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Originally Posted by renny
Our Defenseman played a couple of games in net during the regular season because we couldn't find a goalie. He's never played goalie before in his life, and he just borrowed friend's pads a the last minute to play goal for us so we wouldn't forfeit the game.
Apparently because he's played in net for us to be a team guy, he's automatically our goalie. So long story short, I spoke to the league before the game and got approval from them to bring a substitute goalie (since none of us considered the defenseman a goalie). We show up, and the time keeper pulls the "he's listed as one of your goalies" card on us and says that he's not allowed to play because we brought in a substitute goalie when we have our own goalie available. I checked their website, they don't have any rule about this, the only thing is we have to get the league's approval, and I got that.
It was very bush league, but like I said, if this is how the owners (hosers) want to win a rec league championship, so be it. I just know I will never give business to these guys ever again and I'll make sure everybody I know that plays hockey knows about this.
But from the sounds of your post, this isn't the first time they've been doing stuff like that. My friends in the south division was telling me they were purposely throwing games so they wouldn't get promoted up a division.
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Many of the Hosers teams are actually in last place in their divisions.
The reason they have 'ringers' is because they are a club team, and as a club team you can use subs from any other club team (aka any other hosers team). They added a new rule this season where they arent allowed to do this with lower division teams.
And by being in the finals, it sounds as though you were in playoffs. If that player had only played as a goalie and didnt meet the minimum game requirements for a player (1/3 of the season games) then he wouldnt be allowed to play in playoffs as a player.