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Definitely is arbitrary. Trades made last off-season: Seattle - 9 Moscow - 2 Players added in FA: Seattle - 1 Moscow - ? Players added 6 SEA VS 3? MOS players off roster: 8 (5 trade, 1 FA, 2 retire) Vs 2?? (2 trade) Moscow Seattle added players like Pearce (trade), Bryzgalov (trade), Gregor (trade), Maloish (trade), Justice (trade), Weaver (FA), Moscow added: Wallob (trade), Nesbitt (trade) and Jason (trade), @Spartan who did ya add in FA? Lose in retirement and all of that? Other than Moscow improving their win total from season 88 to season 89, I don’t see what else puts them at an advantage over Seattle for that award? They made less moves, lost less players, faced less obstacles, added less player.. I definitely think it’s a lot more challenging to struggle jugglibg the roster and cap while making nine trades with all the players that Seattle had coming in and out as opposed to what Moscow did, and what they had going in and out. Seattle had something like 14 players moving on the roster compared to Moscow’s 5. Seattle lost 8, added 6.. lost Lamb (top winger) to free agency, nano (top dman) to retirement, and Xavier Booberry to retirement.. Who also happened to be the highest TPE earning player of all time in the history of the VHL. Im almost certain I’m missing someone that retired or left Moscow. Who were the 7 FA’s they signed? Seattle got Daniel Weaver in FA. Devils advocate a bit but damn, imagine making all those roster moves, tackling those retirements etc just to lose to a team that made 2 trades : but for the exact same result as you in both reg and playoffs Awesome, write up! Love this stuff.

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The Seattle Bears traded for Leandro Goncalves from the Calgary Wranglers during the off-season. Wranglebear! SEATTLE - The Seattle Bears get things done. Usually well before the off-season commences, the Seattle Bears manager Blake Campbell is often already working the phones, talking to agents, prospects and starting to figure out what they're going to do in the off-season. Often to others it can look like complete and utter chaos. In Seattle, more specific to Blake Campbell, they call it Spider Webbing. When you have one asset you're looking to move, or multiple, and you have a vision in place but have to bob, weave and spider web your way through thick and thin, active and semi-active, managers to complete your vision and team for the off-season. It happens a lot in Seattle and one way or another, some version of a their spider web shapes up. For Seattle this off-season, there's more than enough to go around and share! They've added massive pieces and one of their latest ones to be added to the Bears franchise is Wranglers forward, Leandro Goncalves. They've spent the last 6 seasons all with the Calgary Wranglers, scoring 217 goals, 248 assists and 465 points through 432 games with the mcdonalds ponies. "It was a little tricky getting Leandro to Seattle and it was mostly our fault. Knowing out situation, we could go three directions. Rebuild, Retool or Go for it all. I don't care to rebuild anymore. I feel like, if done right, there's better version or systems you can use that are similar that may speed things up. I guess it's just all about building your team the best you can and then having luck on your side too. Fortunately, things fell into place for us here, we were able to sacrifice an asset that Calgary was interested in. Initially, because we were waiting on other teams and pieces, our desire to move those picks were limited. Once things started to fall into place, that's when it all happened.. That expression is poor though.. because it made it seem as though it was a cake walk. It is chaos.. it is madness.. spider webbing.. it takes hours and hours of planning, back and forth often, tons of talks.. But yeah. We add an elite forward to an elite group. " Leandro Goncalves has been a welcomed member of the Seattle Bears Family and already proven to the team and fanbase why he was so loved in Calgary. We cannot wait to chase down one last cup with them. One final welcome @leandrofg

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89 TEAM ASIA ROSTER FORWARDS Savaisk Tzear @comrade cat [A] Toby Kadachi @ROOKIE745 Raimo Tuominen @SlapshotBear Shubham Anand @Will3 Afonya Romanov @DontCallMeCarson Maxim Anisimov @McLovin Tullemore Dew @Spade18 Jarmo Ruutu @jRuutu Catia Goncalves @cLoWn DEFENSE [A] Rin Kagamine @Rin Joe Block @jblock3 Obuz Schneider Canet du Bocage @Grape Callum Gary Yannick Janser @Daniel Janser GOALIES Ryan Artyomov @Enorama [C] WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW @rory CONGRATS to those players who have been selected to play for Team Asia. You are a group made up of players from Asian nations and other parts of the world, who were eligible to be selected once every other team was complete. While we may not be as strong as some on paper, we're going to make up for it everywhere else during this World Junior Championship tournament. It's Season 90! 10 away from 100... This draft class is huge! Let's make this tournament and off-season and fun one.. and introduce Team Asia to the rest of the World Juniors. Also, as you may have noted, please take a second moment to congratulate our 3-4 team Captains. In the sim, Rory will be represented by Tommy Sleeves! CAPTAIN WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW @rory ASSISTANT Rin Kagamine @Rin ASSISTANT Toby Kadachi @ROOKIE745 If you haven't done so yet but wish to be part of the fun and activity, come join the World Juniors Discord! https://discord.gg/VZXrVcEH

Thank you for your time in Seattle @Pifferfish Appreciate you and all you've done with Seattle. @InstantRockstar @Ricer13 Thank you for the deals, idk how many this is now and also thanks to both for helping with Poremba's cap.

This off-season has been a lot of fun. @Rhynex Entertainment Welcome to the Seattle Wranglers! I'm so happy to have the chance to finally add you to the team. WELCOME! @Ricer13 Keep the line open apparently..

