Victor

You just said that so you could use the word "erecting".

Team Mercedes ready for take-off.

you're here so yes

World Cup hype is real. Best commishes ever.

One word: Threepeat.

Dalé

I love when other people do the scouting for me.

It was a pleasure sharing the Helsinki locker room with you, shame it was only for a season. Decent first-gen, hope you have more success second time around.

I'd say based on their 2014 run that neutrals, including myself, would probably get behind Liverpool more than any other "big" team. I mean, it wasn't as unanimous as the bandwagon support for Leicester obviously but nonetheless I don't think anywhere near as many people would have wanted United, Arsenal, or Spurs to win in that situation and obviously City and Chelsea were up against Liverpool that season and unsurprisingly were not the neutrals' favourites. I mean, as was the case with Gerrard's slip, many still revert to laughing at Liverpool's ineptitude but that's probably their appeal - I imagine in the 80s and even 90s most people wanted them to lose and maybe United were the plucky "underdogs". Obviously speculating as I wasn't alive. So in actual fact an excellent parallel with Stockholm seeing the Vikings' support in S47.

Yeah looks like a tough call for sure.

Lots of Helsinki, I predict a silver medal.

Fucking hell Stropko that old artifact.

That's the main issue and why I'm against a S50 revamp (among other things). That said Cowboy is the first to actually address that by saying to wait. I still oppose the idea but this particular concern is basically alleviated.

Very nice team there, one to watch out for.

As you can probably figure out, I'm not convinced. There are some less radical ideas which are being floated about, some of which I support. I'm quite optimistic there will be some solid improvements by S50.

If we're going to go out of our way to market the league in S60, what added benefits does a restart entail? Hey guys, come join this uhhh new hockey sim league! It's a really fresh concept! We've made wholesale changes which mean so much to non sim-leaguers - we've switched from STHS v1 to v2! We were around for 60 seasons..... and now we're not really. We kind of decided to chase the vague promise that starting again in S61 will bring back S1 activity despite the fact that there's another hockey sim league these days. It was pretty vain to be honest but oh well. (this is a general criticism of Team Restart not this particular MS)

Joke's on you, no one else wants that name anyway!

This looks like the classic case of the arrogant favourites falling flat on our faces. Let's do it in style!

On another note, is anyone else irked like me by Davos constantly dropping F bombs these days? I realise he's a commoner at the end of the day but he never did it before. You could argue he used to speak to a king and princess all the time and now hangs out with bastards and depressed red women priests but I wouldn't give the show the credit. Dothraki bros case in point.

The World will be Hamilton at this pace. Also Team World won't win gold. We will. ENCORE!

Well I was drafted with 322, just slowed down considerably since lol. Playing for the Victory and Continental Cup winners helped I guess.

44 wins every season? Damn I have been spoiled by Helsinki.