Oggetto: I.1

Whoops I forgot about things.

Yup. I was just checking you out today and was starting to wonder if you were going to come back up to the surface. Refreshing to know that the Captain is still in charge of things...

Wow. Too legit to quit losing his relegation matchup is the biggest surprise for me.

Definitely a I.1 club going down to the IIs. The under management is probably to blame (not changing tactics), but even then I did not expect it.

Welcome up, Black Sheep, as well as II.X league winners!

Ya, a bit occupied these days with other goings on.

Can't complain about a 9th pick A...

We're excited!

https://hockey.powerplaymanager.com/en/player.html?data=23183716-vicente-brodeur

Just pulled, looking at a damn good prospect.

99-99-91, with 94 shooting and 83 technique. Not sure if that's not quite high enough compared to the equally high standards, but worth a shot.

On the market right now for 10 million.

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What in the....

https://hockey.powerplaymanager.com/en/game-summary.html?data=57274113

I keep selling players and I can't even keep up with my FAs except on wednesday. Even then, I had to get a loan for my previous guy. And I have 3 more coming up at the same time in 3 weeks.

Why do I keep playing this game?

I love this game, but one of the biggest mistakes they made, in my opinion, is proportioning income to the size of the country. Doing that ensured, at best, a cycle of a select few teams in smaller countries becoming world-relevant for a season or two or three, but then eventually being able to be poached by the larger countries. If each country had the same amount of money (I mean the bonus doesn't go up and down for promotion and all that), I suspect things would be a little different.

But competition was already going to be difficult, for the same reason why large public high schools field better sports teams usually than smaller ones. The money made it worse, imo. I get why they did it, though--incentivizing recruitment. Only it backfired.

Yes, that was a huge mistake. Now it is punishing the few remaining players they have outside of Europe.

Another huge mistake they made is the free agent system. It's brutal how you have to pay for your best players every year after age 32.

What a rubbish draft for us again. I think I'll just go back to Div II, lol.

Edmonton Wellcappers singlehandedly had better players than all of I.1, as usual

But the real winners of this draft are Minion Fly and their 400+ OR 90% quality Tristian Christie

and Sharkbait with 2 picks over 400 OR and 80% quality...
Gilles Cousineau
Greg Reed

The drafts have been trash lately.

Yeah. Wasted credits for the auto scouting.

And here we go again, I'm in the red and already have a loan to repay, got 2 more veterans coming up for UFA in 1 week and 3 weeks. So now they're up for sale. I may as well get some cash for them instead of losing them for nothing...

How am I supposed to win without my best D and my best winger, tho? I already hardly win at all as it is...