I want to correct a couple of inaccuracies in the way you reported what you

called a "split" between the prep hockey leagues.

First, you said that "the coaches of (the Founders and ISL) rallied against

(the idea of 20 minute periods)." This is not true. First of all, the

meeting was not just of division one schools, but of all member schools.

The Founders and ISL are a part of the organization, but there are many

other schools involved. Secondly, virtually ALL of the coaches present (including ISL and Founders

coaches) approved of the IDEA of 20 minute periods, but because of

logistical problems (e.g. travel time, scheduling all the other games a

school may host on a given Wednesday), the organization felt that it was

not likely to be approved by most ADs and headmasters. The organization,

including most of the coaches of the new league, agreed that we want to

maintain some consistency between leagues and schools about our rules.

Finally, no vote was ever taken to deny the new league the right to decide

to play 20s in league games. In fact, we made it very clear to them that

NEPSIHA has no authority to tell them what to do in this regard. Certainly

your statement that "a majority vote was needed" couldn't be further from

the truth. Instead, the coaches of the new prep league asked for their

colleagues' input. The gist of this input was: 1. that we would prefer that

they not institute this as a rule, in order to maintain consistency across

the different leagues. 2. that if any given schools, in this league or

others, decide together that they are going to play 20s on a given day,

that is well within their rights. This already happens on occasion. The

coaches of the new league accepted these recommendations (which is all they

were).

Thank you.

Tim Pratt

President, NEPSIHA