message from VIAHA regarding the 2025-2026 Season Calendar, please read carefully to find the part that will apply to your child’s team/league
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Island League (U13/U15/U18 Rep)

Placement games will be played over
three weekends commencing September 20-21, 2025. Teams will be placed in their applicable
Divisions at the Executive Committee Meeting on October 18, 2025 and League Play will commence
the following weekend, October 25-26, 2025.

Round Robin Playoffs will run for three weekends commencing on January 24-25, 2026. That weekend
may also be used for any games postponed from the regular season. The semi-finals, for those
Divisions requiring semi-final games, will be on the weekend of February 14-15, 2026 and the best of
three finals for the District Champions will take place over the weekends of February 21-22 and
February 28-March 1, 2026.

Island League teams should be familiar with Regulation 13.12 regarding restrictions on travel during
playoff weekends. Recreational teams, including Development, are not permitted to travel during
playoff weekends without the consent of the VIAHA Officer responsible for their league.

A printable calendar can be found below

U11 Development (Rep)

The U11 Development Integrated League Placement games will be played over 5 weekends
commencing on September 27-28, 2025 and ending on November 1-2, 2025. League play will
commence on November 15-16, 2025 and will end on February 21-22, 2026. Elimination/quarter final
playoff games, where necessary, will take place on the weekend of February 28-March 1, 2026 and
the semi-final and final playoff games will take place on March 7-8, 2026.

All recreational hockey (House)

In all other recreational leagues in Mid-Island, South Island and Female, league play will commence
on the weekend of October 18-19, 2025 and will conclude on the weekend of February 21-22, 2026.
Elimination/quarter final playoff games will take place on February 28-March 1, 2026 and semi-final
and final playoff games will be played on March 7-8, 2026.

Blackout Weekends

Blackout weekends will be Thanksgiving, October 11-12, 2025, Remembrance Day, November 8-9,
2025, and three weekends over Christmas Break, December 20-21, 2025, December 27-28, 2025 and
January 3-4, 2026. There will be no other Blackout weekends during the season however teams may
request that they be booked out of league play for one other weekend during the season to attend a
tournament. There is no guarantee that all requests can be accommodated, however schedulers will
make every effort to do so. Once a schedule is released it will be the responsibility of the teams
involved to reschedule their games to the satisfaction of the League Commissioner/Managing Director.
The VIAHA Officer responsible for the league has final discretion in these matters. Requests should
be sent to the League Commissioner/Managing Director as early as possible in the season. All MHAs
and teams should acknowledge that league play always takes precedence.