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So that means "yes"? Nice

So I guess that's a "no"?

Any chance we could use players base salaries, not salary + bonus, to determine the cap-hit? Me and some other guys on my team (and other rebuilding teams as well I'd assume) got a bonus this season which makes our players really unattractive fantasy picks since a player who normally would make 1.5 or 2.5 million now has a cap hit of 4 million...

Dun-dun-duuuuun.

Mission Accomplished They’ve done it. More than a decade after entering the league in the S31 expansion and after a long rebuild that started all the way back in Season 37, the Cologne Express have finally won their very first Continental Cup! After a rather pedestrian regular season the whole team stepped it up in the playoffs, led by their franchise players Thomas O’Malley and Mason Richardson as well as veteran depth players such as Logan Laich and Ron World Peace. The best players for the Express however were two guys that had just joined the team for S43, off-season acquisition Martin Brookside and deadline pickup Robin Gow. While Gow ended the season as the leading playoff scorer, most people see Brookside as the frontrunner for playoff MVP after magnificent postseason campaign. The goalie had only two regulation losses in three rounds of playoff-hockey, sported a ridiculous 1.66 goals against average and saved 93.9% of the shots he faced. While Brookside’s arrival in Cologne hadn’t been met with a lot of enthusiasm from the Express fan-base at first, since his acquisition marked the end of the tenure of long-time Express goalie and fan favorite Blaine Olynick, the Express brass quickly learned to love their new netminder after he carried the team through both the regular season and the playoffs. With two newly acquired players playing maybe the most important role in the franchise’s first cup-win, a lot of praise has gone to Cologne’s General Manager Ryan Power as well, and rightfully so. Power, who had taken over as GM just prior to this season, didn’t just bring in two crucial pieces along with some depth guys such as Chris Raymond and Alistar Graves, he also took what he already had in Cologne and implemented one of the most effective defensive systems in the league. Power didn’t just take all the praise for himself though and also acknowledged the work of his predecessors Joey Kendrick and Alexander Schneider. Kendrick, the man who had brought the Express to Cologne and who had GM’d the team through its early years, is still involved with the organization through Mason Richardson, a player that he is close friends with. Schneider, the transition GM between the Kendrick-era and what might soon be known as the Power-era, brought in the majority of the teams current core, including Thomas O’Malley, Mason Richardson, Logan Laich, Godavari Yumalatopinto and the longest tenured player currently on the Express, Ron World Peace. Schneider, who had described himself as a transitional GM, surprised a lot of people when he stepped down last summer, but in a short statement after the Express’ cup win stated that this was exactly what he had hoped for: “I think I did a decent job building this team but back then I felt that we needed something else to truly turn this team into a winner and that “something” was a more aggressive GM, someone who could add on the foundation I had built and who would find those few missing pieces that we still needed. And I’d say we found that someone in Mr. Power, the last thing I would’ve wanted was my pride getting into my way and having me cling to my position while deep inside I knew that someone else was the better choice at that point. I don’t need to have an official position with the team to still feel a part of the success, my goal always was to bring the Express their first championship so now I can say: Mission Accomplished!"

Your new avatar is confusing the shit out of me flyers

Who?

PS: It's not rain, it's champagne from the cup celebrations...

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! So proud of my teammates, what an amazing win Thank you to Quebec for a great and fair series as well!

I just downloaded Endless Legend from the free weekend on Steam and might give it a try later, also thinking about getting Rimworld but 30€ seems like a lot for a relatively minimalistic game that is still in Alpha, even though it seems like just the kind of game that I could get hooked on. And now @Higgins, I don't think I have ever heard of it either, what kind of game ist it?

So... much... dysentery...

Show some sympathy people, if you were on Seattle then you wouldn't want to see the locker room every time you open the site either.

Just noticed that Higgins and I have the exact same team . Has anyone else found someone with the same team as his own yet?

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That. When you put a system in place where finishing 30th is better for your teams future than finishing 20th, then you can't blame teams who are out of the playoff race for aiming at last place. Also I think it's pretty stupid that people are almost exclusively pointing fingers at us for tanking this season when Arizona has been just as much as a perpetrator, in fact we played considerably better than them down the stretch and almost. But I think this will be the last season in a long time where we will have this discussion anyway, with the new lottery system coming up (and the fact that there isn't a McEichel every year), finishing dead last will be a lot less attractive for teams in the future.

Have any of you guys played Papers. Please? I bought it when it originally came out, played it for like an hour and appreciated the message behind it, but didn't have a lot of "fun" and never continued (yeah, I know the "not fun" thing is kinda intentional). But now I gave it another try and suddenly spent almost three hours playing it a few nights ago. I'm about halfway through the story mode now and boy is it getting stressful

I submitted my picks really late and saw that someone had already pointed that out in the thread a few days ago, yet Caprivi was still a Defenseman in the spreadsheet so I just went by that since I assumed that was the "official" ruling.

The chat is a really cool feature indeed!

It was kind of a sneaky question though

Looks like 3 Moons, Bentley & Wahl are the cornerstones of every good line-up . I have: Thomas O'Malley (4 points) James Faraday (0 points) Jody 3 Moons (7 points) Matt Bentley (13 points) Nicolas Caprivi (2 points) Brick Wahl (12 points) In hindsight picking Faraday was probably a bit of a mistake but I forgot about their first-round bye, maybe he'll start racking up those points against Cologne though

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The SHL is more fun, but the VHL is still a decent league.

This was an April Fools thing, right? Right..?

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