02-01-2022, 10:25 AMsve7en Wrote:

01-31-2022, 07:51 PMDrunkenTeddy Wrote: The SHL Commissioner is hired by the currently active owners. So as of right now that group is leafs, nour, and I. Eggy and Tez are in the chat we are using for this, but they don't really get a vote since they aren't active.

I appreciate that insight. My concern remains for the process as a whole. That it's two existing owners who then chose the third as first the commissioner and now as a third owner to make this decision is pretty suboptimal, regardless of the respect I have for your decision making and character. I don't like the precedent that that might set over time, and it's weird to see in a league where we don't have GMs hiring their successors when they step down.

It’s been precedent for at least ~35 seasons and we did actually have GM’s naming their successors. Somewhere along the line in the last 30-35 seasons that changed for GM’s, but we still have the Owners selecting the Commissioner, and they do tend to be former commissioners. This happened a couple of years ago when Eggy moved directly from Commissioner into the ownership role, but we just didn’t see that the last go around.