Artist, greatly respect your take on youth hockey and concern for the kids. But, absent a sanction against the club, how will a club ever be held accountable? Certainly, suspending a coach or even a manager has little or no impact on the club. And there are many other things that go one each silly season that have the same type of impact on many kids. Calder's team effectively displaced the Ontario Wave AA team last spring, for example. Each time a coach moves with his "core" group, it leaves a lot of kids in the lurch and displaces others. I don't direct this comment at you, but in general this board does not express a lot of sympathy for the kids left behind or displaced, and more ire is directed at SCAHA and CAHA for enforcing its rules or the parent(s)?? who "ratted" them out, than the club, coaches and adults who were complicit. From the distance and from reading the threads about this, a lot of people sure seem to have known what was going on....
I also wonder if this sanction has that great of effect on the Wave kids that you are worried about. Without an AAA program, there are a lot of kids on those teams, and even on Squirt A, that likely would have been going elsewhere to chase the Third A even if the Wave offered an AA program...
Anyway, would love to hear how to sanction clubs, coaches and scheming parents, without adversely impacting the kids. Hope all of the kids land on their feet.