04-04-2021, 01:25 AMDollaBill Wrote:

04-04-2021, 01:22 AMSegi Wrote: A players performance in their SMJHL rookie season tells very little of his eventual perfomance in the SHL. Years of experience have shown that the best way to create a good team in the SHL is to have a group of good earning, active people and the way to get that is to have a great locker room.

I'm open to declare positional needs a little better, but as other people have stated before, a correction in one way can lead to a bigger deficit the other, so we have to be careful with that.

When you first created your account, you got a PM by me, inviting you to a discord server with all the mentors. We would've been happy to answer any questions before you created your player. Of course, it's understandable if such questions didn't even cross your mind at that point.

If you have ideas on how to improve the way we contact and interact with new players, I'm always happy to hear it. Send me a dm on site or through discord.

Boom. Quote this shit and pin it somewhere in the Rookie Guide. And make sure we have something that alludes to the facts:

1. Recreates will always come first, regardless of the circumstances or length of time they were inactive

2. Being a cool person to hang with in the LR matters more than how your player build performs in the sim.

If you still don't get that your first point is simply not true, I don't know how to help you.

To the 2nd one: your great performance in your rookie season shows 2 things.
1. You're on a team that's good enough to score quite well, but not stacked enough to have to put you on the 4th line.
2. You're able to keep at the grind for a couple of months.

To show a similarly good performance over the long run on the SHL level (which is what SHL GMs do want to see), you need to be able to kerp at the grind for almost 2 years. We have seen a lot of great SMJHL players never make the SHL because they couldn't do that. Maybe this helps you to see why an enjoyable locker room experience is important to GMs.