Why didn't they wait? CeeBees could lose 7...

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If the Ceebees had to have waited until after the meetings to grant releases, they would've stood to lose only 3 players maximum. Because they didn't, they could lose 7. Smart on behalf of the Cataracts, but the CeeBees executive - Dumb da dumb dumb.

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East and west agree to limit player movement
DEER LAKE
DAVE KEARSEY
The Western Star


Senior hockey brass in this province have put their own agendas on the backburner ... at least for this season.

Senior hockey delegates have agreed to a player release restriction for the 2009-2010 season between the Avalon East and West Coast Senior Hockey Leagues in attempt to maintain two competitive leagues in Newfoundland and Labrador. The player transfer restriction agreement was struck during Hockey Newfoundland and Labrador meetings in Gander over the weekend.

Over the past couple of years, senior hockey officials in the east have grown weary of players from their league heading west for greener pastures and leaving the east in topsy turvy because the top players were always on the radar of general managers of teams in the west setup.

Last month, there were talks of the Conception Bay North CeeBee Stars being in limbo for this season because the core of the team was being lured to the west and Avalon East officials wanted steps taken to protect their league.

The agreement puts the limit of carded players allowed to be dealt by a particular team — in either league for just this season — at a maximum of three. Also, the deal doesn’t include the Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts because they had already secured the services of four players from the Conception Bay North Cees before the weekend meeting in Gander. That means the CeeBees can still lose three more players from their roster this year if any team, with the exception of the Cataracts who can’t recruit anymore this year, is interested in acquiring the services of any player still on a card with them.

“Basically why this was put in was because the CeeBees were raped and pilaged, so this is what they were trying to stop,” Deer Lake Red Wings GM Andy Brake told The Western Star Tuesday.

The deal won’t have much of an impact on the Red Wings, according to Brake, who lost rearguards Mike Lee and Brian Sutherland to Mount Pearl in the east this year. This means the worse case scenario for the Deer Lake squad is losing one carded player to another team in the east if there is somebody contemplating heading in the other direction.
“It works both ways,” Brake said of the agreement.

Over the weekend, the delegates also approved a report on the senior hockey summit held in January 2009 that will provide direction for a committee to continue with proposing regulations to improve the game in our province.

Brake said findings from the hockey summit report will be used to help find a workable solution for all teams involved in the near future and for years to come, and player movement is a hot topic on the agenda for those with a vested interest in senior hockey in the province.

The agreement is pretty straight forward and all teams will live with it for this year, according to Brake.

“If am looking for two players from the Southern Shore and it happens that two are already released to another team then I can only get one, and once the three players have been released from the Southern Shore then they lose no more players,” he said.

Of course, getting everybody around the table to come on board was an easier sell when they considered the consequence.

“The Herder play for the 2009-2010 season was in jeopardy, so this is the best-case scenario for what we may have been facing which would have been no Herder play,” Brake said.