Victor

same lol. We can therefore safely term this the lost decade of the VHL.

Just saw the emoji in Trifecta’s post - I do miss that perennially disappointed eagle.

Spent two days recovering from the finals, poor guy.

Awww I really thought Boom would stick it out on one team this time around.

Cute.

See ya @Peace shame we couldn't win one last season. You'll be missed in the LR.

Have all the time in the world for players who want to be here, welcome to Moscow @Sova!

and Davos finally won a cup again!

No Thompson wasn't an unbelievable season either. But Stopko was just a good save percentage really. Thompson had more things he excelled at.

Lol Beketov is no more my buddy than you are. .930 save % is good but I never look at it against other goalies in a specific season, its how good is .930 historically? And it's towards the top but not unreal.

Well at least he's admitted it!

You guys realise it's a regular season award right? Not sure Stopko had an unbelievable regular season.

What was Chase even doing in the 1st period?

Underrated signing here clearly.

Thanks for wasting everyone's time Helsinki.

Ohhhhhhhh boy

Surely Devise would rig Riga into the finals too.

Where even are the stats and how TPE is allocated?

Did you say you did the TPE on your phone? How did you do the tags and not kill yourself?

2 days after the finals are over is the current plan.

The last trivia of the season is here - still uncapped TPE to play for in the season finale. And of course still capped TPE to play for with the final two questions of S64: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc23hgRyV1AZW6qIyqh06dmntkphLkQt1oSBEYd-nJCQepeXA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Another season, another early playoff exit for the Seattle Bears. Since the famous “Seattle Six” era, so called after the core of the S28 champions and S30 finalists, the Bears have won two Continental Cups and haven't made the finals in any other season. For those keeping score at home, that is indeed 2 finals in 34 seasons. Comparisons to Vasteras might actually be insulting to Vasteras who made four finals and won two of them in their first 26 seasons. I've brought up the idea of Seattle being the North American Vasteras before, back when Vasteras (or rather the Stockholm Vikings) still existed. Now that franchise is gone, the Bears' recent failure really stands out, even when compared to some other recent droughts like Calgary and Davos, or even Toronto's struggles since the threepeat. The strange thing about Seattle is that they do better as the underdog. In S43, the Bears won the cup despite finishing sixth in the regular season. In S59, they were just about fourth. When Seattle wins the Victory Cup in recent years (S52, S53, and now S64), they can't win a playoff series. I had a potential MS in my head recently on franchises most likely to relocate, but am unlikely to ever write it since I had Quebec in third place at the time. However, Seattle came top in my ranking and that only increases now that Vancouver has arrived next door. Is it time for a fresh start? The franchise which gave us Scotty Campbell's records and an early tradition of excellence has hit a pretty major bump in the road where there would probably be some support for a move to Los Angeles, Chicago, or Boston. Or maybe the Bears can move to Europe and the tenth VHL franchise will be in North America? Food for thought as Seattle comes to terms with an increasingly self-perpetuating cycle of failure.

YOU HAVE BEEN THE ONE FOR ME ?

This all could have been avoided if Seattle didn't edge us in the regular season.

Yup, very true. Shame Unassisted has come in between your dominance.