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  1. See @FrostBeard, it was so easy. Good work World, took a bit of Moscow magic into the World Cup. First Triple Gold Club player for me at last.
  2. Absolute barnstormer to get there.
  3. D - Micheal Gary Scott @Tate
  4. Dayum, Canada and US in one fell swoop. All to play for.
  5. See you in the finals x
  6. Bring back Shawn.
  7. cuz I made the first all-VHL submission (post rather than google poll) and I voted Davison, and then everyone copied me lol. From next season I'll change it so you have to fill out the all-VHL team along with the award ballot, all on the Google poll.
  8. I mean it is the same guy.
  9. Malmo probably passed on you, they can't see talent if it slapped them in the face.
  10. Telker about to shock the league tbh
  11. I'm not sure he even played the maximum amount of games to not be considered a rookie next season.
  12. MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW
  13. yup, agreed. Link to this post for 6 TPE.
  14. Can you get back to the Davos tradition of winning already. Mine and @Doomsday's hearts are bleeding.
  15. Nah you weren't even drafted yet.
  16. correct* English spellings
  17. It's been six seasons now since the Moscow Menace entered the VHL and took part in the S65 expansion draft. Now that we won the Continental Cup featuring one of our original expansion draftees, with all of the players involved retired or moved on, it seems a good time to revisit that draft and consider whether there was anything that could been done differently and put Moscow in a better position early on. From Calgary: Karl von Moltke + a 3rd round pick (Justin Cole) Other options: Aksel McKnight, Johannes Vilhjalmsson The Wranglers had the best situation for the expansion draft in that they could protect all their actives. They actually no longer have any of their protected players left – Brick Wahl lasted the longest – which shows how much they've had to adapt during their rebuild. However, that had little impact on me – I was just happy to get a draft pick along with an inactive player. The draft pick had big potential to be my starting goaltender – Justin Cole – but he fizzled away kicking off a line of failed Moscow goalies, now finally ended by Raymond Bernard, who really turned up the heat at the most important point of the playoffs in S70, against both Riga and Calgary. The only thing that made my pick from Calgary a bit more interesting was that I had also traded for Mark Gebauer before the expansion draft, but Bushito had already locked in his protected list inclusive of Gebauer. It did ultimately have little impact on either Moscow or Calgary – the Wranglers used the pick I traded for Gebauer on Elasmobranch Fish, who turned out to be a better player, but I doubt I would have selected him or the other player from that section of the S65 draft who turned out decent (Denver Wolfe). Either way, although I would have ideally had an active Gebauer given he was still very recently Moscow's second-best all time scorer purely based on a solid build, I didn't miss out on any superstars in the draft who would have propelled the Menace build forward. From New York: Ryan Zabby Other options: Scott Shawinganen, Anton Edvin, Sven Hitz The Americans' pick here is the biggest “what if” of this expansion draft – what if Spade didn't decide to last minute protect Matthew Materazo? In the end, he ended up losing him to Malmo a season later anyway, and New York's failed contending cycle broke up not long after that, so serves him right. But for me, I had to pick from some scraps of the Americans rebuild, with the best of the bunch being Ryan Zabby, a highly rated S64 prospect who was clearly coming off the boil but I had no one better to choose. Still, I expected a bit more mileage out of Zabby than him retiring the day after the expansion draft and never playing a game for Moscow. From Seattle: Evgeni Komarov @Gooningitup Other options: Mountain Thunderfist This pick was set in stone pretty much as soon as I announced a team in Moscow – Komarov wanted to join straight away. Seattle was quite accommodating in leaving him available, although they also had eight better players to protect in the midst of their previous, less successful, cup run. Komarov was a good person to have around, although realistically he was never going to work build-wise with a contending Menace team. That wasn't an issue for the first two seasons though, and then he was happy to sit on the third pairing after that, without detrimenting the team much. After 4 seasons, he had to be moved on for cap reasons though and as his attention moved away from the VHL. Overall, I got what I expected with this one – a loyal servant as Moscow established itself. Win/win. From Toronto: Lew Bronstein @stevo Other options: Johnny Havenk Carison, Sebastian Ironside, Shawn Mendes