Subject: I.1

Good luck to all in the playoffs and a Merry Christmas as well!

Good luck to all in the playoffs and a Merry Christmas as well!

Hey guys... quick note: tujague hasn't logged in for about a month (he's like 2-3 days shy of losing his teams from what I can tell). I don't know if he's exempt from being terminated due to being a helper... but you might wanna keep an eye out on the market for his national team players.

Also... national team managers should probably take this opportunity to check out his rosters, because his teams have quite a plethora of decent US players it seems. Might be worth saving some of them if he doesn't log in in the next day or so.

Thanks - I'm keeping an eye on the Bombsville Atomics and Westchester Red Wings.

Managers with pro pack don't fold until 50 days after the last log in, or between 21 and 50 days when pro pack ends. Since tujague is a helper, it's possible that he gets free pro pack and will probably last until day 50. I might choose the 5 best players from both teams at this point for the U18 team anyway.

I believe Obryantj was also something like a helper before he folded on day ~50 for all of his teams.

The senior national team doesn't have any space left after the Boilermakers folded, though the Bombsville Atomics' good prospects in hockey are mostly in the U20 range anyway.

The Bombsville Atomics have emerged as one of the top producers of talent recently, especially goalies (the starter for all years between 15-19 except for 16 will have come from the Bombsville Atomics). Though a few new teams are emerging as contributors, losing the Bombsville Atomics/Westchester Red Wings/Boilermakers after losing the Psychos and STL Saints and other top teams in the past will be tough.

Using the final empty spots (there were only 4 left since I used a lot for the Boilermakers), I added:

1) John Knight (Future starting goaltender)
2) Leo Sykes (possible 4th line LW for next season)
3) Warner Rambeau (very promising LW)
4) Jeffrey Lynn (very promising C)

I am worried because more and more good USA producing teams are folding faster then we can replace them. The way things stand the team most likely will end up in division II.

The way things stand my team is three or four seasons away from being good enough to be able to produce good players. That and the number of teams in the USA is getting smaller and smaller as well as the number of teams that are dead.

On the other hand, I should mention that there are teams that are just now emerging as top producers. There are a lot of teams capable of producing NT talent, but fewer that can mass produce NT talent like the Psychos and Irresistible Force used to. The Momentum, Detroit Red Wings, Smart People, Bulls4ever, Smuggling Grapes, Rochester Americans, and Sticky Toads are all teams emerging or close to emerging as potential strong producers of talent.

One problem that I've seen someone else suggest in another forum is that some of the very best teams around PPM tend not to bother pulling players that don't have the potential to be elite. A player with qualities in the high 70's or low 80's and decent OR (maybe 400 by the time they turn 16) is capable of being competitive for a roster spot, at least for the U18 and U20 teams.

I am working on keeping sub par USA players now. Hopefully they will help the cause in the years ahead.

I will be joining their soon. 2 more seasons to go until I am maxed on TF,RF and SA.

Well for now I will work with what we have and play with what we got.

I plan to stick around and hopefully become a regular producer of top quality talent. Getting regulating to DII, plan to stay there for a couple of seasons, focusing more on my facilities and arena than players. but I'll be back to DI, hopefully to stay next time!

There are 2 U.S. 15 year olds with more than 560 OR at this time: Lynn Pace (Momentum) and John Knight (Bombsville Atomics - he's already added to the U18 team in case his team folds). While looking through the teams, I noticed that the Razorback Thugs picked up a player that has better OR than Lynn Pace (and similar AVQ) for only 7,580,849, though the player does have 5/6 CL.

Congrats Headhog on winning it again.

Thanks. Good luck to all this coming season!