Nope- we play for a Tier 1 team and if YOU are NOT released from your team (where you signed your contract and were rostered) or cannot get the waiver you cannot play. USA Hockey rules state it. Good luck having the players play at a tournament and anyone finding out players didn’t get released from the roster of their first team they committed too. Whole team will be disqualified. Coming from another state has NOTHING to do with it. We have 8 players who come from 5 different states. Three of our players before they started playing for our team in September were signed on a different team- they HAD to be released from the team. Those are the rules.