Hello, SMJHL community.

It has come to SMJHL HO's attention that the Kelowna Knights played a player this season who was not under contract with the team legally. The player in question was not resigned by their SHL team and thus was not considered a send down. Unfortunately Kelowna did not confirm this before the season started, assuming that the player was still on a send down contract. Kelowna still accounted for the player in their budget, but did not give a proper contract before the season started. This is a budget violation as per SMJHL Rulebook section 10.d.


If a club puts a player on the active roster and a sim goes live without assuming the player’s salary obligations, including a failure to sign the player to a contract and/or deposit said contract, they face the following penalties, applied the season the infraction is found:

32-66 regular-season games: $4M fine.

Because the player in question played all 66 games for Kelowna this season Kelowna's GMs will be fined 4m each. Also because the player in question was not properly paid a contract even though they were accounted for on the budget, Kelowna must submit the proper contract for the player to get what they were owed.

As always, the team is free to appeal this decision should they wish. We thank them for their cooperation in this issue. Should anyone have any questions, comments or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out!

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