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G Papa Emeritus @STZ

F Pistil Stamen @Alex_J32 Oh and if you have the time to skip peope pre-emptively, maybe you have time to update the pick overview as well next time ?

D Battre Sandstrom @STZ

F Gunnar Odinsson @Alex_J32

Congratulations to all the Winners! But not even a Kanou nomination for Pines or myself? You guys really don't like Defensemen eh?

F Duncan Idaho @STZ

1. Not having asked out my first crush in high school. 2. It's gonna be very tough but if we can keep our current squad together then I don't see why not. 3. It's always tougher to win this Award when a team has multiple players performing on almost the same level, so I kinda get why he didn't win it. 4. Speaking as a member and not a player now: Floorball. It's a great sport and luckily I'm not completely terrible at it. 5. I don't really have an opinion on this, I generally find this idea of a mid-tier league interesting, but at the same time I've never really seen it work in any league I've been in. 6. Doggoooooos!!!

Interesting, I basically look at it the opposite way. As long as things are so vague, anything and everything might be reported because it could be seen as "harassment" of some sort by some members. That's not necessarily bad but my point is that those vague rules don't prevent unnecessary reports, they actually make them more likely. At the end of the day it will have to be a case-by-case decision anyway where the perspective of the person that was potentially being harassed is key, no matter if the rules are specific or vague. Without knowing every little detail, I have to say that reading the thread that prompted this discussion left me a bit frustrated, because it felt like a lot of potential to facilitate more constructive change was wasted there. Basically what I as someone who wasn't personally involved saw was a group of mostly female members bringing up relatively broad accusations, which were then met with unspecific and non-committal essays, PR speak and promises to "be better" by parts of the male user base. Now I completely understand that the women didn't want to put every detail out here in the open, both to protect their own privacy and dignity and that of other people involved. There is nothing wrong with that, I don't doubt the validity of their claims. But not releasing any more (anonymized) details even after the cases are resolved makes it really hard to actually draw useful lessons from that. "Just don't be a dick" isn't enough imho. I'm sure most of the perpetrators in these cases didn't think they were dicks either, and yet that's how their actions were perceived. It's that very gap that we need to bridge if we want to make real progress. Because what I saw in that thread coming from many of the male users often looked like mere lip-service to me or the typical kind of social media passive progressiveness where you try to show everyone how enlightened you are without actually doing anything that really makes a difference.

For real. These are good measures and it's good that the issues at hand are getting taken more seriously, but boy could you have formulated this any more like a hollow corporate press release or HR mail ? If have not followed the recent incident(s) too closely but what I find a bit unfortunate is how vague this all is. Someone who wasn't here for the situation itself will have no idea from this post what it was all about, and as an extension will find it hard to improve his own behavior based on it. All we really get out of this is a rather generic "read the rules" and "harassment is bad", is that really enough? I think we need to take a more concentrated effort to better ourselves and give people the chance to learn from this. I'm pretty sure that the problem with the user who that most recent controversy was about wasn't that he thought that harassment was okay, the problem was that his definition of harassment differed from that of the female userbase. If we want to bridge that gap we probably need to be a bit more specific about what is acceptable and what isn't.

Yes please

Where are they now? Checking in with RED's former players Max von Hohenzollern It's not often that you see a player in the VHL that comes from nobility but Max von Hohenzollern was exactly that, a descendant of the former German ruling dynasty of the Hohenzollerns. Despite having lost all of their political power and most of their wealth since being deposed a century ago, Max still grew up differently than most other kids in his country and when he decided to pursue a career in hockey, it came as a big surprise and even a shock to his family who still aren't exactly fans of manual labor or a rough physical sport like hockey. Max' career was a decent but not overly successful one, he essentially had one season where he was on of the top forwards in the league but didn't have the longevity to preserve that level of performance, and he already left the sport at a rather young ager as he was just entering regression. The end of his career was somewhat ironic too: After Max had decided to leave the VHL and had handed in all the paperwork to the league, they apparently forgot to submit it in time or some fax machine didn't work or whatever. Whatever the reason was, Max still appeared on the list of eligible players for next season even though he had intended to leave the league instantly and due to the VHL's CBA rules, he was actually force to play one more season as an "Inactive". After that one season and now finally being a retiree for good, Max decided to return to Germany and go into the private sector, starting a career as a business consultant. He seems to have cut all ties to the hockey community since then, advising a whole bunch of different companies over the years but none of them being hockey-related. David Collier Unlike MvH, Cavid Collier has been a mainstay in the hockey world ever since starting his career all the way back in S33. After a successful career that mostly saw him suit up for the Cologne Express, Collier moved on into a front office position after his playing career, eventually rising to the position of General Manager. Along with his colleague Ryan Power, Collier was one of the integral architects of the squad that went on to win the Express their first Cup in franchise history. After handing over the reigns to Power completely, Collier took a short break from hockey to travel the world and pursue other opportunities before returning to the Hockey world as a TV Expert and Commentator. He has largely been in various media positions ever since, aside from a multi-year break where he returned to his native country of Germany to take on a position in the German Ice Hockey Federation in orde rto build up the structures of their national team. At the writing of this article, Collier is still working on TV but has reduced his workload in recent years and many people expect the now 66-year old to announce his retirement soon. Nicolas Caprivi The last player of the trio that we wanna talk about is Nicolas Caprivi. The Canadian Center was one of the Elite Playmakers of his time, winning a Challenge Cup with the Cologne Express in S42 before moving on to the New York Americans where he would spend the rest of his career. Despite a couple of very strong seasons, Caprivi never quite turned into the perennial Superstar that many hoped he could become and his career ended relatively early, when he announced his retirement after just five seasons to return to his hometown in Ontario. Caprivi has almost entirely been out of the spotlight ever since, avoiding a public profile and staying away from alumni meetings and the likes. There has been a lot of speculation about the cause of his reclusion but as of today, nobody has found a definitive answer and as far as we can tell, Caprivi is just living an ordinary and completely uneventful life with his family. Words: 650 [Theme Week Double Media]

