He wonders what effect that will have on their ability to compete in provincial competitions and is urging for some flexibility.
Common Councillor Gary Sullivan is more enthused about the changes and says there is flexibility with the residency requirement that will allows teams from outside the city to compete.
He points out the rinks don't make any money so it doesn't make sense to have city taxpayers subsidising people from outside.
He also supports the idea of allocating ice time equally between men and women based on the growing popularity of women's hockey and their difficulty in the past to secure ice time.
