Wick Schozen

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    Wick Schozen reacted to AlexanderRasputin in BUZZER SEASON 12 GHL AWARDS   
    Congratulations to everyone on a magnificent Season 12! 
    Here come the season awards!
     
    NOTE: I am making a judgement call on a couple of the awards and attempted to be transparent as to formulas - but feel free to discuss.
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    GOLDEN CUP CHAMPION: PINEHURST RAZORBACKS (PhoenixTF)
    Conn Smythe Trophy (Playoff MVP):

    Dominik Oresnik (Razorbacks) - 16GP / 7G / 5A / +9
     
    GHL East Champion: VERMILION BLACK DEVILS (Alexander Rasputin)
    GHL West Champion: WARMAN FIGHTERS (Wick Schozen)
     
    Manager of the Year: DR. WENDT (Tignish Animals) 
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    ART ROSS TROPHY (Most League Points)
    DIETER HAUK (Black Devils) - 107 points     *NEW RECORD
    Cullen Jolly (Doom)
    Simon Mineault (Outlaws)
     
    OVECHKIN TROPHY (Top Goalscorer)
    DIETER HAUK (Black Devils) - 49 goals        
    Sylvain Monciau-Desormeaux (Frost Giants)
    Pavel Statnik (Frost Giants)
     
    GRETZKY TROPHY (Best Playmaker) 
    DANIEL SILLE (Frost Giants) / SIMON MINEAULT (Outlaws) - 59 assists           
    Dieter Hauk (Black Devils)
    Jean-Felix Rainault-Blanchard (Buccaneers)
     
    VEZINA TROPHY (Best Goaltender)
    NIKITA MINEYEV (Black Devils)               *Retained Title
    Austin Mathew (Golden Eagles/Lynx)
    Haider Jannel (Hawks)
     
    ORR TROPHY (Best Offensive Defenceman)
    SVEN KELLER (Black Devils) - 79 points            *Retained title        
     
    NORRIS TROPHY (Best Defensive Defenceman)
    GABRYEL BELZILE-GAGNON (Razorbacks)                       
      
    ORR - Points leader among defencemen
    NORRIS - Calculated with the following formula among D-men [+/- + BKS - GVA + TKA], PER also taken into consideration 
     
    SELKE TROPHY (Best Defensive Forward)
    CLIFFORD SPIERS (Doom)                   
    Calculated with the following formula among F: [PTS + BKS - GVA + TKA] Hits and +/- also relevant.
     
    LADY BYNG TROPHY (Most Gentlemanly Player)
    CLIFFORD SPIERS (Doom)     
     
    Calculated with the following formula [PTS - PIM]
     
     HART TROPHY (League MVP)
     DIETER HAUK (Black Devils)   
     Clifford Spiers (Doom)
     Gabryel Belzile-Gagnon (Razorbacks)
     
    CALDER TROPHY (Best Rookie)
    JAZEPS PAEGLE (Tigers) - 73 points             *tied record
    Thor Dam (Black Devils)
     
    GOOD SAMARITAN AWARD (Most Giveaways)
    MICHAEL MONROE (Animals) / RIKU JARVENPAA (Indians) -  33 giveaways
     
    NEWTON AWARD (Highest Plus/Minus)
    YURY NIZAMUTDINOV (Vermilion Black Devils) + 77       *New record.  *Retains title
     
    ANTI-NEWTON AWARD (Lowest Plus/Minus)

    DANIELS KANEPS (Indians) - -37
     
    ROID RAGE TROPHY
    MICHAEL BUXTON (Golden Eagles/Animals)
    (Most Hits + PIM + MP)
     
    LATE-BLOOMER AWARD
    ANTON VERESCHAGIN (Frost Giants) - 83 points
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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from MarkZ in trading a player that has signed an extension   
    After the trade deadline all contract offers are in terms of the following season (example: sign a player not on your roster and they won't report until day 1 of the following season). Then if you are situated in a top 2 seed in your conference after day 87, in terms of contract negotiations you are now considered the level of the league you are promoting to. 
    I'm not fully visualizing your situation in my head, so sorry if that doesn't clear it up. But that is how it has always been as a promoting team after day 87, going back to the old version. When I was promoting to the GHL I had a bunch of players that would not resign on SHL contracts, so I had to ensure that I had guaranteed promotion at the end of the season and had to wait until after day 87 to negotiate their extensions.
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    Wick Schozen reacted to AlexanderRasputin in BUZZER SEASON 11 GHL AWARDS   
    Congratulations to everyone on an epic Season 11! 
    Here come the season awards!
     
    NOTE: I am making a judgement call on a couple of the awards and attempted to be transparent as to formulas - but feel free to discuss.
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    GOLDEN CUP CHAMPION: WARMAN FIGHTERS (Wick Schozen)
    Conn Smythe Trophy (Playoff MVP):

    Ulric Kristensen (Warman Fighters) - 14GP / 5G / 8A / +7
     
    GHL East Champion: VERMILION BLACK DEVILS (Alexander Rasputin)
    GHL West Champion: WARMAN FIGHTERS (Wick Schozen)
     
    Manager of the Year: Alexander Rasputin (Black Devils) - Hate to do this, but my team did tie the all-time points record in GHL, and set the GF record
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    ART ROSS TROPHY (Most League Points)
    MATEI MITCHEL (Black Devils) - 95 points     *tied record (Kyrylo Voloshyn)
    Ulrik Kristensen (Fighters)
    Aaron Mallard (Fighters)
     
    OVECHKIN TROPHY (Top Goalscorer)
    Ulrik Kristensen (Fighters) - 47 goals        
    Yego Siyankov (Black Devils)
    Jindrich Kuhnsman (Buccaneers)
     
    GRETZKY TROPHY (Best Playmaker) 
    ANTON VERESCHAGIN (Frost Giants) - 63 assists      *New league record       
    Sven Keller (Black Devils)
    Kyrylo Voloshyn (Lynx)
     
    VEZINA TROPHY (Best Goaltender)
    NIKITA MINEYEV (Black Devils)               *New league record: 57 wins
    Zikmund Bowman (Movement)
    Ahto Knuutila (Fighters)
     
    ORR TROPHY (Best Offensive Defenceman)
    SVEN KELLER (Black Devils) - 81 points            *New league defenseman record             
     
    NORRIS TROPHY (Best Defensive Defenceman)
    YURY NIZAMUTDINOV (Black Devils) / JUAN FELIPE GODARD-LAPOINTE (Sea Warriors)                       
      
    ORR - Points leader among defencemen
    NORRIS - Calculated with the following formula among D-men [+/- + BKS - GVA + TKA], PER also taken into consideration 
     
    SELKE TROPHY (Best Defensive Forward)
    CLIFFORD SPIERS (Blazers/Doom)                   
    Ulrik Kristensen (Fighters)
    Matei Mitchel (Black Devils)
     
     
    Calculated with the following formula among F: [PTS + BKS - GVA + TKA] Hits and +/- also relevant.
     
    LADY BYNG TROPHY (Most Gentlemanly Player)
    PAVEL STATNIK (Fairford Frost Giants) - 86 points / 2 PIM        *Retains trophy     
     
    Calculated with the following formula [PTS - PIM]
     
     HART TROPHY (League MVP)
     MATEI MITCHEL (Black Devils)   
     Aaron Mallard (Fighters)
     Nikita Mineyev (Black Devils)
     
    CALDER TROPHY (Best Rookie)
    AMIR ASAY (Sea Warriors) - 52 points
    Emilio Kain (Nightmares)
    Paul Deane (Razorbacks)
     
    GOOD SAMARITAN AWARD (Most Giveaways)
    ROCCO PENNELLE (River Eagles) -  48 giveaways 
     
    NEWTON AWARD (Highest Plus/Minus)
    YURY NIZAMUTDINOV (Vermilion Black Devils) + 67       *New record
     
    ANTI-NEWTON AWARD (Lowest Plus/Minus)

    NIKOLAY NIKISHIN (River Eagles) - -90
     
    ROID RAGE TROPHY
    AMIT GOIN (River Eagles)
    (Most Hits + PIM + MP)
     
    LATE-BLOOMER AWARD
    ZIKMUND BOWMAN (Mississauga Movement) - 41 years old, 45W, 2.74 GAA, 90.5 SV%          *Retained trophy
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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    These are so awesome Csizi96, thanks for taking the time to do these
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    Wick Schozen reacted to Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    Next up is the best of the 3 baltic countries in terms of ice hockey: Latvia.
    They have a very talented, but lazy young goalie, Jauzems from the Warman Fighters. Their first D-pair is elite, and both playing for the Bandits, so chemistry has to be high too. In other aspects they are a very mixed team, maybe on the downside we can mention the lack of good centers, and big games issues, We will see in the power rankings how they do. Fun fact. They have 2 players from CHL, one from RUHL 2 and tons of powerforwards.

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    Wick Schozen reacted to Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    #9 in the rankings is  a former world champion: Naši chlapci (Our boys)
    They have pretty tall players, but what is more important is that they are very experienced players all over the squad. However they have a top talent, Martin Oravec, who plays for the Frost Giants. Their first D-pair is absolutely elite, but as  you can see, they have only 4 players playing center, so depth is missing there, and also leadership is something they are lacking in, even with their experience. However, they look serious about hockey, and their first line with Sille and Stuk can cause some problems for the opponents.
     

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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    My boy Morten Jenssen, presumed older brother of Daniel, falling through the cracks is going to be a big blow of Norway at the world championships. 
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    Wick Schozen reacted to Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    #12 on the rankings are the Danish Lions.
    Captained and led by an absolutely top tier center, Ulrik Kristensen. All of them come from GHL and SHL, only one assigned to affiliate. As from a north European team we expected, they are pretty big guys as well  Their talent is amazing, just look at Dam, Lorentzen, Søndergaard, or their top defenseman Rasmussen. In goal they have a very experienced squad, but as their ability is close, they can make each other perform even better..(Honorable mention is North Shore's Argus Søndergaard, who is 40 years old, but since l did the squad, improved to 87 to be #3, and is the best goalie in the SHL with 50 games started! But as he is #1 in his club l think he might be retired from internationals.. ) 
    On the downside is their big games traits, I guess they could do with more determined guys, but as #12 in real world, they look like a very decent squad.
     

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    Wick Schozen reacted to Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    Well, I started with random small teams, and when l started again, first went through the already done teams, then with the new ones l decided to go according to the IIHF world rankings. The last "original" small team is Les Bleus.
    They have a few elite players, like Rodolphe Jahic of the Bandits, or the young gun El Madkouri, who is trying to build himself up in the SHL. Their core looks quite fine, and on forwards side depth is good also. But their lack of leadership (2 of their designated leaders would barely make the line up, at least they are young) and anxiety of big games could cause them serious problems. Also they have a lot of playmakers, but no scorers..:D  And at last... where the hell are the french goalies in the game? They should really look for a middle-high tier canadian guy with french name if they want to be competitive!

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    Wick Schozen reacted to Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    Buzzed by Paul's idea in Cage, I started to put together some small nations' national team squads. I did in 14 F, 8 D, 3 G format, tried to split the 14 into 5 C + 9 F, but where centers were clearly better than the last few forwards there I went with them. Just to be clear, I only looked at overall (what I try to avoid when building my team tho), so it's rather the best team than the right one  Any questions, requests, advice and comments are welcome as well  I also used a bit more colors in the player traits, according to the order of traits in the help files
    Let's start with the Gli Azzurri roster here too:
    Interesting to see they have a lot of free agents, almost no depth in wingers, and their best goalie is down in the Czech league. 
    Ones to watch: Pablo Zambrotta, the 87 ovr center and Samuele Perico, the 84 ovr defender, both with plenty of GHL experience, and Cristian Diego Alves, the recent BHL draftee who can grow into an important player for this team.
    As you can see, their D-line is getting old, but they try to compensate it with size and toughness

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    Wick Schozen reacted to Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    So, continuing with S11 teams. I won't upload Italy again, as only a few changes: 2-3 old guys retired, but no young superstar or anything else came across. So let's go forward with Team Ukraine( Yellow and Blue). In real life they are the worst in the world rankings of the nationalities in the game. 
    But they have 5 defenders playing in GHL, and their D line is in very good age. In offense they have the legendary Kyrylo Voloshin, 800+ GHL regular season and almost 100 playoff match, close to point/match in both categories. Then there's Pavlo Savaryn, who looks like gonna continue Kyrylo's fame, and his best years are still to come. Their offense is quite old tho, but they have good talents on the way. Their only problem could be the goalie depth, if Fedorenko is injured, they will be in massive trouble. But with this brutal firepower on their best day they can be a huge challenge for the big teams too.
     

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    Wick Schozen reacted to Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    Next up are the Eagles. 
    If you look at them, their core team looks like a good, stable average one, with no real stars but reliable guys all around. The D has plenty of talent with the already grown youngsters. They have even younger forwards who are not elite level, but could be good depth players in the future (didn't look at ratings..:D ). Key players will be Sandro Koch from the Black Devils who looks very good at the age of 23, the same could be said about Foresters' D-man Angelo Braun, and Razorbacks experienced  goalie Yannik Meyer. They look like a good mix in every aspects of personality traits also. (By the way, if anyone knows how to represent Belarus flag in excel, heeelp. that white-red stripe on the left is killing me, l tried, but looks lame..  )

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    Wick Schozen reacted to Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    Next team is Risi (meanin Lynx).
    At first they look like a good middle tier team, who are very nice off the ice, but kinda tough to meet them at the game. It looks like they have 2 quite good lines, and then quality drops a bit, but for a small nation like them, I guess it's normal. Their top attackers are Jan Kosir (Golden Flyers) and Dominik Oresnik (Razorbacks) who can pull this team in their prime years. On the D side, by far the top pair is Davor Novak (Hawks) and Alexander Pirjevec (Outlaws), who are stilly very young, so the future looks bright. In goal 3 kinda similar players: Uros Horvat looks the best, and he is quite Heroic, but here form can be a big factor when picking the starter
     

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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from Csizi96 in S9 Buzzer national teams   
    I swear my boy Petro Kovalchuk has changed nationality twice since I drafted him
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    Wick Schozen reacted to AlexanderRasputin in Buzzer SEASON 10 GHL Awards   
    Congratulations to everyone on an epic Season 10! 
    I have been doing these awards for Cage for a few seasons now, and I am going to import them into Buzzer, to recognize the outstanding players and performances we have season over season. Input is welcome on Buzzer-specific awards or anything else.
     
    I am making a judgement call on a couple of the awards and attempted to be transparent as to formulas - but feel free to discuss.
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    GOLDEN CUP CHAMPION: VERMILION BLACK DEVILS (Alexander Rasputin)
    Conn Smythe Trophy (Playoff MVP):

    NIKITA MINEYEV (Vermilion Black Devils) - 12W 2L / 2.04GAA / 92.8SV% / 1SO
     
    GHL East Champion: VERMILION BLACK DEVILS (Alexander Rasputin)
    GHL West Champion: WARMAN FIGHTERS (Wick Schozen)
     
    Manager of the Year: Insera Reflex (Frost Giants) - 2nd place in Eastern Conference, playoff Conference Final first season after promotion
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    ART ROSS TROPHY (Most League Points)
    AWALE PRUDHOMME (New Haven Ramblers) - 93 points     
    Boleslav Zibrin (Lynx)
    Simon Mineault (Outlaws)
     
    OVECHKIN TROPHY (Top Goalscorer)
    BOLESLAV ZIBRIN (Wyoming Lynx) - 51 goals (New league record)             
    Pavel Statnik (Frost Giants)
    Veijo Janhunen (Foresters)
     
    GRETZKY TROPHY (Best Playmaker) 
    JEAN-FRANCOIS MALONE (Hamilton Sea Warriors) / JASON MELLOR (Warman Fighters) - 54 assists        
    Simon Mineault (Outlaws)
    Kyrylo Voloshyn (Lynx)
     
    VEZINA TROPHY (Best Goaltender)
    AHTO KNUUTILA (Warman Fighters)               
    Arnaud Belle-Lagrenade (Frost Giants)
    Nikita Mineyev (Black Devils)
     
    ORR TROPHY (Best Offensive Defenceman)
    NICKOLAS MCCOLLOUGH (Harrow Hawks) - 74 points                        
     
    NORRIS TROPHY (Best Defensive Defenceman)
    MICHAEL BUXTON (McMurphy Golden Eagles)                       
      
    ORR - Points leader among defencemen
    NORRIS - Calculated with the following formula among D-men [+/- + BKS - GVA + TKA], PER also taken into consideration 
     
    SELKE TROPHY (Best Defensive Forward)
    YANIS CHAMBERS (New Haven Ramblers)                   
    Jamie Coursol (Buccaneers)
    Dustin Karacan (Hawks)
     
    Calculated with the following formula among F: [PTS + BKS - GVA + TKA] Hits and +/- also relevant.
     
    LADY BYNG TROPHY (Most Gentlemanly Player)
    PAVEL STATNIK (Fairford Frost Giants) - 86 points / 2 PIM              
    Sylvain Monciau-Desormeaux (Frost Giants)
    Boleslav Zibrin (Lynx)
     
    Calculated with the following formula [PTS - PIM]
     
     HART TROPHY (League MVP)
     AWALE PRUDHOMME (New Haven Ramblers)   
     Boleslav Zibrin (Lynx)
     Pavel Statnik (Frost Giants)
     
    CALDER TROPHY (Best Rookie)
    PETER RINGBOM (McMurphy Golden Eagles) - 64 points
    Martin Oravec (Frost Giants)
    Dmitry Mandrykin (Black Devils)
     
    GOOD SAMARITAN AWARD (Most Giveaways)
    JESSE MAILLE-MAYER (Blenheim Pirates) -  92 giveaways (New league record)
     
    NEWTON AWARD (Highest Plus/Minus)
    JACHYM PAULIAK (Warman Fighters) / SANDRO KOCH (Vermilion Black Devils) / LOUKAS GADSBY (Vermilion Black Devils) -  + 58 
     
    ANTI-NEWTON AWARD (Lowest Plus/Minus)

    JESSE MAILLE-MAYER (Blenheim Pirates) - -114
     
    ROID RAGE TROPHY
    GARY AUCOIN (Batchawana Tornadoes)
    (Most Hits + PIM + MP)
     
    LATE-BLOOMER AWARD
    ZIKMUND BOWMAN (Metairie Buccaneers/Mississauga Movement) - 40 years old, 41W, 2.84 GAA, 90.2 SV%
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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from AlexanderRasputin in Game World Frozen   
    It appears that Buzzer didn't progress into day 80. 
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    Wick Schozen reacted to AlexanderRasputin in Improved League History (Scoring Records etc)   
    Since we already track all player stats and records season by season, it is even clear post-reset that a historical league leaderboard is needed to make league seem more “living”.
    Many of us would see huge value and added motivation if the League History page displayed player categories like Most Career League Goals/Assists/Points  in a Top 20 format. 
     
    This could be extended to a team format as well, with categories like Team Wins in [League Level], clearer records like Most Wins in a Season, etc. 
     
    With elements like Team Stories and the blog becoming more active, these categories will let us keep better track on the league history and create more storylines to follow for our teams. 
     
    Anders, I hope this is something you consider adding, as this was mentioned multiple times by a fair number of managers. 
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    Wick Schozen reacted to jdonutken in Season 8 Chat   
    I got my leading scorer back just in time for the last game of the GHL finals, after surviving without him for a 7 game injury.  Helped make the difference! 🏆

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    Wick Schozen reacted to bremitt in recall and assign   
    Not sure if mentioned, so i will apologize if it has and I am just being redundant.

