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One of the best picks with Perry, along with one of the worst picks with Grimaldi

Definitely not a record but probably the best streak since the bigger teams

Guy LaGuy and Guy LaDude? Missed opportunity there, not going for Guybrush Threepwood.

I actually like it, but only if there was an extra simmer.

This. If Quik comes back, decent both ways since 2nds are now a thing and Hafkey is also at least somewhat active. If Quik is gone, no brainer for Helsinki.

Yeah it's definitely a streak. Let's say 30 games from now, when we're in probably 5th in the conference, we had some random 6-4-2 run. No one would bat an eye. People are only noticing it now because it happens to be the beginning of the season. I will, however, let this ride for a bit longer, just to give the guys something to look forward to. We're going to nosedive a bit as soon as Crawford goes in (and once he's in, he stays in, as the active) but I think we stay ahead of Davos and end up maybe 10ish points back of the last playoff spot.

Kind of interesting that I'm apparently endorsing practice facility when I don't do practice facility

@Corco good luck in Mex, but on more of an informational thing: the league is significantly deeper now. That's one of the changes. Most teams have a 3rd line, 2nd round picks are what used to be mid-1sts and now it's relatively common to find viable players in the 4th and 5th rounds, although you can probably tell all that from the sheer number of expansion teams. You probably don't recognize half the VHLM, and a third of the VHL (Prague, Moscow, Malmo, and DC - oh and I finally got my Prague team I'd been ranting about for 30 seasons). Back in the day, a pitch from a VHLM team to a returning member selling a third line role would be unheard of - in this case, the first two Cs are me and Bek, and we can afford to not throw one of us out on the wing because that's what teams are like now, there are enough new guys on the wing who are active that we can afford to stack the middle. Teams all over the league are able to do this now. Mexico, for example, the team you went with, has four guys at 140+, which back in the day would have been something in the neighborhood of 2nd or 3rd place. Now, they're one of the teams that can actually afford to give you a decent spot out of the gate, because that's just the depth we have now.

@GustavMattias

he retired several days ago, this is old

He went 4-5 seasons in his first time here, and was actually half decent, but got busted for some sort of graphics related rule violation (I want to say he stole a pack of some sort and used the pack too heavily such that it appeared to ride the line of stolen work/not stolen work). Then as @.sniffuM said, he got big in SBA years later, and actually made a brief comeback here under a different username, but didn't last long that time either. I think his comeback player never got out of the M.

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sba, since the affiliation ending is one sided and we still use theirs

You'll definitely play the majority of the games. Letting May's hot streak ride for a bit but once you go in, you'll be in for the rest of the season.

It's definitely not going to last - Crawford @AndrewWarren13 will eventually be getting the main share of the starts (once I put him in, he'll stay in) but I figure we might as well ride May for the hot streak. Backup games are definitely out of the way now, at least. I figure if May will be exactly the same player at the beginning and at the end, but Crawford will be a better player at the end than the beginning, it makes sense to just leave May in early then when we fall off a bit, ride out Crawford. As the maximum, if we haven't fallen off by the sim in which we reach or exceed 20 games, Crawford goes in anyway. Still, the goalie thing is part of it, but that doesn't account for shot totals. It has to be a depth thing, which I'm very ok with.

The beard survives

Would definitely get a Prague hoodie

It's fine - in those days, the drafts were so thin that looking like you might have any chance at all was probably fine at 9th pick.

So I was apparently your GM

Not only were you very wrong on Smitty (it's Werbenjagermanjensen) you opened parentheses and didn't close them.

ill take a quick 5 for dagmar since kefka got the article, then do something for next week. yay 11:58

Delete this in about a day, but as of this exact moment, anyone who has yet to create is not eligible for S69 VHLM draft. Anyone who has created prior to this is eligible.

No what they're saying is that Hedge was taking long enough that the league might have jumped in and assigned based on BPA. You were BPA. You would then have been put into that pick regardless of Hedge.

One of the frees and the double just claimed on Dagmar - about to put the other free and the 5 on Kefka

and 10/27.