16-17 League Dues

[Glenn-Philadelphia]

All,

First off good work on filling the ownership holes boys (especially Scott-NY). Pending any current owners leaving we only have one team available (Moncton) and I will be sending a note to Owen this morning to gauge his interest in returning to the fold.

Now, on to league business. It's that time of the season again for the league treasurer to make his appointed rounds. With that in mind, league fees are $25 for tenured owners again this year. This is for everyone except Joe-Adirondack who as last year’s champ has this year’s league dues waived. For new owners the league fee for your first full year will be based on how the team you are taking over finished in the regular season last year. Here is the breakdown for the new owners.

Jon-Ottawa (Non-Playoff Tier 1) $20
Eric-Milwaukee (Playoff) $25
Greg-Pittsburgh (Playoff) $25
Chris-Suffolk (Playoff) $25
Dirk-Washington (pending) (Playoff) $25

If you are going to be participating this year, please forward your dues to my Pay Pal account which is [e-mail]. If you do not want to participate please let me know as early as possible so we can get a new owner lined up. For those who aren't comfortable using PayPal or don't have a Pay Pal account, you can email me at [e-mail] and I will provide you with my home address to mail a check to.

I would like to have all of the dues collected by the week prior to the draft (I am thinking that the draft will officially start on Friday 7/2 with early picks starting 1 week prior) so I am setting a date of Friday 6/24 as the date I would like to have the annual accounting squared away by. I want to get this completed as early as possible so we can identify available franchises and hopefully fill them prior to the draft. This is especially important for the new owners as it will serve to lock your selected franchise on a first come first serve basis into place.

I will be forwarding this out via email as well to hit all of the people that might not visit the site as often as others.

Let me know if you have any questions and thanks in advance.

[Matt-Colorado]

Paid.

[Scott-New York]

Bump

[Dane-Hamilton]

Sent

[Chris-Alaska]

sent

[Jon-Seattle]

Paid up. Any chance we just get an update on who still owes?

[Glenn-Philadelphia]

Thanks boys.

I won't release names but I will provide an accounting later today when I add the latest payees to the list. Rough count I think we have about 6-8 peeps who are still outstanding.

[Scott-New York]

I sent Eric-Milwaukee and Greg-Pittsburgh a text this morning, Dirk-Washington is in and I will get him and myself squared away Friday

[Chris-Suffolk]

I'll be paid by this afternoon or evening.

[Jedediah-Hartford]

If mine hasn't arrived it should be en route.

[Phil-Cornwall]

My PAYEment is outstanding but I intend to deliver it to Glenn personally, wrapped inside a black Koho in the form of a vicious crosscheck when the refs aren't looking, preferably.

[Glenn-Philadelphia]

Jun 22, 2016 13:26:04 GMT -5 Jedediah-Hartford said:

If mine hasn't arrived it should be en route.

Thanks Jed. It arrived today.

[Chris-Suffolk]

Sent! Thanks for everything Glenn!!!

[Glenn-Philadelphia]

First off thanks to everyone who has either paid or corresponded to me about making a payment. You guys chipping in year in and year out is appreciated.

There are 6 5 owners who have contacted me and let me know that payment is imminent. *LOL Thanks Chris*

We have 5 guys who I haven't heard from as of yet.

Three of these teams are long tenured owners (Johnstown, St Paul and Toronto). I see by their activity that Dan and Justin have both been on the board in the past 24 hours so I am assuming they will be reaching out to me shortly. I know in the past Brendan-Johnstown has paid right at the deadline but the fact that he hasn't been logged on (as himself and not a guest that is) since before Christmas so I am quite unsure of his status and will send him another email asking for clarification on whether he will be joining us again this year or not.

The remaining two guys are newer and I think Scott reached out to them via text recently (Washington and Pittsburgh).

Given the fact that we have so much uncertainty regarding the owners kicking the draft off this weekend isn't the best idea and will need to be pushed back a week or two. We are still quite far ahead from where we were last year so this shouldn't cause us to get into a time crunch to complete off season business before the drop of the puck for the 16-17 season. This will also give us some additional time to let the newer guys test the drafting process and may even allow enough time for the 3 podcast amigo brothers to drop their thoughts (and sleepers) for picks 16-30 as well.

I have some thoughts I shared with Eric over lunch today that I think will speed up the financial accounting each year. In short it would provide access to a league researched page (what I use) with the draftable players and their NHL draft history shown that would be available once payment has been received. Just a thought but it might help the guys who find it a struggle to research the crop of players for the draft.

[Dan-Toronto]

Payment sent via paypal Glenn. Please confirm with me that you got it.