Beketov

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.

I saw someone point out on Twitter that the last 5 people to hold the title going into mania have been: Goldberg HHH Orton Lesnar The Rock I may have the order fucked up but if that's true then it's pretty darn obvious that they are trying to justify keep cashing in on their big names instead of having proper mania matches. Brey having the SD title is good since he's actually a great new character but handing it to people well passed their prime just to have 1 shitty match makes the entire show look worse. I get that people love nostalgia and sure, there was a time when maybe people would have loved to see Lesnar and Goldberg go at it again (I mean someone must have liked that feud) but they are both well passed their prime. Undertaker's mania matches are still amazing because he goes in and performs the way you would expect Taker to perform: even if it's only once a year. But to send Goldberg into mania with the title and give him another 30 second match completely devalues both the title and the show.

So WWE has completely given up all their fucks right? I don't even really watch anymore, just check the highlights now and then, but Fastlane had to be a joke. To take the title away from a young guy who's proving himself and hand it to Goldberg going into Mania is bad enough; but to do it in a match that lasted what, 30 seconds? It' obvious to everyone that Goldberg can't do it anyway so stop pushing him. Having him "dominate" matches that quick doesn't seem to me that he's dominating; it seems to me that his body can't take a match longer than a minute anymore. To have that headlining Wrestlemania is pretty pathetic.

I'm sure there must be SOME worse than me though. I still hit okay TPE numbers for that time and I still won a cup. Worst season after a draft though, easily me.

*blink* *blink* Did I like fall asleep from lack of work or something?

That's how I've been looking at this whole mess. Personally I'm fine with the trade to Cologne and I understand the argument that players should be able to waive after the deadline. That just makes logical sense. But the problem isn't Robbie waiving for this trade, it's him waiving for the other one. When this trade was posted Zimmers wasn't on the team so the trade would effectively be void until such time as he was; putting it past the deadline.

I would love to say that's the case but it really isn't. Like it's been pointed out above, shot totals are way down. Looking at S35, for example, a season with arguably good goalies in it; the average number of shots faced by the league's top 10 goalies is 1944 with all of them more or less hovering around that. Compared that to this season where we are currently sitting at an average of 1604 (with some goalies facing 400+ shots fewer than the average) and it's a pretty startling number. Yeah, they had played the full season and we've played (mostly) 56 games but that's still pretty darn close for such a wide gap. Teams would have to average 42 shots per game for the rest of the season to make up that gap. Don't get me wrong, as a goalie I like the easy 7 shot shutouts but it is fairly obvious that the league's offense is lacking.

For the record on question B: hat was definitely NOT the first GFX rankings as we were discussing a previous one during the planning for it. However as far as I can tell the previous one was held on an old board which goes against the general rules of trivia.

+4 For Sokolov