The sanctioned teams compete from end of November till mid-March with a maximum number of practices and games.
Each section is divided into four regions East, West, Central, and North who all follow the NYSAHA Guidebook for state bound eligibility.
The non-sanctioned teams have no official start and stop date and no limit on the minimum and maximum of games.
NYSPHSAA, each section has different sets of rules for eligibility of Catholic teams to participate in the State Tournament.
Clarkson College, along with St. Lawrence University, were significant influences in the birth of high school hockey in this region.
^ Two championships were when Aquinas was a Division II team § Monroe, and Webster as a unified district, did not play under a NYSPHSAA classification.
Rush Henrietta competed as two high schools (Sperry and Roth) starting in 1979 and then merged back into a single entity in 1983.
WFL Combined is a merger of NINE school districts in the Western Finger Lakes area: Geneva, Palmyra-Macedon, Midlakes, Penn Yan, Mynderse, Marcus Whitman, Red Jacket, Romulus and Bloomfield.