Re: 20%

"I beleive (sic) the teams without a supporting cast of developmental teams starting at the novice or atom levels should not be part of the PWHL. This would also make all Orgs. accountable for their development and would stop the player movement..."

You speak nonsense without understanding reality or providing credible supporting evidence for your opinion. Having a full range of teams does not by itself reduce player movement, and having few teams does not necessarily mean players are jumping ship for their last year or two only, just for the sake of change.

Mississauga, at one end of the spectrum, has the widest range of "developmental teams" from top to bottom in the province. Yet, they have only 2 players from Mississauga on their 09-10 Int AA roster, only 1 of which has spent more than 1 year in their system todate. Only 2 players, both non-residents coming from 2 previous years in another girls association, have spent the past 2 years in Mississauga and are now entering their third year. There are 15 players in total with 0-1 years continuity within, including the 2 residents.

At the other end of the spectrum, the Aeros have only 2 teams in their whole organization. However, their Int AA team has 3 players (1 a resident) with 3 years already with the Aeros, now entering their 4th year. They have another 6 players who have spent the past 2 years with the Aeros (2 living in Toronto), now entering their third year. Of these 9 players, only 2 (possibly 3) came from 2 or more years in another girls association with a PWHL team. The Aeros have 8 players with only 0-1 previous years continuity--7 less than Mississauga.

There are many ways to build successful teams. Neither approach is black and white, right or wrong. Regardless of the approach, the goal is to provide girls with a competitive environment to improve their skills, while creating a league which offers the best on ice product possible at the Int AA level, in order to expand players' opportunities to advance their education while playing hockey beyond the PWHL. Policies which impede these goals (such as insisting on promoting only from within, or allowing only teams that do so to be part of the league), is inconsistent with such goals.

Not surprisingly, promotion from within exclusively does not often work in the real world business environment either, in developing the best possible management team on a long-term basis.