Updated: 2025 OCT 1
2025-2026
The philosophy for scheduling ice is to be as fair and as equitable as possible to each team under the Southwest Hockey umbrella.
There are many domino effects to scheduling ice for 55 teams. Once the game schedule is released from Hockey Calgary, several hours are spent reviewing games and generating practices. This review includes MANY checks and balances to ensure teams with the same age division receive a similar number of hours on the ice, shared vs. full practices, and a similar number of early & late starts (as close as we can possibly get), by the end of the season.
Generally the younger Age Divisions are scheduled on 'earlier ice' and older Age Divisions are scheduled on 'later ice'.
Return Ice Policy
Submit Schedule Windows
This is required when a team wants to attend a tournament during the Regular Season, where Hockey Calgary will then not schedule games over that same weekend. Review the Hockey Calgary Tournament Policy pertaining to rules regarding Schedule Windows.
Submit Blackouts
Teams must also enter their tournament dates into OCI - called Blackouts - so the team is not scheduled practices. Managers are to log in to OCI and enter these dates, as well as the tournament sanction number.
OCI Login
These are distributed to Managers upon being notified by the Head Coach of who their Manager is. If you did not receive your Manager login, please send an email.
Request OCI Team Portal Guide
The OCI Team Portal Guide was emailed to all Team Managers. This document helps you navigate OneClickIce (OCI); which is the scheduling software.
Report Arena Irregularities
All arena irregularities should be reported to the Ice Schedule so that follow up can be done with the facility.