hat if you work in public services in its broadest definition which includes you know voluntary sector delivery that we we exist in service delivery land that's not where children and families are you know children and families have got their problems they've they've got their strengths they've got their supports and then there's other services that come into the family or or that get alongside the young person i i think that that is absolutely right and it you know it does go back to GoFec you know actually what makes a huge difference for you know a child might be a club or an activity which doesn't sort of feature as a care need if you like and and that's where i think the early intervention comes in you know let's try and actively have fewer children and young people coming into the system Jude do you think that's a a risk about a culture clash i think we're at risk of potentially over simplifying what we mean by care because i think and to maybe frame it as something you know obviously we want to prevent children and young people entering care but we need to appreciate the the complexity of care needs that might be within the network surrounding that child that may involve you know adult social care it may it may include a variety of different elements so i think martin's point about early intervention is really key because even though certainly you know as a social work practitioner we're often seen and perceived as crisis interventionist you know we're coming in at certain points we're certainly i wouldn't like to be coming in doing like to be but we do early intervention there too it's not a not a chronological thing always it's a tussle that we're always engaging with so i don't think it's as simple as you know care exists in this forum and you know the prevention of care is it over here i think they come often intertwined whether that's intergenerational within the family and you know or it's it's even within that stuff the complex and competing needs of that child or young person themselves but you know there might be elements of additional need that requires social care element but equally there's other other bits that there's lots of good intervention work that are being supported by universal services so that's the complexity really yeah and that that's very useful i think will it not be said to be the case that they in your members are more and more in terms of reducing resource lack of partners to refer on to that actually prevention work has become much more difficult and that your much more your members work will be taken up with permanence issues about referring to care child protection issues and you know even that idea of the permanence you know we want to look at permanency we do in terms of what is long-term care at home name and that brings in the promise in terms of well what scaffoldings have you made you know there's roots out of care not just into care you know and so yes i think we are you know that again the set in the bar report will make it very clear kind of what the challenges facing our profession are that we want to we want to move away from but certainly yeah that the early intervention profile could be could be much better and i think that you know i think it was said last week i think by Jackie Irving about you know we take risks in social work and we have to do that and those include financial risks and i think that's where the trust in what we do as a profession you know and as you know within the third sector and all the partners we need to sometimes do that because you know even when i first joined the profession as a social worker in 2009 you know scaffolding is almost like you know but we can't stay involved for too long because you know we've only got this a might of time or you know that's not a good indicator but actually sometimes by staying involved you know in a universe or a with third sector partners over multi years of funding that are invested actually financially works out far better you know and it's far better outcomes because it keeps that child at home throughout their childhoods you know so we do need to take risks in how be bold and how we view some of these challenges but i suppose what i'm getting up within that is that the i mean your members will be under pressure to close cases the regularly are your manager saying we have to reduce the case load you've got too many we have to get and they actually is there not a risk that this accelerates that process that the way that martin's describing this is kind of the Cinderella service within this process i mean we're looking at the figures if i can you know the setup costs for this organisation that are currently looking at about 1.3 billion that's not money to be spent on your services that setup costs 1.3 billion you know the sdc in trade unions yesterday calling for this whole programme to be stopped i mean that's the situation that your members dude and your service deliverers martin would be walking into i mean that feels like a big risk to what you do right now martin i mean the situation you describe is absolutely accurate you know and where you know we we work very positively with local authorities in particular and what they want is earlier intervention but a number of the the services that we we've had running for years were set up as an agreement to be a effectively quite an early intervention service for families and what we've seen over the years is that those thresholds have just got higher and higher and we're we're working with not just riskier families but families who are more mired in their troubles and are going to take a lot of help to get out of that but i think you can you can still do things which don't automatically rely on just statutory services i think you know the committee will be familiar with family group decision making and processes like that which actually identify the strengths and the resources that are available to the family which enable us to take a more a more rounded view of it and you know kinship care is you know is is a very big area of support to to children so you know that there are some alternatives within that but you know that the the the you know i'm not going to comment whether it's a good investment or not but clearly it is a huge amount of money to put into a new structure and as part of maybe to that dude in your reflection i mean do your do your members know that this is happening i mean this is you know pensions aren't included in tupi arrangements you know there's there's no clarity on that do they know that actually they could be moving employers to a completely new body with no indication of what might happen so in terms of art you know we've done a little work to try and engage as many members and social workers as we can and i would say that that is extremely difficult given when you look at how busy you know practitioners and members really are to know so you know