Beketov

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.

Truly the shittiest player I ever made and that’s saying something.

@tfong did give a huge donation at Christmas in the name of the Victor Hockey League so you have a point.

We tried that, his name was @Victor

Player Name: Robert Sharpe Claim What player will lead the league in hits at the end of the sim on Sunday April the 19th? (Correct Answer is worth 3 TPE): Mathieu Perreault

Yeah but Scotty isn’t simming

Man that saying really loses it’s punch in text form

In the interest of fairness that is the first thing @emidas and I talked about. According to what he told me, Evans misspoke about matters he wasn’t clear on.

Takes a lot to get 400 goals these days, doesn’t leave much left.

No disagreement from me. Thompson used up all my sim luck

Skips S70 because we’re all terrible.

You and me both.

So when I told you to stand down and you said okay, is this what you thought I meant? I’ll admit it’s not a good look for them, especially the ones from a couple months ago, but screenshots of convos over a year old don’t necessarily prove much of a point. Let’s just move on.

1250 actually but close enough.

Looks like just the right amount of edgy to me.

That’s what started it but it’s hardly what it’s about.