PROVIDENCE HOCKEY CLUB

COVID-19 FACILITY PROTOCOLS

September 2, 2020

The Providence Hockey Club (“PHC”) facilities are requiring all participants and spectators to undertake the following steps to help to safeguard against the contraction and/or spread of COVID-19.

GENERAL POLICY

All facility participants and spectators must follow all federal, state, and local guidelines (collectively “COVID-19 Guidelines”) issued pertaining to COVID-19 including, but not limited to, guidelines regarding travel, facility management and any hockey/sport related policies.   Participants include coaches, players and officials.

RINK SAFEGUARDS

The following policy relates to all games and practices

RI Sports Center (North Smithfield) and Lynch Arena (Pawtucket)

• All participants must complete an online covid waiver prior to participating on the ice.
• 20 min before each ice session, teams enter as a group at that time, one team at a time.  Rink entrance will be locked at all times.  Do not congregate at entrance.
• All parents, players and coaches must adhere to all Social Distancing Guidelines including wearing of a face covering while not on the ice surface and must maintain 6 feet social distancing within the arena.
• Coaches must wear a mask at all times (on the bench and on the ice)
• Showers are not allowed to be used
• Only one parent per player is allowed.  No siblings are allowed.  All viewing must be in the bleachers
• Upon completion of the ice session, all teams must exit as a group within 15 minutes.
• Parents can remain in the bleachers to wait for their child or exit the building.  Parents are not allowed to congregate in the lobby or common areas. 
• Anyone not feeling well or has been in contact with someone who has tested positive with Covid-19 within the last 14 days is not allowed in the rink.

Cranston Veterans Ice Rink

• Parents and players will enter via the main entrance on the right side of the building
• All parents, players and coaches must adhere to all Social Distancing Guidelines including wearing of a face covering while not on the ice surface and must maintain 6 feet social distancing within the arena.
• All players are required to come to the rink dressed and ready to go except for their skates, helmets, and gloves.
• Only one parent per player is allowed.  No siblings are allowed.  All viewing must be in the bleachers
• Rink doors will be open approx. 15 minutes before the ice session to allow teams to enter.  Teams must enter as a group
• Rink doors will be locked after the teams enter.  No reentry will be allowed for parents who exit
• Locker rooms will be used to gather the teams and to get ready to enter the ice surface.
• After the team gets on the ice, the coach must assign someone to remove all players bags out of the locker room to allow staff to clean and get ready for next group.  Bags will be moved to the front of the building where the players will exit the ice.
• On ice participants will exit the ice surface from the end opposite the locker rooms. (front of building)

Providence College (Schneider Arena) NOT OPEN AT THIS TIME

PHC reserves the right to modify the COVID-19 FACILITY PROTOCOLS at anytime at our sole discretion

All clinic locations at Rhode Island Sports Center

Wednesday September 9th 9:00am – 10:00am 

Mite/ Squirt Powerskating and Agility

(2 years travel hockey required)

Limited to 23 skaters

$25.00

Wednesday September 9th 10:10am – 11:10am

Peewee/ Bantam Powerskating and Agility

Limited to 23 skaters

$25.00

Thursday September 10th 9:00am – 10:00am 

Mite/ Squirt Puck control and Shooting

(2 years travel hockey required)

Limited to 23 skaters

$25.00

Thursday September 10th 10:10am – 11:10am

Peewee/ Bantam Puck control and shooting

Limited to 23 skaters

$25.00

Limited to 40 skaters per session, and filled on a first come first served basis.

If you have any questions please contact Rick Beauregard at rick@phchockey.com or 401-500-6216.

The pro shop at the RI Sports Center will be having a jersey sizing for the upcoming season June 22-25.

Players who need to order a set of jerseys will need to be sized and must pay in full at the time.

Players must bring shoulder pads and either last season’s jersey or a practice jersey that fits them.  They will put their shoulder pads and their own jersey on, and then hold their jersey up to the new jersey samples to find the correct size.  Players will not be trying the jersey samples on.  The price for the set of jerseys is $155.  Warm up suits, gloves, shorts, tees, and other apparel will be available for purchase also.

Anybody coming into the rink must wear a cloth face covering.  Players should attend with one parent only.  Siblings should not attend due to rink capacity limits.  There may be a wait to get into the rink so please be prepared to wait outside if needed, and please practice social distancing.

The jersey sizing schedule is as follows:

Monday 6/22, and Wednesday 6/24

3pm-6pm – Mite

6pm-9pm – Peewee

Tuesday 6/23,  and Thursday 6/25

3pm-6pm – Squirt

6pm-9pm – Bantam

Mite Development and half season team sizing will be completed separately.

PHC Players and Families,

 We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during this COVID 19 crisis. We will continue to communicate with you as we hear and learn more about how and when we will be able to safely reopen hockey and the ice rinks. Our expectation today is that we will be running our PHC summer camps in July and August and that we will begin our season on time in September. Teams will begin having some practices at the end of August and the first week of September. There will be league games scheduled over Labor Day weekend this year. We will not finalize any schedules until we know when we can safely reopen. If this timeline extends out due to the crisis, we will communicate accordingly. 

This crisis has created a very difficult situation that no one has ever experienced or planned for in the past. We are all trying our best to figure out how to move forward. In the event the upcoming season were cancelled all families would receive a full refund, if the season were shortened all families would receive a partial refund. We understand several families have been impacted financially from this crisis. Accordingly, we are pushing our May tuition payment back 6 months to November for full season players to assist the families in our program. For our half season players, we will be pushing our May tuition payment back to September.      

As soon as we can safely allow people back into the rink, we will coordinate times to size and order game jerseys and equipment in the pro shop at the RI Sports Center.  

Stay Safe and Healthy!

Andrew, Mike, Matt, Kevin and Dan

Due to the current COVID-19 outbreak the health and safety our staff and families is important to us and as a result PHC will be suspending tryouts. 

We will continue to keep you posted with more information regarding tryouts in the future. 

Under the circumstances, coaches are being given the authority to sign players.  If you are interested in joining one of our Providence Hockey Club teams please contact PHC Hockey directory Jimmy Pellegrino jimp@phchockey.com