Prior to the historic Eastern Conference semi-final tonight in Toronto, which will see Montreal Impact or Toronto FC become the first Canadian team to play in the MLS Cup, Major League Soccer and the Canadian Soccer Association made an important announcement.
While what people expected to be announced is, in fact, what was announced, there were caveats. As expected, MLS announced that starting in 2017, Canadian players would count as domestic players for both Canadian and US-based teams. This comes as great, long overdue, news, given that 3 MLS teams are based on Canada. However, it was not all rosy.