I had builders as my number one option, and coaches/teams somewhere near the bottom, so I'm in half-agreement with this, but only half.
For me the problem is this - with players, they make an on-ice impact and thus can be measured using on-ice metrics (this can be numbers, film, newspaper reports, etc.). Builders have an off-ice impact and thus can be measured using off-ice metrics (outside the box stuff... rule changes, league growth, player base growth, technological advancements, just to list a few of potentially many). Coaches are in a weird gray area where they make an on-ice impact that can't really be properly measured by on-ice metrics because there's too many variables that just aren't available for us to examine. We can look through ATD bios and see what each man did for his team, but how do you measure and compare that against others? Using numbers like wins and Cups doesn't do much for me, because is it the coach or is it the players? You'd need film to make that call, but that's where things start to come undone when there's so little of it for the first half of hockey history. And when you do have the film, can you trust that you're analyzing it correctly?
So, I totally agree on seeking out a challenge but I don't think coaches would be a meaningful challenge. Builders would be IMO, and a women's project definitely would be. I don't know if we have enough info to do a women's project at the moment though which is why I had it around the middle of my ballot.
Anyway, since the positional lists won, I agree that goalies should come first. I think there's a greater chance you learn more about the defensemen playing in front of a goalie in a goalie project than you learn about the goalies playing behind the defensemen in a defensemen project, so the goalie project ought to come first - I don't know if that makes sense in text but it does in my head.
My offer to run the project also still stands, so if
@Professor What wants to work together then that's totally fine with me. I agree that a rundown from a previous admin on the backend work would be needed.