Hockey certificate templates and badges

Many associations do both. In the youngest age groups every player gets a certificate for the season, because the focus is on learning to skate and play together. From around ten or eleven, teams add named awards such as MVP and most improved, and the hockey award winners get their own certificate on top of the team one.

It varies by team. In youth hockey the coaching staff usually decides, sometimes with a vote from the players. Adult leagues and school teams often let the players vote. Whoever chooses, it helps to say on the certificate what the award is for, so it does not read as a popularity contest.

A player gets one point for each goal and one for each assist. Up to two assists can be given on a goal, to the last players who touched the puck before the scorer. The points leader wins the scoring title; when two players are level, most leagues give it to the one with more goals.

It is an old hockey tradition. After a player's first goal, a first shutout or a hat trick, a teammate or the equipment manager takes the puck, wraps it in white tape and writes the date, the opponent and the score on it in marker. Players keep these pucks for years, which is why tape and marker are a natural theme for a hockey award.

Goalies are judged by different numbers from skaters. Wins, shutouts, save percentage and goals-against average are the usual ones, and a line about a big save or a playoff run says more than the figures alone. In the youngest age groups, where many leagues rotate the goalie, praise courage and progress instead.