I think this has to do with the bias we all suffer from, like in their perspective, Bowman has been their boss for a decade or so and has done great things for the two of them.

It's like if a close relative or friend committed a crime, the first step would be denial, I think this is where they are, and it's completely normal and human. Just my 2 cents, of course I don't mean to defend their words but yeah there's that.

I hope Morgan ages like Mark Giordano, but there are plenty of examples of offensive defeceman that when they lose there skating are pretty useless. And in a flat cap world that we are dealing with, IMO that contract is going to be an anchor. I will happily eat some crow if I am wrong. IMO Jack Campbell should have been locked up first, then see where you are at near the end of the season with Rielly.

Flat cap is projected to end this year with Friedman, Lebrun, and Serevalli reporting NHL expects the cap to start increasing by 1mill a year till 2026 whereby everything should be paid off by then and we should increase by 2-4.5mill once again

So basically by 2026-2027 Cap will be at 91.4mill (5.9mill jump just for 1 year than back to normal increases there after)

Correct, but if ticket sales continue to be ****, paying off the escrow by that suggest timeline might not happen.

https://theathletic.com/news/nhls-early-season-attendance-is-down-while-sellout-streaks-end/J9dDn9ArYkga/

Per Rick Westhead, the investigators could not find Aldrich's employee file which would have been digitized. So, I'm glad Bowman and co are gone because someone deleted that file

Ticket sales actually have been pretty decent considering the pandemic so far. Only team slacking bad rn is Buffalo

How does their record result in less people going to games lul (under double digits).

Still super early though

I would highly recommend reading it, if you have access to The Athletics. Ticket sales have not been good, especially now that most stadiums are at full capacity. Still a lot of fears about being in a large area with people you don't know. I mean ****, the Leafs haven't even had a sell out yet. Lots of people don't have that disposable income to go to games.

Don't want to get into a pissing match, but for me the Rielly's contract will come back to haunt them when it comes to keeping Matthews. Really hope I am wrong.

edit:
Also, ticket sales on average account for anywhere from 30 to 40 percent of a team's revenue in a season, accounting for an even higher percentage of what the league tracks as “hockey-related revenue.”

Wow Rielly signs long term
I didn't expect that to happen right now
Good deal based on what other defensemen got
But the Leafs cap situation is insane. Almost 60% of their cap space is going to 5 players

Hughes is out for minimum 5 more weeks
Wood is out for even longer sign an undisclosed injured
PAIN

They made an EliteProspects page for that one kid from the meme. Says he's eligible for the draft in 2023.

Edit: I made a suggestion on the megathread for the ability to share pictures saved to your phone or computer. That would really come in handy now.

Which meme kid, doesn't load

Edit: oh for god's sake

just copy this into your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4GENZHz7ts

Playback error

Oh, that kid, lol, Wayne Glensky

They probably won’t ever do it because some many users would abuse the function and post stuff that would have to be constantly deleted

Oh. Well, that's understandable.

Yep, while it's kinda annoying, the won't fix it since yeah, we don't want everyone to be able to post whatever pictures they want

I want to show everyone the blackboard I filled with stats at school

So Bobcat, I know you showed interest in the GM Game, do you want to join? I could use someone with a better understanding of the CBJ roster

Well, you can type the stats i guess?

What i usually do is:

1. Take a picture of it on your phone

2. put it into a meme generator (i use Imgflip)

3. Copy it from there

4. Post it onto the forum from the picture embed thing on the textbox down here from your phone

More often than not, it works.

Its tight but its actually not as bad as people make it out to be. Thankfully we got Brandon Pridham the guy who made the cap and its rules on our team.

Next year they got slightly over 7.2 mill now that said they need to sign 5 players to get to the minimum needed

Now who would those 5 players need to be

Well if we look at the team next year (? are empty spots)

We got

Bunting-Matthews-Nylander
Kerfoot-Tavares-Marner
Ritchie-Kampf- ?
Simmonds-?-?

Rielly-Brodie
Muzzin-Holl
?-Dermott

Mrazek
?

Sandin, Campbell, Kase will be filling in 3 of those which leaves the 4c and 4RW open.

Based on projections and reports got a feeling Kerfoot will be moved his 3.5mill will be added to our 7.2mill giving us 10.7mill to spend

K so now for extensions

Using comparable rn I see the following

Campbell signs 4.5mill x 3 years (Bernier 4.25mill x 2 years and Freddie 4.5x2 years used)
Sandin 1.55 mill x 2 years (Vallimaki deal)
Kase still early but I got a feeling 1.45mill x 3 yrs (Tolvanen deal) --> now theres always the chance he just does not get a QA due to either not performing well or getting hurt

And the remaining 3 spots will be filled in by Anderson (750k) probs Amadio (750k) and maybe even Ho-Sang (750k)

Now as for who replaces Kerfoot got to wait and see as its still super early for that.

My brain hurts now lul

I don't have a twitter as of now, and i feel like i have more to learn about it. Are there games that are played?

It’s better to see for yourself.

No, we have a scoring model which involves, Dom lysnznsnsn ( however you spell it ) game score and a couple of other things that make our scoring points. Approximately every month, we set a roster and that roster is what gets us points for that month, top 16 makes playoffs, if you want I can link our rules docs ( which may be partially outdated but gives you a base of understanding ). Also, email/hangout works fine for Assistant GM's