Steve Mason

[Derrick - Senators]

Before voting, please understand the implication of each selection.

If you vote CALGARY, you vote to allow (rule change) managers leniency when sending minor leaguer players to their farms in every instance.

If you vote OTTAWA, you vote to keep the NAFHL rules the same, correcting "experience" to "games played" where no leniency is showed in sending minor leaguers to the farm in every instance.

Please respond promptly whereas the situation is time sensitive and the outcome has an immediate impact on the league.

[Nos - Sharks]

I'm voting Calgary. I don't find these added stipulations to each side to be important to this vote. I don't agree wholly with either. I don't think there should be leniency in every instance, but since this had to do with goalies and the ambiguity in the rules behind 'experience' I felt it could be given the benefit of the doubt. The rules should be amended. Robyn's intentions were made clear. We're protecting the league's franchises, precedent in the past had been set, and it only helps the league and its competitiveness if the Calgary franchise keeps Mason. This is the reasoning behind my vote.

[Derrick - Senators]

Mason has been returned to Calgary. As a result, the following clauses have been amended in the NAFHL Constitution to provide precedent and consistency in the league:

L) Minor leaguers are defined as skaters with 200 or less NHL games played, regardless the age. Goalies to be assigned to the farm need 150 or less NHL games played in order to be considered a minor leaguer. Minor leaguers need to clear waivers before being sent to the farm.

O) Prospects are defined as skaters with 150 or less NHL games played, age is 24 or under (as at June 1 each year) and goalies with 100 games or less NHL games played and age 24 or under.

P) Any "minor leaguer" transaction may be nullified and subsequently reversed prior to and after an opposing manager has made a waiver claim if the original owner of the minor leaguer (prior to the waiver claim) unknowingly or accidentally sends the minor leaguer in question to the farm. Each "minor leaguer" will be returned to its owner's main roster and not to its respective farm team.