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Not sure how many would pay attention with option 1 either. Or indeed option 2. People struggle to focus on the actual World Cup ffs.

Actually voted not for what I intended which would have been option 1. Although my preferred is option 3 - just VHLM players.

Longest playoff streaks of all time: New York: 11 seasons (S24-S34) Helsinki: 9 seasons and counting (S53-present) Riga: 7 seasons (S15-S21) Toronto: 7 seasons (S19-S25) Davos: 7 seasons (S19-S25) Seattle: 6 seasons (S26-S31) Calgary: 6 seasons (S30-S35) Helsinki: 6 seasons (S31-S36) Quebec City: 6 seasons (S40-S45) New York: 6 seasons (S44-S49) Cologne: 6 seasons (S48-S53) Longest cup droughts of all time: Vasteras/Stockholm: 31 seasons (S27-S57) *franchise defunct Vasteras/Madrid: 25 seasons (S2-S25) Davos: 22 seasons (S39-S60) Quebec City: 20 seasons (S36-S55) New York: 17 seasons (S15-S31) Calgary: 17 seasons and counting (S45-present) Riga: 16 seasons (S17-S32) Cologne: 15 seasons (S43-S57) *franchise defunct Seattle: 15 seasons (S44-S58) Seattle: 14 seasons (S29-S42) Hamilton/New York: 13 seasons (S1-S13) Calgary: 13 seasons (S31-S43) Toronto: 11 seasons (S10-S20) Cologne: 11 seasons (S31-S41) Toronto: 11 seasons and counting (S51-present) Seattle: 10 seasons (S18-S27) Helsinki: 10 seasons (S35-S44) Toronto: 10 seasons (S38-S47) Riga: 10 seasons (S41-S50) Longest finals droughts of all time: Vasteras/Stockholm: 20 seasons (S27-S46) Vasteras/Madrid: 15 seasons (S3-S17) Riga: 14 seasons (S18-S31) Seattle: 14 seasons (S44-S57) Calgary: 14 seasons (S47-S60) Hamilton/New York: 12 seasons (S1-S12) Seattle: 12 seasons (S31-S42) Cologne: 11 seasons (S31-S41) Quebec City: 11 seasons (S43-S53) New York: 10 seasons (S15-S24) Seattle: 10 seasons (S18-S27) Davos: 10 seasons (S40-S49) Toronto: 10 seasons and counting (S52-present) Long been meaning to do something with this old chestnut: https://vhlforum.com/topic/1066-vhl-playoff-history-updated-for-s61/ New York is currently closest to joining the list with an ongoing 8-season drought with the last cup win coming in S53. New York also has the second longest active playoffs streak at 4 seasons. An indication of the league's overall parity I guess - every franchise goes up and down and features on these lists. Apart from poor old Vasteras, they never got a good playoff streak going. And not that @Higgins needs an ego boost, but he has led Helsinki on both their longest playoff streaks, while their only notable drought came in between his GM stints.

That's brilliant, that's almost as good as the Rafa the magician gif.

Thank you @eaglesfan036 I can finally make a good player now.

I think the VHLM magazine should be published primarily by VHLM players. Like I'd be willing to help out every now and then, I'm sure some of the GMs would too - @diamond_ace used to write about the VHLM for the VHL mag and I think had made a temporary transition to the VHLM one. @Tagger maybe as well in his scouting capacity... just spitballing here. But I don't think there's any problem with core writers being VHLM guys - I see 11 interested guys just in this thread. Then when you move up to the VHL, I'm sure there would be scope to transition that to a full VHL mag and leave the VHLM mag as an opportunity for the next draft class. If the next class isn't as active, I guess it dies, but we'd probably have enough for a VHL mag. Basically, I don't think there is much hope resurrecting a VHL mag with a core of older members at this time, so the alternative is this grassroots approach where the first season will pretty much have to be VHLM-centric since I don't expect you guys to be hugely knowledgeable on the VHL yet.

Guys, fucking stop. You were actually making good points before you decided to regress back to the mean ffs. For what it's worth, I think Bana's counter-points are valid and though good in principle, I don't think this solves the issues it's trying to. Now STFU children.

Mourinho 3rd season and he hasn't even won anything meaningful yet

4-2 Seattle

80 Americans 81 Bears 82 Wranglers 83 Meute

Lol who did in poor Jehovah - Cup winners list updated.

Preach.

If you guys get a list of willing volunteers we can certainly work from there.

I have mixed feelings right now.

Wow I don't remember ever seeing the sim give first star just for 10 hits, it's evolving!

Good lord - goalies hello?

The king of all fishers.

Nice third period guys.

Lavar Ball and Matt Thompson Right back at ya @CowboyinAmerica

Yeah so what we did in the 9 TPE cap days is a mag writer earned 7 in place of a PT, while the editor got 8. I reckon those could be uplifted to 8 and 9 a week respectively with the current cap but that's just my opinion. Definitely would be paid though.

Honestly if anyone in this draft is willing to organise I'd be happy to help set it up in terms of permissions and shiz (in my unofficial official capacity as idea generator with disproportionate powers compared to current standing in the league).

Truly under the microscope. I wonder if reviewing or trivia is the easiest way to get to the cap, although probably shouldn't discourage reviewing given it can help generate discussion. Perhaps extra TPE from a VHL mag would do the trick.... ;)

But at least you had your S30 ring in Calgary (definitely the last best Calgary team ever) to fall back on.

time flies when you're having fun

I prefer just option 1 tbh, I think we have loads of scope for more interactive PTs as I've alluded to before in some 590 article, so we should try that out first before moving on to more drastic measures.