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Quote:d. Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz and Sir Devoir were picked with back to back picks and thus both teams secured their started. Does either side have advantage on net? Back up goalies were picked lot later, do you think they can play role in the game at all?

I’m going to bang the same drum I keep banging because apparently it ain’t loud enough yet: PUT THREE GOALIES ON EACH TEAM. There are three periods, a different goalie plays each period. THIS IS NOT HARD. You’re literally asking “will the goalies matter” and there’s such an obvious way to make each and every goalie matter, while rewarding more people for taking on that position. Just. Do. It. Already.

Quote:e. Why should YOUR player have made the all star game, and why should you be the last man in? (If your player did make the all star game, tell us why they were picked.)

Marton had a career year any way you slice it. Getting to move back to the wing freed him up a lot. While his goal tally remained steady from the last five seasons, he nearly doubled his assists and he *tripled* his hits. On a Texas team that has always played a physical game and not put up massive scoring, Marton upped the ante on both. He even put up 8 PP goals and 3 shorties, making his presence felt in all game situations. All-Star games are often about the flashiest players so it’s nice to be rewarded for playing all around good hockey.




The only real question is “why wasn’t the draft live?!” I’m sure there were time constraints, and possibly other hurdles, but watching the picks being made might actually be more entertaining than the game itself. At the very least, you’d probably get a lot of the players watching to see when/if they get selected. Not all the GMs would be able or willing to do video, but even just audio in Discord could be a really fun event. Maybe the draft needed to be done over several days, like SHL Fantasy, but with more time ahead of the next one, there’s a lot of potential with this new format.

Rewarding GMs who make the Cup finals is a nice little bonus, though of course that also means it’s the GMs with the most going on as the season wraps up, so that might hurt their availability and interest. Part of me would like to see a way for the players to do the draft, as the NHL has instituted. Trying to think of a cool way to pick which players get to be captains, because I also wouldn’t want that to be simply players from the Cup finalists, for the same reason. Probably one player from the host team at least. But let the players draft, and then the GMs have to deal with the team’s they’re given!