Modified Best-of-3 Regulations

• If the first game is tied, it will remain tied.
• If one team wins game 1 and ties game 2, the team with the win will be the series winner.
• If the teams split the two games, or if the first two games both end in a tie, then a Mini-Game will be played to decide the series winner regardless of what the score was in the first two games.

Mini-Game Rules:

• When it is necessary to decide a series by virtue of the Mini-Game, the teams will take a two (2) minute break at their respective benches.
• The teams will play a ten (10) minute period. The first 5 minutes will be straight time. The last 5 minutes will be stop time.
• This will not be sudden victory, the full ten (10) minute period will be played.
• If the teams remain tied at the end of the Mini-Game, there will be an ice cleaning, and the teams will continue to play twenty (20) minute straight time sudden victory periods.
• A separate game sheet will be completed for the Mini-Game.
• A time penalty from the end of Game two (2) will not be carried over to the Mini-Game as the Mini-Game and possibly subsequent overtime is viewed as a separate Game.
• Any player or coach who committed a suspendable infraction in Game two (2) of the series would sit the Mini-Game and subsequent possible Overtime. The Mini-Game, although separate, is not considered a full game so missing the Mini-Game would not count towards that player or coach’s suspension.
• If a player and/or Coach was suspended before the series or after the first games of the series, and his/her suspension was up or served in its entirety after the second game of the series, that player and/or coach would be eligible to participate in the Mini-Game as it is deemed a separate game.