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Ty @Ricer13

Welcome @leandrofg

It’s super fitting with how talks went with @Spartan

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Seattle Weaving Through Off-Season, Find Their Guy SEATTLE - If it's one thing the Seattle Bears are good at other than winning, it's having fun, successful off-seasons. Maybe we're tooting our own horn here a little but, but they do seem to always find a way to make the most out of situations in the off-season. Last season, how many trades did they make? They made 9. Those trades were massive and absolutely critical to the success that Seattle had last season. Sure, they lost out to a New York team that got red hot, found momentum and then fell flat to a seasoned Wolves team. They did have a strong regular season though and once again showed the league they're still one of the best and have been doing it now for almost 25 seasons consistently. This off-season it seems to be the same status quo for the Seattle Bears organization as they quickly got to work, working the DM lines on Discord and even throwing back to some Forum offers for old time sake. The Seattle Bears have so far made 4 (5...) trades this off-season, but there's strong rumours out there that they're not finished quite yet! Before we get to that, let's take a look at the moves they've made so far. TO SEATTLE (S87) Logan Foley S90 MAL 2nd S90 NYA 2nd TO MALMO (S85) Daniel Weaver BREAKDOWN: Tough deal to make because Daniel Weaver is a good player and good member @ThePerfectNut. I've had them on the team before and we were fortunate enough to win together. I know what you get when they're on your team. They're typically consistent earners, good players, loyal/fun members of the locker room and always help the team find a way to win. I would have loved to have kept them, but that's the business sometimes. We end up picking up two 2nd round picks in a solid draft. We can use these to draft or as trade chips to gather other assets and moves. Logan Foley was the player sent along in the deal and while I didn't have a huge amount of knowledge on the player, I knew a small bit about the member @WildfireMicro. So far they've been a very good, active member of the Seattle team and we like what we've seen. TO SEATTLE (S88) Boolie Bucholz S90 SEA 4th TO CALGARY Halvar Torbjorn BREAKDOWN: Simple trade. @Rayzor_7 stepped down from running things in Helsinki. Things seemed a little negative and down, so I swopped in hoping to bring aboard a good VHL bud and make them enjoy what they can with the VHL. Their player is okay. They need to earn. They can do better. It doesn't take long. They're a valuable member to the team and have been added to the council for Seattle. Hopefully being part of that can keep the fire alive! TO SEATTLE Karl Pedersen TO CALGARY S92 SEA 4th Ilya Bryzgalov BREAKDOWN: We had two options this off-season. I really wanted to retool and gather some draft picks/youth, while also contending. The plan was to move some of our more valuable pieces for picks, then bringing in a little bit older and/or cheaper through trade or FA. However, trade talks were slowing down and kind of paused between Moscow @Spartan as he had something going on is what we'll say! This kind of forced my hand.. the longer you wait, the longer you play with fire in the off-season. It can pay off, but the risk gets bigger. Especially on off-seasons like this.. when it started there was TONS of chatter.. but not too much for trades.. things kind of got jammed as lots waited for finances, depreciation and the lottery. Well, boom! Log jam seems to be freed as we head into draft day! Expect huge moves that day too imo. I still REALLY wanted to contend.. so we went out and tried to get Pedersen.. Was hopeful but I heard likely not which is alright. TO SEATTLE Clueless Wallob S90 MOS 3rd S90 MOS 4th TO MOSCOW Karl Pedersen 12th Overall BREAKDOWN: Despite being told it was going to be await, it wasn't too long after the deal above with Calgary triggered Spartan to message me. I think within the hour we had a done deal! Was kinda messy because of the waiting and then man, I got sloppy at the end.. but that's all good! Was decent talks and while it was hard to let go of 12th overall, it was a fair deal. We're really happy adding an elite, legendary goalie like @DMaximus and super thrilled to be adding them to our bears family and locker room. Been a massive fan of the agency for a long time and I'm so happy we get to add them to my tenure history!

Welcomer @DMaximus Happy to add another legendary, elite goalie between the pipes in Seattle. WOOO!

Hopefully works out for all thank you!

Wooo commissioners cup!

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KFC, S89 Team Asia Sponsor. KFC food and beverages at ALL Team Asia held games. HELLO EVERYONE, ASIA, ASIA, ASIA! The amount excitement I have right now for the World Juniors tournament & off-season currently is lighting a crazy fire in me. This is going to be the biggest, best World Juniors yet and Asia is happy to get the ball rolling. We wish everyone involved - playing, managing etc, the best of luck AGM Announcement In order to do so, I am going to need some help and there's no one better than @AJW to do that. Your activity in the M and with Seattle is going to help Asia. I've seen first hand the affects you can have on people.. this fire burning is partly because of you and seeing you kick some ASS! Additional Team Asia Management Announcements We really want to make this experience a special one for Team Asia and by doing so, we're really hoping the energy boils over to the rest of the World Juniors and maybe the off-season for the league. This draft class is huge! This tournament is a lot of fun. We're 10 seasons away from 100. Let's have some fun and make this huge.. and to help us do so we're going to be adding some extra help to the Team Asia Management and Staff teams. We'll also be having help from @STZ , @kirbithan and @InstantRockstar with Team Asia graphic work with the bonus of also having them part of talks (as both are very qualified managers) FORTUNATELY, this means graphics like the KFC one above will be no more.. at least not that low of quality... lol S89 Team Asia 'MAIN' Sponsor Team Asia has teamed up with Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to bring you the delicious, finger lick'n taste straight to your mouths during games! KFC will be offering 2 kinds of buckets, 2 kinds of sandwiches with a vegan option, fries and small alternatives like popcorn chicken for select prices. For viewers at home, use the CODE: KFCAsia to get 11% off all orders.