Registration

Late Fee Policy (passed May 2024)

$25 per month per player will be added on failed credit card payments that are not corrected with 72 hours of failure, or on any other account in arrears without a payment plan arranged with the Registrar and approved by the Treasurer, effective immediately.

Number of Teams:

• The number of rep teams in each division will be determined based on a number of different factors. The intent is to provide opportunity for players to play at the highest level they can attain and desire.   If you do not register and pay the appropriate fees for the Rep Tryout process, you will be unable to be considered for any rep team at a later date.
• New in 2025-26 - Tryouts will have one start date and will not be divided into A1 and A2/3 tryouts.
• The decision about whether there will be an A3 team in a division will be made further into the Tryout Process.

External Tryouts:

• You must advise the 1VP by email with a cc to the Registrar of tryout for any Zone, Academy or Junior Camps with approximate dates of same.  If you are missing any of the rep tryouts, you must:
  • have received permission in writing from the 1VP for any missed dates and
  • be properly registered and paid in full for tryouts by Aug 1, by either:
    • a Regular Registration OR
    • an External Tryout Hold registration
•  PLAYERS TRYING OUT FOR HIGHER LEVEL TEAMS ARE NOT GUARANTEED PLACEMENT ON ANY TEAM.  
• Any registered player that obtains a release by September 30th to play for a Zone or Hockey Canada Sanctioned-Junior team shall receive a 100% refund of the basic registration fees if they registered with a Regular Registration.  Tryout fees are non-refundable under a Regular Registration.

External Tryout Hold Registration:

*NEW in 2024-25 * An alternative registration fee to players in the U15/U18/U21 divisions while they are trying out for elite HOCKEY CANADA-SANCTIONED programs that are external to CMHA, so they can be accounted for in CMHA tryouts in the event they are not signed by the elite program.

• External Tryout Hold Registrants: If the player advises that they are not participating in CMHA tryouts before August 1, the tryout fee will be refunded.  The hold fee is non-refundable.
• If the player participates in CMHA tryouts and is signed to the external program, the entire fee is non-refundable.
• If the player participates in CMHA tryouts and is released back to CMHA from the external program, the $25 hold fee will be credited towards their regular season registration fees.
  • Upon such release and return, their CMHA base registration fees will be due immediately.
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Dates for Rep Evaluations:

• Dates for Rep Evaluations are will be posted on the Important Dates page.
• The Evaluation process for U11A will begin after Labor Day.
• If there are any changes made to the process they will be posted prior to the tryouts.
• All players who wish to be considered for the Rep teams MUST sign up for this phase at time of registration.  There absolutely will be NO opportunity to play on the A teams (other than as an affiliate) if the player has not registered and paid for tryouts.
• AGAIN - Rep tryout fees are NON-REFUNDABLE unless you are an eligible External Tryout Hold registrant and you withdraw before Aug 1.

REVISED APRIL 2025

A. Regular Season Registration Refund Policy

Deadlines:

• Up to and including Aug 15 – 100% refund of Base Registration Fee, less $50 Administration Fee 
• Aug 16-Sept 15 – 75% refund of Base Registration Fee, less $50 Administration Fee 
• Sept 16-Nov 15 – 50% refund of Base Registration Fee, less $50 Administration Fee 
• On Nov 16th or later – NO REFUND 

Additional Conditions:

1. As noted on the Fees and Payments tab, all Rep Tryout Fees are non-refundable, UNLESS YOU ARE AN EXTERNAL TRYOUT HOLD REGISTRANT.  In that case ONLY, withdrawals must be requested before Aug 1 to qualify for a refund.
2. These deadlines refer to when the Cancellation Form was submitted, not when the reason for the withdrawal occurred.   
3. Any refund request that requests a higher refund amount than what falls within the above deadlines may be reviewed by the Executive Board, and the Board reserves the right to grant or decline a refund request for a higher amount outside of these deadlines, based on a test of whether the reason provided in the Cancellation Form is out of the player’s control, or if it is a choice to withdraw.

a) Medical or hardship issues may be considered valid reasons for Board review of a higher refund amount.

i. For an illness or injury that precludes an entire season of playing hockey, a medical doctor’s note MUST accompany the request.  Any cost of this will be borne by the withdrawing player’s family.

ii. For a hardship issue, some supporting document will need to accompany the request that indicates how the loss of the registration funds being refunded at the higher rate will create a hardship on the family. 

iii. The occurrence of either a medical condition or a hardship issue will be defined as “the Event”.

b) Refund requests for amounts higher than what they are eligible for within the above deadlines due to disagreement with any CMHA Policy, Process, Custom, Rule, or Bylaw will not be considered valid and the deadlines above will apply.  

c) If a higher amount is granted, the amount will be the next earlier deadline’s percentage.  Ie (FOR EXAMPLE PURPOSES ONLY), if a Cancellation Form is received Oct 15 but the Event occurred Aug 10, and this prevented all participation, the 100% (less $50 admin fee) rate may be granted, instead of the 75% rate.

• • • CAVEAT: Any participation in hockey between the Event occurring and the Cancellation Form being submitted will make the request ineligible for a Board review of the refund rate, and the refund will follow the bulleted schedule in Section A.

d) Only the reason in the Cancellation Form, plus any doctor’s notes or other supporting documents, will be used in the review of the Refund request.

B. Development (any season) Registrations Refund Policy:

• All fees, less a $25 admin fee, will be refunded up to 3 weeks before the posted start date of the camp. 
  • For example purposes only:  If the start date is Aug 12, refunds will only be issued if you withdraw on or before July 22.
• No refund 3 weeks less a day prior to the posted start date of the camp.
  • As per example above, if you withdraw on or after July 23, you would not get a refund.
• Medical conditions or extenuating circumstances that occur within the 3 week timeline accompanied with a medical doctor’s note / supporting document will be considered on an individual basis, less $25 admin fee.  
  • Only the reason in the Cancellation Form, plus any medical doctor’s notes or other supporting documents, will be used in the review of the Refund request.

YOU MUST COMPLETE THIS FORM TO WITHDRAW FROM REGULAR SEASON OR DEVELOPMENT REGISTRATIONS: https://form.jotform.com/241055369031248

• Base registration fees have been reduced by half for full-time goaltenders in U11 and above who do not make use of any CMHA Goalie Gear.
• If you are a U11 part-time goalie, please register as a U11 Part-time goalie. 
• All goalies that have taken the rebate will be rostered as full-time goalies AND will have their own gear.
  • If the discounted rate is taken and the player is not rostered as a full-time goalie, or does not have their own gear, the difference in fees will be charged and must be paid immediately.

New in 2024-25 season!

Register before June 30, 11:59pm and you will benefit from a $50 discount!

As of July 1, 12:00am, fees will go up by $50.