{"id":1767,"date":"2017-06-13T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.straybaseball.com\/mwhl\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2017-10-19T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:11:56","slug":"mwhl-new-franchises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"MWHL NEW FRANCHISES & COMMISSIONERS OFFICE CHANGES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Release – 06\/13\/2017 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Franchise Changes:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today the Mid-West Hockey League announced some changes to the League in structure of Franchises for the 2017\/2018 MWHL Season.  <\/p>\n

New in 2017\/2018 will be the following four Franchises – Toledo Walleye, Bucks County Raccoons, Clearfield Bison & the Gilbert Sharks.<\/p>\n

\"ToledoWalleye\"<\/a>\"BuckCountyRaccoons\"<\/a>\"ClearfieldBisons\"<\/a>\"Gilbert<\/a><\/p>\n

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Commissioner\u2019s Office News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Also changing in the 2017\/2018 MWHL Season will be the Commissioner Office as the MWHL will welcome John Niespodzianski into the mix as a Co-Commissioner.  <\/p>\n

John Niespodzianski who owns the Jagr Mullets in the MWHL, will take on the roll as Co-Commissioner & is a veteran Commissioner of multiple (7 we believe) Baseball Leagues.  John will be taking over the files part of the MWHL, & many other roles that will be announced as they roll out.<\/p>\n

As for the Commissioner\u2019s Office, it’s now a four (4) headed monster.  <\/p>\n

Stray Corrado will continue his role as webmaster, Draft Coordinator & stay on as a Co-Commissioner in efforts to making the Mid-West Hockey League a truly great experience for everyone..  <\/p>\n

Mike Haley will continue to be the Commissioner\u2019s Office right hand man with a multitude of duties (Way too many to list) – & continue his efforts into maintaining keep the MWHL on schedule & in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

Bill Schindel will be handling the duties of Director of Contracts & Salary Cap Compliance. Bill will be getting contracts together in the next few weeks giving us all a chance to see who’s being signed to deals as we head forward into the 2017\/2018 MWHL Season.  <\/p>\n

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Dispersal Draft News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Brasher Falls Lightning & the Gilbert Sharks are in the beginning stages of Dispersal Draft “B”, which will form their rosters (These players will come from the rosters of the Second City Chiefs & the Scottsdale X-Men).  Once these rosters are concluded the Lightning & Sharks will have one week to sign players to early contracts (They can sign only the average number of players from all existing MWHL Franchises).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press Release – 06\/13\/2017  Franchise Changes: Today the Mid-West Hockey League announced some changes to the League in structure of Franchises for the 2017\/2018 MWHL Season.   New in 2017\/2018 will be the following four Franchises – Toledo Walleye, Bucks County Raccoons, Clearfield Bison & the Gilbert Sharks. Commissioner\u2019s Office News: Also changing in the 2017\/2018 MWHL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwhl.straybaseball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}