Victor

Probably fair to say neither really could do much with the hand they were dealt. Hope I don't need to rely on rogue free agent goalies to compete.

You should be happy as a Riga player though...

Oh shit they won.

What is this one goal bullshit.

The race to Moscow is on.

Think it's just you

It was a battle to put us on the path to resurrect the European Conference, so baby steps.

You know the drill - 2 capped TPE up for grabs: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJWnJToXINmBjoyZEdYZY4EmrF0K01PK8VkwVjEdk-8rjozg/viewform?usp=sf_link 1. Don't post the answers below - your post will be deleted and you will be disqualified from TPE this week. 2. Feel free to PM me any questions which can be asked in the same format and when I use those questions, you will earn uncapped TPE for it.

That's not what better team means.

Good swim.

Kallis taketh and Kallis giveth.

Da fuq is this shit.

Fair enough, could have avoided that by not picking every number but 162 at random. That said, Saeijs and Kroenenburg co won top scorer so that would indeed be a technicality I wouldn't go for.

Beggars can't be choosers.

1. Thoughts on the new expansion teams - any you like in particular, any you don't think were the best decisions? 2. If given the choice, would you rather join an existing team or Moscow in the draft? 3. What is your favourite VHL memory?

I mean it's probably quite difficult to predict who I'll pick when we don't even know where I will pick! (also need an emoji tbh) This is correct - you're both scrubs.

Good evening all - the questions required a bit more digging this week but most were fine with it. 1. Who was the first rookie to be crowned playoff MVP? Ryuu Crimson, co-winner of the award just last season was in fact the first ever rookie playoff MVP! We've had a few close calls before - Daisuke Kanou won it in his 3rd season (and then in his 7th and 8th), which the easiest way to find would probably be in his HOF article. Stolzschweiger was famously the first ever top rookie in S2, but wasn't playoff MVP until S7. Astrid Moon in the meantime had a torrid time in the playoffs as a rookie, but was playoff MVP in S54 as a sophomore - you'd probably have had to check for him in S53 to make sure he didn't beat Crimson to this record. 2. What is the highest amount of points scored in a single season which did not lead the league in scoring? No tricks here - scoring means points, not goal-scoring, and as ever you don't need non-existent regular season indeces to know this information. You do need to know that the records section in the portal only covers records from around S45 if not later, but the on-forum HOF has a comprehensive list dating from the start of the league: https://vhlforum.com/forum/114-vhl-records/ That shows that Alex McNeil, with the 5th most points of all time with 162 points in Season 5 could not have led the league in scoring that season because Scotty Campbell set the all-time scoring record in the same season. Very unfortunate for Alex. Anyway, 2 capped TPE goes to: @Velevra @Jubo07 @Antone10 @BOOM™ @Hybrid1486 @joeyboucher1 @Beketov @Kisshan @SlapshotDragon @CurtisG93 @DollarAndADream @Quik @leafsman @Smarch @Peace @Tagger @ShawnGlade @Stoffiday ? @SidTheKid87 @Ahma @StamkosFan @Philliefan @Sonnet @Rocketman04 @Thranduil @DilIsPickle @SwagSloth @Kuch9 @.sniffuM @majesiu @Enorama @Arthur @wcats @Galdoblame @Ty343 @McWolf @kayfabe @Plate @Poptart @Sharkstrong @BladeMaiden @SlashACM @flyersfan1453 @Josh. @ShawnGlade @FacePuncher 1 capped TPE goes to: @Esso2264 @SpartanGibbles @GRZ You know the drill - week 6 kicks off tomorrow. See you then!

Following in the footsteps of greats: https://vhlportal.com/hof/inductees/128

Loooool.

If you don't wanna get robbed, get better than third place...

Yis.

Glad to hear it tbh regardless of if you end up here this off-season - up to Seattle of course how they play the expansion draft. I've gotten a very good response to a team in Moscow which I was pretty confident in but still feel vindicated in pushing for both that location and to keep the VHL's European presence. For what it's worth, I'm a native Russian speaker, albeit from Latvia, therefore see both sides of any pro- or anti-Russian narrative. The Menace name embraces the unavoidable reputation and turns it into something which works very well IMO for a sports franchise, as well sounding cool, and as you alluded to playing up to an American audience.

This is unfortunate.

Frank too. Basically getting tips from the best GMs.

@Will why is every retirement duplicated?