Beketov

Apparently we forgot to show up for the third period?

Because it's so challenging for you to knock me down pegs

League improvements? God damn that means I need to find time to listen to this.

Jesus that name looks aggressive for some reason.

We’re discussing a system like that but at this point in time it unfortunately does not exist and with your creation being several weeks ago now it doesn’t seem fair to make an exception for you.

Glad to see you decided to recreate

Definitely a fun read. I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting it to be this tight. I think I only really paid attention to McAllister near the end of his career when we crossed paths and by that point he was slowing down a bit. Thompson not getting a Kanou is still a bloody travesty.

Added 19 TPE to adjust for the portal taking carryover from the wrong player. @Josh can you confirm that it's fine since it says difference of 19 in big red letters haha.

Game tying goal to send it to a SO with 6 seconds left? I don’t care if it’s regular season, this is officially the biggest goal I will ever score.

Have at it. Just don’t say I never gave you anything

He literally picked the wrong position. Off to a great start there @Shaka He’ll be back momentarily.

The @Commissioner team discussed it and actually decided that given the circumstances this actually is a fair solution. So, as of now, S73 creation is open. We'll be writing the guys that joined since Monday and they can choose whether they'd like to be in the S72 draft or the S73 draft.

We were talking about it last night. He kinda liked the dynamic of Holik being a regular season goalie and Wahl being a playoff goalie.

All this time and the name is still spelt wrong

Honestly it was an odd time to hold the recruitment drive so if the 72 draft doesn't desperately need them I'm okay with pushing them to 73.

Is it though ?

With the 3/4 mark of the season fast approaching we would like to announce that the season 71 Trade Deadline will be Monday April 20th @ 5pm EST. Any members wishing to retire, and re-create for the Season 73 Draft Class may do so starting immediately. @VHL GM @VHLM GM

You mean like Kastelic @Enorama

If you're having trouble keeping up with this you probably shouldn't go look at what's been going on in the BOG today...

The reason I said O’Malley instead of Cast is simple: era defining players. Cast and Thompson kinda split that role but in their time but O’Malley and Cornerstone were both unbeatable during their time period. But yeah, by award numbers Scotty is the only one who can compare.

I would have thought Cast vs. Thompson but McCallister does make a bit more sense and hasn’t been beaten to death. Slobo vs. Campbell would be fun but obviously quite pre-S20 If you did want competition for Holik than I think Skye makes the most sense. O’Malley vs. Cornerstone could be interesting

A fact I don’t love either, I already said that. Hell I would have liked to keep @Renomitsu and @Matt_O after I pushed for their original appointments. Ultimately Reno didn’t want the job anymore and Matt’s activity level dropped too far, what can you really do. We shake up the BoG every once in awhile and pick the best people we can at the time based mostly on how much we believe they’ll contribute to discussions. I don’t love that this around was basically all GM’s. There’s nothing inherently wrong with them I just think sometimes their teams can cloud their judgement. Still though, in this instance, they were the best options. We aren’t going to exclude good options because they happen to be GM’s. I don’t have to love it but that’s what we did with the AC and it was a terrible choice.

Do you not think GM’s are chosen in part because of their “quality”? Outnumbering GM’s 11-1 doesn’t prove that everyone else are better members for the BOG. And it’s not about getting yes men it’s about getting people that will contribute to the discussion at hand. Look at the award committee if you want a good example. That experiment failed because we limited the rules to such a degree that the people we were getting, while fine members, didn’t lend themselves well to the roll. Limiting out GM’s and having a turnaround of 3 seasons meant allowing people who didn’t care. They came in, didn’t discuss anything, and voted for the first name to come up in discussion. This isn’t what we want for the BoG. Also if you really think someone like @GustavMattias is just a yes man you haven’t been paying attention.

Kovalchuk was nothing without Thompson and therefore this article is nothing without mine

While I do prefer BoG members not be GM’s it’s becoming increasingly difficult. As the league expands we have more teams and therefore more GM’s. Therefore the cross section of good members for the BoG and GM’s inevitably intersect more and more.