Yup! you'll be the 8th invite sent out so far.In post 26, crywolf20084 wrote:/in! (if there is still room for me)
At this point, here is what we'll do. All 8 who have already joined the yahoo league are in no matter what. Kmd and Sudo will be 9 and 10 if they both join. If one of them doesn't make it in for whatever reason, then we'll just have to go with the 8 already in. I'll be out the rest of the day today, and I don't want to bump anyone only a couple hours before the draft after they made arrangements and all.In post 33, Katsuki wrote:If I need to be bumped for KMD just tell me ahead of time so I know not to show up for the draft.
. Draft order is set. With 10 teams, I set up 2 divisions of 5 teams each (randomly chosen). 4 playoff spots (2 division winners + 2 wild cards). Custom schedule is set (play in division 3x per, out of division 2x per, 22 weeks total). Weeks 9-12 are "rivalry weeks" - which doesn't mean anything really, other than those are the 4 weeks where all the games are against the other division. With 10 teams, extra bench slots reset to 4 from 5. Draft is a go, will be in approx 2 hours and 10 minutes from now. Draft is snaking, 16 rounds, 1:30 max per pick, 160 total picks. Fleury looked pretty solid last night. Wearing his demons on his mask for the whole world to see. I'm really rooting for the guy, except for the fact that the better he performs, the less likely the pens are to overpay for miller at the trade deadline later in the seasonIn post 56, scotmany12 wrote:Go Pens Go!
yup and there has also been talk that the Toronto market could support a 2nd team (Hamilton, probably)In post 124, bv310 wrote:I'm betting it'll be Seattle, and then Las Vegas or something to make it a 16/16 split. I've also heard rumours of Quebec City getting a new team, which would likely shove Detroit or Columbus back to the West
The big issue for Detroit was having to play more games in many different timezones. Specifically, traveling to the west coast meant if a game started at 7, then it would feel like 10PM to the players. And since they were division/conference opponents, it was more likely they couldn't have a day off after a trip to the west coast, meaning after a game finished up ~1AM they might have to fly back to detroit and be ready for a game by 7PM the next night. Also, detroit will likely benefit from playing more of the larger market eastern teams. It was the Detroit ownership that was most vocal in moving to the Eastern conference. In any case, there are potentially new rivalries for them. Boston, Toronto and Montreal are in the same division now so they'll play each of them 4 or 5 times a season, and they'll play the rangers 3 times a season, so thats 4 of the original six they'll be playing a lot more than they were in the west. They'll still play Chicago twice a year (new schedule means every team plays 1 home and 1 away vs. every team in the opposite conference) anyways. And hey, being in the east this year is likely the only reason they get to keep their consecutive playoff streak alive, as its highly unlikely they'd have made it out of the west.In post 123, shaft.ed wrote:Just seems that keeping detroit central keeps the established rivalry with Chicago and has keeps symmetry between East/West at the very least.
Though 2 expansion teams would be great for balance and making it less ridiculous that over half the league goes into the playoffs.
In post 130, bv310 wrote:Yep :'(In post 128, AGar wrote:Isn't that what Toronto does to their fans' hearts every season?
In post 209, bv310 wrote:I didn't end up with an invite.
In post 233, Bert wrote:Is it too late to join? If I had seen this thread sooner, I would have /inned for fantasy
