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  1. i am the youngest of 7, can confirm this is the most likely scenario, but you forgot waking up to the crack of Don. Don was my middle brother, 6 years older than me. And like most jerks he is a cop now.
  2. Geez, piling the work on to the shoulders of the Commish like that, tsk tsk tsk
  3. Bear with me, I missed a lot and have an opinion for every occassion! lol. Thought one: While this is totally true, personalities and psychological state dictate which GM's will take the first casual hint as something they need to correct right away, while some personalities will push it right up to the day of being fired to make a change they don't want to make. That makes for a huge difference in reaction levels to any exec suggestion or imposition. I may take a gentle nudge as something to fix by noon while another GM may take same nudge as something to look at by the trade deadline or the offseason. The audience hears what the audience hears, and quiet nudges are important for the way this league is set up, but the results of them differ GM to GM. Just an observation. Half the league is eager to please and half the league doesn't care what anyone thinks if they have an advantage they want to use to the bitter end. Tied to my thought above. I agree with this concept wholeheartedly, but with several camps of types of GM: pleasers, chaotic neutral, and I do what I want till 100% forced. lol. Crosby McDavid, Mackinnon and Matthews cost 8.7m, 12.5m, 6.3m and 11,640m. A total of 39.14 million. leaving 42.36m to ice another 19 players, OR 2.2m a player! I don't think your going to win with 19 guys who deserve 2.2 million on your roster and 4 studs making half the cap between them. I know it was an extreme example on purpose, but it proves the cap does the most work on roster balance because no one can win with those 4 and 19 fillers. Also the things the league exec does to mitigate those stars being condensed on a club is a good thing. IN comparison to goalies specifically; If you have Price and Varlamov on one team, you are short changing your D or your F pool of cap money, which helps to limit stacking. ANyways, I think it is fine tuned very well as is, just wanted to respond to some ideas as i read them this morning. In my situation I have Samsonov now and Varlamov: but I know as a GM in CDCGML that I will lose one either in the expansion or at resigning if i don't make a trade between now and the Deadline: no league intervention required. If i somehow "think" i can not lose one to expansion, then when i do, that will be my mistake as a GM. lol. Okay game on: my computer is built again and i am back to annoy you all!
  4. I happen to have done some comparative work with tendies in another league that has a list of starters yiu can only have one of. Three of the top ten teams in that league had zero from the starters list, 5 teams in the top half! Meanwhile I think it was 3 of the 19 or 20 starters were in the bottom ten clubs. Reason: generally, if you spen 12 million on goalies, or more, that is almost 1/7th of your cap. Adding one awesome suoerstR forward for 10m and a dman of similar caliber and your left with cheap filler at the other 19 positions. Generalizing, the cost of stacking the crease is its own drawback to stacking the crease. Not to mention the headache of the real starters list changing a lot all Eason long while a fantasy league could have a guy withb3 starts so far locked into that list. Lastly, expansion draft will generally force one of two vet goalies to move, so this particular year, it should solve itself, if anyone still thinks thee is an advantage to which goalies are in the crease. Generally I like fairness, but in GML there is a lot of checks and balances on tendies.
  5. Working from phone till Next week, cheers all.
  6. Assignment: The Vancouver Canucks assign Alexandre Carrier to the minor league Comets/Moose Recall: The Vancouver Canucks recall Gabriel Carlsson from the Comets/Moose.
  7. Assignment: The New York Rangers assign Dmytro Timashov to the minor league Lake Cowichan Lakers.
  8. Welcome back to the mothership Justin Bailey. haha. We were serious our first claim of Justin and the situation on the ice forced our hand in waiving him and losing him earlier this season. Happy to have had a chance with better situational awareness to re-aquire this guy, long a target of the organization. We won't be silly enough to waive him again. Speaking to the trade, This little number was first and foremost a pleasure to negotiate with Carolina's fine GM. It was incredibly hard to decide to part ways with young gun Nick Robertson, a future star 100%, not to mention Antti Raanta, of whom I have been a long standing personal fan. One does not move on from Raanta lightly. Louis Domingue has provided excellent backstopping services at key moments for our org as well. Very tough to say goodbye to these three talents AND our 1st in 2022. The thing of it is though, that all three of the guys coming back were formerly on our Wishlist to acquire if ever available. It is kismet. Ilya Samsonov was our key target of the deal, and getting him in under the tutelage of Semyon Varlamov is, we feel, key to his development. When it appeared we may be able to also add Rasmus Kupari and Dominik Bokk to our prospect pool, it was an easy decision to use that 1st round pick to acquire the talent we will need to succeed in the future. I strongly feel we managed to bring in three very talented young men to the organization, and building that depth is KEY to success. Something we have never been able to claim is legitimate roster depth. Have been working on building that depth for years. * It didn't occur to me to do it all in one update 'a la House of Crabs. All in all the best deals, as I have said for a almost a decade, are the ones where both sides are a little unhappy with what they had to give to get. This may be one of those deals as we feel we paid a high price, despite our happiness with the returns! Thanks to Tony Romo, who mentioned this may be our first actual deal in all this time in GML together! My records seem to agree with that. Well worth the wait, IMO> GAME ON!
  9. I like seeing this all at once this morning. Plan your work, work your plan. You remind me of me before the uhhh, brain damage. rofl
  10. Looks like Hinostroza made it through, and luckily he is below the age requirement for cap recapture. This move squares away my cap issues and Robert Hagg is no longer available for trade, unless you want to make me an offer I couldn't ignore. : ) David Rittich, our NOW backup Netminder gets a rare start today, good luck Dave! And we hope to see Gavin Bayreuther test his legs in the deep end of the pool soon. Officially on the taxi squad in the NHL, but perhaps a cuppa java is coming his way?
