[FlyingDonutz]

Okay well there's a couple issues I want to address.

Time Zone issue: There may be a few players that live in the Scandinavian regions and other European countries, and as we know they have much different time than us. Now one player suggested we make a separate league for them. As much as this would work if we had say 15-20 people living over in Europe, we don't, I don't think. My guess is the most of us are Canadian and American, if not mostly Canadian. I might be ignorant to this topic, but that's just my guess based on observations. Anyways, there's a few things we could do here.

The players in question are from Sweden. It is now approaching 5:00 in Stockholm. I am in the Eastern Time Zone, and It's now coming onto 11 AM. A 6 hour difference isn't hard to work around for me, but I know lots of the members here actually live in Calgary, and even harder to work around, farther west into a 3 hour time distance from the EST. So basically, you guys are 9 hours away from the Swedish players. Now there's a few things I'd like to suggest we do here.

I don't think it'd be that much a problem for the European players to stay up a bit later on even just weekends to play their games, all others could be simmed. If they can stay up later, that would be great. But if you're living in the Pacific Time Zone you're 9 hours difference, so what we'd need to organize is for you to be up to play around Noon. For workers, this could be somewhat of an issue. So if you're 9 hours difference, maybe players in the PST could either play their games around 12 AM and you could get up real damn early, or, vice-versa, they get up real damn early and you play at a decent time.

What I'd like for people to do is inform us of when you can play. I know lots of people work, and have school, and it'd be nice to fit everyone in with being able to play, and such. So just let us know so maybe we could figure something out.

Team Selection: I, being the very... free-time person I am, would have no issue setting up a lottery and make a team selection draft somewhere on the internet (unless its a feature in the game, haven't heard much and I keep right up to date with this game) . It seems that people here prefer that option, and I prefer the option of keeping people happy, so I say we could do it. But how we'd base the lottery is sort of the issue, I mean we don't have standings here or anything. I guess we could base it on who asked first.

Then again, we could randomize them, and if you get the Oil or the Leafs, deal with it! Unless you like either of them (how?) , then congrats!

I like either, and I can do either, but I'll leave it up to Joborule.

Player Selection: It's a bad day when EA makes an online league feature, with no Fantasy Draft. So it's a bad day. So I guess we'll just have to randomize the rosters. Because I know for a fact that if we didn't, and I was first, I would pick Pittsburgh. Yeah, I hate them, but I know Malkin and Crosby will both probably be at least 93's, if not 94's. I'd trade Fleury for Kipper and Malkin for Iggy and I'd be good. Then there'd be Minnesota.

So I say Randomize the rosters, and if there is a way to draft the teams, whether it means doing a draft on the internet and I'll just build the rosters how they're drafted, do that, because that's probably the most pleasing way of doing it.

Asides from that, I think everything else should figure itself out.