it has been mentioned i do here you know we do here our member for we do here but probably not to the detail that i know we do provide in terms of just keeping people involved and and part of this to share their views with us but the busyness of our work you know this is where i think this inclusion and times understand and make sure that that as a profession we're fully informed and fully included because it's really like you said it's really crucial there are a lot of fears and i suppose the overarching messages across a variety of views that we have from members are that yes there's opportunities but there's also fears yes as you say about terms and conditions about pensions but there's opportunities in there too to improve conditions for the profession as well in terms of you know even the idea of of our mileage you know particularly we're all social workers driving around if we are you know looked at on par with with some of our other colleagues you know in health so we do you know we do need to to kind of look at both unbalance and i think we try to help members to do that and represent the variety but i think that's why i think understanding some of the functions and what it costs to provide them is really critical what we do is too critical i think to risk in their being less resource put into them so i think you know while for example we may keep connections with our colleagues in other departments like housing and education if we are you know feeling depleted in other ways and by this that would also be a fear there's lots lots there Mr Marra i think it just strikes me that that i can't see this government doing this to doctors saying to an entire profession we're going to change your employment rights we're going to put in place a bill that allows us to do that and pass it and but they're prepared to do it to social workers i think i think you know that's why we want to be constructive here you know because at the end of the day we do want you know that this aspiration of more accessible support being offered amongst all the other things that make up a life but you know we do need to make sure that the national investment can be really helpful for that you know it can bring that consistency but it is about accessibility too it's about you know people having that rights across the country but that also means that we need to be in communities and we need to be connected and we need to be forming relationships so that is a that's a tense line to tread and you think you're right you know i think what we just want is to feel included and you know on behalf of those that we support and so yeah i do you think the priority issue is an important one thank you thank you excuse me frog thank you very much michael and jude and martin for those can we move to questions now from ruth maguire please thank you convener good morning both i had some questions around structure i think we've probably covered that pretty well in answers both in terms of the importance of leadership and culture versus structure but also i hear jude loud and clear when she talks about her members being depleted of the structures that they have to navigate round or are taking more energy than than the job itself in terms of leadership and account in culture one thing we didn't talk about there was accountability and i suppose i would have a question for you both in terms of what risks and opportunities you would see around children's services the accountability for children's services moving from local authority to Scottish Government ministers i'll come to martin first i think with due respect to local government colleagues accountability to many of the families we're talking about is pretty low currently you can put in place you know if there was a national care service you could be more consistent about complaints procedures and all that sort of thing but i think if you said okay we have a national health service how accountable is that to the families who we're dealing with again it's it's low you know because work accountability is important but you know if you're if you're struggling to get the services and support you need you know you don't stand back and say how can i you know how can i realise my accountability here so i think i'm using politician or policy making language there does making people you know realising people's rights that's what we're going to be in the business for can you see opportunities in that that chain of accountability i can't think of another word to use for it being to Scottish Government ministers rather than to local authority i think it would have a different flavour i mean the you know i was talking somebody at police Scotland and you know bringing the all of the forces together meant that there was a a closer focus on police Scotland as an entity in in the whole but of course what that means is that the the issues and the problems that were covered by eight regional forces are now all the responsibility of one body and i think you know as we see with the NHS you know an issue has to be pretty big to you know to sort of hit the the scale on that so i think the advantage at the moment is that if you know if there's a child death inquiry or whatever you you know that is dealt with at a local level and hopefully those lessons are learned but if if we had that on a scotland scale it might sort of shift some of those thresholds okay and jude um yeah i mean i think you know we're you know we're accountable and it gets answerable to our codes of practice and the social workers aren't you know and we've got a code of ethics now we also are accountable to our statutory function but in terms of you know under law and what we do um i think accountability to the outcomes for families i do think yeah that that you know we have to hold our hands up and say you we need to be we need to do better and could do better but we need the conditions to do that and i think i do think there are advantages at times to having you know sort of national oversight that you know and i guess investment in terms of training understanding awareness governance of certain aspects but i do think you know that can't come at the the loss of local connection and local accountability and so it is that that national local and i guess sense of checks and balance and so again accessibility of complaints you know how do people voice what's going well and not and they do that within their communities and within the relationships that are around them or do they have to try harder to seek those out and those are the questions that i'd like to ask okay thank you if i could stick with jude i wonder reflecting on the change that we had with health and social care integration obviously there's there's risks in any change there's as well as being opportunities there's risks reflecting on that change that's already happened what do you think are the sort of short medium and