Tiebreaking Criteria:
- For the purpose of determining playoff seeding when two or more teams have an equal number of points, the following criteria shall be used until the tie is broken:
- The higher seeded team shall be the one with the greater number of wins;
- The higher seeded team shall be the one with the greater number of wins in games played between the tied teams;
- The higher seeded team shall be the one with the superior goal differential in games played between the tied teams.
For the 2021/22 season, playoff positioning in the Kootenay Conference will be determined as follows:
- In the Eddie Mountain division, the top four teams shall qualify with the first round consisting of series between EM1/EM4 and EM2/EM3
- In the Neil Murdoch Division, the top three teams shall qualify with the first round consisting of series between NM1/WC1 and NM2/NM3
- The team with the superior record between the fourth-placed team in the Murdoch Division and the fifth-placed team in the Mountain Division shall qualify as the Wild Card qualifier (WC1) and be assigned the fourth seed in the Neil Murdoch Division.
