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Skeleton Party · 02-12-2022, 09:38 AM

i will miss you as gm. thank you for taking a risk bringing me in to the rage. you have a long and storied career and should be very proud.

now that you arent a punching bag in official capacity i will lay off the cyberbullying. except the copypastas...they are forever.

***luke*** · 02-12-2022, 09:52 AM

JY the hard hitting questions

Best season (not S52)

Worst season

Best co-Gm

Best Geck(e)

What do you think was your best trade

What do you think was your worst trade

What did you do that you felt separated you from other GM’s

JayWhy · 02-12-2022, 05:07 PM

02-11-2022, 08:39 PMJames Truong Wrote: 1) Will you ever be nice to me?

2) How much enjoyment did you have teasing the S62 class with the 1st OA pick in S62?

1) No.

2) Oh so much.

An old man's dream ended. A young man's vision of the future opened wide. Young men have visions, old men have dreams. But the place for old men to dream is beside the fire.

Thanks to Jackson, Copenhagen, and Harry Hans!

GOING DOWN IN STYLE. TOAST4LYFE

JayWhy · 02-12-2022, 05:32 PM

02-12-2022, 09:52 AMluke Wrote: JY the hard hitting questions

Best season (not S52)

Worst season

Best co-Gm

Best Geck(e)

What do you think was your best trade

What do you think was your worst trade

What did you do that you felt separated you from other GM’s

Hmm.

1) Without the Cup winning season, there's still honestly a few good ones. Any time we had a weird upset over Chicago was always a good time for me. However, probably the best was S46. I think that may have been your first with the team, and it was when we could see it all coming together. The locker room was growing and becoming something special, the team had a wild hot streak and we finally climbed out of the rebuild. It set us up on a path to having the most playoff appearances in Rage history and breaking a lot of records along that way. Looking back, that's when we could see that we were on our way to some huge success.

2) I have so many candidates for the worst. S48 can stand out, because it definitely was a gut punch to be on the rise so consistently and have a stumble like that. But that also builds character and teaches you moments. I'd say really the worst is more so due to some personal issues in my real life, the season that we lost z0rem and then following up with that by losing Juke. That was a really hard punch from life, and that's just the stuff on here. There was a lot around that also, so it was just a low point.

3) Easily CoA, he didn't ditch me like you, and he isn't Geck so.

4) Best Geck is probably you.

5) Best trade has a lot of candidates, truthfully. I could go with the Juke trade, it did get us on the track we needed for the rebuild. However, that was taxing and ultimately we got less than comparable value so it's probably more of an even trade. I could go with the trade for you, however, that one was bit more forced so while I tried to be fair in the value, it wasn't quite the same. So it's really between the trade to move up and get Peter Larson or the one that I'm probably most proud of. I've always loved doing trades during the draft, the draft is a fun time to me. So in S42, I had the 10th pick (among many others) and was open to moving back. I ended up moving back to 13, still getting the target I had in David Kastrba and James Dekens who was a good role player for us for a while, and a 2nd round pick that I immediately flipped because Ace had been working on a deal involving that already, giving me Edmonton's 1st in S43 for that 2nd round pick and my 1st in S44, knowing that would likely be a higher pick but in a draft that should be worse as post-reddit drafts tend to be letdowns. That S43 pick gave me Alex Winters, and so we had some major core pieces from that move in Kastrba and Winters, and Edmonton got Soren Kirkegaard and Tauras Karazija out of it which were not great. I'd say that move ultimately is a big turning point for my original rebuild.

6) God, the worst trade could be a number of them. I'll lean toward a couple of them. I'll give you three.
First, the Luke Atmey trade. Just terrible. It was early on for me, and I was just trying to tear it down and didn't have much to work with really. I felt pretty good getting a lot of assets out of it, and at the time S42 was said to be the reddit draft as it would be right at the start of summer vacation for students and would be a perfect alignment, but closer to S42 they changed it and made it S43, which definitely played a big effect on the return. Mack disappeared quickly, Keenan never responded to me, and I just ended up with a lot of missed opportunities out of it for someone that was a huge player at the time.

