09-28-2019, 02:10 PMluketd Wrote:

09-28-2019, 01:52 PMBDonini Wrote: I honestly don’t see how you can build a legitimate argument against LET being a nominee. @JNH  and @SDCore  took over a dumpster fire and within a season have turned LET into a serious team. They had a fantastic S50 draft and made some good value trades to add to their roster...kinda short sighted to pop open the standings and just use those to judge GM performance.

I mean if you want to go from that angle, every SMJHL team has to go through a major rebuild every 4 or 5 seasons, as is the cycle of the SMJHL. If we went off of who had a really good draft and trades, then different teams should have won it over the years. Its off of what a GM did that season. Drafting is a big part yes, but Standings should be held at a higher standard, especially Detroit this season. 31-13-6 is a really good record, 191 GF and 144 GA, is the 2nd lowest GA and 1st highest GF. The last time you go back with that type of spread is actually S44 with Detroit having 187 GF and 139 GA, and if you go a season back you get Vancouver with 176 GF and 130 GA. (Both Detroit and Vancouver won the Mathias Chouinard Award those season as well, and were top in their league)

Last time someone had over 190 GF as well was STL in S47 with 190 GF,  Vancouver in S44 with 193 GF.

As well with a Top PP 23.5%, and a below average PK (78.77%). In Shots for and Shots against they were top in those categories as well, having a top FO%.

As well as having a .500 or more winning record with every team. They never went below .500 on a team, either winning the series or tying the series in terms of wins.

Not really short sighted, more of just dominant of their season.

There’s a difference between a rebuild and what LET were you should know this you were literally a GM in the league when the practically non existent LET GMs were fired. They had so little to work with and they’ve built so much so yes it is short sighted to consider only standings and nothing else. This isn’t even a knock on Tig and Nour they did a great job building DET and should be there over some other teams, it’s just really really weird that out of all the teams there you decided to call out LET.