Toronto was a weird one – this was in between their S64 and S65 championships and they already had been affected by Devise selling the farm so had little to lose to expansion. Ironside was not eligible to be signed by any team that touched him before free agency because of the old GM player rules, so I couldn't pick him, and Mendes hadn't and never would hit 100 TPE. That left Carison, which was the other player alongside Materazo with whom Malmo had better luck with timing. A season later, Carison would be exposed again but on a contract, while after S64 he was a pending free agent. I decided to pass and hope to sign him in FA which I almost did until he signed in Toronto before I had a chance to make him an offer in the portal, directly contributing to Toronto winning the cup again. Regardless, Bronstein was the only option left and he was a good placeholder on defence for Moscow's first 2 seasons. From Vancouver: Nathan N Other options: Konstantin Mulligan, Toby Fitzgerald Beaviss was the only GM who tried to swing a deal which would have forced me to draft Mulligan, but his build put me off him completely. Nathan N seemed to be a safer bet than any draft pick Vancouver could have offered, that is until he retired midway through S65. Of course, Beaviss and I had no idea that would happen hence the bit of initial wrangling, but in the long run it didn't matter at all. From Davos: Dan Baillie @wcats Other options: Connor McDavid, Jose Gonzalez The first real success story and the only expansion draftees to survive until the S70 Continental Cup win. The Dynamo always were forced to expose some actives and Dan Baillie was the first talent they lost – now the Menace's second all-time leading scorer and alternate captain for the past several seasons. Baillie has developed how I hoped Nathan N, Zabby, and Gebauer also would, which makes you think what could have been, but even one quality, loyal top 6 forward is a good result from an expansion draft. Ultimately, getting Baillie a cup before he retired (or as it happened, had to be let go to free agency) was one of the feel-good stories of Moscow's cup run last season. The only other Davos player I was considering, Connor McDavid, I ended up getting later on as a cap dump anyway, although his impact in Moscow was significantly lower before he retired. From Helsinki: Paolo Nano @leafsman Other options: Joey Boucher, The Charm In terms of what I was trying to build (a team made up of S64 and younger players), Helsinki didn't offer much, but they did offer an underrated defenceman when other than Komarov, I was almost exclusively drafting forwards. Gambling on Paolo Nano paid off big time, even with him initially wanting to test free agency and therefore being traded to New York during S65. Something in Moscow just made Nano put up great offensive numbers and he remained a top pairing defenceman for four seasons. We couldn't quite win a championship before Nano retired, which is a shame but he made a solid impact even in his waning years – one of the most underrated players of the decade for me. One of the other options here was also solid – Boucher only just retired as a defenceman of similar quality to Nano, while The Charm was subject to the same restrictions as Ironside in Toronto, therefore wasn't a viable option for the Menace. From Riga: Kyson Blake Other options: Mikka Pajari, Kisshan Shan, Basaraba Moose, Curtis Gary, Bolt Vanderhuge, Dylan Nguyen, Anthony Dabarno Riga at the end of S64 was the first contender with a massive prospect pool, meaning on paper they were going to expose the best player. They did, and in fact Kyson Blake's player build was as good as I expected it to be, culminating in him being named top rookie in Moscow's first season. Unfortunately, he stopped earning TPE very shortly after joining Moscow, therefore was let go pretty quickly. I can have few regrets about choosing Blake over the other options from Riga because no one on that list would have helped the Menace any more, but that does seem to be the overwhelming theme: despite making the right choice with every one of the 8 selections, almost all of them still weren't good enough. Fortunately, a few other pieces fell the right way later on, like Jet Jaguar falling to tenth overall, or Mat Tocco and Dean Clarke being drafted ridiculously low in the same draft. That theme of steals making up the Moscow cup-winning roster became bigger with the addition of Nate Telker and Killy Foilen (S68) and Oskar Lagesson (S69). The goaltending situation was very shaky for a while, courtesy of Owen May's disappearing act, but came together just in time to convince the free agent duo of Smitty and Gritty to give Moscow a shot. And here we are, with perhaps my finest GM achievement, starting with a distinctly average expansion draft but ending in the euphoria of S70. Or, perhaps, just beginning...
