Victor

Moscow involved in the cup win yet again I'm hearing

By the powers vested in me as league financier and Moscow GM, I hereby decree this inactive legend to be a defenceman.

Jubis would have been awarded the S72 cup if Calgary had won so the same scenario applies. There's no precedent for going back a few seasons because in that case Bash would have fewer Seattle and Davos seasons too. Ultimately he made the trades so on the technicality those are his GM seasons. And tbh if Calgary had won the cup last season, that would have been very much Bash's team and he did a good job building it. Jubis has put his mark on it now though and probably taken it up a level.

GINO GINO GINO

Donno

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Induct Skye or Jokinen or any Frank player pleeeeeease. Congrats to two of the finest Wolves however!

Underrated wordplay

Poor Spade

How many current players do you reckon Devise could name? Or even teams

DMing draftees is anathema.

This right here is a 10/10 ranking.

Hedge >>

Draft Quik so we can have blue on blue battles.

That's right we have the simmer now

Theres not actually too much between us. I think everyone near the top of the list falls between 15 to 25 seasons so pretty much splitting hairs.

https://vhlforum.com/topic/90401-thoughts-on-the-playoffs-funk-and-bana/

Moscow is truly the VHL's greatest franchise for winning a championship in this era.

Firstly, I was gonna do an article about some updates to the greatest goaltender performance of all-time but this may turn out to be a footnote. However I would like to extend my congratulations to the epic goalie battle between Rayz Funk @Rayzor_7 and Jacques Lafontaine @SlapshotDragon who put up a fuckton of saves and .943 and .949 save percentages respectively. Lafontaine's tally puts him 3rd all-time among losing goalies, behind the great Alexander Labatte and Greg Clegane, some solace perhaps. The Funk vs Lafontaine battle might have just been the greatest we've seen since the CLEGANEBOWL of the S51 finals. So, Rayz Funk Trophy? He is presumably now odds on for a record 4th playoff MVP, overtaking the record of Kanou and already has the lead in the meaningful career stats over all the competition (Wingate, Kanou, the Cleganes, etc.). Unfortunately, we've never really been in the business of renaming awards even after records were set long after the original honoured names were long retired. Plus, we already have a Funk Trophy.... I think it's a long shot but Rayz can clearly claim the #1 playoff goalie spot for his own now and maybe even across all positions (yes that sound is Scotty rolling in his grave). And finally, @Banackock. Best GM ever? Not an honour I will hand out as lightly as the one to Funk if only because no one has ever attempted a comprehensive GM ranking, myself included (largely because my opinion for years has been there are only two types of GMs - good ones and idiots). But even removing the context of current league state, longevity, and the state of the Seattle franchise when Bana took over - they are now tied for the Continental Cup lead for the first time since their 4th way back in S17 - what are the raw numbers? Cups won by GMs (3+) Devise - 6 Bana, Higgins - 5 Hedge - 4 Frank, Victor, Molholt - 3 Finals appearances by GMs (5+) Devise - 9 Higgins - 7 Advantage, Bana, Frank, Quik - 6 Bushito, Hedge, Victor, Knight, Molholt - 5 Top GM trophies (3+) Advantage - 6 Devise - 5 Higgins - 4 Bana, Mike, Quik, Victor - 3 Rebuilds completed Devise - 0 Everyone else - at least 1 It's largely the same names but clearly there is a conversation there to be had. Now that I have made it to 400 words I will ramble on to make it a Media Spot. It's pretty wild how acceptable that is these days considering back in the day Slobo and many other graders (maybe myself included) would have torn me a new one for this blatant disregard for the integrity of the written art of the VHL. These days I can shit out 500 words of whatever I want and get my 6 TPE - granted, I've not even done that for 2 weeks because what is the point of earning TPE for Pavlov exactly. Anyway, it's off-season time, time to regenerate, regroup and I have a few well researched articles and projects coming your way in the next year.

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Another week?? That's right, Christmas has come early to the VHL. 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 7. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc99hBfcbezEcV9kOh5zCTXhWzeQx75xpiYV2l3EQbL2qEmvA/viewform?usp=sf_link

erm no that's Vancouver

more like members lag amirite

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