long term risks to families and children i suppose in accessing which services the short medium and long term risks accessing services from the experience of what we have in integration so far i mean certainly the views of our members will be mixed because not all will have that experience some will some won't you know personally you know i haven't but i do think and so i guess if there is bits of this that i feel like an answer afterwards as we go out we'll do that because i do think you know it's important question and i do think you know the benefits are gained from better communication less and maybe better understanding about times gdpr you know things about how we share information and the ease of sharing information maybe a challenge in the fears around in that i think can be a short medium firm win and i think also what we learn from each other's professions is definitely potentially a long term win for families i think when we have a shared language i mean again you'll look at some of the kind of shared language that the gerfec achieves over a period of time but when you have certain services that have to work closely together and are governed more closely together maybe we have more opportunity to build on that so i don't want to say too much because i know in an overstep kind of what my own at what i could recall myself from that but certainly we could approach members to ask more specifically because there will be i think that thing or you know in both structures you know that the children families exist in there will be pros and cons and but i also think that there will be um to implication for children families i think it just could be that are we looking at things holistically and looking at a community based not just help you know i don't know i think it's that balance between you know a medical and a social approach that needs a balance and you know we need our leaders and managers in those structures to understand so that we as colleagues can work well and understand each other's world but i think there's a benefit there but there's also a lot of challenges sure that's helpful and martin do you have any reflections on that well not so much on that i was just going to come back to your accountability point because i think you know an interesting issue is about so what metrics do you use to hold national services accountable and there's always the danger that what you focus on is is what's relatively easy to measure and is you know bald figures and the example i'd use is cams waiting times so you know we have a very specific cams waiting time it gets reported against and you know if if it goes down we say cams is doing better and and so on actually you know the experience that we see on the ground is that it's not so much about the waiting time it's the fact that when families actually get to the front of the queue in some areas of scotland the majority of families don't meet the criteria so they've sat on a waiting list for a substantial period of time that's what gets measured but actually for them it's much more devastating that when they get there for various reasons they don't get a service at all thank you and your organisation have reflections on on the risks looking back at integration of health and social care i mean as i said right at the start i mean in all honesty it's kind of passed us by you know the focus has been very much on adult services and you know we see some good examples where you know there is a greater joining up i think sometimes some of the sort of substance misuse areas it's made the positive impact but it's been relatively minor in scheme of things okay thank you convener do you want to come in finally just before we close the session thank you yes but i always try to think of you know practical examples that maybe come to mind when the questions are asked and that i think you know again it's not a structural thing but a relationship thing you know in working with cams often we can't eradicate the waiting list as you say you know that that exists but certainly i've had personal experience of just the good relationships we can have around consultations about being able to understand what we're still having to engage with live and make sure that we're still being responsive it may not be the response that we would hope or strive for you know at that point of need for that child but certainly in terms of understanding each other's worlds and that's what i mean you know regardless you know between health and social care colleagues and also you know ourselves in a local authority setting or wherever you know we do try to still try and find those solutions and so and we will keep doing that no thank you very much and thank you both for your time today the public part of today's meeting is now at an end and we will consider our final agenda items in private thank you jude and thank you martin thank you


If you ever get the chance to visit the Netherlands and explore the country, I'll tell you to go up north. Thanks to Elaine, we had decided to explore one of the islands in the north called Vliland, while visiting her good friend in the port city of Haalingen. The boat ride to Vliland took about one and a half hours and it was, as you would expect it, on a gloomy afternoon. The weather in the Netherlands can be tricky so we hope for better the next day. When morning came, luck was on our side. We walked to the most breathtaking sunrise and so we decided to make the most of the day. Vliland is known for its scenic walking and cycling trails, so we grabbed a Vliland guide and planned our morning walk. With autumn in full swing, the woods in Vliland was nothing short of magical. With the sun piercing through the canopies of dense woods, the rustling of fallen leaves and the cool winds, you don't even notice how far you've walked. We walked for about 2 hours on a 6.5km route to the forest and back to the town centre. And as if that wasn't enough, we spent the afternoon walking a different route too. If you ever get the chance to visit the Netherlands and explore the country, go up north. Go and see the islands for yourself.


