Good evening, everyone!

It was brought to the attention of the SMJHL HO that Kasperi Braulin was called up by the Platoon to be played in today's sim. Vancouver was given the proper amount of notice yesterday by Platoon management that the call up was being made, but failed to adjust their lines; this caused Braulin to play two games in the SMJHL that should have never happened.

As a result, Braulin is suspended for two games, in order to balance our the two games that he was ineligible for in the SMJHL (the player isn't being punished in this regard, but rather we are balancing out what his proper amount of games played should be ).

Additionally, the SMJHL rulebook makes it quite clear that the first offense of such a punishment is a 5 million cap it to the offending team for the following season.


However, that was written under the old budget rules, and would be far too harsh of a punishment with the new budget plans that are being implemented for the SMJHL. Therefore, we have decided that a 2 million cap hit for next season would be far more appropriate for this situation.

TLDR: Braulin suspended for two games, and the Whalers are given a $2,000,000 cap hit for next season.