Future FPs? and GMs to drop

Here is a list of perhaps >12 possibles...with no guarantees and in NO particular order

1. Lecavalier-C
2. Spezza-C
3. Kiprasoff-G
4. Zetterberg-L
5. Datsyuk-C
6. Rick Nash -L poach
7. Ryan Whitney -D poach
8. Gaborik-R [?inj risk]
9. Giguere-G
10 Lundqvist-G
11 Ollie Jokinen-C [esp. with Horton re-signed and Vokoun added]
12 Gonchar-D
13 Havlat-L [?inj risk]
14 McCabe-D [pts+TG]
15 Alfredsson-R
16 Briere-C
17 Savard-C
18 St. Louis-R

Which GMs will drop FPs?

Mike [bye to Naslund or Hejduk with pick #1-> say hello to the Kipper]?
Collin saying bye to Elias with pick #4 [esp with Gomez gone]?
Will Darrell swallow another year of Floppa Forsberg?
Bob saying bye to JovoCop -> DEFINTE BANTHA FODDER
Chris has the hate on for Sundin
Rob is "waiting for Godot" with whither Scott Neidermeyer retires or not

Lost Boys seek GMing advice for 2008

Hello all,

I got my degree, and a cozy-enough job this year, and I've been evaluating what to do with my life next year. As some of you know, I was considering Calgary and pursuing technical certification in my field of interest. But, I don't drive, and having escaped school, am not so keen to return to it.

Anyway, life without irony--or at least long-term circular logic--would not be life as I understand it. Way back when I was a wee paduwan of 16 or so, I was told by Bob that what I really needed to do was go and see the world a little. I didn't want to at the time, and scoffed at the notion, fairly certain that Toronto was all I needed.

Well, a decade has passed (Friday was my birthday, I'm 26) and, it seems, life has finally gotten around to putting me in a position of actually wanting to see the world, and proving Bob right. I need greater and grander things. My heritage qualifies me for a UK, and thus, EU passport... and London's Calling. (The Clash, 1979)


So this is my situation to the league.

1) I want to keep the Lost Boys and stay in the FUNHL. I've been pursuing a strategy for next year's draft (RFA's over PrDs), and have finally gotten my FPs to the point where I don't need to worry about them for another couple decades.

But:

2) How do people feel about GM participating on a 10 hour time difference? Calling me will be tough, and participating in 4 hour WDs that start at 10 p.m. is going to be rough. I also won't be able to show for the ED or PrD in any meaningful way. If I choose to travel frequently, routine access to my e-mail to submit line ups and the like will become difficult too.


So, options as I see them:

a) I participate from Europe, send my spreadsheets to the appropriate people to execute my drafts as best they can, trade through e-mail, and continue my blog-based snarkiness, just on a 10 hour time difference instead of a 2 hour time difference. My strategy continues unabated.

b) I get a co-GM to help manage the Lost Boys while I'm gone. This'll be someone who you can call about trades, will get line-ups in, and can participate in the drafts. This will also give the league an option of training a potential future GM without running a guppy pool. (I'm told this was done when someone... Collin?... went to Australia)

c) The FUNHL starts to look for a new GM to take over "Franchise 11." I stop offering PrDs for RFAs. Though... let me say if we go with this option: can I come back when I'm back on the continent?

My preference is option "a" but figured I'd throw it out to the league now for due judgment and consideration. If we go with "b" I have a friend in Toronto who really loves and knows her hockey, and deserves a pool of this calibre to splash around in, even if only for a year. Though, none of you know her, so that may prove an issue.

I may need to be persuaded from practicing dark magic on your FPs if you go with option "c".


Alright... now go ahead and opine. I don't leave until September.

Richard
GM of the Lost Boys.

(Happy to buy your RFAs, now, or in June)