Alright, with both the Entry Draft and the Waiver Draft completed, we're set to start our exhibition schedule on Friday night.
As I've mentioned before, simming might be erratic through the holiday season. Also, while the DFHL is currently doing a sim in the afternoon as well as one every night (when I don't miss one of them), the NSHL will stick to the usual nightly sim.
The Entry Draft has been completed and any rated, eligible players selected in the Entry Draft should now be on their team's rosters.
The process for putting those players onto the rosters also pulled some players who had previously been demoted to the Property List back onto the roster. The date that re-rates were completed is the date that we use as a cut-off for eligibility to be sent back to the Property List. As such, if there are any players you'd like sent back to your Property List who were eligible as of the start of this NHL season, let me know.
Alright, we're going to make it official. The Season 14 Entry Draft will begin at 7:00 PM on Sunday, December 15. The Season 14 Waiver Draft will begin at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, December 18. The exhibition schedule will begin on Friday, December 20.
Let me officially welcome @cbarnett-chicago to the NSHL as the new GM of the Thunder Bay Kodiaks.
While I’ve made it clear that my preference would have been to bring in someone who is not in the DFHL, that is not a reflection of Chris’ skills as a GM. The Kodiaks are in good hands going forward.
Those of you in the DFHL may have noticed this already but the ability to sim games has been restored to this site, with that league's exhibition schedule now under way.
As such, the only thing holding up the NSHL from getting going again is that we need to run a draft first, which means we need a GM for Thunder Bay. I have more changes that I'd like to get done on the site before advertising that but I'm also tired of putting it off. @zjamesbeck, the team is yours if you want them. If not, let me know and I'll share about the opening via the NSHL Facebook and Twitter feeds.
While the longer-term goal is to have our own ratings set, I'm going to do a re-rate of NSHL players using the CPHL's most-recent ratings set so that we have something that's at least a little more accurate to go on. This doesn't preclude us from using our own ratings for the coming NSHL season, it's just a step forward.
Okay, where we stand right now is that I'm still working on getting the back-end of the site in working order. I've been making some solid progress over the last couple weeks but I still don't feel comfortable putting a timeline on anything. There have just been a lot of moving parts that stopped moving, and they're starting to again.
Congrats to Kev and the Surge on their third Herb Brooks Memorial Trophy Championship. And congrats to Brian and the F'n Squirrels on their run to the Finals.
Those of you in the DFHL already know that I'm trying to get some work done on FHS before moving forward with another season, so we're going to take this offseason a little slowly. As of right now, voting for end-of-season awards is open via the GM Tools. We'll keep that open until 5:00 PM on February 23 unless everyone votes before then.
We've still got a couple GMs who haven't voted for All-Star teams yet. Like I said in channel, I failed to announce this when I planned on it so if anyone needs some extra time, I can delay a little bit. That said, what I'm looking at right now is Day 79 tonight (Sunday), no games on Monday, All-Star Game on Tuesday. If that doesn't work for anyone, let me know.
Okay, the Season 13 Entry Draft is done and all eligible players who were selected should now be on their respective team rosters. If anything doesn't look right, let me know.
With that set, we're on to the Waiver Draft. That starts at noon on Saturday, with rosters required to be compliant by 5:00 PM on Friday. Any GM whose roster is non-compliant by that deadline will be removed from the league. If there are any questions, feel free to ask.