Puck Yeah, you have unintentionally put your finger on the problem. CAHA is in fact a non-profit organization, funded by dues from its member teams (which are in turn passed on to the players' families). It is not a for-profit monopoly company, and its mission is not "supposed" to be to line its own pockets, fleece its customers, or deliver a product that is unnecessarily expensive. One can reasonably agree or disagree with some of the decisions CAHA makes every year and whether they are in the best interests of the California hockey community they serve, but it is hard to see how anyone could defend certain of their decisions this year as being either well-reasoned, impartial or in the best interests of their membership generally.