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Yes and yes. You are free to make an unofficial trade thread, and you can post your draft picks in this thread.

The draft and group chat will be up this Saturday night or Sunday morning (EST). It's going to be eight rounds long, and all teams will need to draft 4 forwards, 3 defensemen and 1 goalie. All goalies (with the exception of Ed Belfour and Patrick Roy) will get a +1 boost to agility and their respective glove/stick hands. This league will also feature quick goalie control (similar to Blitz), so remember that goalies may not be as valuable. The league will begin on the new year. Because of this, we will draft at a decent pace, and have some time to play around before the season gets going. We have a total of 15 (+1) coaches interested. I know that Tex would consider the league depending on the start date, so I will need to confirm with him. Here is the draft order: 1. Depch 2. Jer 3. CBK 4. Jackandjose 5. Brutus 6. Uncle Seth 7. aqualizard 8. HABS 9. JackVandal 10. Plabax 11. KingRaph 12. chefsuperstar 13. Tex*** (May not play) 14. AtomicRaven 15. Icestorm 16. Lupz The draft snakes.

We will draft sometime next week.

Me and Seth played some good games. I am glad to be the only three-time champion. Now, all we need is for AJ and FPB to play for third place!!!

I can agree, but for what it's worth, FPB was kicked from the GDL 15 group chat as well. I don't ask not because I know I'm in the wrong, but because I know guys like FPB aren't in pristine mental condition like I am.

Yeah, it's fine. When guys like AJ and FPB kick me, I just let it be. Those are the kinds of people who will shoot up the next live tournament and then hang themselves if they don't get their way.

I didn't know the season was ending so soon!!! FPB kicked me out of the group chat and my AIM contacts don't load correctly. In other words, there are some people I can't contact unless it is through the group chat (or they message me first)! Good luck to everyone!!

Lupz is in with the Jets.

On a side note, I see you have been practicing your stand-up comedy for the next GDL Draft Lottery

We will play next week.

Uncle Seth is in.

I don't need to respect AJ in any way as he's not being honest. Let's be real here. AJ never planned to play me in the first place. He just was waiting until I provoked him so he could refuse to play and receive sympathy from the community. He was waiting for an opportunity to forfeit because of my "attitude". Had I never said anything, you can bet money that he would have had a backup excuse as to why he would have to drop the league. We could have played already. Forget about Saskatoon, and forget about the deadline. That has nothing to do with it. It has to do with him not wanting to play. I'm not sure why he doesn't want to play, but it's definitely not because of my attitude. It's the easiest reason for him to pick because it will be the most validated. Whether or not I am rude or not has no effect on the playoff series, and I agree with what Pearate said in the other thread: rivalry gives a good reason to play. We already saw AJ's reason as to why he was refusing to play me in the regular season to be a lie. We've seen AJ and Uncle Seth argue about a lag spike, in which it seemed very likely to believe that AJ was lying. AJ has lied to me before about putting on no smoothing. I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt here. TLDR: My attitude has nothing to do with AJ's forfeit, there is another reason that he's concealing.

I never said anything about showering instead of playing. I am just bothered by smoz. I brought up showering to show how priority works. Smoz is claiming that he has no real free time, meaning that he is always doing something to keep him occupied. Despite this, he is still able to shower every single day. So, if smoz has no free time, what happens in the case of something taking an hour longer than it should have? Does he sacrifice a shower, or does he sacrifice something else (such as sleep)? Since he has no free time, something has to be sacrificed. This is where my reasoning kicks in. Smoz will never decide to sacrifice taking a shower. That's because he wants to shower. This means that there will always be time for a shower! In theory, smozoma could do the same with NHL '94, but he chooses not to. This means he does not want to play, not that he is busy. I'm sure you don't care anyway. But I wanted smoz to read this too.

Funny how AJ came running to me a couple of days ago for help when he couldn't get his GENS working with the NHL '94 tourney host. GA!

Your perspective is highly unrealistic. First off, the point I was trying to make about my parents was that they have responsibilities, yet a lot of free time. Both my parents work full-time, yet 90% of days they spend about 5-6 hours on TV, Netflix, Facebook, Youtube, etc.. To me it seems reasonable that this is common. My dad works from 7AM-3:30PM and then gets home at 4PM. What is there to do from 4PM until the time he goes to sleep that eats up so much time? One of my neighbours is always sitting around in his backyard doing nothing. My other neighbour is always sitting on his front lawn and smoking/listening to music. Second, what is wrong with showering at night? Did I read that wrong? Third, if you really can't sacrifice one hour of sleep, then I don't see how I'm supposed to look at things reasonably through your perspective. Anybody can sacrifice 2 hours of sleep for one night and be fine. Give me a break. Fourth, I asked AJ to play five out of the seven times. He just nitpicked the two times I "demanded" as a cop-out excuse as to why he's running away from the Pontius Plabax. Fifth, The context of the situation makes the bar picture funny to me. AJ, who lives in California (arguably the nicest location in North America) and complains about not having enough time, decides to spend his oh-so-precious free time by going to Saskatchewan (one of the worst locations in North America) and taking pictures at the bar. That to me sounds like having a lot of time to be f**king around. Smoz, it seems like you greatly exaggerate the impact of every little thing. For most people, a trip that is coming up in three days is not going to impact whether or not they take one hour of their free time to play NHL '94. Most people can also sacrifice some sleep to play NHL '94 with no problems. It just depends if they want to or not.

