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The rumor was Bb having competitive games tonight.

I was up at 5am to watch US dominate Slovakia, so I'm a little miffed that I missed that amazing US-Russia game. Hopefully there's more good ones ahead though, with some medals on the line

I was up at 5am to watch US dominate Slovakia, so I'm a little miffed that I missed that amazing US-Russia game. Hopefully there's more good ones ahead though, with some medals on the line

I have to admit I missed a pretty significant chunk of the US-Russia game too. When I got up I sort of fast forwarded through most of Slovenia-Slovakia and then watched the first period of US-Russia. As I was skipping through the commercials my older son came out and wanted to play a game on the XBox and I told him the 2nd period was likely to begin soon and he could play when that was done - so I fastforwarded and it was right at the puck drop. Watched the second, let him play a while, and he decided to be done and we dropped back over to TV just as they were going into the sixth round of the shootout.

Can't believe that Russia and Slovakia are going into OT. Slovakia's one of those countries I usually root for - I still remember how much they got the shaft from the NHL during the Salt Lake Olympics. I know the Kings, for example, had told Ziggy Palffy that he could play in only one of the three qualifying round games - so he was there watching helplessly as they had like 14 skaters in a game against Germany. Sometime in the second period they were down, you could see the guys were just gassed, and he finally decided to suit up and play the rest of the game. The GM was on the phone with him saying that that was the only game he'd be able to play, which really sucked because it's not like the Kings were any good at all then (as I know far too well being a fan). I also remember Irbe and Ozolinsh playing what must have been like seven games in five days between NHL and the qualifying round.

! Wait a minute... this time the other team missed more shots than me & I *still* got out-rebounded! How is this happening, dog? (proficient vs respectable again). The players were semi-content with your "whoever misses more shot gives up more rebounds" theory.

But no, it has proven falsely in this winter of our discontent! Again, what say ye, dog? Thou bib must be replete with solution.

(being on the road most of these games doesn't help... but that's already factored in the ratings? It's like all my opponents are starting two 20+ rebounders or 3 17+ guys with 1 at SF.)

I suppose it could also be a whole lot of "lethargy's guy tries to grab the ball, but it goes out of bounds" type nonsense. I'd say that more rebounding or handling would fix that but my big men have double digit handling and still delight in pointlessly deflecting balls out of play.

It could also be just that your players are heartless stumblejohns who boast of the rebounding skill of a lion but the rebounding courage of a hammertoed chinchilla.

Welp, I have commuted financial suicide and will be most likely relegating down this season now. I don't look at my schedule till after I made commitments to my team and I had to pay salaries for the third time this season without having a home game. It really sucks too because it's going to take a lot to get back to a competitive level. Overall with the 3 weeks without arena income I've had to dish out around $1mil of my own money. Hopefully next year isn't this bad for me and I can find my way back to D.II.

Welp, I have commuted financial suicide and will be most likely relegating down this season now.

Can I interest you in intentionally finishing in 7th place then?
Had figured you were pretty well off financially... especially with the few weeks of tanking or whatever that was earlier in the season.

Honestly, if your financial situation is *that* bad & you see yourself relegating anyway... wouldn't the best course of action be an immediate fire sale / remainder of season tank? That would let you get back pretty quickly & get your finances right long-term. Not doing so would only make worse the "It really sucks too because it's going to take a lot to get back to a competitive level."

Yea, I have a plan in place. It actually helped a lot that my PG just sold for 600k, which was 400k more than I even expected. So, financially speaking, I am now making a good amount of money to get me back by the en of the season. I do have some guys I am training out of position though so I will probably lose a lot of games the rest of the season and may finish 7th after all. I still have a couple pieces I could sell if I wanted to quickly have lots of cash work a fire sale, but I don't think now is the time to do that.

Yea, I have a plan in place. It actually helped a lot that my PG just sold for 600k, which was 400k more than I even expected. So, financially speaking, I am now making a good amount of money to get me back by the en of the season. I do have some guys I am training out of position though so I will probably lose a lot of games the rest of the season and may finish 7th after all. I still have a couple pieces I could sell if I wanted to quickly have lots of cash work a fire sale, but I don't think now is the time to do that.

No, now is not the time. Before February 25th is the time. Do the right thing!

Can someone explain to me why they think weeks without a home game are a big deal? There's 11 home games a season, every season. There's no interest on cash in the bank (how I wish there were...), and even if you dip into the red on the other side it's a couple thousand dollars tops. Jason complains about this a lot too but I don't see why it makes any difference. Unless you're running at absolutely break-even and have $0 in the bank, in which case I guess it could bleed you out over the course of a few months, or if you were already at -$250k or something and it dropped you to -$500k. It's not like the low-income weeks come back-to-back-to-back or anything...

Well, I have had 3 weeks of incomes of anywhere between 400-500k to pay in salaries. Overall after TV contract and merchandise it comes down to paying 270-370k extra each week.

My only back to back home games I had this season was on a saturday and then a tuesday, in that order, so really I didn't gain any extra income during that time.

So I think the real problem comes down to how the games are placed in the schedule. So for me, I pay 3 weeks of salaries with no arena income, while not having any weeks of more than 1 home game to make up for it. So essentially I have gotten screwed so far. Later in the season I believe I have a tuesday and saturday to make up for 1 of those weeks, but im still two weeks behind even though having 11 home games and 11 away games.

It really sucks when you play like me and Jason. We play very similarly with carrying lots of salary. That's at our own risk, but when this happens we are done for essentially because we always tend to run in the red and lose money every week.

Im really not complaining thought. I should have planned accordingly, which I didnt, and it came back to bite me in the butt. I will complain with the way they place games in the schedule though.