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Critics have argued that the show offers a devastating critique of contemporary capitalism. This could be seen as a metaphor for capitalism. The players represent the working class, and the guards, the middle class. In a Jacobin review headline, Squid Game is an allegory of capitalist hell, the writer of search that Korea's extreme inequality is Squid Game's central theme. A New York Times reporter wrote that it has tapped a sense familiar to people in the United States that prosperity in nominally rich countries has become increasingly difficult to achieve as wealth disparities widen and home prices rise past affordable levels. And the show's creator told Variety that I wanted to write a story that was an allegory or fable about modern capitalist society, something that depicts an extreme competition, somewhat like the extreme competition of life. Is there a theme more unifying in global pop culture than capitalism is bad? Asks Vulture writer Roxanna Hadidi in her recap of one episode, before continuing, it helps that the statement is true of course. But Squid Game has a much richer and more resonant message than capitalism bad. That was Frontman, the Darth Vader-esque manager of the game, chastising participants for violating the rules and ideological purity of this insulated world. Where the pink uniformed workers are all masked, with only symbols distinguishing their rank in the collective's hierarchy, as the elites sit cloistered, observing the spectacle from above. Does this sound like capitalism? Or more like another economic system that's haunted the Korean peninsula? North Korean escapee, Kang Savyuk, is competing in the games out of a desperation for money to bring the rest of her family over the border after a sleazy human smuggler ripped her off. Is that capitalism? Well, it's a market, but it's a black market that exists because of the horrors of the totalitarian communist state looming just to the north. More than a thousand people a year risk their lives trying to escape the democratic people's Republic of Korea, and the majority of the successful escapees settle in the south, according to the charity Connect North Korea. Pakistani Ali Abdul also finds himself in dire straits because of exploitation from a boss leveraging his immigration status against him. In other words, the consequences of a gray labor market emerging in response to state-imposed border control. And what about the main character? He's an unemployed gambling addict in trouble with loan sharks who's drawn into the game because his wife is threatening to move his daughter abroad with her new husband. Making a quick fortune is the only way he sees out of this. We later learned that his life troubles began after a strike at the car factory that killed his co-worker and caused him to miss the birth of his child. His story is based on the real-life 2009 Sangeong Motor Strike that ended in a militarized raid by Korean riot police. Now this is approaching a substantive critique of modern capitalism, except that even that is complicated by the fact that in the case of this real-life company, it had three years earlier been taken over by Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, a Chinese state-owned operation. Is that free-market capitalism? One key to understanding Squid Game's deeper themes is the distinctive wardrobe, in particular the green track suits the contestants all wear. The show's art director told The New York Times there are reference to the green uniforms of the Seimu Andong, or New Village Movement, a state-led industrialization program. This was government industrial policy, centralized planning, and like China's cultural revolution under Mao's communist regime, involved stripping communities of their local customs and identities through a program known as Misatapa Andong, or Movement to Overthrow the Worship of Gods. Yes, there are some obvious symbols of capitalist excess in the show, like the crass, golden-masked Westerners who watch the proceedings from a luxury box while placing bets on the desperate contestants as if they're the very racehorses our protagonist squanders his money on, or the arrogant, broke financial advisor who believes everyone gets what they deserve. And of course there's that giant piggy bank filling up with more money every time someone's eliminated from the competition. But just because a show portrays capitalism as a cutthroat zero-sum game doesn't make it reality. South Korea, unlike its communist neighbor to the north, experienced massive economic growth, the miracle on the river Han, from the 1960s on, thanks to market reforms, growth that raised the standard of living for rich, middle-class, and poor, far above that of most of its neighbors. Today the country has the 37th highest GDP per capita in the world and ranks 26th in the Fraser Institute's Human Freedom Index. As with so many market reforms, though, Korea's approach was less than perfect. A freer market doesn't mean completely free markets. Housing prices have skyrocketed as South Korea's idiosyncratic regulatory regime has encouraged rampant real estate speculation, and its loose monetary policy fueled troublingly high levels of personal debt and price inflation, trends that have accelerated in the COVID era. All of these are serious crises facing the country, and an increasing swath of advanced economies worldwide. South Koreans, like an increasing share of savers across the globe, are putting more money into cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, something the New York Times characterizes as emblematic of the get-rich-quick culture of Korea, but could also be the result of a crisis of confidence in centralized banking and the legacy financial system, represented by the main character's bottomed-out, hot-shot financial advisor friend. Maybe the reason for Squid Game's global resonance isn't its leftist critique of capitalism. Those are abundant in Hollywood, but a result of it tapping into something more fundamental and universal. A growing unease with systems of centralized surveillance and control. At bottom, this is what the game is all about. A central horror of Squid Game is that participation is voluntary, to a degree. Participants sign away their lives and their rights, which can only be regained with a majority vote. This conceit too misunderstands the nature of capitalism and contracts. In a truly free society, you always have the right of exit. Instead, the game's structure is more reminiscent of social contract theory, which is regularly employed to justify gross governmental violation of rights so long as those carrying them out are appointed through an ostensibly democratic process. Squid Game is not about volunteerism, but force, deception, and coercion. It's not about free markets and choice, but about dehumanization and forced assimilation into a collective. As the show's star told The New York Times, it's about people. I think we pose questions to ourselves as we watch the show. Have I been forgetting anything that I should never lose sight of as a human being? Our hero learns a lesson from a seemingly deteriorating old man who reminds him that sharing with others is a wonderful thing when done voluntarily. And in the end, our hero regains his personal agency at the last possible moment and decides not to play any longer, even with victory assured, leaving him battered and traumatized but with his soul intact. Squid Game isn't really about capitalism properly understood. It's about developing strategies for undermining and resisting authoritarian control and retaining your humanity under a system designed to strip it all away.


Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hey, John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered. I'm a little excited pastor Usually those who may be turning it on the first day. Let me back up a little bit on Tuesday Is what we'd like to do is I like to ask pastor questions that draw out The message that you'll be able to teach it on on Wednesday And then we do the same on Thursday for Sunday's message and I'm excited because tomorrow You're gonna start a series on marriage in the family. Yeah, something that is much needed today. Yeah, and so looking at your study The points that you make here are our goods good points. Thank you, John Is this a good time to ask for a raise No Just ask for your job I'm fired you guys But what I like what you put here is that you've listed in in your in the notes here that there is this struggle between or this battle between the traditional Family or the traditional institution of marriage and this constant onslaught of this redefinition of what marriage is And so can you explain a little bit about what this constant struggle is and how this is even crept into the church, you know This battle against marriage is not brand new. I mean, it's obviously something that has existed from From thousands of years back, you know, it's the It's the reason that God gave commands related to marriage because pagan societies Didn't have a value for the women Value for family many of them didn't the major ones during the time of Christ and just prior did not have Did not have a real value for for the institution of marriage, you know, the Romans looked at their wives and treated their wives Those married to a Roman man. They treated them like they were children the father had complete authority in the home and he had even the You know the right of life or death when it came to children and running the house and that was transferred to the To the the husband, you know Over the over his wife. So the husband during Roman times had tremendous Power over her. So she was really without any real rights in the Greek the Greek man had a concubine or women on the side for his pleasure and he'd have a Wife so that he could have legitimate children. I mean, so you saw that in the Greeks, you know So during the time of Christ You know the idea of having a loving caring relationship with the woman wasn't necessarily Part of how everybody thought I mean if you're a religious person with faith and you're and you understand the Essentials of relationship and what love means and all your chances are you're gonna have a good marriage and all but There's always been problems within the confines of a man and woman, you know, because the two are of such a different Backgrounds a woman and man, you know Have just different ways of dealing with life and various things and anybody who denies that is living in a world That isn't real and so when a husband and a woman joined together. That's actually God's way of making the two one so that the two become one and actually better together and that's what marriage is intended to do is to make the two better together and so the wife will bring into the marriage certain qualities that the husband lacks and the husband brings into the marriage certain qualities that a woman will lack and under the authority of God and under the Power of the Spirit and the unity that you have and in Christ, you know, you have the possibility of having a Successful marriage and so we're going to begin looking at that tomorrow But yeah, the society didn't value marriage and doesn't to this day. There is a You know, a large rate of individuals who are cohabiting who are living together without the the sense of an is a need for a contract of any sort for an agreement any kind of ceremony and Unfortunately, that is filtered even into the church where there are people who are who actually are unmarried having children But think of themselves as being married simply because they think of themselves as being married Even in our fellowship John I was just speaking to one of our secretaries who handles the request for baby dedications Who was just telling me just 15 20 minutes ago how that very often very often people are calling saying we want to Dedicate our children and when simple questions begin being asked We're discovering that You know, not that it's not that It's not that often, but it's it's more common than it has ever been Where they're saying well, well, we're not married, you know, we just want to dedicate our children to God and turns out they're they're they're living together in the state of of Fornication and sometimes even in adultery, I'll be speaking of those things tomorrow Well pastor, you know, thank you for sharing that because yeah, it's been this ongoing thing Even when I know you'll probably be looking at divorce rates sometime in this marriage and family series But I think this is a something that us church need to really to hear and hang on to as you address the family Especially in these times So I want to thank you pastor for sharing that and again you guys tomorrow evening services start at 7 p.m. We're Pastor David's going to start as mentioned a series on marriage and the family great opportunity to invite your friends and family to Come out and join us. That's at 7 p.m. And then on Thursday.  Yeah, so church family come on out for that No need to register for that not for that and it's not for that, but for Friday and Saturday for those who are planning on being in the The conference itself participating in the workshops and lunches and all of that There is a there is a cost but for the Thursday night alone Just to come to worship and and all for the opening of the conference Our members of our fellowship are invited to come out and join us. It's going to be a great time Q&A With you and Odin so pastor. Thank you again, and I'm excited as we look forward into the start this series and Hope you guys are blessed and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. Thank you pastor Oh one more thing a couple more weeks. We're going to be showing the Israel video So get your name on the interest list. We're still trying to determine a date which were possibly looking at June 26th as a Representative from Inspire Travel to come on out to come in and give us some information Yeah, the trip itself is in March of 2023 What is it March 9th to the 20th to the 20th to the 20th or 21st to the 20th to the 20th? Okay, and and cost is looking at 43 89 total total. Yeah, so There's some information there. Thank you guys for tuning in and God bless you


