I belive the reson the program is on probations is due to the number of red cards the team recived during the year. I speak from experence, the first year of our program we had 7 reds, 4 coming in the second round of the play-offs after we lost, next year on probation. If they can play w/o getting any reds for this season then they can appeal the probation and have a chance to enter the play-offs.