We could have played multiple times already. AJ has just been ignoring me.

After refusing to play me last night, AJ has now kicked me from the GDL group chat and blocked me on AIM. This is good for AJ, as it saves the time he will waste in losing to me, and it also frees up some more time so he can leave his nice California condo and head over to Saskatoon to take more pictures at the bar. FPB/Seth, I can play whenever. I'll be ready.

There are tons of people who don't shower. Showering is not a necessity. "Enjoy it while it lasts".. give me a break dude. Explain to me how JV and Tex play more than I do if they are adults with responsibilities? Explain to me why my parents have all day after work to just f**k around? My mom has been sitting down watching TV and using the computer since I got home from school (6PM). It's currently 12:14AM and my mom is still on the couch. Does she have responsibilities? Yes. She made breakfast, went to work, came back and made dinner before she proceeded to enjoy her free time. My dad left for work at 7AM, returned at 7PM (normally returns at 3:45, but volunteered for 3 hours), ate dinner, watched videos and TV for 3 hours then went to bed. My dad also teaches a course at Algonquin (you know where that is) as a second job. I'm not understanding how this isn't very similar to the lifestyle of most people here. So what you only got 4 hours of sleep. swos would sacrifice sleep to play his games due to being in a different time zone. I have sacrificed sleep to play. Not making the sacrifice simply means not wanting to play.

And.. taking a shower, etc. are not things that "have" to be done. They are things that you make sure are done every day. It's called priority. pri·or·i·ty prīˈôrədē/ noun noun: priority; plural noun: priorities a thing that is regarded as more important than another. You could simply make NHL '94 a priority for ONE or TWO days, and you would be available to play. Smoz claims he could play sometimes, but it would make him stressed and suck out the enjoyment... that is straight up not wanting to play, which is exactly what I'm trying to explain. He claims it's just "a game", so it's not as important to him. This is not being busy. If he decided that NHL '94 were a bit more important, he would be able to play. How can anybody not agree? If it's -95 outside and you are asked to walk three hours to the store and you say no because you don't want to get too cold.. that doesn't make you busy. It means you don't want to do it. To me, being busy is not being able to play because of work, funeral, birthday parties, appointments, etc.

Me the troll? Me taking no time to communicate with you? lol! I know you were chatting with someone else at one point when I messaged you. Maybe you don't get my messages and maybe you can't see my messages in the group chat.

Like I mentioned, we had 5 days to play before he went to Saskatoon. Give it up. Having "responsibilities" and an "adult life" doesn't mean you don't have free time to play a video game that requires you to play less than 10 minutes a day. Do you really not have 10 minutes of free time a day to dedicate to one of your favourite video games? Do you sometimes just not shower because you don't have the time to do it? Do you sometimes not brush your teeth or go to the washroom because you don't have the time? Do you sometimes lose ALL of your free time because you unexpectedly got caught in traffic? Give me a break. You're coming on the forums to make posts. Where are your responsibilities that leave you with only 3 minutes of free time a month?

"Hardly ignoring".. You aren't a busy dude. We all saw the picture of you smiling at the bar in Saskatoon just a couple of days ago. Don't you live in California? You have the time to be f**king around in Saskatoon (of all places) yet you can't find the time in 9 days to come online and contact me. You didn't have ANY availability in the days before you went to Saskatoon? Even despite the fact that you are "flexible"? Good stuff. At the season's end, you even made a comment of how you would go to your friend's house and make it a "pool day" and then play me at your "convenience". Give me a break. You pretty much admitted to playing whenever you felt like it. I was around to play every single day, angryjay was in Saskatoon taking pictures with smozoma and annatar. Brutus, you make the decision.

And for the speculation going on about why there is inactivity.. it's not "league fatigue". It's GDL XVI. It has gone on far too long and the extra encouragement of slacking has disgusted many who just want to play some NHL '94.

Now AJ has purposely ignored me for over half of round 3. Thank you to brutus for allowing (and encouraging) this behaviour! Fun stuff. Now I can't play for the next week. Since I was available for over half the deadline (and automatically more time than AJ could be), what is the protocol?

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