Affiliated Players (from our P&P)

19-Player Affiliation:

1. An affiliation permission form must be completed for each player.

2. A team may affiliate up to a maximum of 19 players.

3. Prior to playing up on the affiliating team the player’s name must be added to the team list as an affiliate with status ‘approved’.

4. A player can be affiliated with only ONE team of a higher division or category.

5. Affiliates can be added to the team any time during the season up to the January 15th deadline.

6. The coach wishing to use a player as an affiliate MUST ask permission of the coach of the player’s registered team prior to asking the player.

7. When putting the affiliates name on game sheet, he must be identified as “AP” beside his name.

8. Each time the player is to be used as an affiliate the players’ coach MUST be asked (coach to coach).

9. Commitments to the team the player is registered to ALWAYS come first.

10. Suspensions are always served with the registered team (it does not matter which team the player got the suspension with).

11. Only players that will be used should be affiliated.

 

19 PLAYER – WHEN USING AN AFFILIATED PLAYER:

• Check with the coach of the player’s team before calling the affiliated player for a game or practice. The player’s registered team must always come first.

• An affiliated player cannot be used if he is under suspension (until he serves his suspension with his own team).

• Inform the coach of the affiliated player if the player gets a suspension while playing with the team he is affiliated to.

• Suspensions are always served with the player’s original team (regardless of which team the player got the suspension with).

Of important note:
Using an affiliated player without permission is equivalent to the use of an ineligible player and the Head Coach must serve a 5-game suspension. The Seaway Valley Minor Hockey Association may apply further sanctions to the Team Officials.

The affiliation deadline to add a player to your roster: January 15th 

The maximum number of games an affiliate may play is 10 games, excludes tournaments + exhibition.

Coaches, you are responsible for keeping track of the number of games:

• Your player participates with a higher level team.

• H:\SVMHA\Administration Forms\Affiliation Form.doc (affiliation form)

Hockey Canada Reference:
Number of Games a Player May Play in Higher Divisions or Categories
35. a) A player of a team of a lower division or category of the same club, or of an affiliated team, or a specially affiliated player, may affiliate to a team or teams of higher Divisions and categories at any time, to a maximum of ten (10 games). However, if the players registered team completes its regular season and playoffs before the affiliated team or teams, the player may thereafter affiliate an unlimited number of times. For goaltender exceptions, see Regulations B.42, E.36 (b).
b) Exhibition and/or tournament games, which are not part of regular league games or playoff games, are excluded from the number of games referred to in Regulation E.35 (a).