Victor

1. Can't speak much for the VHLM although I'm sure it's going well given how many prospects are coming through and the activity it seems to generate (as well as number of teams). VHL though is the best it's ever been. The previous peak was sort of the first 15 seasons of Cologne/Quebec expansion but recruitment never hit up a gear while this time it's relentless. It's great and I didn't expect it even a year ago. 2. More expansion is almost certainly on the cards, but the next big step is definitely something I can't think of, probably something portal-related but I don't really know what's feasible and what isn't there. 3. Yeah it's a bit of a vanity move this off-season, we'll see if it pays off (or worst case scenario I guess I'll have to win the draft lotto again). Sterling should do better than last season but just needs to be a steady hand, while Cast I'm hoping for better results as Riga just wasn't working anymore but I've still got a deep team and a lot of people to satisfy. At least Cast's destiny is wholly in my own hands now. 4. I have to say you did exactly what you needed to with Toronto and probably win it on paper at the moment. Helsinki did well to not lose anyone and Davos might look really good in the future but I don't understand their off-season moves right now. The big adjustment is Vancouver falling for me, unless they've lined up a trade for Kingfisher I think they've taken a step back after their most encouraging season in a while. 5. Gonna keep it boring and stick to the players whose careers are largely behind them. Arroyo is going in, while Preencarnacion is not, largely based on their relative award cases (and Edwin will become eligible when HOF classes become deeper again). 6. No, just Pavlov once Cast hangs them up. And then possibly no one at all after Pavlov but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

Week 3 for Pavlov (doubled via donation)

Week 3 for Cast (doubled via donation)

D - Maxim Kovalchuk F - Kronos Bailey @Acydburn

Although I know @Advantage wrote an article highlighting this, I'm still not sure how skewed things were by the fact that most of the league's goalies (except Stopko) this decade were still on their entry-level deals before last season while the slightly older crop wasn't anything special TPE-wise (Iseult, Sterling, Carison). I don't know how much of that is due to attributes and how much it is just having more players. We basically spent 60 seasons with 3-4 non-playoff teams per year who you beat 8/9 times out of 10 because they had 6 players, none of them particularly good. Now the worst teams in the league run 2 lines filled with 400-500 TPA guys. Every team has a competent goalie as well, not CPUs or placeholders like most rebuilding teams used to.

That is the other one in my top three at which point you start to run out of serious options other than maybe northern Italy. Or I guess France are OK at hockey. Or Denmark. My understanding was Moscow was exempt last time because in theory we were part of the same expansion with Malmo (just a season apart) so I think we’d both be in it this time around, especially if it was two teams.

Yikes we got peppered.

Return to Germany is probably in my top 3 but still holding out hope for Prague 35 seasons since the first expansion.

But in reality is there much of a different in sim between 1350 and 700 TPE? Think 700 is enough to hit 90 in key attributes, anything above that is a luxury really.

Pretty sure, I suspect many seasons that’s the same thing so might not be obvious.

Correct comrade.

No, playoff teams are always in reverse order of elimination (same round eliminations sorted by standings).

You can come all you want.

Seattle literally got nothing of value.

@Will I feel like we should somehow make it an automatic post when it happens in the portal cuz I know Kovalchuk moved to forward for example solely through doing finance and that's a pretty big event I feel.

Just bought Still Kicking pls fix me

Average overall but somehow have Canada's number ok lol

Needed that.

Looks like Kovalchuk has moved to forward which is odd since he looked to be on pace for the HOF on defence.

Yup

Wat

Tbf no draft picks = more cap space so it’s a genius plan.

Davos picks should have been later than Riga's since Davos eliminated Riga in the playoffs. Also no idea why Davos and NY picks were the wrong order around solely in the 2nd round. Nothing you can do now but I didn't want to be the only one living with this knowledge.

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