Alright so year one was not what we wanted we got eliminated in the second round to the Carolina Hurricanes in 7 a little tough to see so we're looking at the matchups for the East and West finals so it's looking like in the East it's gonna be Tampa playing the Carolina Hurricanes and then it is the Avil or it's the Blues playing the Coyotes who beat the Oilers in 7 so we'll simulate the free agency this episode is gonna be the draft free agency and see what we have to do like I said it's not really what we wanted from the playoffs we were looking to obviously get a Stanley Cup with this team and looking at the players I'm not sure if I won over this last video captain had himself a playoff run Grandlin the trade deadline acquisition had himself a playoff run I was just tough to see us go out in the second round I really thought we could have at least made it to the third if not the final so let's see who's gonna be crowned the the Stanley Cup winner now John Marino is able to play but doesn't matter rather the playoffs it is what it is so let's see who wins this cup here so the Tampa Bay Lightning have won it back to back call them the new Pittsburgh Penguins who won it back to back a couple years back so wow Tampa Bay winning it in 2020 and now winning it in 2021 so their teams obviously a juggernaut I'm not too surprised by it yeah interesting stuff to see so here the draft lottery results I don't think we have any draft picks in the first round because we were pushing to win a cup this year retired players let's see if we have lost anyone so Hosa has gone Zetterberg has retired Gabrik Charustin Kessler Roy Molson has anyone from the penguins retired no okay so that is good to see have any gold tennis retired no okay so it's good that no one's retired here the following coaches have retired cool and while retired players that are now a scout Ryan Kessler Zetterberg and Gabrik no shock of there that they'd be doing something after their pro career I do want to see what this is looking like here so the coyotes wow 1-6 against the Blues made it to the finals the Lightning 1-6 made it to the finals and the Lightning 1-5 so the coyotes have themselves a year man Stanley Cup final appearance good for them so NHL entry draft I don't think there's much for us to do I will edit our trade block don't know if there's anything we really need to do I do want to see what contracts we have expiring so we know what's happening here so it looks like Grand Lynn it'd be nice to bring him back he had a great playoff Eric Stahl it'd be nice to bring him back we acquired him in a trade early on in the year as well all right Cody CC like this is a guy we could let walk severe hopefully it's not too much to bring back Zac Aston Reese is another player who we can bring back but these guys are replaceable players if you really think about it we can go on a free agency and probably get the same players for a little bit cheaper if we really wanted to Teddy Bluger Jan Kelsky Rodriguez and that's about it goal-tending now we got Tristan Jari locked in for a while Samuel Casey to Smith we got to figure out our one-two punch for this year we did go with the Smith last year so we're going into this year with him being the starter so let's edit the trading block here I mean we could put Joseph out there I don't think why would we want to trade him kind of thing I don't really know who we would want to put out on the block here like these are players we want to keep but we'll put up Cusberry captaincy what kind of trade value he brings we'll put up a guy like Gensel Crosby and Malcolm just to see what kind of trade offers we would get for these guys not that I'm willing to move on with Crosby or Malcolm I kind of want to win one more cup with those two guys just so we can say we won it with those two guys and then once we win it maybe start blowing up the team but I just want to see what would happen here so let's enter the NHL entry draft and I know if you're a penguins fan you probably hate my guts right now but yeah I forgot to check the who won trophies but Matthews has won the Hart Memorial trophy he's won the Art Ross trophy Lafrenier won the Calder and that is about it I will go check awards after this that is my bad for not checking but awesome Matthews cleaning up there so to make sure I'm pretty sure we do not have a pick in the first round here so that's okay we will sim to the next round so pick 105 we are now in the fourth round man on trade news though nothing big there Silverberg has been dealt actually to the predators that's a pretty big deal the penguins appear to have tons of interest for Cindy Crosby we he's on our team what okay anyways let's go make our pick that was the dumbest thing I've seen in franchise mode so elite medium he's a grinder do we need a gold tender not necessarily be reflex actually it's a pretty good gold tender it wouldn't be bad to take a gold tender there he's probably our best bet to be honest man we got Brady Burns who he's not bad not the greatest skating pretty good shooting and puck skill pretty good hockey sense physical defense not bad so Brady Burns is up there you know what given that we don't really need a gold tender I kind of want to see how Brady Burns checks out here he's a two-way forward he had 63 games played last year he had 12 goals 28 assists he had 50 penalty minutes which I'm not the greatest fan of or the biggest fan of I was a plus 21 time when I said 8 to 1810 so that's not bad strength offensive instincts offensive creativity playmaking ability weaknesses balance face-offs lack of size so we could put him on the wing if he if he you know the face-offs doesn't pan out 5 10 153 is really small so hopefully he balks up I think we're gonna take a man I think that makes sense we'll make him our pick again I don't think we really needed a gold tender in that situation so we'll definitely take that so sim to our next pick round 5 here and see who is available so this guy's a top 9 forward not too bad for a center he's unknown fringe starter in Pearson CCB unknown let me do this year so we got this guy still up here and in all honesty I'm gonna take him just cuz we were looking at him before I really like his potential here he played 66 games last year 33 wins he almost had 2000 saves and 904 say percentage of 3.14 goals against average in a 5 and 5 shutouts strength puck handling which is good from a gold tender breakaway stick usage which is good weakness angles rebound control poise something that he could work on but I like his potential here and what did it say down here NHL ETA four years so that's not bad we will make that pick hopefully he becomes something for us in the later years when we're gonna have to eventually rebuild this Pittsburgh Penguins team round six here let's see what's available around six alright so we got a left winger here didn't play much not the greatest okay we'll skip on him we got another goal turner here Tyler go through a bba which is better than the last goalie we got strengths angles puck handling stick usage weakness rebound