  18. As per very sad news, this is the last instalment of the end of season trivia payout: https://vhlforum.com/topic/78957-changes-to-uncapped-tpe-opportunities/ But this doesn't mean we can't have one last celebration of uncapped TPE for S70. Final leaderboard and TPE allocation below. @Members 6 uncapped TPE goes to: Acydburn 16 Berocka 16 Bob Helminen 16 CowboyinAmerica 16 cxsquared 16 Dalton Wilcox 16 DMaximus 16 DollarAndADream 16 Doomsday 16 Enorama 16 Esso2264 16 fever95 16 flyersfan1453 16 frescoelmo 16 Garsh 16 gorlab 16 Greg_Di 16 GRZ 16 GustavMattias 16 Hulkhogan 16 Jbeezy76 16 jRuutu 16 Jtv123 16 Jubo07 16 KC15 16 Kekzkrieg 16 Legend0985 16 McWolf 16 MexicanCow123 16 MMFLEX 16 Motzaburger 16 Mr_Hatter 16 Oilmandan 16 Patrik Tallinder 16 Peace 16 philliefan 16 Rayzor_7 16 ROOKIE745 16 solas 16 Spyro 16 Studentized 16 STZ 16 Tape-To-Tape 16 Telkster 16 TheFlash 16 Viperxhawks19 16 Zepheter 16 Zyrok 16 Victor 16 .sniffuM 15 Alex Bridge 15 Beketov 15 Corco 15 5 uncapped TPE goes to: Anthony Matthews 14 aye my name jeff 14 Brewins15 14 Chillzone 14 Cusemode 14 Dil 14 DirtyDerek 14 DoktorFunk 14 enigmatic 14 Erik Summers 14 Ferda 14 fonziGG 14 FrostBeard 14 Garrett 14 Jacobaa19 14 Josh 14 Jubis 14 Kendrick 14 kiddingsoda 14 Matmenzinger 14 McLovin 14 ng1291 14 OrbitingDeath 14 Proto 14 Renomitsu 14 Spaz 14 Tagger 14 Tate 14 Velevra 14 rjfryman 13 4 uncapped TPE goes to: Antone10 12 Barzalgoat 12 Big Mac 12 bluesfan55 12 Brrbisbrr 12 Grant 12 Grape 12 hedgehog337 12 Jackie4967 12 jared 12 JeffD 12 Kylrad 12 leafsman 12 Midnite 12 Nykonax 12 PadStack 12 pennypenny 12 SlapshotDragon 12 Smarch 12 Snussu 12 wcats 12 Zetterberg 12 3 uncapped TPE goes to: animal74 10 DaftRaincloud 10 Gwdjohnson 10 Little Ri-Dog 10 Lockdown Defense 10 Pengu 10 Ricer13 10 Thranduil 10 VinCal 10 Weretarantula 10 2 uncapped TPE goes to: Ahma 8 Beaviss 8 BigIrish 8 BoucherFan12 8 Caboose30 8 dasboot 8 David O'Quinn 8 Edustava 8 KillaScrilla 8 Kyle 8 littleboi 8 nethi99 8 omgitshim 8 Poptart 8 scoop 8 Sonnet 8 Tbeez99 8 Gavin Minton 7 Matt_O 7 Phil 7 1 uncapped TPE goes to: 73MPL4R 6 Capsfan18 6 Chacet 6 Chip Chiperson 6 ColeMrtz 6 DangerGolding 6 Domkey 6 DrHexDex 6 Eaglesfan036 6 efiug 6 Elmebeck 6 goldenglutes 6 Harpskii 6 Krice13 6 Liberty_Cabbage 6 MostTHE WAE 6 NumberJ5 6 sebster03 6 Spade18 6 Steve 6 Walter Fizz 6 sjs88speed 5 Advantage 4 BaReZ_Regrets 4 Bushito 4 Cornholio 4 Da_Berr 4 diacope 4 diamond_ace 4 Frank 4 Giles Rigel 4 GlowyGoat 4 HenrikZoiderberg 4 I'll change this later 4 Insomnia 4 Keygan 4 Lefty_S 4 Munk 4 Nothing but goals 4 Reverb 4 SDCore 4 Spence King 4 TacticalHammer 4 Inflastud 3 TheLastOlympian07 3 Trifecta 3 ADV 2 BladeMaiden 2 boltzy 2 Boomcheck 2 Btown03 2 Bucky___lastard 2 cartoes 2 CF Punk 2 Da Trifecta 2 Daniel 2 Devise 2 DilIsPickle 2 Dilly Dilly 2 Donno100 2 Doug 2 Erik 2 Gaudette 2 HearnNation67 2 Ieafsman 2 JaredN 2 Jayrad28 2 JDGraves 2 Joe Proto 2 Martev 2 ngine4 2 NyQuil 2 okochastar 2 Patpou22 2 Seth 2 Siddhus 2 Spartan 2 brenden rose 1 CosmicStorm 1 Goatman 1 Matt Sovick 1
  19. yes please
  20. guess you'll have a nice lottery pick at the end of it
  21. How is D.C. not all over this.
  22. World , Jet Jaguar 4 (Acyd Burn 5, Vladimir Pavlov 5) at 1:06 ?
  23. What happened here
  24. . World , Jet Jaguar 3 (Acyd Burn 3, Vladimir Pavlov 3) at 0:25 What could have been.
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