  11. Recall: The New York Rangers recall Casey Mittelstadt from the Lake Cowichan Lakers. Assignment: The New York Rangers assign Liam Foudy to the Lake Cowichan Lakers.
  12. Assignment: Vancouver assigns Anthony Angello to the Minor League Comets/Moose. Activation from IR: Vancouver activates Matt Calvert from IR. * this move is for tomorrow morning. thanks.
  13. Waivers: Vancouver waives Vince Hinostroza to the Minor League Comets/Moose. Recall: Vancouver recalls Anthony Angello from the Minor League Comets/Moose.
  14. Holy poop emoji! I thought I was the only one on CDC that bad mouthed the Trevor. I feel that a benched player who was healthy may have won us a cup in game 7, seems greedy to play hurt and lose. Play hurt and win your a greedy hero, play hurt and lose, why do we revere you? Lol
  15. I don't overly disagree with you, you probably nailed it actually. I feel though that in our current Canucks Captain we have a similar guy, does everything better than the average cat and will be in the league a long long time doing it all better than the average guy. That in itself is a massive skillset to have. Petey scares me sometimes in his lack of versatility. Is he the "one"? the Neo of the NHL? probably not long term, sorry Petey, but for now he is going to put up nice points and likely be around a long time doing it, but he is fragile and i don't want him hitting or blocking or anything like that. haha
  16. Assignment: Vancouver Assigns Christian Wolanin to the Minor League Comets/Moose.
  17. I lean more towards hits and shot blocks than I do faceoff wins and shots, only cuz I feel the face off winners at the top end of sheer volume and the shot winners at the top end of pure volume are already rewarded with their scoring points, not many huge face off winners have less than 10 goals and 10 assists a year. But a guy who hits loose the puck from the back end after blocking a shot on his own net doesn't necessarily get any point recognition in our league. Rare monkey will get 500 face off wins but few score points. I would be just fine doing the two that pickup tracks while we consider the other two: perhaps done every 20 games four times a year as a manual input? dunno just spitballing. I know that any changes need to be for the following season, so its a slow moving thing anyways. Request to pickup they be tracked and see if they add them in the next 6 or 7 months? all good for discussion though, thanks for chatting it out with us.
  18. Really tough to move a dynamic player like Seth Jarvis, however, zero goalie points is a worse fate than losing a 5 foot 10 inch 19 year old. Thanks to Florida for long, fun, tough, and entertaining trade talks! Hopefully Semyon Varlamov will be up to the faith we have in his professional star powered patrols in the paint. !! Carl Soderberg will be greatly missed, as I am a fan, however we absolutely had to clear cap space or the deal wouldn't work!
  19. I could see where a player singularly outstanding at hitting, faceoffs, blocking and shooting would become a superstud, but Iginla already retired: the few out there would be very few indeed and again hard to keep as they will inflate at contract time if you happen to have the rare unicorn like Jarome Iginla. dangit, yes i am a KING Crastinator. graduated from pro crastinator years ago, hahaha...okay now to the flooring...
  20. Again though: since it is "all of us" why then would we need time to adjust? Several years back i did some math and found that only 10 to a bakers dozen hitters would have any significant changes and same for shot blockers. I have no idea about faceoffs or shots on goals: but with 0.1 points per, it would have to be a select few whose points are upwards adjusted enough to make roster changes over, right? So for the sake of discussion of the point: I don't think 31 teams need much lead in time other than from one season to the next since no one team has cornered the market on blockers and hitters and no one team has a magic 8 ball to 'rig' the outcome in the NHL rinks where the stats are tabulated. In fact I really like the low point totals for introducing the idea: it makes role players have some value and not just roster fodder for a keeper league that demands 23 players on the roster, without making any team reevaluate its existence, haha. It also leaves the door open for a season later revisiting the idea and seeing how its working without a huge impact for that one season. I am okay with things as they are, but I am also very happy with the proposal and would vote for it right now to begin next season: but we all would need to agree to revisit it one year later to make sure there were no unintended consequences. 100 hits: 10 pool points, no big deal 50 blocks: 5 pool points, no big deal Best shooter: about 32 points a year from shots 50th best shooter: about 17.69 points a year from shots 100th best shooter: about 17.22 points a year from shots FaceOffs: a little more complicated but in short: Best Faceoff guy gets 88 points a year from faceoffs 25th best gets 52 points a year 50th best gets 35 100 best gets 27 The difference from the 100th best faceoff guy to the best faceoff guy is only 60 points. That is big, but it again only affects about 2 dozen players, hardly the thing we all need a year to adjust our rosters for. But if we voted it in before the end of this season to take effect next season IMO we all have the adequate time to make adjustments we feel we must make. I don't see a need to make any at all, but going forward, it would affect signing values slightly and trade values slightly. End of the day, I see this as a good move to add value to the bottom 6 in every team. Sure some big shoots on the top line of a few clubs will get "bonus points", but the anchors we all must have to field a 23 man roster will have some inherent value to actually have and barter with as a result. Keeper leagues will benefit from these added points, but I am glad they are in small quantities. If folks are antsy about faceoffs, I am okay dropping them off the list of four, but all in all, the four items at 0.1 point per action seems fair to me. Shooters math: FaceOff Math: Well that is all the procrastination i can squeeze in today: wife asked me if i was gonna use a Zamboni to remove the last 50 tiles or just keep typing until they disappear from wear. lol I am okay either way with this, but I love the idea to bring more flavour to the full roster. Maybe 2 dozen players will get boosts and likely they are mostly spread among at least 16 teams. If they are clustered on one, that team will simply not be able to afford them as a group for much longer as their value will go up at re-signing and they will spread out naturally that way.
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