GOHL 21 Champion Moncton Wildcats

         

GOHL 22 roster limits are:  (detailed rules posted in message board) 45 players. maximum 25 players on Pro team Minimum 35 players per franchise. No player on farm can have a 70 OV or more. Maximum 20 prospects, minimum 5 prospects. Jan.16 2012 Screaming Beavers will have fun on Fridays Another day, another change in the GOHL. Acting sim Kipher promised changes and he delivered in moving 4 GOHL teams, and a 5th GM resigned for personal issues. The latest is the Playa Del Carmen Tequilas and long time GM Mike M. who let us know he was not moving forward with us in the GOHL for the time being. Please keep in touch Mike and wishing all the best to you. Around 2002-2006 or so many long night AOL chat sessions were had. Fun times. To league business, a franchise that will play in it's 4th city in 4 seasons since it was created in GOHL 19 will now play in Charing Cross as the Screaming Beavers as fantasy hockey veteran Rob Camaert takes over duties. The team started as South Buxton, to Quebec, then Playa Del Carmen. The farm team will be called the Thorold Friday Night Whores. A name that rivals our old Come-By-Chance Seamen (GOHL 10 & 11). To help with the confusion, be low are the current team changes; Crystal Lake Killers to Brooks Bandits. Montreal Hitmen to Pittsburgh Prowlers. Deer Lake Gulls to Florida Gators. San Diego Hawks to  Calahoo Warriors Playa Del Carmen Tequilas to Charing Cross Screaming Beavers Jan.12 2012 Bandits take off with Killers Another long standing team has left town as the Crystal Lake Killers (and their awesome logo) move to Brooks, Alberta to be known as the Bandits. Franchise is now owned by Darren Beisiegel, who is one of many new partners in the GOHL that will help inject new excitement. The Killers were an original GOHL franchise and were well known to be a european style club, as owner Rick H. only took on overseas players for his team. Crystal Lake never won a Cup, but they did make it to the final 2 times, in GOHL's 13 & 14. (Thanks Rick for the fun years here! --denis). Interesting note, the latest teams logos look very similar in style!                                                                              Brooks Bandits Another Lake gets drained After Crystal Lake, now Deer Lake is dry. The Gulls are moving to Florida in Gator country. The Gulls high water mark was GOHL 19 with 103 pts, but have tailed off a bit since. New owner Frank Marrion hopes fans come out to the tailgate parties in Florida as the GOHL moves into the deep south!                                                                          Florida Gators Crystal Lake Killers to Brooks Bandits. Montreal Hitmen to Pittsburgh Prowlers. Deer Lake Gulls to Florida Gators. San Diego Hawks to  Calahoo Warriors Playa Del Carmen Tequilas to Charing Cross Screaming Beavers Jan.9 2012 Major hockey city loses team Serious happenings around the GOHL, one the longest lasting fantasy hockey leagues out there, as the proud Montreal Hitmen have been transfered to Robert Maxwell and moved to Pittsburgh.  Fans there will be getting a top notch team as the Hitmen finished 1st in the Northern Conference last season, but fizled in the playoffs. The Prowlers farm team will be located in Erie and called the Express.                                                             Pittsburgh Prowlers There are also news reports coming out tonight that at least 2 more teams have been acquired, with a 3rd also a possibility of having new ownership. Keep up to date by visiting the Message board regularly! February 18/09              Your GOHL           starts friday!                                    One of the oldest and most established fantasy hockey leagues returns this Friday Feb.20th.. yes GOHL 18 is here. We are now legally able to drink in some provinces and states, and we can vote. We have been playing now for 10 years. We still have many original GM's, but the past few seasons we have seen new people come on board. The advantage you have here is history. Your GOHL 18 Cup is more valuable than the hundreds of fantasy leagues that come and go. Just look at FHL listing for new leagues posted just 1-2 months ago, click the links and those leagues are already dead. The GOHL has had some highs and lows like any other FHL league. The early years saw trade deadlines that lasted to 3 and 4 am in the morning. The GOHL 7 March 2003 trade deadline gave us 34 trades in that day alone, with 104 players getting dealt (not counting all the draft picks). That's 1 in 6 of the total GOHL players being dealt... in one day. We had a first round pick being dealt to the Montreal Hitmen in December 2000, only to have Mario Lemieux come out of retirement 2 days after that deal. Needless to say the Hitmen were able to draft the Hall Of Famer with that first pick. We had the "goon" years after GOHL 4 ended, as a couple of teams decided to crack skulls for a few years. A man named Frainer became a legend here. The Dublin Doom had 5427 PIM as a team in GOHL 5. That's around 60 minutes a game average! In 2002, we participated in the GOHL Olympics Challenge, where Canada and Russia played a quick 40 game sched in the league. In GOHL 11, we played our first and only All-Star game, hosted by the Jamaica Pot Smokers, that also featured an All-Star competition. GOHL 12 became a "Retro" season, as many players went on strike. GM's chose to either keep their current GOHL team or select one from the early 90's NHL. Victoria won with a roster that had many of the 90-91 Edmonton Oilers. The FHL sim was used from GOHL 1 to 15. Commish Gour, while still liking to sim actual games, got tired of adjusting rosters in every off-season. (ie checking each player for retirements etc). Doctor's called it 'sim burnout'. Instead of a usual September season for GOHL 16, it began later in January with a new commish (Robert) to sim the games and a new simulator, the STHS. This gave the GOHL the shootout among new options available. Over the course of the years one thing remained constant, The GOHL Rocks!!! became a cry heard regularly and one that should come back even more. Many female fans would also send in their pics saying 'the commish is a hunk' and such.                            The future of the GOHL was and will be succesfull as long as the GM's that are onboard make it that way. Participation is the key. If no longer interested then please step down for someone else. If interested then participate. Just using the message board shows that you are around for example. One day we may have a new online simulator, where GM's could just click on the site and run their team (no commish work!). The search continues.