I find this very hard to believe, as in the early rounds, you tried selecting Stan Mikita. If this didn't make you look twice at the rules, it just shows your disconcern for the whole draft. I obviously did understand the rule, because I made it. I don't just have the time to search every player that's been drafted, that's the job of the people who are drafting.
To tell you the truth, I didn't know Mikita played for Canada at the Summit Series. The only players I knew off that team are the Espositos, Clarke, Dryden, and Brad Park.
No.. Now you have to take a lesser player because you went against the rules. It is not the job of anyone else to acknowledge an invalid pick, and you should thank Nortti&Volvo for not waiting until the end of the draft to point this out.
You are the manager of this draft. It is my fault for making the invalid pick, but it is also your fault for not knowing your own rules enough to point it out. I did not read the rules clearly enough, but making me pick a much lesser player because one guy noticed it 9 picks later is not right.
Again proving your disconcern. The league shouldn't pay for your mistake, you should.
If the league knew it's own rules well enough, I wouldn't be paying for my mistake. I've accepted that I made a mistake, now it's time for you to accept you've made one too.
It's pretty ironic that you are complaining for a lesser player for your invalid pick, and then you state that you are going to wait even longer.
What do you want me to do? Erase every pick up until your Kolzig pick because you made a mistake? Change the rules to fit your agenda? I don't think so. If I allow this invalid pick, others will want to make invalid picks. If you are concerned about getting a lwsser player, I'd make your pick now, instead of waiting for others to pick in the next few days.
He's invalid by a technicallity. It's not like he's South African. If you are having trouble understanding my protest, look at it this way:
Let's say you're George McPhee, all ready for this year's entry draft. You go ahead, and as expected, you take Alexander Ovechkin. Then, once the first round is over, someone else points out to Gary Bettman a rule that makes Ovechkin invalid, a rule that Bettman and yourself forgot about, and it's also the slightest of technicallities. So, though the first round is over Bettman makes you re-pick, with alot lesser players. What do you think would happen? Either Bettman would ignore the rule, or, Washington would file for a huge grievance, and they would have grounds for one, because they may have made a mistake, but also, BETTMAN MADE A MISTAKE. Bettman would have no right in saying he made Washington give up good prospect for a very lesser one just because one guy noticed this rule a round later.
You have to realize neither of us knew the rule off the top of our heads, and while I made an invalid pick, you should know your own draft well enough to know which players are ineligible and which are eligible. Well, maybe that's going too far, but with a player as big as Kolzig, you should know.
