Waddell Games Hockey League Follow
WGHL 2025
The Waddell Games Hockey League is running it's inaugural season from February-May 2025 with 8 teams across Ontario competing. There will be a men's league and a women's league with each team being represented in both.
Regular Season:
10 Games (5 Home, 5 Away)
North Division: Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener, Kingston
South Division: Hamilton, Niagara, London, Brantford
2 Games against each other team in the same division (1 Home, 1 Away) and 1 game against each team in the other division (Home against 2 opponents, Away against 2 opponents)
Playoffs:
2 Games
Top 4 play in A Playoffs, Bottom 4 play in B Playoffs
A Playoffs: 1N VS 2S, 1S VS 2N, Winners play for A championship, Losers play for 3rd place
B Playoffs: 3N VS 4S, 3S VS 4N, Winners play for B championship, Losers play for 7th place
Gameplay:
Non-contact
Maximum Players: 18 Skaters, 2 Goalies (Additional team members are permitted to be on the bench)
Minimum Players: 5 Skaters, 1 Goalie (Teams will forfeit if they can't put a full line on the ice at the start of the game)
3 20-Minute periods with time stopped between plays
Tiebreaker: 5-Minute 3-on-3 overtime followed by 3-round shootout
Icing: Red line icing with race to hash marks
Offside: Gain blue line on offense, clear blue line on defense
Contact with goalie in the crease results in goalie interference
Registration:
Cost: $600
Includes: 2 Jerseys and all games
Maximum of 28 players can register per team
Minimum of 12 players including 1 goalie must register to form a team
Notes:
Jerseys might arrive late and teams may need to provide their own jerseys for the first few games of the season.
Games will be played on Saturdays.
Some games may be cancelled if weather conditions make travel to the game unsafe, but there might be opportunities to reschedule if teams can find an alternative time to play a cancelled game.
Registration will apply to a future season, or another team, if a player registers for a team that fails to meet the minimum registration requirements.
There is no Registration for this Program
About Us
Usually, Waddell Games focuses more on new games invented by Joel Waddell while trying to use these games as a platform to contribute to the needs of others, but Joel also played 5 years of minor hockey in Tiverton, Ontario and, now living in the GTA, continues to play hockey recreationally as an adult. Playing Local League hockey for Tiverton, Joel got the experience of playing for a team representing a community and noticed a big difference between that and playing at the same location every week on a team that doesn't really represent a community. He also noticed that, unless you're good enough to play at a professional level, there aren't many opportunities to play hockey on a team representing a community and, after learning how House League hockey works in the city, he realized that many hockey players never had the opporunity to play on this kind of team. Having the experience of both regular recreational hockey, and representing a community, and believing that representing a community makes the experience much better, Joel decided to start a new recreational hockey league under Waddell Games to give people the opportunity to have a hockey experience they haven't had the opportunity for in the past.
