Player Affiliation Guidelines (Stittsville Rams)

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The SMHA believes strongly in the affiliate program and desires to see affiliated players used as often as possible.

Affiliation provides teams with additional players to call upon when regular team members are unable to play and provides players the opportunity to play at a higher level.

For further details please follow this link to the District 4 website


Player affiliation form can be found on the website here.

The Stittsville Minor Hockey Association uses a "19 Player Affiliation" system.  Affiliate players must appear on a Team roster as an "AP", prior to playing any games with the team.

For each affiliate player to be added to a roster, an Affiliated Player Permissions Form must be filled out and signed by the player, parent, home head coach, and affiliating head coach. The forms must be submitted to the Convenor for review and processing.

Teams are encouraged to submit forms for all potential affiliates at once.  A new roster will be issued which includes the affiliate players. 

The affiliating coach must still ask permission from the home head coach each time a player is requested to affiliate.

Each player may affiliate to higher level teams for a maximum of 15 games per affiliated team. This limit applies to any and all levels to which they are affiliated.  Example, if a U11 House A player is affiliated with a U11 Competitive team as well as a U13 House B team, that player can play 15 games with each team for a total of 30 games.  There is no maximum affiliate games for goalies.

Any player that plays an 16th game cannot return to play on his/her registered team and this requires approval from your local Home Association President.

*Should a player play a sixteenth (16th) such game with a higher level team, the coach of the higher level team will be suspended pending a hearing at HEO Minor. The affiliating team also risks losing any points gained during the use of that affiliated player.

Coaches, you are responsible for keeping track of the number of games:

  • Your player participates with a higher level team.

  • For players you affiliate from a lower level team.

**Please be sure to mark the player as "AP" on the game sheet and cross off any missing players and coaches.