One of the biggest impacts on the Colorado Yeti, and perhaps the New York Silverbacks, would have been if expansion had been announced a season later. As a member of the S24 class, I was auto-protected by the Colorado Yeti. If I had not been, given the friendship I had developed with Woelkers, would I have been a pick for them under expansion? Would I have requested to not be protected by the Yeti and join the Silverbacks? Would I have left in my free agency only a few seasons later? Would I have become the GM after Bwest stepped down instead of Zayn? (Could we have had a Zayn and Schwarz GM combo? The horror of management chat.) This could have also led to the Yeti losing de Pengu as a player as well, and not gaining multiple free agents over the past few seasons who are close friends of Isa and myself. Would they have focused on other free agents? Knowing Sylphreni, yes, they would. Would they have landed them? I don't know. Over the past few seasons, I've been a force to create an active chatroom, we've played multiple video games together, and have even ventured into the idea of starting a Yeti movie night. Would these have happened if I wasn't auto-protected in expansion? Very, very, possibly not.
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