Victor

After the trade of the first overall pick, Moscow Menace GM Victor Alfredsson decided to stir shit up and said the following: “For a few days now I have been debating trading the first overall pick or sticking with it. On one hand you had a guaranteed franchise player in HHH, on the other two guaranteed VHL players but perhaps neither quite so good. Oh wait no, it wasn't a decision between HHH and two players, as I was going to draft Shane Mars first overall. This isn't me trying to grab the headlines after losing the spotlight of the first overall pick, this is the truth. I spoke to both HHH and Mars and realised that the chances of Moscow keeping HHH beyond his entry-level contract were about 50/50 – yeah he left it open to be convinced but I think it was too much of a risk. Mars on the other hand indicated that he would be motivated by being drafted first overall over HHH and would be glad to represent Menace loyally after that. So I was on the verge of deciding to surprise the league and pick Mars first. That would have been fun to watch, as suddenly all the teams immediately below who have been trading up and down and all around the top 4 picks would realise that all this time HHH was available at second overall and in fact would go to Vancouver. But alas, I ultimately decided that the drop from Mars to fifth overall wasn't big enough to justify missing out on basically a free asset in tenth overall. We really need assets. I leave the drama in the hands of Riga now, perhaps their GM will take Mars first to fuck with everyone. I wish I had that choice but needs must. Just thought I'd tell you what could have been.”

Expansion draft and trade talk: https://www.filefactory.com/file/1r865tmn3r5z/Pod Cast Show Ep 11.wav

Well that's my scouting done.

5 for Pavlov

no idea. Should be 6 TPE for you, updated OP.

hockeyfan, bloody hell

cuz Brexit hasn't torn these isles apart yet

@sterling

HOLYYYYYYYYYY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Updated. Also @jblock3 - moved you up to 4 TPE as per PM.

Haha, I just remember him being part of the threepeat at some stage, was not massive active myself to realise if you were.

Kerkko did didn't he? That said, did notice you and Warlock racing up the cup wins chart. Unsung heroes.

It doesn't whoops. That should give you four of the missing five, I'll edit that later.

So I was going to be nice and tag everyone individually but the website didn't want to play ball so fuck that. Tagging everyone, if you're not listed below, don't worry that's just because of the mass tag, but make sure to participate in S66 trivia next season! (I also tag everyone for week 1). @Members 6 uncapped TPE goes to: Bucky___lastard Enorama gorlab Kylrad Matmenzinger rjfryman SlapshotDragon Thranduil Anthony Matthews DMaximus DollarAndADream FacebookFighter Grape GRZ GustavMattias Jubo07 oilmandan omgitshim Radcow RunnerBert11 SirRupertBarnes Snussu Sonnet StamkosFan Toasty Beketov Victor for running this shit 5 uncapped TPE goes to: BladeMaiden Esso2264 hedgehog337 Jtv123 Quik SidTheKid87 Velevra xsjack Bushito DilIsPickle K1NG LINUS Nykonax Patpou22 Poptart Sharkstrong Spade18 TheLastOlympian07 Xdpark 4 uncapped TPE goes to: efiug Matt_O nethi99 solas Tagger flyersfan1453 gregreg Hybrid1486 Josh. Kirby Renomitsu Sogarn TheFlash jblock3 3 uncapped TPE goes to: aleks Birdman cody73 Gabella19 GlowyGoat Infernal leafsman Lightningyamasha littleboi MexicanCow123 okocha5 Oost philliefan SaltyTalty Ahma Inf1d3l 2 uncapped TPE goes to: bluesfan55 Eudaldkp Joeyboucher1 jRuutu majesiu McWolf O4L PapaGage Rocketman04 Slashacm Smarch BOOM 11 Eleven Bonzaijoe FacePuncher FrostBeard Kuch9 ShawnGlade SparrowLTD Uphillmoss zepheter 1 uncapped TPE goes to: chillzone diamond_ace eaglesfan036 hockeyis66 kithoo monkeywrench15 Peace Romaris TheFlash Yusuf Abdul-Latif .sniffuM Adama Traore ItsMcLovin Kisshan leafssteen Rayzor_7 TacticalHammer AndrewWarren13 Antone10 Award97 Barracuda Birdman Dangles13 don draper FBR flan Galdoblame Jake Levine Joeyboucher1 Jus Kyle leafssteen Nacho Plate Savoire Faire StaticShocked Sunburst teztify Tophdaddy TriaL Exotic Trifecta wcats Wheaties ADwyer87 DoubleCarl Goonie Greg_Di Jacob Kundrat Jayhawk nethi99 PSanchez55 WhiteMocha Full results if you're interest (1 point per correct answer during S65):

