Victor

That proves it's luck though...

Spartan exposes that all GMs are incompetent.

Week 3 of 4

Yes I meant flak

I take full credit for the chaotic off-season we just witnessed. Panicked by being mentioned in my article, multiple GMs went out of their way to get themselves out of a rebuild and very possibly into the maybe-still-to-come second edition of cautionary tales - When NOT to Buy. Let's see how every team mentioned by me in the linked piece above reacted this off-season. LA - Have absolutely no idea there was an article about them. Helsinki - Oh boy. To be clear, I made the Titans to be the unlucky ones to be in the rut they were stuck in but now they have made truly made their bed. Maybe it pays to make your own luck? Maybe? There is precedent... but there's a lot more precedent for it backfiring spectacularly. Godspeed. D.C. and Warsaw - Were delighted with my endorsement and carried on doing what they were doing. London - Largely ignored me which is fair enough. Except the weird trade down, we're all a bit unsure on that one. Prague - Did a Helsinki. A Helsinki with a bit more wiggle room though. Didn't need to do it though. Riga and Toronto - Did not heed my advice and have powered through to presumably eternal contention waiting for gravity to pull them down (tbf to Riga, not much they could do without a GM) Malmo - Finally called it a day. Got a weird amount of slack for it.

Giving up 1sts for old low TPE defencemen? Close enough, welcome back Lemorse.

I think it's a classic thing of age and perspective - the longer you do something, the more "big picture" your thinking becomes. The noise almost always comes from those on their 1st/2nd good player - younger members who feel they have more to prove. No harm in that though, we've all been there.

Relocation to Hamilton when?

Can't wait for Helsinki to win the Victory Cup and go out in round one.

Can't believe you waived your NTC this time

You're flying the flag proudly, fuck the haters.

Week 2 of 4

What

What

Thoughts on a loan move to Villa?

J'ai compris

Another player fallen to the whims of their GM

Presumably at some point in the next 12 months

lol yes I meant the before the S97 playoffs promise.

Hmmm Ahem hi

So 1st overall in S98 gets you 3rd overall from S93. Bucatini and Del Rocco must be priceless.

I don't think you really get carryover these days, just some starting TPE but everyone starts on pretty much a level footing. Well you can get up to 50 but only if you but you needed 1,200 TPE to get that much carryover. Given when your best players were you're probably looking at like 20 TPE in a best case anyway so not anything revolutionary. But maybe @Beketov will be feeling sentimental. It's very easy to earn TPE these days tbf

Correct

The Seattle Bears 2nd overall pick from S93 has managed to miss out on Seattle's Continental Cup wins from both S93 and S97, having spent 3 seasons with the Bears in between. Such is life sometimes, as Gianfranco Del Rocco spent an extra season in the VHLE while Seattle made a surprise mid-season championship run in S93, before accepting a trade to Davos before S97 after a slow start to his career and limited playoff success in S94-S96. “It's a bit annoying of course, but that was always the risk when you leave a Seattle team managed by Bana [Blake Campbell]. I think he did this to spite my agent for Rara Rasputin leaving him in free agency all those seasons back,” laughs Del Rocco. “Joking of course, I think I was just in the way of his desire to never win a championship again with a Hall of Famer on the team.” “No but really this was something we discussed when we decided to part ways last off-season. I think things just didn't mesh for me in Seattle and I don't think I'd have been a cup champion right now if I had stayed. It would have had to be a different roster due to my contract, so weaker in other areas, different line chemistry. I feel better closer to home here in Davos and it's probably just a move that worked best for everyone involved. I've no hard feelings and am happy for my old teammates, especially the guys that had to wait a long time for a cup like Holmes @Gustav and White @Mysterious_Fish. My time will come I'm sure.”