Quote:Originally posted by mpc@Jun 11 2015, 04:33 PM
                 

This is going to be short, sweet, and straight to the point. Russia has been doing well recently, garnering top seed headed into the medal rounds and, while losing to a tough Czechoslovakia team, still looks forward to the rest of the tournament. But there is a position change in the trio that runs Russia.

No, it's not me. No, it's not Mark. Storm has done fantastic things for Russia. He is the reason I was active on the site the first few weeks at all, and if it had not been for him caring about the IIHF at all, I probably would have left the IIHF be. But I didn't and took over for Storm while he did his own thing and now, that thing is a beauty. Storm helped GM a Challenge Cup winner, and is crucial to the rebuilding of the great team. They're lost some great players in New England, and I'm sure Storm can do a great job building them up. But that's time consuming and the Wolfpack deserve every bit of his attention. And Earnest Ciarelli should be full-steam for whatever team he signs with in the Transfers market, and we both realized that Russia won't be needing goalies for a long time. So Storm has stepped down as IIHF Head Coach.

This means a new person has taken the reins as Russia's Head Coach. This should be an easy guess who will fill the shoes since I'm GM. I present to you, your new Russia Head Coach, [b]RaiN! He's a great guy, he deserves some management experience because he looks like a premiere member of the league just waiting to blossom, and Mark and I love this kid. He's fantastic and will serve well as Head Coach.

I'll let him field questions here for some WC.
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Thank you for the opportunity here to be Russia's Head Coach. I cannot wait to start working with c, Mark and the rest of the Motherland to get where we want to be. We showed some great strides already with the current IIHF tournament as we finished first out of every country, and it was just our lack of experience that led to a recent loss to Czechoslovakia in the quarter final. You can bet next season we will be even stronger as a lot of our players are currently sitting at 350TPE. Russia's "Storm" has yet to strike. See what I did there? :ph34r: