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The pieces were starting to fall into place. We had successfully hired eight free agents (all former Canuck employees) to more than double the size of our Scouting Staff. The trick now was to get them deployed in such a way for maximum coverage in key geographical areas.

After much discussion, we opted for a strong-balanced approach to blanket North America, while maintaining a small but effective presence in Europe. Canada gets a slight priority while the European outposts will be mobile during the season, (allowing us to concentrate on certain areas at certain times).

Here's a look at the layout we arrived at, (keeping in mind that Scouting Support will increase by five points once the season starts):

*[House Rule: Real life teams can reassign scouts, so we're allowing commissioner mode to do the same here].*