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  1. Yup, and I am cranky today: bad combo. Sorry C2X, I know you don't deserve to be bitched at. I am sure I will feel better tomorrow, about 7:54am.
  2. So if I hear you correctly, you would incredibly frustrated at having to wait 24 hours for no good reason? we have lots in common. rofl. I know my pick and will make it from my phone, dont worry.
  3. Yeah, you are committed to it now, so it is what it is: but my overarching point reaches back to my last tenure here. I said something upon my exit about creating a closed loop of attrition that will ensure league atrophy and eventual shutting down. The first idea of a "remember to come back by such and such a date for your pick" just was anti fun and should have been a 12 hour clock once the guy in front of you picks: we would be long finished by now. Shrug. At this point i know posting my thoughts is useless so I am done bitching. I will make my pick when i can within my 24 hour time limit. Cheers all. Hopefully you don't have to do another dispersal draft soon, this one was the opposite of fun.
  4. THis is the part where I legit do not understand how putting four guys into one day was supposed to solve anything? I am going to assume gypper won't pick and so May 1st at about 9am I am on the clock. I have appointments all day and likely will be making my pick very late at night tomorrow, pushing Ottawa's pick to May 2nd most likely. Then all the four May 1st people will be 'on the clock but with 24 hours each' to make their picks starting mid day May 2nd? Am I the only one that thinks this is Raytarded? anywho...until tomorrow. Cheers all.
  5. I thought 200 points in the first round would be something of a fighting chance to advance: apparently I have greatly under estimated the top 15 clubs in the league.
  6. With too many dmen, and too many contracts, something had to give and at the end of the day, we feel we maximized the return value out of Marcus relative to what we were seeing in potential returns elsewhere. The 2nd round pick is great but moving up 14 spots in the 4th round is some pretty good back end upside. We feel Marcus is a reasonable contract at the peak of his performing career and so we wish him well with Vancouver going forward. Tough negotiations and fun negotiations, for sure. Thank you @theo5789 and thank you C2X for what I think is the fastest posting of a trade deal in GML history...when it was agreed to by both of us and i then opened my team sheet: the moves were already done...hahahaha.....Cheers all.
  7. Hush3d murmers from the crowd ensue...
  8. I think the biggest thing is acquiring high priced guys at the deadline..but for less than half their season cap..then after season ends but before july 1st their caps look full priced. it makes for a period of Flux while those teams scramble to get back to a compliant cap situation.
  9. i think i just read through CDC's first menage et deux
  10. I am hopeful it will be the same two people set up but with a 24 hour limit from previous pick once you are @'ed
  11. Seattle Kraken Front Office Budget for the 23/24 season is hereby set to the following parameters: Minors Budget: 30 Million Medical: 0 Development: 5 Million Relations: 20 Million
  12. The Seattle Kraken select .... ....From the Sarnia Sting, via the GML 2023 Dispersal Draft... @Zenflamesfan you are on the clock for the next 12 hours and 1 minute.
  13. I dunno man, L.E. walks? you are taking a risk there.
  14. yeah he is my opponent right now, hahahaha.... Psy Ops is a thing. o.O
  15. Thinking outside the box: perhaps he indicated somewhere that he wasn't going to pick anyone? Did we all miss something like that?
  16. I am going to set my budget for next year over the weekend, and then do up all my ELC deals for next October. Did i read right, ThatMike is the ELC guy? Also, suggestion for round 2 of the dispersal draft: keep the paired "slots" cuz we all know to wait for the first guy to pick then the last guy picks every day... ...but make it a 24 hour clock starting right after the previous pair are done picking. ahhh, Ahhhhhhh! waka waka waka, we would be done this round already with that rule, while still allowing a full whole day for any GM to make a selection once it is their turn.
  17. Looks like I am picking at 12:01 am Monday Morning. sigh. @The Brindy Gypsy you alive at least?
  18. yeah! stop interrupting me being patient! hehehe. It is rare enough as it is.
