Quote:Originally posted by RomanesEuntDomus@Jul 8 2015, 04:59 PM


The league has changed so much since the previous expansions, teams are so much better and deeper now than they were back then so those situations aren't comparable. Nowadays you can have like twice as many TPE than the last placed teams in Season 5 or Season 10 and still are by far the worst team in the SHL. Hell look at the two teams with the fewest points right now, New England and West Kendall, they still have four or five 1000+ TPE players each! Back around the last expansion this would've made you the best team in the league, but in today's SHL you finish last with a roster like that. We could give expansion teams rosters full of 500-600 TPE-players (which I think most people would find too much) and they would still be absolutely horrible.

I'm glad Deener and I made it look easy to you ) But in reality it was the farthest thing from the truth. There was nothing easy about going 8 - 38 in the first season. I had to put in hours and hours into trades to make the team better. I know for a fact deener put in more hours than any GM into free agency to make his team better (partly the reason he is an SHL Agent now because hes good at it and likes to do it).

It is what made the S6 rivalry (for which you were a key part of) so intriguing. Two expansion GMs in the finals go all the way to game 7 overtime. Two drastically different GM models. One built team via draft and trades, the other via draft and free agency. Its not hard to see how Minnesota and LA were able to do it in the early seasons, however it was very hard to actually do it. Look through the trades I made in my ten seasons as GM. I believe that is my legacy as a GM. The trades I was able to make in order to build two championship winning teams.

This is something new expansion GMs will have to do. Build their own philosophy in an attempt to build a winning team.