I don't follow other teams/leagues outside of my own a whole lot, but I can say that the overly cyclical nature of the VHL(M) might be the one thing that has always bothered me the most about this league. It often makes you feel like a passenger that is subject to the currents instead of a player that has actual impact. The fact that most teams choose to either be super shitty or to stack up and compete for a few seasons means that you rarely make an actual difference. If you are on a shitty team then you won't be able to pull them out of the hole by being a great player or by leading by example. You either are basically the only person there or winning is actively discouraged because everyone on the team just waits for those drafts a few seasons down the line where you have stacked up on 1st Rounders. If you are on a stacked team then things are somewhat better but still not great because likely this team will be stacked no matter if you are on it or not. Most of a time it's a team that wasn't built by your or your teammates dedication, but by the fact that the team stacked up on 1st rounders three seasons ago, or the fact that the current GM has just traded most of the teams future for star power players. It's always nice to win but with this kind of preparation, it's also somewhat expected and less special. Even though I haven't held the position in a long time, I think it's also something that makes the GM-job less rewarding and actually makes being a good GM less important. Of course being a good GM still helps, but in this kind of cyclical system it often isn't so much about shrewd drafting and good trades and signings, but simply about embracing the cycle and then waiting. If you trade everything you have, tank for a few seasons and then have like six 1st rounders over two drafts then you'll probably end up with a good team even if you aren't a great GM. There are still many ways a GM can have an impact and of course good GMs will eventually be more successful then others, but I think GM quality is generally less important and the job is less fun, especially after burning through the cycle for the first time, than it would be in a less cyclical system. On some of your other points: I quite strongly agree that it is a mistake to prohibit/criminalize inactives. We absolutely should promote active players and make sure they get the ice-time they need, but we don't need to get rid of inactives for that. I would argue that having a high TPE Inactive or two sprinkled throughout your roster that make your team have more success on the ice actually makes things more fun for the active players compared to being on a team that has no high-TPE inactives, plays a lot of lower TPE actives in important positions and loses a lot more as a result. There's a middle-ground here between no inactives and stacking the team with inactives. Also, if a team always have to play a new 50-TPE active they just signed over all of their high-TPE Inactives, it might actually make the team less likely to bring in those actives in order to avoid the hassle. That is especially true for lower probability players, people that arent super active yet or that we think have a relatively high chance of busting. Those players need a good GM and a locker room the most, but if you automatically lose your inactives then bringing in those kinds of players is hardly worth the risk. I actually like the no double-shifting rule, the excessive double-shifting is also something I never really liked about the league. But I don't have that strong of an opinion or knowledge about this matter so not much more I can say about it. I'm not super sure about tightening the pick limits, I definitely like the spirit behind this suggestion but there are also a lot of potential risks and problems. It's something worth discussing for sure though and I think I tend to see more positives with this suggestion than negatives. Oh and review I guess so I can claim teps for this: 10/10

1. The chance to live my dream as a professional hockey player. 2. Of course, that guy is awesome! 3. He's also awesome, so yes! 4. Wooooo we are all awesome, yes yes yes!! 5. You could say the other side took a L. 6. No but I've heard pretty mixed/meh reviews.

1. A bunch of good new players and some of the more established ones hitting the prime years of their career now. 2. I think this season we will be a lot more consistent, the roster is a lot deeper and more balanced this time. 3. Thank you for your feedback! 4. We ourselves. Can't allow for complacency to settle in for even one second. 5. They'll be exactly tied then as well. 6. I don't watch as much of it as I used to, but my somewhat guilty pleasure I look forward to every weekend it happens on is Formula 1.

G Sirkans Klamasteris @Tape-to-Tape

D Matty Socks @dlamb

1. Since I barely follow anyone outside my own team, probably not. 2. Does Takeshi's Castly count for this? 3. Guess I'm kinda late to that one... 4. Ehm, I would like to direct you back to answer #1 for that one. 5. I'm pretty happy with the selection we've made 6. Yeaaahhh I don't think you wanna ask a Euro that question...

D Robin Galante Nilsson @Tape-to-Tape

Oh shit can i change my pick to F Dakota Lamb then? @OrbitingDeath

F Viktor Grachev @dlamb

@dlamb Odinsson was already picked. I select: F Aloe Dear @Tape-to-Tape

F Groovy Dood @dlamb

Sorry I'm at work right now and can't reall do much research, will try to get on this asap.

Yessir

1. Being cut from his schools hockey team in his first year because he couldn't skate well enough. 2. I really have no idea but maybe Malmo. 3. Yes. 4. It's tough to keep my focus up for it to be completely honest just because it feels like a bit of an afterthought, although it certainly isn't. 5. Everyone! 6. I am confused by this question... What?