A Coach is defined as a Registered Head or Registered Assistant Coach from the same team as the previous year and who is now a Registered Head or Registered Assistant Coach for the upcoming season.

Coaches cannot select any player as a Core Pick who was not on their team the previous year. If a Core Pick player no longer wants to play on the team /coach he/she was with from the previous year he/she must enter the Draft Pool for at least one full season.

EXCEPTIONS:

The player who was not on the previous year’s roster can be selected as a Core Pick IF:

1) the player is moving into the division where the coach coached the previous year and the previous years coach is not coaching in the player’s new division..

2) the coach is moving into the division where the player played the previous year and the previous years coach is not coaching in the coaches’ new division.

3) the player is a sibling of a player on last year’s roster

4) the player was not a core pick on his team the previous year and came from the draft pool.

5) the player is new to the program or a returning player who did not play the previous year.

6) the previous years coach agrees to release a player to another coach.

Core Pick Player Protection does not apply to a previous years Coaches’ core picks when:

1) The Coach remains in the same division with the same core pick player(s) as the previous year and does not select the player(s) as core picks for the upcoming season. The player(s) in this case become available to become core picks for any coach in that division.