Hockey Canada Rule Book

Wonder idea having the Rulebook available at your fingertips. Now that rule books aren’t distributed and officials as well as teams are forced to use the app, the app should get polished. No back button forces you to start at the beginning when trying to flip through sections. Under gameplay fouls, section 8 and 9 say stick fouls. Proof reading would help.

Glad that the app works in offline mode now! (Lots of rinks have bad cell service from all the insulation in the ceiling) Rules are written in a very convoluted manner, but with enough scenarios and explanation to make sense of each rule. Since this replaced the paper rule books, a digitized app presents great opportunity for embedded gifs or videos that better show exactly what a rule means… but that isn’t present. Instead, the app is organized really poorly and it’s hard to find the information you want unless you put the correct keyword into the search bar. 18/22 categories in the “rule book content” section contains content that doesn’t actually help you learn the rules! Signals, glossary, technical rules, and gameplay fouls are the 4 main relevant sections, and they should be front & centre. The “ask a ref” button doesn’t work. (Maybe they are confused about the rules after using the app too lol) Attempting to swipe left to right and go back a page does not work. The animation exists to do so, therefore I assume this is a bug? A frustrating one to be sure, since you can be as many as 5 menus deep, go into the wrong page, and have to completely redo your search just to continue trying to find the information you want. The app isn’t available in French? You cannot call yourself Hockey *Canada* and not have your rule book app capable of displaying the rules in both of your Country’s languages. Instead, the app redirects to the home page of HC’s website, where you can (eventually) find the rule book en français. Baffling. A barely functional app with a disappointing lack of features and functionality… I would like my paper rule book back until this app is in a better state. But seeing as the app has been out for 8 years now and it is still broken, I remain unhopeful.

This app is painful to use, and because the material is copyrighted, there are no alternatives. Search often returns empty results, text cannot be zoomed, I can’t bookmark topics of interest, images can’t be viewed without using data or wifi. This app is an embarrassment.

Basic navigation is not provided in the app. There is no back button. You must always go back to the table of contents. In a rink with poor wi-fi or cellular, the pictures will not load. Even if you’ve loaded them before. Spellcheck or suggestion are needed in the search engine for those of us that need help with “off-side” or “offside”. Links to videos would be fabulous, as well as diagrams to explain situations would make things much easier, But my favourite example of how bad this is, is the “ask a ref” section that simply takes you back to the starting page. If Hockey Canada is serious about recruiting and retaining referees, then they need to do better.

Open any section and it shows “No Items Available.”

There’s no book anywhere in there. Shows a glossary, some board messages, playing area section 1 and that’s it. With the technology now this needs to change asap! They don’t give books out anymore for the kids told you use an app that doesn’t even work or have the proper contents.

The app does not work on my iPhone.

This app does not work properly on my iPhone. It does not show any way to go back to the previous page. The iPad version does. In addition, I cannot scroll down for a page that is longer than one screen. Please fix this app. Thank you.

Every time I try to use the app it asks to download the content and then I wait and wait but no content ever loads.

Latest version won’t download, please fix ASAP.