Okay, got more info.
* The Lion's v Ice Dogs were scheduled to play 1/14/18.
The Lion's chose to play a MLK tournament that weekend.
According to Scaha rules, that should be a forfeit. It should have ended right there.
* There is a provision in the rules, I believe it is 27:15 which provides for a situation whereby if the regular schedule is unbalanced, there is a process to create equal numbers of games for all teams but this was not the case here. The Lion's v Ice Dogs game was on the regular schedule. The original schedule was balanced. One team could not make it on 1/14/18. Once again, that is a forfeit! Why should one team's decision to not play a game affect the other 18 teams in the division?
That makes zero sense.
* The standings were displayed on the Scaha site last night showing the Red Wings in 8th with 20 pts and the Ducks in 9th with 19 pts.
Later that night, the standings show the Ducks in 8th with 19th points and the RW in 9th place with 18 pts.
So what happened?
A bizarre decision was made to have each of the other 17 teams not invloved in the canceled game have 1 game not count in the standings in order for all teams to finish with 15 games. Why? A scheduled game was forfeited. There should have been no need for further action. 0 points to the team that forfeited and award points to the team that didn't forfeit according to Scaha rules.
* Even stranger, the game that was not going to count in the final standings was never disclosed to any of the 17 clubs but would be revealed after all of the secret/no count games had been played. WHAT?
Did the league bother to inform the clubs that this was happening? Of course not. It was kept under wraps and not even revealed until last night after the season was over.
Well apparently, by some remarkable coincidence, the Jan 7th game between the Wings and Ducks (Wings won 6-4) was selected as the game for the Wings that was not going to count in the standings. Really? In short, the RW had an on ice win and 2 pts taken away while the Ducks had a loss removed and 0 pts taken away.
Puhlease!
* In short, only 1 team was affected by the decision to randomly/secretly have 1 game not count in the final standings and that team was the RW.
A few other playoff teams lost positioning but none of them have to deal with the heartbreak which the 9/10 yr olds from the RW will have to deal with after believing they had earned a playoff spot only to have it ripped away from them.