From Pointstreak to Hockey Line Leagues: A Rink Admin's Quick-Start Guide

Ed Richards•

If you ran your rink's leagues on Pointstreak, the shutdown left a hole where your scheduling, scoring, and standings used to be. This is a practical, do-it-now quick-start for getting that same operation running on Hockey Line Leagues — step by step, in the order you'll actually do it.

No fluff. Just the path from a blank account to a live, public league.

Step 1 — Create your account and rink

Sign up and create your rink's organization. The moment you do, you've got a public home at /r/your-rink where everyone — players, parents, opposing captains — will find schedules, scores, and standings.

Hockey Line Leagues is $150/month or $1,260/year (30% off), and the annual plan comes with a 14-day free trial (credit card required to start). So you can build the whole thing before you commit.

Step 2 — Create a league and season

A league is the recurring competition (e.g., "Adult Rec League"); a season is one run of it (e.g., "Fall 2026"). Create your league, then add the current season. Everything — teams, schedule, standings, stats — lives inside a season, which keeps year-over-year history clean.

Tip: This is the perfect moment to lean on the AI setup assistant. Describe the league and season in plain English and it scaffolds the structure for you.

Step 3 — Add divisions

If your league splits into divisions — by skill (A/B/C), by night, or by age group — set them up now. Divisions drive separate standings and make playoff seeding clean later. Teams belong to a division, so do this before bulk-adding teams.

Step 4 — Add your teams

Recreate your team list. You can add them by hand, or — far faster coming off Pointstreak — have the AI setup assistant (powered by Grok) create all of them at once from a simple description like "eight teams in the B division." Set each team's name and color so they're easy to spot on the schedule and scoreboard.

Step 5 — Build rosters

Add players to each team with their positions. Rosters power your automatic stat tracking — once a player is on a roster, every goal, assist, shot, and penalty you record in a game flows to their season totals and to the leaderboards. You can keep rosters loose to start and fill them in as captains confirm their lineups.

Step 6 — Generate the schedule (the AI round-robin)

This is the step that used to eat your weekend. Instead of hand-building a grid, tell the AI assistant your parameters — number of games, start date, ice slots — and it generates a balanced round-robin schedule where every team plays a fair slate. Review it, drag a game to a different night if you need to, and you're done. Minutes, not hours.

Step 7 — Run live games

When the puck drops, open the game and score it live:

  • Goals and assists (with the scorer and up to two assisters)
  • Shots for each team
  • Penalties (player, infraction, minutes)
  • Goalie stats, derived automatically from shots and goals

Standings update instantly. Player and goalie stat leaders recalculate on every entry. There's no end-of-night spreadsheet to reconcile — the scoreboard is the database.

Step 8 — Publish and share your public page

Your /r/your-rink page is live the whole time, automatically reflecting your schedule, scores, and standings. Share the link in your league emails and on your rink's website. Want to see the finished product before you build yours? Tour the live demo rink.

Step 9 — Get teams onto the app

Each team has a unique join code. Hand it to the captain; they enter it in the free Hockey Line companion app (iOS + Android) and the whole team is linked — schedule, live scores, record, and standings on every player's phone. Coaches also get line-management tools to build forward lines and D-pairs and share lineups.

Step 10 — Confirm billing

When you're happy with the build, your trial converts to a paid plan automatically (annual, 30% off monthly). Manage billing from your rink settings any time.

A realistic timeline

| Task | Roughly | | --- | --- | | Account + rink + league/season | 10 minutes | | Divisions + teams (AI) | 10 minutes | | Rosters | 15–30 minutes | | AI round-robin schedule | 5 minutes | | Invite teams via join code | 5 minutes |

That's a working league in well under an hour of focused effort. The longest part is typing in rosters — and even those can wait until captains confirm.

You've done the hard part already

You already know how to run a league; Pointstreak just made you do it the slow way. Hockey Line Leagues keeps the parts you know (divisions, schedules, standings) and removes the grind (manual scheduling, manual stat math).

Start your free trial and build your first season today, or explore the demo to see where you'll end up.