01-23-2020, 06:58 PMTomasnz Wrote: I am on record for hating our tampering rules. But given all this I am mostly annoyed that you could have approached Stl for a trade.

Maybe you did and they played hard ball over a player they were going to cut anyway.. 

Agree the appeals process doesn’t seem ideal. But by the sounds of it you are the one that presented evidence of contact with another team’s player without their GMs permission (unless you had that?.... maybe the st.louis GM can do us all a solid here and say that they gave said permission?)

My big issue with all this is where is the victim? Is it st.louis.. not really? But maybe? 

Sorry @BDonini I think this is a rough situation that I don’t see many easy outs of for your team or smjhl Ho..

The above is not super helpful I know but figured I would add another perspective to all this.

We did not approach STL for a trade immediately as we wanted to wait to see if we would fill our defense through the draft. I've said over and over again that the trade was just an idea at the time and that we didn't plan to offer any deal until this week as we finalized our roster. Regardless of whether people interpret what happened as tampering or not (personally we didn't or we obviously wouldn't have done it), we have BW on record saying that her HO can't enforce SHL rulebook rules unless they're explicitly stated in the SMJHL rulebook which the tampering rule isn't.

All I'm really asking is for SHL HO to take this media post and the appeal that I sent to SMJHL HO and conduct their own review of the case based on everything we have to say. From the wording of the SMJHL's response we just don't think our appeal was given a fair look.