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.