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? Mention that flatl recruited you and he gets bonus TPE if you stick around

And mediocre forward depth. They were the hottest team in the league at the shutdown though, that's for sure. My short list for genuine cup contenders this year would be Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Tampa Bay, Vegas, Colorado, and St. Louis. Once you get to the top tier like that, differentiating their chances is nigh impossible.

I've told bits and pieces of this story in Discord, but have never actually gotten the whole thing down in one place, so I figured I would in case even 1 person is interested in reading it. I spent September-December 2019 in Germany for school, my girlfriend came out to visit me in mid-December around exam time, then we left to travel a bit "on our way home" as it were. The original plan was to do a bit of small towns in Germany (Trier, Koblenz, Sankt Wendel), head out to Marseille, and finish off with Barcelona and Madrid before flying back to Winnipeg. We had all the travel and accommodations booked and everything seemed hunky dory. All the way up until Christmas Day, as we're sitting at a friend's place in Sankt Wendel (middle of nowhere, Germany) and I double check our reservations for trains the next day. That's when I saw a very small message (no notification) saying "TRAIN CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE". Huh? TGV, the rail service in France that was supposed to get us from Mannheim (our German transfer) to Marseille, had been on strike for some time and had started randomly cancelling certain routes. Since it was Christmas Day, we couldn't get ahold of anyone for support until noon the following day (just one hour before our train was scheduled to depart). Our Deutsche Bahn contact at the station told us that no trains were running in France period and that we would be best off renting a car or getting a bus to Marseille (both of which would have been hundreds of Euros to book last minute). I found this different route online that TGV said was open, but had us routing through different cities. Instead of traveling from Sankt Wendel to Trier to Mannheim to Marseille and arriving around 4pm, we were to travel from Sankt Wendel to Trier to Luxembourg to Paris to Marseille late that night, meaning we'd lose a lot of time, but not the end of the world. Tickets for the new route were of course ridiculously expensive so we decided to wing it and just play the ignorant tourist card with our old tickets (I knew for a fact DB didn't care, but had no idea about TGV). Halfway from Sankt Wendel to Trier, I'm checking the itinerary for our "revised" journey, and in the ~half hour since I checked it last, the route from Trier to Luxembourg (a DB line, so unaffected by the strike) was just... no longer running. No explanation as to why. It was just going to go to the German border but no further. I started to lose it a little at this point. Keep in mind that through this entire thing, my girlfriend has a small suitcase and a backpack and I have a small suitcase, a large suitcase, and a backpack, since I was taking all my things from my exchange home with me. I found ANOTHER option that had us sitting on that same train we were going to Trier on but instead taking it the opposite way, ending in Mannheim (explaining our situation to 3-4 ticket handlers at this point, but as I predicted, they could not care less). Once in Mannheim we planned to take a train to Paris, but the leg from Paris to Marseille would need to be done the following morning, meaning we would be stranded overnight in Paris. Me, being a cheap bastard, planned to lock up our stuff then sleep in the train station. Regardless, we had to make it there first. Luckily, this Mannheim-Paris train actually had a ton of people on it that weren't supposed to be, so the ticket people didn't give us a hard time, but they did tell us to go to a specific car (thank god we know French because they did not, or would not, speak a lick of English) if we didn't have a reserved seat. However, they didn't tell us this until after we had boarded and the cars were not connected internally, so at the first stop, we had to SPRINT from our car to the very back of the train to get back on it before it left again. Now, we finally made it to Paris and step off the train at around 9pm, we planned to take the 8am train to Marseille, so we had 11 hours to kill. We saw that the TGV office in Gare d'Est was still open so we decided to shoot our shot and cry for them a bit. Lo and behold, after 30 minutes of being told by various people that they would fetch their manager, we walked out of the station with not only a legitimate ticket for a train to Marseille the next morning, but also a free hotel room near the station we were departing from (Gare de Lyon, so ~45 minute walk from Gare d'Est)! It honestly could not have ended any better. We suffered through that 45 minute walk with all our luggage and through the rain (because of course it was raining) because, again, I am a cheap bastard and the subway was closed due to the strike as well. Then we wandered along the Seine, past the Grand Palais and Notre Dame, and it all felt kind of worth it. Our journey to Marseille the next morning mostly without a hitch, and we had a splendid time the rest of our journey. That is, until every single one of our four flights back home got delayed and we nearly got stuck on a tiny island in the Atlantic during a storm for a day or more, but that story isn't nearly as interesting.

Muff already got the first one, so I'll get this one. Generally, around 24 hours or less. This will be higher around Monday/Tuesday as the new week opens, but so long as it's under 72 hours, you can assume nothing is wrong.

Is that one in the Kama Sutra?

@Josh purchase made on store. Let me know when it's processed and I can make the switch.

Hold on a minute @Cornholio I've found your father

Dil's dialing your work right now

Either the GM gets 2 and the AGM gets 0 or they each get 1, it's up to the GM. So yell at your GM for not paying you.

If you expect them to do the same thing a VHLM AGM does, absolutely. I've used @McWolf and @fonziGG as more of a second set of eyes to help me look over trades, draft selections, free agent signings, any future plans of any sort to make sure I didn't get swept up in negotiations or whatever and I didn't miss anything. That plus the obvious doing stuff now and then when real life gets in the way. I've missed half a draft in my time as GM and have needed one of them to send in lines for me once. I believe that's the only time I've really relegated my duties at all. I've also consistently forfeited the 1 pay I'm allowed to give them in recognition of how they help me. Although, to my knowledge, fonzi has never actually taken it. TLDR; if an AGM is consistently taking over enough of the GM's duties that they really need pay, then the GM isn't doing their job and should be relieved of their duties. This is of course more prevalent at the VHLM level.

Germany, I slept in my own bed that night (morning?) I came on to the stream for the latter rounds towards 4AM actually

82 episodes, 15 cumulative listens, amirite?

4.5 minutes left

Not necessarily. The U.S. has had the Electoral College since 1836, for example. The biggest issues I have with STHS is players with identical builds performing IMMENSELY differently and how there's really only one real meta build with some variations based on checking/faceoffs/strength.

Oh absolutely. Davison/Wahl/Johnson are three super easy picks to me. I was just responding to why you would fall further down the list for me than your SV% would suggest.

In 11 games played, some of which were certainly in relief and most were likely against weaker opposition. Backup goalies are relatively easy to stat pad if you make an effort to.

21/21 Wolski

4-2 D.C.

17 Calgary Wranglers @ Vancouver Wolves 18 D.C. Dragons @ Seattle Bears 19 Malmo Nighthawks @ Moscow Menace 20 Riga Reign @ Prague Phantoms

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18-19, Montreal missed with more points than Vegas, Dallas, and Colorado 17-18, Florida missed with more points than Colorado You get the idea. Actually happens pretty often IRL, and to my knowledge, nobody on the NHL executive team has been taken the the guillotine. Not that I disagree with your point as it stands, but the real life comparison is moot.