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Also it’s my weekend too, I’m busy. I simmed mine. Devise tends to sim later than me so I’m giving him that chance. Like I said, if he doesn’t then I will.

I would hardly say there is a consistent pattern. This happens maybe once or twice a season at most. So in an 8 week period you might get 2 days without super consistent sims. I’d hardly say that’s a pattern. Devise already said he’s going to double sim tonight to make up for it, he announced that awhile ago. If it isn’t done by morning I’ll do it myself. This is a problem with solutions already in place. I get the concern but I just don’t appreciate, and I’m sure neither would @Devise, the implication that the most consistent simming the league has ever had is a “pattern of inconsistency”.

Well if he retired and re-created at the deadline there wouldn’t be late joiner bonus.

Or that I suppose so long as he doesn’t earn anything this week.

You’d need to retire this guy for that but since it’s so close we can move your carryover to the new guy so nothing lost

@Jubis wasting no time! I know it’s likely not what you expected when you signed in Vancouver as a FA but all the same, welcome to Calgary @flyersfan1453! You’ll like it here, we win.

For a couple of weeks now @Bushito has been dealing with some personal issues. As a league we completely respect that members need to have priorities outside the league and would rather he be able to focus on what he needs to without worry about the VHL on top of everything. However the team still needs leadership in the meantime. For that reason @Jubis, who has been running the team as AGM, has officially been named interim GM of Calgary starting immediately. He may perform trades, offer contracts, do lines, etc. Any tasks of a normal GM. Thank You, @Commissioner

Agree to disagree. I’ve been around for every expansion the league has ever had. The ones where people saw it coming (DC and Prague being probably the worst with Moscow being bad as well) has no hype behind them. By the time the logos and locations and everything are announced people don’t care because they were excited about it 2 months before when they heard. Drop it as bombshell news and it’s just that, news. Mention it and then go radio silent and people stop caring. I’m not saying everything was handled perfectly or smoothly but dropping the largest expansion in league history as a footnote wouldn’t go well either IMO.

I can’t speak for everything but I know Beaviss has been very worried lately about how much was leaking out of the BOG in recent seasons. I’m not saying it justifies every decision but that’s what he meant by lack of trust. Something this large didn’t leak out which is obviously a good sign.

All of which were off-season changes that we knew were coming if I recall. That’s the trickiness. It’s easy to discuss when we have time but when someone up and leaves in the middle of a season there isn’t a ton of time to discuss their successor. In the case of expansion we probably could have been more open about it. We wanted to get going quickly mind you because we wanted the GM’s to have a say in their teams and logos take a long time to sort out.

Boom’s return: confirmed

I knew I was missing some, forgot their induction hasn’t been added to the portal.

FWIW you’ve had more team options than I ever had as well. For most of my time here there were only 8 teams. I’ve played on all those.

Dare I ask? Every time I go to bed it seems discord blows up. Doesn’t help me like it any more.

Congratulations, you just killed all the hype for the largest expansion the league has ever seen by telling everyone it’s coming. That announcement got people way more excited than any of the other expansions because it wasn’t leaked in advance like every other time. I’m fine saying there’s a possibility that we should have some general community pools without giving specifics (aka just an open “where should teams be” lost that isn’t specifying anything will necessarily happen) but it’s boring if everyone knows everything all the time. Our intention has never been to cut you guys out. Having a turnover rate as high as we have and changeovers in the middle of the season unfortunately means we can’t take a week of discussing the merits of everyone while a team, or worse a VHLM team, sits without someone at the helm. We’ve already committed ourselves to being better in both regards though. Open applications more and use the BoG more. We’ve been iffy on both lately. At least personally I think the staff channel we made on discord helped to make this worse. I don’t know about anyone else but personally I forgot BOG weren’t in there. Wasn’t necessarily trying to hide just forgot who couldn’t see it.

I’ve been here since S1 and have still never played for Vancouver in any capacity. Or any of the new expansions except Malmo.

Oof, been awhile since this was opened up. We have a couple of holes in the BoG to fill. As usual for this post we are looking for highly dedicated members who are interesting in voicing their opinions on a number of league related things. There is no pay associated with this job and we expect a lot of activity in regards to it. Feel free to send me applications via PM if you are interested.

The real reason for expansion right here, to kill the dream.

I mean my only patch of inactiveness was like 4 seasons with Kristensen. We just haven’t been on a team together very much so not much room for close contact. P.S reading this this morning was so hard knowing I had the expansion post written up and not mentioning it when you commented about contraction.

Love to see that at least every logo has gotten some love. Obviously we don’t expect everyone to love every logo but it shows that all of them are at least good for different taste.

Josh, Jeff, Muff, and McWolf NA being both J's and Europe being both M's was purely coincidental.

We only expand when we need to but ultimately the league has never wanted 4 full lines. We're too full to be doing anything but expanding so we'll do it when we need to. Intentionally went big this time to hopefully slow it down.

As per the OP (nice reading there :P) Berr did London and LA

It was originally gold but @Josh want Silver. Also Moscow isn't gold enough?

Funnily enough most of the BOG likes those ones the most. We wanted a few simpler ones.