Teams usually know their game times for hockey tournaments, like other sports, for the first few games.  Then the winners and losers of those games have to face each other which means it's a "wait and see" situation before going onto the next level.  Eventually it turns into a "play in the championship game or go home" situation.  This year, during the weekend of the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo, I hosted our annual neighborhood Cinco de Mayo party and my son was in a hockey tournament that consisted of 5 games and a possible championship game.  A recap of the weekend went as follows:  Game #1 /Screw up #1 - I messed up by not checking my son's bag to make sure he had everything. We didn't have his gray hockey socks so I got a text from coach not to forget them for the next game. We won the game.