u/Material-Dot7684

Man oh man, I just started an expansion draft. Naturally I did a fire sale rebuild so I ended up 84, 83, 82 in year two. And even that is misleading and high to be honest. And man I ended up picking fourth because teams 7+ overall points higher had 10 fewer points than I did.

I've noticed this before and it feels like the computer effortlessly tanks far lower than their stats.

kinda sucks honestly because with those overall numbers I should be getting top pick quite easily without having to tank anymore and hurting the dev of my players. ​

I have a technical question about Kant. I was watching a great courses lecture (political philosophy) and he says that according to Kant if the Germans asked if Ann Frank was hiding in your attic you can't lie.

Now I was under the impression from reading him in high-school that this is at best an oversimplification. My understanding was to Kant the ethics of an action depends on the motivation not the consequence, so I would have argued to Kant it wouldn't be as simple as "you can never lie" as the professor maintains, it would depend on motivation. So I would have argued if your motivation was "i have a duty to protect life that supercedes my duty to tell the truth" he would be fine with that and you can will that as a universal maxim. So, my question is who is right here?

I always adjust decline to 32 except for goalies which I put at 34. But is there a way to tell the computer "yeah, you're not allowed to do any decline at all before then." Because I swear they utterly ignore those guidelines at least a third of the time and then I end up having to trade a player I raised from a pup who is finally good at like 28 because 26 hit and then boom -2 at 27, -3 at 28.

Is there any rhyme or reason to summer development points? I get there is some accuracy to some players just flopping for no reason, but not getting summer development points seems like a kiss of death to players that start low. There seems to be no reason beyond "the shadow counsel has spoken."

I drafted a 90% elite goalie but he started at 55. And after 2 summers of 0 development points and me sending him down to europe etc he's now 20 and only 69 and I think I have to trade him. He's going to struggle in the ahl or need to be sent down yet again. And it just seems like he's going to need at least 2-3 more years to clear the AHL and by then he's not hitting that minimum 88 potential for an elite, let alone real elite territory of 90+.

Thankfully I'm training my goalies replacement so I have some time to play with as he's only 27.

Side bar I'd like to see stats on the actual percentage of people that hit their potential. 90% feels more like 50/50 maybe 2/3rds and 66% feels more like 1/3rd.

Schmid and the panthers avoid arbitration with a 2x2 agreement.

ETA Brett's notes is reporting the panthers will have to run a 22man roster now as they are currently over the cap otherwise.

So I have a Flames franchise going atm. And huby had 2 years left at 10.4m and was 36. I was about to buy him out because I needed the cap space and he went down hill a lot. But then He apparently broke his leg in the playoffs and was going to be out for 13 months. I was like sweet that will basically polish off his contract I won't even have to buy him out. LTIRetirement but legit.

Except he didn't. He actually retired. I thought even better! Now I don't have to pay his contract at all. Not so fast. Next season popped up and I had the 1.9m I expected to have before Huby retired. So either the bug is at it again and it was the exact same amount Huby made, or, they read puckpedia and saw that technically if a player full retires rather than LTIR retires *once he's over 35*, the team gets screwed and stuck with the full bill.

If that's how it happened, it's fitting that Huby let me down one more time both in game and irl.

So far I've found Seattle and the Nucks to be the hardest to win with. The nucks just feel like you start with nothing. There's a few mid tier players not good enough to carry the team but also on NMC/NTCs so you can't do a fire sale rebuild either. On top of that the starting Nucks staff is terrible. I end up firing basically everyone including the scouts.

Seattle is worse though imho. Seattle has a bunch of old timers on NTC/NMCs and it feels like you start out on a hurry up and wait. Eventually you have to buy out 3-4 guys and just eating like 8-10m each year for like 5 years. Like Vancouver feels like you start at 0. Seattle feels like you start at -2.

"Heard Edmonton had interest, but I’ve honed in on Toronto,” Friedman wrote, adding that Bobrovsky’s ask from the Panthers was a three-year contract worth $21 million."

In case anyone was wondering.

I'm still hoping he comes back but it is sounding like he legit might not. If he doesn't, not trading Bob for whatever the best offer was will go down as a rare miss by Zito. We could have used those resources to offer in trade for a new goalie right now.

The fact that ERod still hasn't been moved makes me wonder as we would need the cap space. At the end of the day, ERod is cool but honestly if I were another team I'd also rather wait, make the panthers cough up Bob first, and then talk ERod if I was interested and I'd be okay with potentially not getting him at that point if I were them.

This morning I was thinking like what's the hold up he said he wanted to stay, he helped us win back to back, it looks like we're cooking again, why not take a slight discount and chase one more?

And then it hit me. We shopped Bob around and apparently almost traded him to Carolina *after* he said he wanted to stay. Bob helped us win back to back cups and we shopped him around after 1 bad year.

So now we're asking for a loyalty discount, but from his perspective, why should he? We weren't loyal to him.

Putting him on the chopping block and not trading him may have been a really bad move.

Wish I could say I was surprised. ​

There has to be a catch here I feel like but if it looks anything at all like the pictures I'll be quite happy for 20bucks. I'm a little disappointed they didn't have Guenther though but they do have Keller (which I got) and Cooley in XL.

Apparently the Atlantic thinks we'd trade Listerine, Vilmanis, and our 1st for Larkin. Never knew the Atlantic had such a good sense of humor. ​

Someone wanted this so I'll make it. Kinda late but whoomp there it is.