  19. I see all the playoff lineups and I am thankful for not having to match up right away with the obvious powerhouses. Vegas is going to be trouble enough thanks. Best of luck to all the Playoff Bound GM's and good luck to the draft lottery GM's as well, this year above most years, the lotto is going to be very interesting for who gets incredibly better right away! Cheers all. I am so stoked for 4pm pacific time...the only thing left on my mind now is how to watch em all, and keep the wife happy. @The Brindy Gypsy Grats on hitting the post season; best of luck to you, although I think i may need it more with your Tendies in play, time will tell if my D will beat your G's. hahaha..... going to my corner and will be coming out fighting!
  20. WOW, I had just assumed C2X had won it multiple years, as from memory, C, your almost always up near the top of the standings: GRATS!! I missed noticing this.
  21. sweet, i think ten lineups already in...hrm..ahhh 8, eight more to go. hehe, night all. meds are kicking in.
  22. ^ Now just to see if it is true that Defense Wins Championships. Also happy that 7 of the players listed above were aquired by me since taking over. I am fully aware the squad was very very nice at the time I got it, however, not only did i bring in potential playoff help, but I also kept what I knew I needed. I think this team is a shared vision between my predecessor and myself for sure, but not truely either GM's club 100%. Still, if I win it: they dont ask how, they just ask to see the ring. hehehe a bit rough not having either of my NHL tendies make the playoffs: and each were knocked out in the final few games of the season, but I think I have enough to put up a valliant fight in the first round, and after that anything can happen! Bring it on Vegas!!!
  23. Aye, thar be monsters lurking beneath the ice, but be forewarned, we are much much worse when we tread upon it! Seattle Kraken Announce Playoff Lineup and Black Aces 2023!!! Forwards Kevin Fiala, J.T. Compher, Andre Burakovsky Gustav Nyquist, Mattias Janmark, Anthony Duclair Morgan Barron, Calle Jarnkrok, Saku Maenalanen Radim Zohorna, David Gustafsson, Shane Bowers John Beecher Defense Gustav Forsling, Vladislav Gavrikov Alec Martinez, Vincent Desharnais Matt Grzelcyk, Josh Mahura Logan Stanley, Ryan Murray Goaltending Jonas Johansson Black Aces: F *Oskar Back, D Lucas Carlsson, Mikko Kokkonen, Oskari Laaksonen, Jacob Moverare, NJDHatakka Santeri *If allowed to carry 14f and 8d with my one tendie: please promote Oskar Back to the starting unit.
  24. I have not had the time to jump there, but I will read through it this week a bit. Sorry if i misundertood the nuances of your position. I trust you enough to have the back and forth though, not so sure i want to have a similar back and forth with randoms from CDC on the musk thread though. hehe. I will read up on it though. Cheers brother.
  25. so, really, since you dont know him or talk to him you hate what you perceive of him, via various media both classical and social/digital? I also find it odd that a single corporation like say Twitter was considered benign before elon bought it and is now considered maliscious after he bought it ... when the reality is that it was always and is always a tool for making the owners more money. Streamlining and layoffs always suck, but if my buddy's grocery store fired half the staff to save money, is that a crime? Would we be streaming out the door to a new supermarket? Probably not because the savings would trickle down to us shoppers, only in the ethereal world of social media is trimming the fat so to speak a 'crime'. shrug. I hate populist politicians and by extension i hate populism on the interwebs....trying to cancel comedians becuase the joke makes your friend the butt of it. HINT: every joke has a butt, to be inclussive in who is the butt of the joke, to me, is equality. Thinking about Dave Chappelle here, i watch every season of Ru Paul and my buddy actuallly does drag, i love him all the same, but I still laugh HARD at every Dave CHappelle joke at trans expense. Shrug. dunno the answers, but I know the questions. Far as i can see: Elon Musks issue is that the woke crowd doesn't like that he isn't catering to their every whim, and for me that is a good thing. For the record I am about half way between the NDP and the Liberals on the political spectrum and more than a step or two down the autism spectrum to boot, hahaha.
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