1. GM’s were notified punishments would be handed out this season for failing to hit the requirements.
2. GM’s were notified of the addition to send lines to the regular location as well as @Devise. The fact that this was not done is not the fault of the simmers.
3. Beaviss was under the belief that he needed fewer games than he did (since he assumed his backup wasn’t in for the last game which would have put him at 4/8) so even with the above his count would likely have still been off.
No right has been denied. The backup was not played, period. This has nothing to do with prominent members on Toronto, has nothing to do with Toronto at all. A case could MAYBE be made if lines were skipped right at the end (especially if they were sent correctly) and that would have resulted in the proper amount. However the lines in question were in the middle of the season. Still plenty of room to get the required games in. And no, we were not going to re-sim those games because of a GM mistake.
I get that it sucks for Quebec but we were very clear that the rules have been in place since the league began and we were going to start enforcing them. We could not have been more clear on that and all the GM’s knew it. The onus isn’t on the league here, it’s on Quebec for miss-managing their backup games. I’m sorry but that’s how it is.