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I will support a contraction but if we go ahead I suggest that we hold a special draft lottery based on teams available ( separate lottery rounds) for their NHL roster so every team will have an equal chance to draft at least x players. Not sure however that some teams will have enough cap space to acquire top players so each team should have x free drops after the special draft. All minors should go back to minor draft or special separate draft as well
Okay Anthony, I'm chiming in. Setting issues of timing and mechanics aside, I believe that it is not at all easy to find two solid GM's. To be honest I don't consider half of the GM's that we have now to be solid. And by that I mean that time and again activity and participation are generated by the same half-dozen people. There used to be a convention in this league that stipulated GM's were required to answer all mail and trade offers. That has since fallen by the wayside, and as active GM's have become increasingly more rare the new de-facto standard is to tolerate the silence of those operating on cruise control. How do we enforce any code of conduct when we're just happy to have people here?Sure there are flurries of activity around key dates but that's not the same as healthy, consistent, and growing engagement. Obviously the glory days of this site are well behind us so if we are to continue here it would be best to play to our strengths. For me that means building on the small core of our small community. Historically Backyard has been an 18 team league that always had great conversation and competition. I think we can get back to this but we first have to admit we've got a niche league on a niche site. Figuring out the when and the how matters, but is less important than embracing a model based on exclusivity. Who knows, maybe one day we'll have a waiting list and we'll once again be able to take GM's to task for not answering their mail!
if the leagues decision is "no", then just let the unmanaged team as is just put players on active positions and bench empty it there are few players, just let the future GM fill it up.