The separation between the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) and five of clubs are leaving for the English Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) is getting untidy like a Hollywood separation.
Thursday night, the five leaving groups – Creeks, Okotoks, Blackfalds, Tidy Woods and Sherwood Park – gave an assertion after the AJHL basically cleared out what survives from their customary season plans, and seemed to destine their possibilities of contending in the post-season.
We have not gone into any consent to leave any of those associations, nor have we made any declaration with that impact,” the assertion said, in the wake of expressing that the five groups remain individuals on favorable terms of the AJHL, Canadian Junior Hockey League Alberta and Hockey Canada.
We have full goal of satisfying our responsibilities to every one of those bodies until the end of the 2023-24 normal season and postseason,” it said, proceeding.
Friday morning at 10:30 a.m., the AJHL applauded back, saying the groups’ assertion was in conflict with the BCHL declaration over the course of the end of the week.
The refusal made late Thursday night by the five clubs straightforwardly goes against the BCHL itself,” it said, “which said last Saturday that the unsanctioned league and the clubs had ‘resolved to terms’ for the groups to join the BCHL beginning in the 2024-25 season.
They further destroyed a remark from the leader of the Creeks Crooks, the three-time protecting AJHL champions, Paul Seaton, “who said two days prior that ‘nothing has been marked at this point except for an understanding has been reached and our load up has consented to it consistently… The data shouldn’t have be out until May 1.
They added that given the inconsistent data being introduced by the five clubs and the BCHL head office, they mentioned explanation.
Until such time as the AJHL is fulfilled that there are no designs for the five clubs to leave the league to play unsanctioned hockey, the ongoing planning choices stay set up.
While the five clubs have had every one of their games against the leftover 11 AJHL groups dropped, they are as yet permitted to play against one another.
That implies the Okotoks Oilers game against the Outlaws planned for Creeks Friday night, will be played.
Back on the ice this evening,” the Oilers tweeted Friday, “Where we should be. A gigantic matchup in Streams goes at 7 p.m.!
In any case, the Oilers’ Saturday night game against Whitecourt has been dropped.