Cold Calling

[jacobcarson877 2,521]

It’s been an interesting week so far, and I must say I never thought I’d have this much fun as a (n interim) VHLE GM. Rome is horrific, we don’t have a goaltender, we now finally have 5 forwards, and while we can’t stop the other teams from scoring, like at all, we’ve had a good run scoring ourselves.

 

I’ve gotten to talk to a lot of players I never got the chance to as a VHL GM, and the recurring narrative has been “I feel like once I graduated/ a previous GM stepped down / the season rolled over/ I was dropped from my last team nobody really contacted me, and so I stopped participating.”

 

Obviously that’s devastating to hear, and we’ve seen many times before sometimes the support system around a player all dissolves at the same time. It’s not exactly uncommon, but I’m happy to have reached out to some players that recently went inactive by VHLM terms, and gotten them the support they were looking for. I’ll be doing my best to be involved in supporting them this season, communicating with their VHLM/VHL GMs as applicable, and helping them get to a point where they can be long-term high-performing players in the VHL.

 

It's not about me, and frankly it’s not about Rome either. It’s about the players, it’s about the VHLE, and it’s about retention. That’s my goal this season, and we’re off to a great start.

Edited August 19 by jacobcarson877

[JCarson 722]

Working from the VHLM side I feel the pass off can be kind of rough. Not sure what can be done to assist but I feel the sooner a player gets invited/re-invited to the VHLE locker room the better.