Victor

MOS G is doing god's work this season

Fans allowed in the stadiums??

unproven rumours

Picked the wrong guy in S61

Bigger than Malmo

I introduced the Moscow Hall of Fame in S71 just after our Continental Cup victory and several franchise greats have graced the induction ceremonies since. Yet while we have inducted some superbly talented players here in Moscow, no one really compares to the impact of today's inductee. Jet Jaguar. Drafted tenth overall in S66, robbed of rookie of the year the same season, vindicated as league top scorer and champion in S70. Captain for five seasons including in that great cup-winning year. And I think no one has done more for the Moscow brand than @gorlab, who has of course also created the graphic seen below as he has for all players so far. The only regret with Jaguar is we couldn't quite have him spend 8 seasons in Moscow. However, despite being traded midway through a turbulent S72, Jaguar continues to be the franchise scoring leader both in the regular season and playoffs and I expect his regular season records will stand for quite some time to come. I firmly believe that later this season an even greater honour will be bestowed on this man, but for now it gives me great pleasure to welcome Jet Jaguar into the Moscow Hall of Fame!

Vladimir Pavlov may have been an utter disappointment until this season, performing like a 400 TPE defenceman for approximately 80% of his career, but he still ticked off a few more boxes in my quest to leave the VHL having achieved everything there is. 1. He won the Founder's Cup: I really should have known it was a bad sign that I had finally won the VHLM championship on the seventh time of asking, especially having done it in the dirtiest way by playing 0 minutes on a stacked Minnesota team. But nonetheless it finally happened and probably won't again for a while given I'm on a playoff bubble team now with Rasputin and who knows when the next player will be. 2. He made the Triple Gold Club: I think I won a gold medal with most of my previous players, and have definitely won a cup with all of them (even Pavlov didn't fuck that one up), but the aforementioned lack of VHLM success meant the Triple Gold Club had never been a possibility before. In S70, I managed to cross that one off the bucket list, with a double of Continental Cup with Moscow and then gold with Team World. It was doubly glorious as Pavlov had so foolishly been left off the World Cup roster in the previous tournament. 3. He made a position change: I actually really dislike the idea of position changes and have never done it before, sticking at either center or defence when I have made skaters before. Even with Pavlov I made sure it was something that happened before VHL graduation so that I could at least spend my entire VHL career in one position. Nonetheless, it's something that Pavlov did, which is a bit of a shame as he was really coming into his own as a center while defence is the worst position in the league. The sacrifices you have to make as GM. 4. He played out a full career with one team: Another first, now that I know I won't trade him this season, is that Pavlov played his full career with hometown team Moscow. I believe the closest I came to this before is with my very first player, fittingly also not a Hall of Famer, who spent 5 of 6 seasons with New York. That's pretty nice, a cool feature of the modern VHL where I have been able to replenish the ageing Moscow core without going through a full rebuild and therefore some of the younger players of the S70 cup winning team have been able to stick around til now. I guess it's good to be able to find some silver linings even in what was a pretty disappointing 1,400 TPE spent. The real vindication of Pavlov's career has been being part of a fun and unforgettable expansion team which managed to scale the very heights of the VHL and therefore has been hugely enjoyable from a GM perspective. It will be curious to see if I can sneak him onto a HOF ballot depending on how the rest of S74 to go, but he really won't make it I don't think. Which is a shame as that was a nice streak to have but it's not like I spoiled a 100% record. Plus, those first are still cool. Fuck you Vladimir Pavlov.

You really gave yourself a B for drafting Gate over Cast huh

That Lahtinen-Pavlov connection ?

2nd line doing work and... @Da Trifecta goal ?

First goal for @GrittyIsKing09!

Hah, you suck @Berocka

Good job this old man showed up.

jk Jacques Lafontaine

I pick Jimmy Spyro

@Nykonaxtry again

Bernard

BERNARD

Hope you enjoyed your week off. New season = new @Members tag. Each correct answer is worth 1 capped TPE at the end of the week. Don't reveal the answer in public, but if you're not sure, ask around, here, or in the special trivia Discord channel. You also get 1 uncapped TPE if your question gets used. Submit questions by PMing me. Here's the form for week number 1 of S74. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScN--_pYnbAqCE6UMw65QPjjVrBQxvC99F8jklQJc25B7Sjdg/viewform?usp=sf_link

We got Funk'd

See you in court

Definitely do it in that case.

D Vladimir Pavlov @Nykonax

It has come to my attention just now that I am playing for two teams whose names start with M – the mighty Moscow Menace and the magnificent Miami Marauders. Where can I possibly take this concept? I don't know yet, I started this article without knowing what unique idea I can come up with but let's see where we can get to here, shall we? If anything, we probably have too many teams starting with M these days. Just in the VHL there's a completely unnecessary second one in Malmo, and in the VHLM? It's absolute carnage. You've got Miami and Minnesota and Mississauga and Mexico City too. It's too many, it's not a very diverse selection from the English alphabet and it should be resolved. Move all 4 to Moldova, Macedonia, Monaco, and Montenegro and revive the European Conference damn it! More M you say? I can't, I don't know where else to take this article. I was actually going to do some sort of shoutout for my Moscow team this season but it's been a couple long day of travelling plus a beer and look what happens. I just hope the TPE police don't hurt me for this abomination.