Things in China have started out pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty well. It's fresh.
I think we are all caught up now, but there is one request I have, since we were all over the place this phase, and I am always all over the place:
PLEASE CHECK YOUR LISTS IN THE SPREADSHEET AND TELL ME IF ANYTHING IS MISSING, AND TELL ME WHAT TO PUT IN THE EMPTY BOX.
We will probably have to revisit this a few times, but that's fine. Here is what I am thinking.
* Striiker, mja and MacGruber don't have to protect anyone - as expansion teams, they already had limited choices, so their rosters will be off-limit for Toe. Does that sound OK? I would have proposed it myself originally, but I didn't think of it.
* The rest of us will hand in our PLAYERS TO KEEP as we have been doing, according to the thing I am posting again below.
* I f***ed up the defensemen part of this - we should only be protecting three pairs of D. So anyone who hasn't given me their list yet, you'll have to tell me which of the pairs you want to DE-PROTECT, you know what I mean? It can be any of the four pairs, Current or Legend.
* Let's just do this first and then we can decide how many players Toe can take from each franchise. Maybe we say he can only take one Current F, one Legend F, one Current D, one Legend D, and one goalie from each franchise. Let's take the day today to figure that out.
* With that in mind, I think the original spreadsheet is mostly OK - I am pretty sure when I moved the players around I kept them with the person who drafted them. We can rearrange them afterwards.
* The reason I bring that up is that it seems like people want to keep the full roster (meaning four lines of CURRENT PLAYERS, four lines of LEGENDS, two pair of CURRENT AND LEGEND D, and two goalies from each. Once we determine how many Toe can take from each of us, we will have to fill in our gaps (phrasing), and we'll have to figure out how to do that. Maybe with clones? I don't know - we'll have to figure that out. I do think using the clones would be easiest, but let's see what people think.
There are probably more things to figure out - just bring it up and we'll deal with it.
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Do it like this with players you want to KEEP:
CURRENT FORWARDS
Line 1
LW Name
C Name
RW Name
Line 2
LW Name
C Name
RW Name
CURRENT D
Pair 1
LD Name
RD Name
Pair 2
LD Name
RD Name
CURRENT G
Name
Then do the same for the Legends. We are only protecting THREE PAIRS OF D, which means 2 CURRENT and 1 LEGEND or 2 LEGEND and 1 CURRENT.
I just thought of something else. We could also take the players from the past two Entry Drafts and keep five of them total from between the two. So like you could keep three from one draft and two from another, or four from one and one from another, etc. Just choose to save five from your lists on the Future/Clones tab. (We will leave the clones alone - there is plenty for them to pick from there.)
Don't worry about this for now - we'll do that after they take players from Currents and Legends.
I think we are all caught up now, but there is one request I have, since we were all over the place this phase, and I am always all over the place:
PLEASE CHECK YOUR LISTS IN THE SPREADSHEET AND TELL ME IF ANYTHING IS MISSING, AND TELL ME WHAT TO PUT IN THE EMPTY BOX.
We will probably have to revisit this a few times, but that's fine. Here is what I am thinking.
* Striiker, mja and MacGruber don't have to protect anyone - as expansion teams, they already had limited choices, so their rosters will be off-limit for Toe. Does that sound OK? I would have proposed it myself originally, but I didn't think of it.
* The rest of us will hand in our PLAYERS TO KEEP as we have been doing, according to the thing I am posting again below.
* I f***ed up the defensemen part of this - we should only be protecting three pairs of D. So anyone who hasn't given me their list yet, you'll have to tell me which of the pairs you want to DE-PROTECT, you know what I mean? It can be any of the four pairs, Current or Legend.
* Let's just do this first and then we can decide how many players Toe can take from each franchise. Maybe we say he can only take one Current F, one Legend F, one Current D, one Legend D, and one goalie from each franchise. Let's take the day today to figure that out.
* With that in mind, I think the original spreadsheet is mostly OK - I am pretty sure when I moved the players around I kept them with the person who drafted them. We can rearrange them afterwards.
* The reason I bring that up is that it seems like people want to keep the full roster (meaning four lines of CURRENT PLAYERS, four lines of LEGENDS, two pair of CURRENT AND LEGEND D, and two goalies from each. Once we determine how many Toe can take from each of us, we will have to fill in our gaps (phrasing), and we'll have to figure out how to do that. Maybe with clones? I don't know - we'll have to figure that out. I do think using the clones would be easiest, but let's see what people think.
There are probably more things to figure out - just bring it up and we'll deal with it.
*****************************************************************************************************
Do it like this with players you want to KEEP:
CURRENT FORWARDS
Line 1
LW Name
C Name
RW Name
Line 2
LW Name
C Name
RW Name
CURRENT D
Pair 1
LD Name
RD Name
Pair 2
LD Name
RD Name
CURRENT G
Name
Then do the same for the Legends. We are only protecting THREE PAIRS OF D, which means 2 CURRENT and 1 LEGEND or 2 LEGEND and 1 CURRENT.
I just thought of something else. We could also take the players from the past two Entry Drafts and keep five of them total from between the two. So like you could keep three from one draft and two from another, or four from one and one from another, etc. Just choose to save five from your lists on the Future/Clones tab. (We will leave the clones alone - there is plenty for them to pick from there.)
Don't worry about this for now - we'll do that after they take players from Currents and Legends.
They would have heard about the trade freeze in place until after the expansion draft. No harm in agreeing to terms beforehand, of course ...
