Victor

he was alright

Shame, I think there was an outside chance at a HOF run there. Solid career nonetheless, one of my biggest regrets is trading the pick used to draft Sheilds.

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wowza a good old school trade

Dragon rode on Podrick Cast's coattails very well that season.

Poopy Peepants jesus fucking christ Jordan

Iconic VHL moment tbh Soooooon Oh and MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW

When the meta gets out of control.

I think you two should get next season's as you haven't done any of the last few.

Toast has multiple qualities useful to a hungry team. Can you eat a @Phil? Unclear.

RIP Stockholm

For how borderline inactive we both were at times, all aspects of the rivalry (the even match-ups, the quick stats by Greg, the comeback by Sandro, that culmination, and of course both being in the HOF) were so undeserved. I guess it was Simon giving back.

The world would be an emptier place.

Within a season of me having a player on Seattle for the first time. History is all around us. Bye Phil

The what

I mean you got two of my picks essentially so youd think wed be after the same players lol. It all worked out for the best imo

Ugh ok I'll do a Media Spot What if I paid attention to the S67 draft? So 2 seasons into my GM tenure in Moscow, I was drifting again. To be fair I think I was pretty lucky to get the first expansion GM job back in S65 as I mentioned my interest while it was being discussed in the BOG and blues just went with it – I guess there was a bit of name recognition and a lot of the new member base wasn't ready for such responsibility. However, although I was giving off a good impression 3-4 seasons into my comeback, laying my hands on all available TPE like in the good ol' days, I knew I was was from my VHL prime. But hey, no one needed to know that so Moscow came to be. Two seasons of losing later, my interest was fading. The only way to resurrect it would be to make Moscow competitive, while is what I ultimately did with the famous Podrick Cast and Randoms trade with Riga. But even that was something of an accident – hedge approached me to trade Cast and Preencarnacion, lifelong linemates with 2 seasons left, and I almost agreed, before some random (no pun intended) twists (also no pun intended) resulted in me getting the younger Randoms instead. There's another 'what if' inside this 'what if' because Randoms played such a key role in the S70 cup – 2 seasons after Cast and Preencarnacion retired (Edwin actually went a season earlier) – so would we have had any success if the original trade offer came to fruition? I dread to think it. Anyway, the price for this star-studded package from Riga was my entire S69 draft and the sort of 1st overall pick in S67 (it's a complicated story because I initially had 1st overall, traded down and traded away the pick I got, but Riga ended up getting 1st overall anyway so if you boil it down, that was the trade anyway). Which brings me back to the 'what if'' question and specifically the losing interest point above. Faced with a choice of actually scouting the S67 draft and just going in for players I know (including my own), I took the easy road. The fact I wasn't ultimately punished for this is possibly a sign that it's quite easy to GM these days. But I digress. What if I had scouted the S67 draft? Well for one I would have known that Rayz Funk wasn't just some active first-gen goalie, but a once-in-a-generation active goalie who was absolutely worth going in for. Now, even armed with that knowledge there's no guarantee I would have drafted Funk – for one, I had Owen May still active (he'd go inactive shortly after causing me to draft Bernard in S68 so you could argue this entire paragraph is a bit irrelevant) and secondly, I know there was a fair bit of drama surrounding Funk's salary demands. However, I'd like to think that being the intelligent GM I was I would see through the hubris and see that Funk's potential outweighed May's and any perceived baggage he came with – which as we know, was ultimately the case as those contract demands became a footnote of Funk's career. So we are suddenly a team in Moscow without Cast, without Randoms, but with an exciting rookie goalie and a full collection of S69 picks. I probably don't trade the two S67 second rounders either – in reality they became ACL TEAR and Greene while I suspect I'd have used them on Greene and one of Sundqvist or Zoiderberg (given TEAR's atrocious build at that time). All of a sudden, it appears that I am stealing about half of Seattle's famous core. Would they have developed as well separately? Probably not, so what we're really talking about here is a worse Seattle and a worse Moscow. Do Smitty and Gritty take the punt on a young team without Randoms? Maybe, but equally it may be a tougher sell. But Funk is ahead of Bernard in development and if he matches his playoff record from Seattle, we probably steal a cup along the way anyway. And to think, so many things would have gone entirely differently not because of a game, or a specific trade, but because I couldn't be bothered to do my job. People affected by this alternate reality: @hedgehog337 @Banackock @DoktorFunk @Rayzor_7 @Berocka @Quik @Mr_Hatter others

smol sim

Lol Hex chased Tonn in 6 minutes

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1. Who was the first player to score more than one cup-winning goal? (Credit and 1 uncapped TPE to @Jubo07) It's the freshly returned boi @v.2 - Josh Vestiquan https://vhlforum.com/topic/22385-cup-winning-goals/ 2. The Chicago Phoenix won the championship in their 4th season of existence, the quickest by any expansion team. Who held the record before them? le Quebec (RIP) did it in their 5th season

Lmao I will never get a shutout. Nice effort chasing both Moscow goalies though by DA BEARZ