    The Process of having to go to a players page, let it load, click on assign/recall, let it load, then authorize that choice, then let it load, is rather annoying.

    Could it be possible to set it up so that when you are on your roster page, and you click on a player, and the pop up comes up with his ratings and traits, at the bottom, like how you can simply click on "add to shortlist" or "remove from shortlist" have another bottom that we can assign/recall that player? That way we can just quickly go down our roster list and do it all from one page in a much faster process.
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    Wick Schozen reacted to Paul T in [SOLVED] Players Asking for New Contracts too early   
    I guess I'm probably the wrong person to answer.  I'm a fan of anything that adds complexity, strategy or a challenge for managers to the game.  I love when players reject offers and make random decisions.  To me, this is one of those scenarios.  I think players are signing for way too cheap right now.  I know that some managers try to offer the lowest possible salary that the player will accept at the current time, and I also do to a point, but I also look at league averages and if the player will eventually be a star, I try to offer a little more so that I don't run into this issue.  I'm not sure if I would consider this a bug as it penalizes managers who didn't forecast correctly and went too cheap.
    I don't know if anything has changed with Cage, but I did have this same scenario in Biscuit.  I had a player that was concerned the entire season because of this exact issue and he ended up leading my team in goals.  To what point performance is affected is unknown.  I remember discussing this a few years ago in the chat and it was determined that recognizable impact didn't occur until the player was Unhappy.  Concerned was more of a warning.
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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from Walter A. Donaldson in Manage Affiliate   
    Was pushing this about a year ago for prospect development. One thing that used to baffle me was players would be playing out of position. I'd have top defensemen prospects playing as centers because they were the highest overall on my affiliate while my center prospects were playing wing.
     
    As far as I'm aware the only way to improve faceoff rating is by the player taking a high volume of faceoffs. So my centermen would always be left in my affiliate longer because I could get them almost 800 faceoffs in the minors as opposed to only 300 when playing in my bottom six. 

    As for players getting stuck behind bums in your affiliate. If you have the ability to create a second affiliate I'd be sending the older players to the bottom affiliate while having only top prospects on the top affiliate. That allowed my top prospects to all get top 6/top 4 minutes. 
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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from Paul T in [SOLVED] Bug trading players with an extension   
    Paul you devious fellow. I had only ever looked at the transfers contract screen.
    That said, I am stubborn in my conviction that a player's movement on the terms of their current contract should not be limited. 
    . . 
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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from jdonutken in trading a player that has signed an extension   
    After the trade deadline all contract offers are in terms of the following season (example: sign a player not on your roster and they won't report until day 1 of the following season). Then if you are situated in a top 2 seed in your conference after day 87, in terms of contract negotiations you are now considered the level of the league you are promoting to. 
    I'm not fully visualizing your situation in my head, so sorry if that doesn't clear it up. But that is how it has always been as a promoting team after day 87, going back to the old version. When I was promoting to the GHL I had a bunch of players that would not resign on SHL contracts, so I had to ensure that I had guaranteed promotion at the end of the season and had to wait until after day 87 to negotiate their extensions.
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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from AlexanderRasputin in Toggle to Prevent Auto Goalie Switches   
    Genius! I've had to resort to putting an affiliate goaltender as my backup in games that I crucially need my started to have the night off. A simple toggle would be far more convenient. 
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    Wick Schozen got a reaction from gccsteel in Not being able to sign free agents at the end of the season   
    In Buzzer teams are releasing their players at the end of the season that they aren't going to resign. That' fine because it allows managers to get a good look at their cap situation heading into next season. But the way it currently stands in the game those players are immediately signed to extensions by other teams and will not be apart of silly season. 
    That seems like it defeats the purpose of having a start of season signing period if at the end of the season when teams release these players that would be available during that time but instead they already all have extensions in place. 
     
    There should be a hold on signing players outside of your roster I'd say when the transfer deadline takes effect until silly season opens. You can still sign your own guys, but if a player is released they should not be allowed to sign with another team until the first day of the new season.