Victor

Did Calgary not get the memo about rebuilding?

F - Axle Gunner @DarkSpyro

D - Liv Slater @wcats

I reckon that must have been it, I applied straight after the season ended and must have pushed myself above the max allowed TPA.

Did you not apply TPA or something, I thought we weren't eligible for this

well I don't get to claim that one anyway so... no

I've updated the VHL single-season records spreadsheets for S93, woo! No one set any records in S93, boo... But then we generally need some freakshow seasons for that to happen. The last big contributors to single-season records was the super-polarised league of the 50s, the madness that was S62, and the peak meta era of S80-S82. Incidentally, S82 is the date of the last record being set, creed's outrageous 460 blocked shots for a D.C. team being peppered by 99 scoring robots. But we've had some additions to the top 25 lists in S93: Womp Womp Womp Womp Womp Jr's @AdamEss 292 PIM are the joint ninth-most in a single VHL season, and the highest total since S66. Maybe not the most desirable record but one that feels like it should fall at some point as is less dependent on league parity of scoring levels. I don't really know why Da'Brickashaw O'Neal has held a stranglehold on this since S13 and why 300 PIM seems to be such a difficult mark to reach. Lower on the same list, Fradin McGryer @Fradin99 and Alfred Champagne @Anthique join Jacob Smith in 22nd place with 266 PIM, a worthy effort from those two. The Mediocre One @RElblein grabs 20th place in shots blocked with 262, nearly 200 less than the aforementioned creed, and not hugely surprising given the train wreck that was LA last season. LA ended with the joint-third most losses ever with 67 and eighth-least points with 14. And finally, for a more impressive one, Lachlan Summers' @kirbithan MVP season featured a .935 save percentage. Even one season earlier, this would have been less noticeable, but cracking the top 25 all time even after goalies stats were nuked by design is a notable achievement for the future Hall of Famer.

Week 2 of 2

The days get longer, the weather gets warmer and suddenly there are so many more interesting things than writing 150-200 words for the VHL. 'Tis nearly the summer, my favourite season but a sim league's least. When attention diverts and can be lost entirely. Skor McFleury swept all defencemen awards in S93, second straight season a defenceman has done that. It feels like there is a full article there... but not tonight. Wann Kerr won a lot of awards to close off a formidable if unlucky (in terms of the cup finals) career. Not enough for a Hall of Famer but then who has done enough recently? Again, an article can be written.... but maybe another time. The update to the portal broke something in the awards section which meant 5 minutes of useless labour typing the award winners. Another day that would have been quite irritating, but today it is a mild frustration quickly forgotten in the sun. A new season rears its head shortly. That will focus minds again. Until then, why not enjoy the non-VHL world. Plus 150-200 words of vaguely VHL-related content isn't so hard after all is it?

I guess we swapped players @CowboyinAmerica

Truly lived up to the name.

