Victor

yup, Dortmund too good. Honestly, they would easily win the Premier League.

when did gorlab get good at this thang

Congratulations to all, good to see lots of Helsinki there.

Well I don't suppose you'll be needing Admin CP access then.

Stalingrad tbh

lol still has nothing to do with American behinds.

From what? The USA was under attack? (Islands in the middle of nowhere do not count)

Probably the only bad part in terms of the Davos succession is that had Komarov replaced Coach instead of Ahma, Davos would have got the new Komarov for free. Actually that's kinda shitty. Let's give them Titan Kronos.

Distractions are always welcome, fire away.

The transition from you to Ahma was actually pretty much seamless so that's not really relevant

and you've completely ignored the fact that Podarok was taken ahead of Cole with 40-50 less TPE so had the draft gone by the TPE rankings then the difference between Komarov at 7th and Podarok at 8th would have been much smaller.

insider info from Stockholm: Weinstein to line up front with Stropko to start the season.

These are most fun when you try to generate discussion. Kind of like this one you sly dog.

It's only Riga, come on. That requires effort befitting of a darker shade of blue.

Of all the things to disregard, this, really? It's not semantics, it's a very legitimate point. Disclaimer yet again: I don't know the ins and outs of the Cologne case. I am theorising based on tidbits I'm aware of that Cologne was giving up something for Jarvi but this failed to be implemented. If the BOG did indeed decide that Cologne would give up something for Greg and it had been implemented properly, then you would have a much weaker case, no? The Cologne example is clearly the worst one at the moment because 1) it seems there was no compensation and 2) I have no idea what happened. If it was more clear and executed properly you wouldn't be able to say, "look at how easy Cologne got away with it", and use that as your main argument. As per your MS, the "GM succession process" is the actual decision behind what a franchise should pay for an external GM player. Failure to implement the decision is not a failure of the process.

This is strange because yesterday I saw Toast go from gold to black too randomly around this time of day. GMs are falling like flies. Also fixed. Unless you were anything other than VHLM GM. I can give you all permissions up to commish tbh.

He's clearly being pedantic because David is technically a free agent.

Your goalie doesn't even have a Stolzschweiger.

You have just said in that other thread that I refuse to see your side but it appears to me to be the complete opposite. Let's take the "facts" of the Cologne situation. - Devise presumably wanted to step down with no internal solution. - Greg presumably was the only external option at the time. Or perhaps the easiest one to get to Cologne. This would have been an important consideration. - Sundberg was on Davos at that time but was he a free agent? Or freshly retired? Or was he going to retire to GM but was also a pending FA in which case the BOG skipped the step of letting him go to free agency and then signing for Cologne for free and just letting him join Cologne asap since they were in a dire state. In that case, I would understand why he would move for free. - I feel like he wasn't meant to move for free though this bit I am completely unsure of. Perhaps compensation was agreed but not enforced by the commishes or anyone else, which seems to have been alluded to. In that case it is not a failure of the GM succession process but a failure higher up. I don't think I've considered everything and yet I have already had to make 3-4 assumptions. You have dealt in absolutes so far and I have brought up for every case the mitigating factors which affected the decisions made. I pretty much said that Toronto was a fuck-up, yet you have insisted on focusing on a Cologne case which I can't make a reasonable argument for or against because of the above. Most importantly, I would like to stress that I have not been saying what I think about each case (most of the time) but rather how the BOG came to the decision it did. Except the Cologne case, because I do not know, but you have pretty much forced me to consider how it was done. Just because I am the current BOG mouthpiece for some reason doesn't mean these are my opinions. I'm just trying to explain why you can't look at the raw data and assume you have all the key facts.

Is Seattle doing that thing again where they have average players and win the cup?

Couldn't have done it without retired legend Harumpf.

Blake Campbell: from cup winner to QUE G's backup.

I don't think you've grasped the formula It's (shittiness of franchise + charisma of incoming GM - TPE of resigning GM divided by 2 + amount of potential draft places to be dropped in 5 seasons based on an outdated draft tracker) * BOG intangibles. Rounded up or down to the nearest draft round depending on the weekly weather forecast. I have no idea how you got a late 2nd from that.

@gregreg and @Molholt like this but of course they do

should fire late GMs and make the GM replacement process as awkward and unfair as possible