If by no choice a GM must risk damaging a relationship with a star player by trading him, a GM should explain his motives for making the trade in an article. More often than not, the player's anger will not dissipate, but occasionally the player may understand the decision and accept it. Another reason to write articles.

EXPLANATION OF RATINGS
Player Rating: This is what your team thinks about you. New GMs will generally get a rating of three. The players are not sure of your capabilities and are fairly neutral in their judgement. Veteran GMs may be five (or higher, but that's rare) or lower if they have been fairly notorious in recent trades. If your rating goes down to zero the players will have lost confidence in you and you will be fired. Barring a total disaster that will never drop to zero and if it goes close, you will be notified. I honestly don't expect it to happen so keep it at the back of your mind. In order to get a good rating here, send in lines frequently, reply to trade talks and show up on ICQ and IRC! If you fall down to zero, you will be removed by league!

Anger Level: The more high profile players pissed off, the higher this is. 4th line players will probably not have a lot of say but superstars will. If a player is pissed off, he will tell other players about his negative situation. Most players will not care because it is their job to play, but a few rare players with a great conscience may be affected. Again, this is also a very rare option. I'd say players that are great leaders who put their heart into the team should be treated with the most care because they are the ones you want on your side. A way to lower the anger level is time. As you treat your players better, your reputation will only improve.

General: Don't change your style of GMing just to suit this list. That will take away from the fun. Also, the rating does not affect what others think of you in the league. If you are a really nice guy and want to pretend to be an evil ruthless GM then you can. What do you gain? Well you can trade without a care for the consequences unless you really screw up. If you want to be a super nice guy you can do that too. You will gain player loyalty and that may translate into cheaper salaries and players wanting to play for your team. Do what you want. We have some variety now in GMing styles and that's great.

Good Friends: You admire a player and he admires you. Mutual respect and friendship. The more high profile players you become good friends with, the farther your reputation as a great guy goes.

Blacklisted: The opposite of being a good friend to a player. You have broken a major promise to them or called them something four lettered and rude. Everyone has enemies.

Note: This page will be updated at Sunday's!

GM Name	ECHO Team	Player Rating	Anger Level	Good Friends	Enemies
Mark Schmidt	Montreal
Alvaro Rodriguez	Boston			Darcy Tucker, Joe Thornton	Bill Guerin, Sergej Samsonov
Mike Moffat	Washington			Jaromir Jagr
Chris Guglielmi	New Jersey			Joe Nieuwendyk	Colin White, Mike Commodore
Wayne Thomas	Toronto				Darcy Tucker
Richard Davidson	Atlanta
Jason Fisher	Buffalo			Pat Verbeek
Ryan Parker	Ottawa
John Wetzel	Carolina				Pavel Dastyuk, Steve Duchesne
Magnus Svensson	Islanders
Martin Krantz	Philadelphia			Pavel Brendl	Chris Therien, Rod Brindamour, Joe Sakic
Nathan Erb	Florida
Nick LoRusso	Pittsburgh
Brad Steven	Rangers
Teo Petrescu	Colorado
Jay Brookman	Columbus
Les Koch	Vancouver
Ryan Christie	Phoenix			Scott Langkow, Jeremy Roenick
Kelsey Hatila	Anaheim				Paul Kariya
Colin Yuhas	Calgary			Chris Clark
Tom Eisenring	Dallas
Jay Krawchuk	Los Angeles			Ziggy Palffy
Randy Tevelde	Chicago
Kelly Morrow	St. Louis
Jerry Maciuk	Edmonton			Gary Roberts
Shaun Stephens	Nashville
Joey Hannah	Detroit			Steve Yzerman
Chad Jenkins	San Jose			Jonathan Cheechoo	Stephane Matteau, Owen Nolan
Sebastian Horn	Minnesota