Quote:Originally posted by Jorec@Sep 27 2016, 11:21 PM


SMJHL is awesome... for new players. It's a great way to teach them the basics of player building and the two levels of community (LR and Overall) that come with the league.

For vets, it's just a speed bump on the way to the league that matters. It's not like the guys guaranteed themselves the Four Star Cup or whatever it is anyways.

That being said, I kinda get it. At least from a new player perspective. A bunch of established members stacking a team looks kinda shitty as a first introduction to the league but really, team stacking isn't anything new (At the SHL level) and as we've seen before, it rarely works out well for the team.

I'm not really concerned about "team stacking" - it's more so just how this whole thing was executed. The system was taken advantage of. I'm sure we will implement a rule here soon and we can avoid this in the future. Like I said, it's just unfortunate. They were aware of what they were doing which makes it even more shady.