Second, Jogy and Clint. It was S44, and we were looking like we would be on an upward swing soon. I had more prospects than I had space on the lines, so I was going to effectively consolidate by getting some experience in and trying to help get us over the hump a little bit sooner. I should have just waited it out, but I wasn't aware of some things going on around the league. First being that Jogy was very much decided in retiring, and was being shipped out because she was going to retire on Tampa. The second being that the league was about to expand, and some of the prospects I moved would be automatically protected but now I was going to have to lose one of these players to expansion. So I ultimately gave Tampa a lot of pieces for less than a season of two players, one going in expansion and one just up and retiring. It's painful.

Third, the Poopity Scoop trade. This one I can say was reasonable in terms of justification, but it ended so horribly that it's one of my worst trades ever. Our forwards were overstocked, we had a player playing on the 4th line and absolutely despising it. So we had to find a way to make a move, and our defense was actually pretty weak. I saw an opportunity for us to pull things around on both sides, move out a forward and bring in that strength we need on defense. Unfortunately, since Scoop was a max earner, that required a high-earning forward and so I looked at who we had as options and decided that what is best is for us to hold on to the player that is just hanging on to activity because of us and move the person that we knew would be active no matter what, and moved Mika Mayfield. She was definitely a superstar, and someone I fully planned on being face of the franchise at some point, but we needed to focus on keeping people active and building up our team. It made sense, getting a max earner for a max earner, but then Scoop left us in free agency for Buffalo with nothing coming back our way because of a situation we didn't know of and it became a very frustrating move to look back on.

7) My communication and connection with my players. I've been told by many people that I had a unique system basically, and I specifically designed it that way. I wanted to set us apart, and I think I've achieved that much. I think my scouting system is and was better than most teams, and the way I connected with people was something that made Manhattan such a great place to be. I always tried to improve, and even now I know that I'm leaving having not been the best GM, but sometimes that's just how it is. If there was ever something I could do better, I sought it out, worked on it and made it happen. I was never stuck in my ways, I was always evolving, and it all stems from that unique communication style I had that has since been copied by GMs who have come from my tree, and that makes me so much prouder of it all, knowing that it was good enough to be copied and implemented by others.

An old man's dream ended. A young man's vision of the future opened wide. Young men have visions, old men have dreams. But the place for old men to dream is beside the fire.

Thanks to Jackson, Copenhagen, and Harry Hans!

GOING DOWN IN STYLE. TOAST4LYFE

**_Blitz_** · 02-12-2022, 05:36 PM

Congratulations on your career and retirement.

If it's not too much to ask, what's your secret for staying GM for so long?
What will you do next?

GeckoeyGecko · 02-13-2022, 12:08 PM

02-12-2022, 05:32 PMJayWhy Wrote:
02-12-2022, 09:52 AMluke Wrote: JY the hard hitting questions

Best season (not S52)

Worst season

Best co-Gm

Best Geck(e)

What do you think was your best trade

What do you think was your worst trade

What did you do that you felt separated you from other GM’s

4) Best Geck is probably you.

im being bullied

trella · 02-13-2022, 12:33 PM

One of the best. Enjoy the much earned break Smile

Thanks to @karey and @JSS for the sigs!

Former USA Fed Head, Carolina Kraken Co-GM, Tampa Bay Barracuda GM

C9Van · 02-14-2022, 10:50 AM

@pauadrian

pauadrian · 02-14-2022, 12:24 PM

02-14-2022, 10:50 AMC9Van Wrote: @pauadrian

I have no questions, just immense happiness and gratitude that you helped make me go inactive in this league

ImShiny · 02-14-2022, 11:55 PM

02-14-2022, 12:24 PMpauadrian Wrote:
02-14-2022, 10:50 AMC9Van Wrote: @pauadrian

I have no questions, just immense happiness and gratitude that you helped make me go inactive in this league

we all thank jy for making you go inactive

pauadrian · 02-15-2022, 01:29 PM

02-14-2022, 11:55 PMImShiny Wrote:
02-14-2022, 12:24 PMpauadrian Wrote:

I have no questions, just immense happiness and gratitude that you helped make me go inactive in this league
we all thank jy for making you go inactive

Didn't ask + Don't care + Ratio + L + You're bald + Skill Issue

Gifter of Bikes · 02-15-2022, 02:32 PM

Cheers JY

SlashACM · 02-15-2022, 03:33 PM

02-15-2022, 01:29 PMpauadrian Wrote:
02-14-2022, 11:55 PMImShiny Wrote: we all thank jy for making you go inactive

Didn't ask + Don't care + Ratio + L + You're bald + Skill Issue

64/73

Ratio'd

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