control so he doesn't have many rebate our many weaknesses 71 games played 40 wins in those 71 games he had over to 2100 saves 96 in save percentage seven shutouts not bad I think three years ETA it doesn't make sense to make two goalies but it's hard to pass up on a guy with such great grades like that so we will take that as soon to our next pick here we have back-to-back picks this round so we can really take our time in this round here we got Alexander Kone Dritev strengths leadership ability which I like puck protection offensive instincts weakness foot speed he's injury prone and he has great agility now when you talk about injury prone yeah he only played 13 games last season we'll probably gonna have to pass on that I'm not the biggest fan of that this guy looks interesting left winger he played 65 games last year he had 14 goals 31 assists not too bad I'm shooting B-minus pucks go B-minus CCCD on defense which is okay strength skating which is good he has a hardware shot agility weakness offensive consistency balance I think we're gonna go with Brooklyn Kalmikov yeah sounds good let's draft him and then we got another pick to make which I'm not too sure who we're gonna make here this is interesting he's a defenseman could play right or left he's 65 be an E on puck skill which isn't great sense is a C-minus DbD 54 games played last season he was he had three goals seven assists a plus 12 which is pretty good and initial ETA five years so we're gonna go with Benjamin Road why not what a name we are now in the seventh round here looking to make another great find here in the later rounds don't know if we're gonna find anyone too too good though this late when I say that we find Alexander Doucet he's a center slash left wing 511 skating is a D but like he could always work on that he's 19 you know what I mean so he has plenty of time to mature with that strengths is face-off strength and puck protection which I like weakness foot speed defensive consistency consistency and agility five years is his ETA I think we're gonna go with him why not I think that's a good pick you play center or left wing it's not too bad so that is it for us from the draft we will sim the entire NHL draft I think we made some good some good draft choices we had two four six draft choices this year which wasn't too much but it was more than I expected considering the trades we made so I'm not too bad of a draft from us and I'll head to the to the resign stage all right so start of the resign phase we have those six players that we have to get to so let's see what our priority is for this offseason how much cap we have as well so we have 42 million men that is nice we have a lot of money to work with maybe maybe just maybe we make a splash and free agency this year but let's see who we need to have to bring back obviously so bottom six forward like we can wait on these guys these guys we could just qualify in all honesty of the RFAs here is something that we want to sign so Rodriguez Weber CC Aston Reese Jan Kalski Sevier Bluger Grandland so our first our first one is Grandland I do want to bring him back five years though a four mil he's 29 that'll bring him to when he's 34 I would love to bring him back for like a two-year kind of contract let's see if you'll do two years at three four point three five I don't think that's too bad of a contract Eric stall how much are you looking for again two years that's not bad let's see if you'll do two years let's do one year flat and we'll give him what he wants a bit more four mil there so that's eight mil on two players now let's give him we'll give him three nine seven five what he wants to there and then these guys are the guys we drafted so let's see what those two guys say and then we'll go see what the rest of the contract situations looking like these are the coaches that are just whatever we don't really care about the coaches in all honesty so Eric stall is back with the penguins so that is good to see and so is me kill Grandland so the two big players that we wanted to bring back are now back so big stuff there goal-tending we don't have anyone to sign like legacy who's 28 like we can wait on him fringe starter I do want to bring him back so let's offer him a contract let's see if we can give him three years three years at 8.5 we'll offer the guys was this the guy I drafted yeah okay I want to offer him a contract for sure get him going with the penguins organization same with you alright so Teddy Bluger again these are guys you could bring back in free agency I don't mind giving him that let's see if we can sign him for a little bit less 1.4 would be nice to bring him bring him back Jan Kowski again these are just one your deals I feel like we could just pick them up in free agency if we need to so I'm gonna do this real quick actually this will make the most sense to be a one two three four five players that can possibly play center so like that's not bad so like Bluger we could have said no to let me just look at the wingers here we got one we got one two three and then one two which I think we're fine see if you're maybe we bring back just to be safe but I kind of want to go and make a splash in free agency that's why I'm kind of like hasn't seen on offering these guys contracts these guys here we're just gonna qualify our phase why not 7th defenseman he's only 20 so we might as well sign him Cody CC do we need to bring Cody CC back I kind of want to give Joseph a shout this year so we got one two three four five it'd be smart six with rude wheel maybe it would be a little smart to bring Cody CC but we can definitely bring him bring someone like him back in free agency worst case you're not worth the money that you want sure Yannick Weber he would be a guy to oh yeah I'll gladly bring Yannick Weber back for that platform medium will offer him a contract as well CVR again this is a guy we could bring back in free agency I don't want to give him 2 mil or Zach Aston Reese sorry so we'll release him CVR again 2 mil I'll gladly release you Evan Rodriguez I will gladly bring you back for that cheap I will gladly bring you back these are just rookies Jack Helski how much do you want I do I mind dishing that out we can we can pick up a player like that in free agency in honesty but we'll offer him the contract I want to release everyone you drill don't mind if I do again you're not definitely not worth that money in my opinion no problem Cody CC again it's a top four defenseman two years at 1.6 I don't really want to bring him back in all honesty so I'm gonna release him these guys will wait for the rest of these guys here so let's see what happens after that day here will advance it although I'm interested in a principal to extension I'm going to reject the offer the dollar value okay Rodriguez no problem Teddy Bluger is back John