Is the Hockey Line companion app free?

Yes. The Hockey Line app is free on iOS and Android. Players get their schedule, live scores, team record, and league standings at no cost. An optional Premium upgrade adds player and goalie stats, special-teams line setups, attendance analytics, and practice planning.

How do teams connect to my rink?

Each team has a unique join code in your rink dashboard. Send it to the team's captain or coach, who enters it in the free Hockey Line app. The team is instantly linked to your rink, and your schedule, scores, and standings flow to every player's phone.

What is the line-management feature?

Line management is the app's signature tool for coaches. Before a game you can build forward lines and defensive pairings, configure special teams like the power play and penalty kill, and share the finished lineup with your whole team so every player knows where they're playing.

Do players need their own login to follow the team?

No special provisioning is needed from the rink. The captain joins with the team's join code, and teammates join the team in the app. There are no per-player accounts to set up on the rink side.

After Pointstreak: Get Your Teams & Players on the Hockey Line App

You've rebuilt your league on Hockey Line Leagues after Pointstreak's shutdown — the schedule's set, the standings are live, the public page looks sharp. Now comes the part your players will actually feel every week: getting their teams onto the free Hockey Line companion app.

This is where a league stops being a webpage and starts being something every player carries in their pocket.

The two halves of Hockey Line

It helps to picture the system as two connected pieces:

Hockey Line Leagues — the web platform where you, the rink, run everything: leagues, schedules, live scoring, standings, stats.
Hockey Line — the free mobile app (iOS + Android) where teams, coaches, and players follow along and run their own bench.

They talk to each other through one simple thing: a join code.

Getting a team connected (it takes about a minute)

In your rink dashboard, each team has a unique join code.
Send that code to the team's captain or coach.
They download the free Hockey Line app and enter the code.
The team is instantly linked to your rink.

That's the whole onboarding. No accounts to provision for every player, no spreadsheets of emails. The captain joins with the code, and teammates join the team in the app. From that moment, everything you publish on the web flows to their phones.

What players see — for free

The free tier is genuinely useful on its own. Once a player's team is connected, they get:

The schedule — every game, time, and opponent, synced from the rink.
Live scores — follow games as goals go in, even if they're not at the rink.
Their team's record — wins, losses, and where they stand.
League standings — the full table, updated automatically as games finish.

No paywall on any of that. The information your league produces should reach the people who play in it, and it does.

The coach's secret weapon: line management

Here's the feature beer-league captains and youth coaches fall in love with — the app's signature line-management tools. Before the game, a coach can:

Build forward lines — set your LW/C/RW combinations.
Set defensive pairings — lock in your D-pairs.
Configure special teams — power-play and penalty-kill units.
Share the lineup — push it to the whole team so everyone knows where they're playing before they lace up.

No more scribbling lines on a whiteboard or texting a group chat that nobody reads. The lineup lives in the app, and every player can see exactly where they slot in.

Premium: for the stat-hungry and the serious bench

The free app covers schedule, scores, record, and standings. Premium is for teams that want to go deeper. It unlocks:

Player and goalie stats — individual performance tracking beyond the public leaderboard.
Special-teams line setups — advanced power-play and penalty-kill management.
Attendance analytics — see who's showing up and spot trends.
Practice planning — organize and run structured practices.

Premium is an individual upgrade in the app, so the coaches and players who want the extra firepower can get it without changing anything about how the rink runs the league.

Why this matters after Pointstreak

Pointstreak gave you a website. Hockey Line gives your players an app — a live, in-pocket connection to the league that the old platform never offered. The schedule, the scores, the standings: all of it follows your players around instead of waiting on a desktop bookmark. And coaches get real bench tools on top.

For you as the rink, the win is engagement. When players can follow live scores and check the standings from the locker room, they're more invested in the league — and a more engaged league is an easier league to fill next season.

Get your teams on the app

Finish building your season on the web (the quick-start guide covers it).
Grab each team's join code from your dashboard.
Send it to the captains and tell them to download Hockey Line.
Watch the locker-room buzz when live scores hit everyone's phone.

Not set up yet? Start your free trial to build your league, then tour the demo rink to see exactly what your players and coaches will be looking at.

After Pointstreak: Getting Your Teams & Players on the App