Well top cheese... first of all I'm pretty sure Wade can speak for himself.top cheese wrote:I don't think he's referring to the import rule. My understanding of an affiliate is a farm team from a lower level that you can call players up from. Nshl is technically classed senior aa and cville registers themselves as a senior aaa team to play in the allan cup. So what you have is a situation where there is one senior aaa team in the league and all the other teams become it's feeder team for the tournament. What should occur is that the nshl should register all of its teams as senior aaa teams especially if it is deemed the winner moves to the allan cup. Then the aeshl should be designated senior aa and act as a feeder affiliate league to the nshl.
The way things occur now it's like Pittsburgh makes the nhl playoffs and then they can go and pick up players from non playoff teams to strengthen there team.
And a few extra players might entail 3 players not the 8 or 9 pro level players they signed
Secondly if the same rules applied to NLSHL teams as it did to Bentley we would be talking a WHOLE different ball game here. As for comparing SR to the NHL.... we'll no further comment