Kelski is back Weber is back Curry's back Goudreau is back Traumann's back and now it's just a rookie saying it's an honor to join the Pittsburgh Penguins team cool cool cool so Rodriguez what did we offer him in the first place do you want an easy 1 mil we'll give him one year of 1 mil do I really want to do that not really so again no give him 1 mil if he rejects that then that's fine by me I'm not gonna bother with him I will qualify the rest of these guys here not a problem I think that's all the U of A's okay and then who did we draft we draft the burns let's get him a three-year contract and that's it okay so free to see was fairly simple this year okay Rodriguez you're not gonna get an extension with us then I'll tell you that much so not too bad we're heading into free agency now Lindgren's back right I think those were the U of A's we qualified some of them at least all right so let's see who's out there in free agency how much we have to spend and yeah who are the big names out here on this block so Jaden Schwartz is a big name he only wants 2.8 mil interesting he is 29 they didn't have a great year last year we got bufflin Bertuzzi which is interesting okay Tyler Bertuzzi create each steel Jolmerson guest laugh Nugent Hopkins ooh ooh ooh okay I like the nudge there Hoffman Neil Peionk interesting all right there's a lot of names out here we're gonna have to kind of decide what we want to do Zach Hyman's also in free agency we got to decide what we want to do gold tending Tuca Rask is out there don't think I would want to mess with him Freddie Anderson okay he wants 5.2 mil so there's a lot of good free agents we got to see what it's gonna go on with our team here so like we can really we can go out and get a right winger defenseman is probably the one place we want to bulk up on so maybe we go for a defenseman so we got LaTang Marino that's one two three four and then five with Joseph so maybe it would be the smarter thing to go out and sign a good defenseman I think that makes the most sense Neil Peionk is very interesting to me we got Ryan Murray out there we got Sammy Vatan and Dennis Avard now the only reason why Peionk is standing out to me is he's only 25 he had a pretty decent year last year with Winnipeg 8 goals 31 assists only two penalty minutes was a 30 plus 31 he's a top four defenseman which would help out our top four I'm just trying to think if Joseph progresses do we keep Peionk on the top four I think we do I'm gonna try and go and get him so he wants four years we don't have enough we only have 3.5 mil to spend so that's an issue I thought we had way more cap than that I'm not sure if I'm totally sold on Yannick Weber so maybe we go see if we can afford a top six defenseman because our forwards are 100% fine so looking at a top six with the salary that we can afford Travis Hamnick is available we could barely afford him though he's 30 didn't have the greatest year last year he's the top four but he could definitely play a top six role we got four birds Jacob McCabe 27 that's not bad Travis Hamnick is 30 he wants two years Jacob McCabe is a little younger he's a top six guy better than Yannick Weber I want to say he's a very well-rounded personality mesh meshes well with anyone in the room which is huge so maybe we go out and try to get a Jake McCabe I'm kind of sold on him Travis Hamnick would be nice he's a top four defenseman so like he could pan out to play top four minutes if he if we really needed him to just an all-around good person in the locker room tends to keep to himself fits the following line top four defensive pairing yeah so we can't even afford him with what he wants now do we risk low ball in him and then Jake McCabe is gone you know what let's do it we'll give him a two year a 3.5 that's all of our cap I know it's not the smartest thing to do I doubt he accepts it so we'll wait and we're really playing our hand here and we're hoping that Jake McCabe is still available if he declines so nothing yet from him we're getting these trades that we don't really care about here yeah okay no that's fine guys we don't want draft picks wow Travis Hamnick okay I did not expect that so that is a huge acquisition for us actually Hamnick is coming over to the Pittsburgh Penguins on a two-year deal at 3.5 million dollars he's extremely happy to accept the offer so and he thinks he has a lot to add to the team that's destined for a good run in the playoffs he knows exactly what I'm aiming for all right so it is time to edit the lines here okay so let's see what we can do with these overalls here all right so this is what I put together for the start of next season now if you guys have any other suggestions to get better plus overalls in the comments to leave them below and I will fix up the lines but this is what we're going with to rock the season to start off the season we're gonna have Eric Stahl playing with Evgeny Melkin and Jake Gensel second line will be Zucker with Crosby and Kaepernan a fan of this line then the third line will be Brandon Tanev Mikkel Granlin and Jared McCann now I'm not too happy about McCann playing third line minutes he just doesn't fit on the second line unfortunately so it's just what we're gonna have to go with for the time being and then on the fourth line we got Teddy Bluger Jan Kelsky and Rust this is a line where we could probably make it a little bit better to get a plus overall but not about overall you know fourth line now defense is where it gets interesting we got Pedersen playing with Crystal Tang and no plus overalls they don't really need it that's our top pairing they'll be fine our second pairing we'll get a plus one so we have Travis Hamnick at an 82, Matheson at an 81 and then a plus one on this on this third pairing with Joseph and John Marino so that's the best I could do for defense wise here not too bad so it's looking pretty good special teams we did pretty good with we got a plus one on the power play units here four man we couldn't get any pluses but it's fine with the overalls that are on here on the pk I was able to get a plus three on the top unit so we should be killing penalties pretty good and then a plus one on the last line so the teams looking pretty good we're ready to start next season in all honesty let me make sure all the captains are set good Malcolm Crosby and it should be Christopher Latang beautiful so everything is set up we're done with that we're heading into next season starting with the pre-season again if you guys have any suggestions for the lines to get better plus overalls do let me know it's obviously something that we can fix within the season if we see things not going right so that's definitely a thing and let's turn off injuries so that's sorted out for next video but that is it for today's GMO next episode we start off year two with the sim