Victor

Agreed, at least Quebec could make the playoffs as well.

Leading the VHLM despite missing 75% of the season. Bush league.

The Minnesota Storm are one win away from reaching the Founder's Cup finals which they will be favoured to win, but one man in particular has been doing absolutely nothing for his team's cause. “Well that's not really fair,” says an aggrieved Vladimir Pavlov, “I shout motivational things at the guys coming on and off the bench, give the occasional pat on the back or the helmet – team morale is really important and I'd say I'm a pretty big contibutor to our success.” Despite signing for the Storm shortly after the trade deadline, Pavlov has yet to see a minute of ice time in his time in Minnesota, or at least it looks like it from the few games we checked. Instead, the Russian center is content sitting on the bench and potentially earning a cup ring that way, doing nothing to his image as an undrafted, spoiled local kid taking the shortcut to VHL success. “Look, my agent sat me down and said 'Kid, I want to win a Founder's Cup.' He doesn't care about my 3 weeks in Season 65 and told me neither should I, and hey, the guy is about successful as they come in this league so who am I to argue? I've got a nice pay packet out of it.” With those words, Pavlov did a quick skate around the rink and went back to his favourite spot, just one from the left of the Minnesota bench.

Lol obviously Seattle and Riga are just absolute chokers now.

Devise hasn’t lost a playoff series since he started aiming just sayin

Nah fuck right off

#FreePavlov

Berger Can't believe Helsinki beat that team.

Everything is beautifully poised, love it.

Shieeeet, playoff Kallis is back.

Lawson going off definitely didn't help Toronto haha, but dayum 2nd line.

Common sense surely tbh, why would we have five teams out of ten make it.

Mark Gebauer from Moscow. @Sova

Moscow is ready

You're not top five in TPE lol.

I'm back and I bring you this season's toughest question. 1 or 2 capped TPE up for grabs: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3tGm1bGqjD6buiSsNQKYc4SzpKqCP6kKSMU4HOXUZtawyng/viewform?usp=sf_link

lol time to retire from my position

Mark Gebauer @Sova is also a rookie FYI.

Bonded by surviving this long if nothing else.

https://vhlforum.com/topic/118-s1-vhl-dispersal-draft/

To be honest, it's been done for more trivial shit, probably should.

Nice.

Agreed - just wasn't sure if that was the Faroe flag.

It's Saturday so just about everything looks to have been written about in regards to the S66 draft. Maybe this has too. But I'm not going to check, so here's a ranking of the nations represented by the draftees. United States Very American draft, S66 is. The top 3 prospects are all American and then a few more – Bert Meyers, Charlie Paddywagon, Kyle Sabertooth, Jerry Garcia. Understandably the US of A are WJC favourites and will get a big boost for the World Cup in the future. Sweden Probably the next best single country represented in S66. Current fourth overall in TPE Max Kirbsson is Swedish, as are Ludvig Sederstrom, Andreas Sundell, and DWin Championship. Already good just for Sweden, but for Team Scandinavia things get even better with the addition of Mikko Aaltonen (Finland), Arnor Sigurdsson (Iceland), and Aron Nielsen (not actually sure, Faroe Islands? @solas). Russia The biggest contributor to Team World's gold in S64 (probably) is getting another boost in S67 with the great Vladimir Pavlov... but also in S66 with Dimitri Volosenkov and Valeri Morozov featuring high in the rankings. Czechia Possibly the most under-represented nation in the VHL, but making a resurgence this year. Shawnomir Jagr and Mat Tocco are two fine prospects putting the Czechs back on the map.

Vladimir Pavlov has just joined the league and is not expected to contribute much in the VHLM this season, having accepted a 4th line place on the powerhouse Minnesota Storm. This might however give Pavlov a Founder's Cup ring when the dust settles, which would be a first for his agency (which first had a player in the VHLM back in Season 10). This hasn't stopped Pavlov from continuing to push himself in training so he is in the best possible shape prior to the S66 VHLM Dispersal Draft and to keep up with the pros in the VHL when he graduates to Moscow in S67. This will involve competing with some of the forwards soon to be drafted in the S66 VHL draft, of whom Pavlov had this to say: “There are a lot of great forwards who will be drafted in S66 which I will be in direct competition again for pretty much the entirety of my career. That will be quite difficult, given how far ahead guys like Helmsley and Mars already are. As a center, I've been paying particular attention to others in my position – Kirbsson, Jaguar, Meyers, Sederstrom some of the best right now. It will be very interesting to see how these guys develop but it definitely won't be easy for me.”