Beketov

I get by. to be fair I was never banned from the site for a season and I was never AWARDED a season without PT's, rather punished with it, so I wouldn't say I got both in one go.

I'd be okay with this. Could have potentially saved us members like you or Dwyer so I think it's something worth looking into. Obviously no TPE earning (or banking) but you don't lose any career length and making it only available to FA's means that it doesn't complicate rosters. Maybe because of the "vacation" you lose half your banked money (coke and hookers don't come cheap) and maybe like a minor version of depreciation (say 2-3% maybe?) just for the time away from the rink making you a little out of shape. Obvjously consistency should be rewarded but if we can save even a few members by letting them take a break then I don't see the harm.

Hardy har har...

The Sokolov luck will guide us through. I want that third Founder's Cup!

Personally I'm fine with the "punishment" just being that the GM loses the choice over what games the backup plays. If they really need to win their last 3 or something but don't do their lines earlier then guess who's in for those games? I don't think punishing them any further would be necessary and @Devise nailed down exactly why. I wasn't even bringing this up because I wanted to see them punished, I just want things to be fair. If it was all non-playoff teams or something that doesn't matter then whatever. But when you have a team like Stockholm involved that are in a race for the victory cup and the first round bye it can make a difference to have that backup playing or not. I think that normally Jardy would auto-do it and that's fine. It was just bad luck that he happened to be going away right at game 64.

Who would have thought peopl would still be holding a 10 year old mistake over my head

I wouldn't suggest it. Breaking the rules out of protest fixes nothing. It does seem like the kind of thing we should establish specific punishments for though.

We actually did lose one of the games because of the re-sim. In one way it does kinda hurt the people who did it properly but on the other hand what kind of punishment would we have been able to use that would actually be worse than having their backup in? I think normally it would be forcing their backup in during the playoffs but there was so many of them that it could really fuck the playoffs up.

Not sure who he against played but 1 game over for a non-playoff team isn’t the end of the world.

With all the potential backup goalies in the draft I would argue that this rule is going to be more important moving forward if anything. It was created so that backups didn’t sit on the bench all season; just so happens that 99% of the time teams only have 1 goalie.

I’m not sure where the rule is hidden but backups must start a minimum of 8 games. It’s always been the case.

Hmm, never actually noticed that. So Stockholm, Quebec, Cologne, Davos, and Riga have all started their starter too many times... Technically Toronto has too but it’s already TOR G so it really makes no difference haha

If you started him and he played like shit Dadonov would have gone in and gotten a GP. In recognize that could be happening for a few here but I doubt it’s all of them.

Did I miss a memo on it’s removal or have half the teams in the league just decided not to care about it?

Can’t stop SEA G

Hey look, it’s not CoD! It is a game I’m FAR worse at though. So if you wanna see me suffer for awhile while talking about random junk then come watch. *For Sokolov

SEA Gshould probably be in net for he playoffs, just sayin'

I don't like it would have been better than this but I could have sworn I made you one at some point? Maybe I'm wrong though.

Nothing screams hockey but all the letters of VHL are present. I kinda like that they aren't immediately obvious, makes things a little more interesting.

Seriously though, you should post a high res (preferably png) version of this so we can all use it in new designs. It only makes sense since this should definitely be the new league logo.

That should have the stats for every player on it.

Check with @Streetlite. If anyone will have random old stats it would be him.

We're slowly working toward more Camos in IW; at least while the game wants to give me lobbies which it suddenly stopped doing during this episode! So we also play some MWR to finish off the questions from @der meister, @evrydayimbyfuglien, @tfong, and @BOOM *For Holik

It did...sorta. This is actually our third board. We went to a Simple Machines one after the IF one but then we got hit with a DDOS attack and they kinda locked us out. We got some stuff from it but not everything. Over the course of the two moves we lost some things.

And in his day that gimmick worked. Now thoughit really doesn't. Back in the day it felt like he was crushing people because he was better. Now it just feels obvious that he's crushing opponents because he doesn't have the energy to stick around any longer. Hell even after a 30 second match he looks completely beat.