How hard is it to manage adult hockey leagues? Seriously. It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or even Wile E Coyote. But I'm constantly amazed with the ineptitude, idiocy, and indifference of league directors.
I just got a text from my MONDAY league captain saying that the director is pissed off that we can't play tonight (Wednesday), because he wants to have the best of 3 finals done by the end of the year. We have never played on any night but Monday. There would be no reason for us to expect to play on any night but Monday. (I already have a playoff game in a different rink tonight) But he says he "scheduled" it. It's not on the website, or on Pointstreak (none of the playoff schedule is). He didn't tell us on Monday when we won the semi (he wasn't there). If one of our players didn't work at that rink and notice it was on the daily schedule board, we never would have known. If you want to play on other nights to get the game in, fine. But post the full schedule in advance, on the league website, and let someone know. It's really not that hard. And this is the "good" director compared to the ones at the other rinks I play in.
Grrrr. And I just got a text from my Wednesday captain that I play goal for. He wants to know if I would play out tonight instead (I'm a B-level defenseman, this is a middle-C league) because he found out the team we are playing (who went 14-1 this season) is bringing B league players (who are likely ineligible). They have brought these guys in the past, and were not stopped then (we lost 5-2 and they had all 5 goals). So if we want to win and make the final, we will have to bring ringers of our own. Again, how hard is it to watch a game and see that there are guys who don't belong, and may or may not be on the roster, and tell the team they can't play anymore?