Ice, slot by slot
Every rink has its own available time — the ice slots you've been allocated. Games and practices are only placed where they fit inside a slot.
Hockey League Scheduling Software
Hockey league scheduling software for leagues that share ice.
Ice is the scarcest thing your league has. SportsPlanr builds the regular season, playoffs and tournaments from the ice you've already been allocated — games, practices, travel and tournament blackouts solved together in minutes, and re-planned when an arena closes.
Fast and easy, from setup to the last game.
- MinutesTo build a full season
- SecondsTo re-check a rule change
- Plain languageTo set up your rules
Describe your league's rules in plain language, or use the forms. A Spot Check tells you straight away if they can't all be met — before you generate anything — and you confirm every change.
Built for the league with more teams than ice.
SportsPlanr is not a rink-booking system, and it is more than a hockey schedule maker. It takes the ice slots your league has been allocated and turns them into a season that works.
- Leagues built from several associations, like a girls' hockey league drawing teams and ice from towns across a region.
- Minor hockey associations with house, rep and recreational divisions sharing the same arenas.
- Ice spread across dozens of arenas, each with its own slots, sometimes in several cities.
- Ringette leagues with the same shape: shared ice, many age groups, one volunteer scheduler.
Your ice, your rules, solved together.
Any one of these is easy on its own. The hard part — the part that eats a volunteer's weekends — is all of them at once: rinks, divisions, practices, travel and blackouts competing for the same time. SportsPlanr solves them as one problem, and tells you before you generate if they can't all be met.
Start times by age group
Earlier ice times for younger age groups and later ones for older players, with allowed days and times set per division or team.
Tournament blackouts
Each team's tournament weekends, entered once as blackout dates and respected across the whole season.
Games and practices on the same ice
Practices compete for the same slots as games, so they are placed together — and a slot can be kept for practices only.
Travel between towns
Each division sets the days and times its teams can travel to another town's arena, and away games are placed inside those windows.
House, rep and recreational
Every league and division in one season plan, drawing on the same ice without double-booking.
Two games a day, only if you say so
By default a team plays once a day. Allow two games in a day at the same rink, with the gap you set between them, where a division or team wants it.
Fair for every team
Balanced home and away games, opponents spread across the season, even start times and enough days between games.
Hockey regular season, playoffs and tournaments, in one place.
Every part of your year is built from the same rinks, in the same place, by the same scheduling engine.
- Regular season. Every division's games and practices across the whole season, with travel and blackouts built in.
- Playoffs. Seeded matchups, configurable series formats and a structure that progresses as teams advance.
- Tournaments. Round-robin group play, bracket structure and seeding, with game progression handled for you.
- Compare before you publish. Build several versions of any schedule, read each one's report card, and publish the best.
Storms, arena closures, team changes? Reschedule only what has to move.
Mid-season, things happen that nobody planned for: a winter storm, an arena closed for a broken compressor, an association giving back a slot, a team moving up a division. SportsPlanr re-plans only the games affected, with every rule still applied — no rebuilding the season, no starting over in a spreadsheet.
- Say what changed. A rink is closed for the weekend, an association gives back a slot, a team moves divisions.
- Pick the date the change takes effect. Everything before that date stays exactly as it is.
- Only the affected games are re-planned, with every rule still applied.
- Review every move before it goes live. Where each game was, where it is now and why — then publish or discard. Single games can also be moved by hand.
Proven on a real hockey season.
We first used SportsPlanr for the 2025–26 SMGHL season, managing a schedule for nearly 60 teams across five leagues, and the time savings were incredible.
The platform made a very complex process much easier, particularly when managing team blackouts and ice allocations across dozens of arenas. We also had countless hard and soft rules to account for, from tournament blackouts to prioritizing earlier game times for younger age groups and later times for older teams, and SportsPlanr handled them seamlessly.
Randy and his team were fantastic to work with. They were responsive, helpful and always willing to support us whenever needed.
Hands down, I would use SportsPlanr again.
One scheduling engine, every team sport: the same engine schedules hockey, ringette, soccer, baseball, softball, basketball and volleyball, and has solved complex multi-city league logistics since 2018.
Also see soccer league scheduling, baseball league scheduling and softball league scheduling.
Hockey scheduling questions
Does SportsPlanr book ice with the arena?
No. SportsPlanr schedules the ice you already have. Enter the ice slots your association has been allocated as available time for each rink, and SportsPlanr builds the league's schedule inside them.
Can it schedule a league made up of several associations?
Yes. The league is scheduled as one organization that holds every association's teams and ice. Each association's blackout dates and travel windows become rules, and the whole league is solved together. Sharing ice between two separate SportsPlanr organizations is in development.
Can games and practices share the same ice?
Yes. Practices compete for the same ice slots as games, so SportsPlanr places them together, and a slot can be kept for practices only.
What happens when an arena cancels our ice?
Use Reschedule. Say what changed, such as a rink closed for the weekend, and pick the date the change takes effect. Only the games that have to move are re-planned, with every rule still applied, and you review each move before anything is published. Individual games can also be moved by hand.
Can a team play two games in one day?
Only where you allow it. By default a team plays once a day. You can allow doubleheaders for a division, an association or a single team: two games on the same day at the same rink, with the minimum gap you set between them.
Can it keep away games inside each division's travel times?
Yes. Each division sets the days and times its teams are able to travel, and SportsPlanr places away games inside those windows, alongside every other rule.
Does it schedule hockey playoffs and tournaments too?
Yes. Playoffs use seeded matchups, configurable series formats and a structure that progresses as teams advance. Tournaments get round-robin group play, bracket structure, seeding and game progression. Both are built in the same place, from the same rinks, as your regular season.
How long does it take to build a hockey schedule?
Most organizations generate a complete schedule in minutes and re-check a rule change in seconds. Next season is faster still: clone this season's settings and start from there.
Is SportsPlanr a hockey schedule maker or schedule generator?
Yes, and more. A typical schedule maker or schedule generator pairs teams and assigns times. SportsPlanr generates the full hockey schedule — regular season, playoffs and tournaments — while solving rinks, practices, travel and blackouts together, and tells you before it generates if your rules can't all be met.
Pricing is published per organization, never per player or per game — see plans and estimate your price. More questions are answered in the main FAQ.
Bring us your ice list.
Show us your divisions, your arenas and slots, and the rules your league plays by. We'll show you the season SportsPlanr builds from them.
A focused 30-minute walkthrough with your management team and lead scheduler — no obligation.
info@sportsplanr.com