That's it for S65 trivia then. And S65 in general. Good season everyone, pats on the back all around. Here's the final answers: Which of these four current VHLM teams names has been used for the longest amount of time? (1 uncapped TPE to @Tagger for providing the question) Of the four option, the Saskatoon Wild are the correct answer, having remained unchanged since moving from Buffalo (where they were known as the Jr. Bears) in S17. Ottawa's team changed from Ice Dogs to Lynx in S34, the Rush have been known under one name but only came into existence in S31 in the first expansion, while the Storm, formerly based in Oslo, were renamed from the Screaming Seamen in S24. Easiest place to find that is probably here: https://vhlforum.com/topic/3173-vhlm-team-abbreviations/ Before Daisuke Kanou, how many times did a goaltender win Playoff MVP? (1 uncapped TPE to @solas - although he actually answered it incorrectly when he submitted the question) 5 goalies won the award in the VHL's first 19 seasons - the very first winner Matthew Pogge, and then Maxim Desny (first player to be crowned playoff MVP in a losing effort), followed by Marek Van Urho (S10), Benoit Devereux (S11) and finally Zach Voss in S19. Then came Kanou who won the award 3 times and the rest is history. 2 capped TPE goes to: Nykonax @Nykonax xsjack @xsjack Jubo07 @Jubo07 Oilmandan @oilmandan Bucky___lastard @Bucky___lastard Smarch @Smarch Romaris @Romaris SlapshotDragon @SlapshotDragon efiug @efiug Jtv123 @Jtv123 Infernal @Infernal Esso2264 @Esso2264 gorlab @gorlab DilIsPickle @DilIsPickle 11 Eleven @11 Eleven BladeMaiden @BladeMaiden Enorama @Enorama GRZ @GRZ zepheter @zepheter jblock3 @jblock3 Snussu @Snussu Velevra @Velevra littleboi @littleboi SirRupertBarnes @SirRupertBarnes StamkosFan @StamkosFan Anthony Matthews @Anthony Matthews Rayzor_7 @Rayzor_7 TheFlash @TheFlash Matmenzinger @Matmenzinger Beketov @Beketov Gabella19 @Gabella19 Poptart @Poptart Savoire Faire @Savoire Faire Thranduil @Thranduil omgitshim @omgitshim Grape @Grape solas @solas Slashacm @SlashACM Eudaldkp @Eudaldkp chillzone @chillzone BOOM @BOOM™ rjfryman @rjfryman Xdpark @xDParK RunnerBert11 @RunnerBert11 cody73 @cody73 Matt_O @Matt_O Spade18 @Spade18 Toasty @Toasty Sonnet @Sonnet DollarAndADream @DollarAndADream facebookfighter @FacebookFighter flyersfan1453 @flyersfan1453 okocha5 @okocha5 GustavMattias @GustavMattias hedgehog337 @hedgehog337 Kylrad @Kylrad DMaximus @DMaximus SidTheKid87 @SidTheKid87 Radcow @Radcow eaglesfan036 @eaglesfan036 Quik @Quik 1 capped TPE goes to: TheLastOlympian07 @TheLastOlympian07 FacePuncher @FacePuncher Greg_Di @Greg_Di Renomitsu @Renomitsu

This is name I've not heard in a long time.

Champion.

Hero.

Well if you're gonna rig it you're gonna rig it quickly before people start asking questions. ? dunno, for me the improvement of Ball and Bronstein to Malenko and Boucher offsets the downgrade from Ironside, if only slightly. Think they were less reliant on one line this season.

For what it's worth I think this is a weaker Helsinki team than last season and a marginally better Toronto team, so last season was more dubious in my eyes but Stopko. I'm not sure why the semifinals weren't live simmed either season though and they were the ones with the more controversial results. From memory Jardy live summed just about any close series he was involved in personally.

Not gonna lie I still know him primarily from MIB.

I said this quite confidently but just scanned down the list of active players and I think the only other additions are Tyler and Robbie lol. Plus Bushito who joined pretty much with me and Greg who was just before. We're a dying breed.

I think if I'm still here in 2029 something has gone horribly wrong haha. I reckon id go for something personal like just my real name. Or some tribute to my old username.

No.

It is Easter weekend 2019 and that made me think that I must have joined around easter in 2009. So I checked my builder article and lo and behold, my joining date was in fact early April 2009, meaning that I have now been on the VHL for just over a decade. OK, its not quite up there with Beketov and Fong and a handful of others (not including Quik here cuz he must have been missing for half the leagues history), and I did leave for just over a year until I came back last summer (granted I kept popping back in pretty regularly) but still. Ten fucking years. I don't think its possible to explain everything that's changed in 10 years. In internet terms that's probably like someone talking about what life was like in the 50s. I'm sure most members newer than myself were on the internet in 2009 (although the frightening thought is that I'm sure there's a few who were not), but the same concept applies to sim leagues - they are just simply not the same these days. Better or worse that's not for me to decide but different. I don't know if teenage me would enjoy cutting my teeth in the modern VHL or if current me would enjoy the bullshit of the league a decade ago so its probably all for the best. But fuck. 10 years. Anyway, that's that. Happy Easter folks. Happy my sort of anniversary. Have a good rest of the long weekend. Much love xx.