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Regular players have no incentive outside of their own personal goals. GM’s obviously have team goals to consider. If FA is allowed three draft is just a formality. Get drafted somewhere, play three years, and then hop to your own team for your prime years without having to pay for them at all.

It was considered but ultimately we felt like that still means a lot of judging quality of GM players unfairly. Some may be a top 8 guy but some might not. Having them be in the market as any other player would be means the market dictates their value, not the rules.

Completely disagree. Native pick puts a massively unfair advantage into teams doing well because their native pick is lower in the draft. If 1 team gets last and another wins the cup but both GM’s are getting a player in the next draft the team that got last needs to use 1st overall for their player and the team that won the cup uses 16th. It’s inherently unfair.

If you win the cup and have your player in the next draft you’re still getting a guaranteed high earner at 16th. The fairest system is to treat them as any other player would be: if you want them and you don’t think your pick is high enough to make it happen then trade up for them.

And we’ll fix them when they do. If we tried to close up every hypothetical situation with every rule change nothing would ever get done.

Mmmmm, meatloaf

Players being held hostage by other GM’s, no other market for their player, that sort of thing. It won’t be a common occurrence to avoid GM’s just jumping ship to their own team after 3 seasons but it is allowable in certain cases if the need arises. Basically the same rules as we had when GM’s were allowed 2 players but they couldn’t sign their second in FA. We allowed an exception for @Higgins because every other team had a goalie and he had spent a full season with no team. We obviously wouldn’t want a situation to get that dire again so exceptions CAN be made but on the whole they won’t be.

Hello everyone, Just a quick update today that I meant to make after the draft but it's been a busy time so I kept forgetting. Starting in S76 we'll be changing the rules regarding GM's drafting their own players. Originally when the rule was introduced to separate GM's from their players it was done with the intention of having no link whatsoever. If you wanted your player, you had to draft them or trade for them like any other. This did get changed before being announced however to the rule that everyone has thus far known of a first round pick can be used to auto-draft your player. Back when there was 8 teams this worked relatively well as no GM player would be picked further back than 8th overall which isn't super unreasonable. However with 16 teams and the trend being to trade down as low as possible the @BOG has found that the rule, as it stands, has become a bit too easy to abuse. GM players, historically, are very high earning players so to get one guaranteed for 8 seasons at 16th overall, especially when you could also hold the first pick, seems rather unfair. For that reason the auto-pick rule is officially being removed starting in S76. If GM's wish to get their own players they will need to draft them like any other player or trade for them. The same rules about abusing your own draft stock still apply as do the rules regarding GM's not being able to pick themselves up in Free Agency. This latter one, however, is being given an amendment. GM's MAY get their own player via FA but only if league approval is given before free agency starts. Approval is by no means guaranteed and we will be very stringent on giving it but special circumstances could arise. This really only affects @VHL GM's but everyone should take note of it regardless. @Commissioner

At least our second line is clicking. I can’t figure out how we score 8 and I only get 2 points but I guess 2 points is better than nothing.

Not sure you understand how questions work....

@Mr_Hatter turning it around a little bit at least

That’s because STHS doesn’t output one. The portal stats just pull from the index database, they don’t do anything special. If STHS doesn’t output it we can’t show it.

@Mr_Hatter if you could like, stop letting us go down 5-0 in games that would be great, we’re trying to get you another cup here

@fishy OP fully updated.

@Nykonax missing a goalie as well

Our first line has gotta figure out what the hell it’s doing. Apparently Pavlov was holding us together.

15 hours. @Nykonax is skipped. Technically for a second time but last pick so let it slide as long as he gets it in soon. @gorlabis otc

Wait, what?

Screw archetypes. That is all.

G - Raymond Bernard @Jubo07

F - Guy Lesieur @gregreg

I’m a busy man, it’s hard enough keeping track of how slow you’re trying to make things clever use of 18 hours while I was asleep BTW. I’ll get the OP updated when I have a chance.

Someone who respects both the 21st and the Kings instead of just bitching about them?

@gorlab is skipped. That’s skip #2 for him technically but because the forum has been wonky the last few days I’ll give him a pass on the DQ this one time. @fishy you’re up for Kelsier, Lab you can still pick whenever.

Bernard was damn good against Chicago but big Oof against Helsinki. Hard to win when you’re down 5-0