Victor

He has 424 TPE and has earned 19 TPE in the week ending 5th May. Therefore he was at 405 TPE at April 28.

Yeah the rule we've followed before is to not process the transactions that put them over until they clear cap for them. In this case that's the Shan trade and the Nano signing. I didn't think the rule was that old, it wasn't around when I left in S52. Oh and Riga is also over @hedgehog337 as garrop should be on $500k more than he was. That's both overall and prime caps. Edit: nope just overall , Garrop doesn't impact prime.

Oh right I forgot about that. They're over anyway as Crimson was at $500k lower than he should have been. And Vancouver is over the prime cap because Harding was on the wrong salary. @Beaviss (they show up as over the overall cap as well on the portal but that's because it's not adding up the goalies correctly)

I mean NY has been over the cap since trading for Shan. Davos should be fine as long as the backup rule (50% of salary) is still active, although they can't afford Smeb.

Good stuff, although I didn't draft Jurri.

Vancouver and winning, I'll believe it when I see it.

@Doomsday ?

yeah also had Riga on strings for years

4 straight finals 4 straight fucking finals

the disrespect you people put on my Davos tenure like it never happened is fucking unreal

As many as you fella, didn't take me 25 seasons either.

Shouldn't be too hard, Seattle exists. Try not to get contracted.

You suck marginally less. I hope this warms you in your cold Swedish nights.

5 for Cast

So Malmo just joined the league and are trying to make the playoffs or something off the bat? That's cute. I actually don't care much about Malmo although I'm sure we'll cross paths often as conference rivals. Circumstances have allowed Malmo to make more ambitious moves than Moscow off the bat (the key is probably that Carison was available in the expansion draft with a long term contract rather than a pending free agent), but I suspect we'll both be in a similar place in a few seasons' time. So that'll be interesting to follow, including who will win the cup first, which is pretty realistic as all teams are kind of similar now with so many players. Anyway I'm in a happy place now. This draft was one of those that you knew would be great and everyone's known for ages but it's only after you draft everyone that you realise shit, that's a lot of active players that have just joined Moscow. Pretty much any team with S66 picks (lol Toronto) came out better for it because you're still picking up probably future VHL players in the fourth round and later. It was pretty mental to be honest. That's 200 words so job done.

Devise and Advantage can't get enough of each other.

https://www.4shared.com/music/dU08R2l6ee/APWNP_Ep_17.html

The draft lottery takes place during the playoffs so there is no way Seattle can win.

random.org and Aamo, name a more iconic duo. I'll wait.

There was once a goalie in Riga worse than Kallis. I know, shocking.

Season 66 will see at least one record broken in the VHL as Seattle Bears GM Blake Campbell embarks on his eighteenth season in charge, overtaking Jason Glasser's 17 seasons managing Calgary, which had stood as the longest single tenure in charge of one team since Glasser stepped down in Season 41. Campbell is unlikely to claim the overall record in this run as although there is currently a three-way tie between Greg Harbinson, Mike Szatkowski and Chris Miller at 22 seasons of GMing each, the latter of this trio is about to add to his tally with the newly-founded Malmo Nighthawks. A realistic record which Campbell could set his sights on however is Mitch Higgins' 19 overall seasons in charge of Helsinki, split across two runs as GM in the 30s and then the 50s. Full GM statistics can be found in the spreadsheet in this thread: https://vhlforum.com/topic/1060-vhl-all-time-gms/ Longevity is impressive but can be a deceiving statistic, especially if a GM overstays his welcome. The currently most successful GM, reigning back-to-back champion Ryan Power has never stayed with a team for longer than five seasons but has 13 playoff appearances in 15 seasons of GMing and now a record six Continental Cups. However, neither Glasser or Campbell can be accused of lving off past glories. At the 17-season mark they have identical records, with 10 playoff appearances, two trips to the finals and one cup each. Going into this off-season, Campbell made 54 trades, slightly above Glasser's 49. Overall, respectable results over about a quarter of VHL's history, which is no mean feat. Beyond the statistics, similarities are harder to find. The pair GMed in completely different eras, with an 8-season gap between Glasser stepping down (which was before Campbell was even drafted) and Campbell taking over in Seattle. Glasser took over Calgary in the tail-end of the original eight-team era and then navigated through the changing world of post-expansion VHL. The first part of Campbell's tenure was in the somewhat dystopian late stage of 10-team VHL, with conference imbalances and a general lack of parity, before going through Project Player Two, contraction, and now a fresh expansion. There are also few similarities in their personal styles and approaches to the job. Was either GM better than the other? It's hard to say. One cup in 17 seasons means both Campbell and Glasser had their fair share of misfortune. Calgary won a well deserved cup in S30 but that core could have done more, but couldn't convert a dominant regular season in S31 to tangible playoff success, before losing a finals Game 7 in S34. Chasing that second championship ultimately hamstrung Glasser's second rebuild and he stepped down nearly a decade after his peak, although there was enough left over for the Wranglers to win a cup in S44. Ultimately, the competition in the North American Conference was consistently sky high, with crossover briefly introduced before expansion in large part because all of New York, Seattle, Calgary, and Toronto had championship aspirations just before S30 and Quebec replaced Seattle in the mix for most of the next decade. Seattle when Campbell took over also had to compete with three stacked teams in Toronto, New York, and Quebec, therefore opted to trade their assets to the weaker European Conference, restocked and won back-to-back Victory Cups in S52 and S53. However, much like more recently in S64 and S65, the Bears' playoff performances have no correlation with the regular season – they have not made the finals after any of their dominant regular seasons, but did win the cup in S59 despite going into the postseason as underdogs. Three strong contending cycles is ultimately a good reflection on Campbell as a GM, but doesn't mean there won't be lingering regrets. Is there a moral to this story? There doesn't necessarily have to be as after all these are two GMs from different times with different stories who just happened to be in competition for one VHL record. Perhaps the curse of longevity is that you will always have peaks and troughs, but you can't make mistakes without trying and you certainly can't win without taking risks. @diamond_ace @Banackock

He'll want to be there for Thompson signing with Toronto though. ?

had to do it for the Devise meme Welcome @ChaceT