Go for it

Jannula available Acyd available Eno with @leandrofg

@AJWapproached me about an interesting topic idea recently, inspired by his own impressive record of never missing the playoffs with his VHL players. I think the question was if anyone had a 100% playoff record but I took it one step further to find the longest playoff streak by member (i.e. across multiple players). Unfortunately for AJ, in the time it took me to come around to writing this article, his own streak has come to an end after 12 seasons – all 6 seasons of AJ Williams with LA and Seattle and the first 6 seasons of Randy Bobandy with Seattle and Calgary. Sorry AJ, although really it's Calgary's fault for contriving to finish behind Chicago in S93. So 12 seasons is the score to beat, can anyone do it? (Spoiler alert: absolutely) The first, obvious, and probably only really useful resource for this is the list of players who never missed the playoffs tucked away at the back of my larger playoff spreadsheet. The list doesn't contain usernames which makes it a trickier task for many members but I will use the part of my brain solely devoted to VHL trivia to guide you through it. Toswammi / @Strummer – 18 seasons (Dust'n Funk, S4-S9, Zak Rawlyk, S10-S17, Olivier Scarlett, S18-S21) The first name that came to my mind when AJ messaged me was Zak Rawlyk. There's no logical reason to it – he wasn't the first player to never miss the playoffs, although he was the third to do it in a full 8-season career after Scotty Campbell and Josh Vestiquan. But Rawlyk has always stuck out in my mind, perhaps because he was there throughout my entire first-gen career (S10-S17), and in this case he is a useful starting point. Rawlyk was Builder Dust'n Funk's 2nd player, his GM player after he took over and relocated the Stockholm Rams to Riga. Funk was a hugely successful GM and was himself part of the record-setting Seattle Bears dynasty of S4-S6, meaning he brought a 3-season playoff streak to Riga which he extended to 6 in Latvia before his retirement. Rawlyk took that baton and ran, scoring the a Game 7 cup winner in his rookie season, winning another cup with New York and eventually, not missing the playoffs. Then Funk recreated, brought Olivier Scarlett back to Riga and the streak continued for another 4 seasons before the Reign finally got dumped out in S22. Add that all up and we've got 18 consecutive playoff appearances from S4 to S21 (VHLM/pre-draft seasons are excluded if I didn't make that obvious already, but in Funk's case that wasn't actually relevant). The gauntlet has been thrown down. Green / @OrbitingDeath – 20 seasons (Remy LeBeau, S31-S38, Thomas O'Malley, S40-S47, Pietro Maximoff, S49-S56) Who can challenge a bonafide member of VHL royalty? Another name synonymous with success from his first player is no bad place to start. Remy LeBeau actually made his name early on by putting on incredible save numbers on a dreadful Toronto team, but once they got going he retired on a 4-season playoff streak (including 3 straight finals). Then enter Thomas O'Malley, the not so modern Scotty Campbell who didn't miss the playoffs and won championships in half of his 8-season career. And then Pietro Maximoff keeps the streak going with another 8 seasons in the playoffs and another Hall of Famer, something which Funk certainly can not match. The picture becomes a bit blurred after that with Project Player Two. OD then made Peter Quill whose first two seasons overlapped with Maximoff but he missed the playoffs immediately after that in S57. If you ignore Quill, which I personally don't think we should, and follow the original recreation line to Adam Warlock, fortunately the debate is killed by Warlock missing the playoffs as a rookie in S59. 20 seasons is still no mean feat, and that is the score to beat. @Jericho – 16 seasons (Daniel Braxton, S24-S31, Wesley Kellinger, S33-S40) The next name that came into my head was Jericho, long inactive but a massive part of the VHL middle ages. His first two players were Hall of Famers, a reasonably rare feat (Kellinger being inducted significantly later than Braxton), but even rarer is the fact neither missed the playoffs. Therefore, while his 3rd player, Jax Barnstormer, ruined things from the very start (and Jericho would never really reach his previous heights again) and 16 seasons is where this streak caps out, it is still worth a shout-out for being a streak from his first season. That might be a small record of its own. What about me? - 20 seasons (Alexander Chershenko, S30-S34, Matt Bentley, S35-S42, Greg Clegane, S45-S51) I take some pride in the fact that I don't think I or anyone can write an article about this without at least considering whether I was in contention. I thought I wasn't, with my first-gen's rookie season and my second player's last season meaning that my first streak with Vase Trikamaki and Lars Berger was 12 seasons (S12-S23). However, I put in a stronger effort from Alexander Chershenko's peak through Matt Bentley not missing the playoffs to Greg Clegane only doing so in his last season, meaning I tied Green in S51. Honestly, I didn't actually expect that when I started writing this as I knew I just missed out on a couple 8-season careers without missing the playoffs, but clearly three of those timed themselves quite well. I am now on a new 14-season streak carrying over from Vladimir Pavlov and Rara Rasputin as Del Rocco goes into his rookie season (if you ignore the 10-season post-Rasputin hiatus) but what I'm now more interested in is if anyone else has been able to exceed the apparent joint-top 20-season mark. I looked at two more candidates and will lay both out below but the second clearly blew the competition out of the water. @frescoelmo – 16 seasons (Tarik Saeijs, S23-S25, Emerson Byer, S27-S31, Felix Zamora, S33-S40) Just including you so you know I'm always thinking about you x @Higgins – 36 seasons (Mitch Higgins, S26-S30, Tuomas Tukio, S31-S38, James Faraday, S40-S46, Black Velvet, S48-S55, Jack Shephard, S56-S63) My erstwhile fellow commissioner Higgins was Jericho and Braxton's number one enemy when they were first-gens, but landed a greater legacy after that. During his peak, Higgins himself ended his career with 5 straight playoff appearances, before embarking on a 4-player streak to run away with a 36-season streak overall. Given Higgins has effectively been inactive since Shephard's retirement, he effective made the playoffs for 36 of his 38 VHL seasons and left with what is surely an untouchable record. I deem further research to be redundant and would simply like to congratulate Higgins on this achievement. I welcome any further efforts to expand on the below list as there may well be further entries between first and second place, and almost certainly below that, but I think that's a good day's work as is. 1. Higgins – 36 seasons T2. Victor and OrbitingDeath – 20 seasons 4. Toswammi – 18 seasons T5. Jericho and frescoelmo – 16 seasons

I predicted Seattle and Oslo to win the cup

slapped 8-1 by Germany though

Smart move, this man is a guaranteed winner. https://vhlforum.com/topic/28429-triple-gold-club/?do=findComment&comment=1019738

Devise isn't inactive he's just using a burner account.

Alex's withdrawal symptoms from 3-way trades got too bad.

Week 2 of 2

0LY27030YX5536442 $1M Player Store Cash 5 TPE Uncapped Doubles Week

The CAD to GBP rate is always a pleasant surprise for donations.

No he's in Warsaw.

Might have to steal for the E as Oslo's seems to have died.

The man slept on it and came back with this banger