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Forum: GM Game 2019-2010 nov. 2022 à 22 h 1
Sujet: V5 General Chatter
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BeterChiarelli</b></div><div>Please update me once a resolution is reached.</div></div>

First and foremost, apologies for this mess. We've been trying to keep it under control, but when a group of people starts complaining, it eventually boils over into something overdramatic as we saw today. I hope everybody involved will take this opportunity to grow and learn to respect others especially when a person is going through a tough time in their current life.

Now regarding the resolutions; the whole reason this started was that there was a rule broken in a trade that was missed by the BOG which affected the scoring of the game. Once this was noted some people used it as an excuse to attack the BOG for being pickers and choosers regarding the rules, while we were discussing what to do. Earlier today we reached a resolution where a modified trade would stand so the scoring would not be drastically adjusted and everybody involved gets to keep their players.

Once again apologies for this disturbance, it has now been resolved in our game.

Thanks,
BOG
Forum: GM Game 2019-2018 oct. 2022 à 1 h 40
Sujet: V5 General Chatter
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>hanson493</b></div><div>Wasnt this supposed to be the version of less BOG intervention. Let the idiots get fleeced? We can "protect" new gms but cant protect teams from basically being unviable? Realistically if jon had traded away 2-3 more pieces and i hadnt won a few names in free agency sjs would be truly dead.</div></div>

Unfortunately, it seems like the BOG is “GMing” WSH and STL for them, blocking nearly every trade, until a BOG member makes a deal w them of course, because that deal will get voted on 3-0/4-0 like the Kyrou one probably did. It’s the double standard they have for themselves, and i’m not speaking of all BOG members, but until we really know what happens then it’ll be them as whole. I’m 100% all for the BOG watch feature, but they have rejected multiple market value deals for no reason, and have just let a BOG deal through no issue. Many of us share this opinion, so we want clarity.

Edit: Congrats and well wishes to your daughter!
Forum: NHL22 juill. 2022 à 23 h 50
Sujet: Team Canada Scandal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldHabsFan61</b></div><div>Ok so ruining hockey in this country does what exactly? Does it make any alleged victim not a victim anymore? Does it change what happened? Please tell me why we punish innocent people more than those involved in cover ups? A kid playing hockey right now for Canada (male or female) SHOULD NOT be punished for whatever happened in 2018 or 2003. It’s utterly outrageous that people want to punish kids now and in the future for what? What is gained? Nothing in the past changes. The only thing that changes is now this country has ruined its national sport for god knows how long… a decade or decades??

Canadians sure do love to self deprecate. We seem to love to loathe. We’ve always been a kind people who like to apologize, but what has happened in the last 20 or so years to this country is beyond my 61 years of comprehension. Your entire thought process does not help a single victim. It only makes different kinds of victims. Punish the people who were involved in the past coverups. If criminal proceedings follow this then let’s go to court but this sick idea of punishing the innocent has to be stopped. And I know you don’t care if an old guy never watches Team Canada again and neither do all these “do gooders” in our media with your mentality about this, but I’m sick for the kids today and tomorrow who will probably pay a bigger price for the past than those who were involved.</div></div>

How does accountability ruin hockey in a country quite literally foaming-at-the-mouth mad for the sport?

A key component of this that you're either failing to recognize or electing to ignore is that unless Hockey Canada is stripped down to stud, even outright replaced, all the kind of lip service you desire does is play musical chairs with an institution with a bad ignoring consent habit. What assurances are there preventing "Hockey Canada 2.0" from becoming just as cruel, uncaring, and vile as its predecessor? A fundamental change has to occur and that change has to be grassroots. The entire framework of Hockey Canada has led us to this very moment. It is wholly rotten. Tip to tail.

I look to other, actually-serious-about-societal-change leagues, such as the NBA where entire teams will sit out games in response to injustices. Sports are the reward of a fully-functional society. The most effective means of forcing change as an athlete is the refusal to participate until that change is made. Their million-dollar contracts and sponsors enable this. Any decent Canadian child playing through the Hockey Canada system should be actively trying to abstain from any events until this scandal is fully resolved. Why would a member of one of our elite women's teams want to wear the banner of an organization that cares not if young men drunkenly assault them so long as they believe money makes the problem disappear? How could the parents of vulnerable children want their daughters and sons to play for such a morally-bankrupt organization?

You think you're making a point and that you have the best interests of others at heart. The exact opposite is in fact true. I look to your usage of the word groupthink (let me guess, <em>liberal</em> groupthink, yeah?) or how you insist kids missing out on a few international tournaments are the true victims in this case. Have you no genuine empathy for the victims of these sexual assaults or are you so firmly entrenched as a product of your time that you cannot see this as anything other than "boys will be boys"? Human decency never needs to be politicized. I truly fail to see why you've attempted to do so here.

Canada, the children you so very much fret about, and the sport are truly better off with a complete reevaluation of what kind of organization should oversee our beloved sport. If it takes one year, ten years, or twenty. People will always matter more than a game. Shame on you for ignoring that.
Forum: Site Discussion22 juill. 2022 à 14 h 42
Sujet: An Announcement Regarding Hockey Canada
I'll sticky this in the wake of the 2003 WJC team also being named in the ongoing cases re: sexual assault AND the civil case against Daryl Katz.

<strong>Any speculation as to who is/isn't guilty of SA will result in an immediate Level 1 infraction. Repeat offenders will be at risk of having their accounts permanently banned</strong>. It is not our place here at CapFriendly to lay blame at the feet of others: that burden is up to the Canadian justice system.

I want to reiterate on behalf of everyone at CapFriendly that having the awkward, necessary conversations about the toxicity associated with hockey, and the consequences of the culture this sport has nourished over its current lifetime, is encouraged. These conversations are one of a very few mechanisms that we as fans and we as the public have in forcing change. Please conduct yourselves with the utmost of respect for others and the sensitivities this topic raises.

If you or someone you know has been affected, is being affected, or simply needs to reach out, please use the links below.

<a href="https://endingviolencecanada.org/sexual-assault-centres-crisis-lines-and-support-services/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Sexual Assault Centres, Crisis Lines, and Support Services Across Canada</a>
<a href="https://victimconnect.org/resources/national-hotlines/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">National Hotlines (USA)</a>