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And here I thought the cal/sea trade benefited Calgary more in the short term I'm looking forward to Seattle casually running the table and winning a 'ship

Can't really fault the goalie on this one - save % was fantastic. Just need to figure out our even strength game, but we're running out of time...

Well this was a painful box score to look at. We should have at least kept it vaguely competitive ?

All 3 stars and we still can't buy a win... yeesh.

So we lose to Seattle and bring it back with a healthy win over Toronto. Man do I wish I understood STHS.

And now we're dropping games to Seattle. Welp.

Just about reached the mid-way point in the season! Here are some more hand-picked questions from our journalists. 1. We've heard VHL locker rooms can get pretty vulgar. Who talks the most smack in your experience? 2. Our wonderful AGM Tate very quickly earned his management spot on the team. How'd he do it? 3. Who's the most superstitious member on Riga? 4. Who's the most beloved member on this site? 5. Which member gets more hate than they deserve? 6. What change would you suggest to improve your experience with the VHL? 7. Seattle has 7 overtime losses this season. What gives? 8. The Wranglers just made a trade swapping Joel Ylonen and Maxim Kovalchuk. What does this do for their championship aspirations? 9. Provided how deep many VHL teams are, what do you think will happen to all of the draft picks? Does New York really need 10 picks in the first 3 rounds this year? 10. The Titans sit at 21-10-3 -- an excellent record, but still a whopping 14 points behind Toronto. Why are they so far behind with all of the talent on their roster?

8/25 claim (4 of 4)

8/18 claim (3 of 4)

8/11 claim (2 of 4)

Bump for 8/4 claim

Riga, Latvia - Few expected Riga to be fighting for their playoff lives at this point in the season. With what seemed like a promising roster that would only get better as the season went on, the Reign had a strong case to repeat their regular season performance from S66. And with the HC Davos Dynamo trading away many of their established players, it seemed natural that hedgehog and the Riga team would cruise easily into second or third place in the conference. 34 games into the season, Riga sits at 17-15-2 - good for 36 points, and only 5 from being removed from playoff contention. It's unclear as to what exactly is causing the issues - as talent would suggest the Reign should be doing better - but it may simply be the roster undergoing growing pains. "We should be doing better," remarked second-year defenseman Apollo Hackett. "The teams above us have great rosters -- don't get me wrong -- but I think we're at least as good as a few of the teams ahead of us in the standings. We just have to translate that feeling to the ice; I trust management to do the rest. Our defense is great, and that comes from both us defensemen and the forwards both; our defensive pairs just have to make sure that we're carrying our weight and feeding forwards, too."

Givin' Iseult a good shellacking in this one. Gg New York

Good ol' Edwin bailing us out even towards the end of his career

2 goals on 2 shots from @McWolf ! Very few shots on goal this game in general, but I'm glad we pulled out a strong win.

Fizzlebeef showing up with 2 goals on 3 shots... what a legend.

If we keep this up, we're going to struggle to make the playoffs. Really having a hard time beating teams on the top half of the table right now ?

NYA might not have anyone over 600 TPE anymore, but STHS is all you need to even out those odds for a game or two. Heck of a job to NYA's youngins

Terrible sim for Kingfisher... but at least Vancouver put up some points in their other game. :x

Almost everything here was at even strength - hopefully it's just bad luck for Vancouver, but jeez that score line is ugly.

Glad we won, but concerning to see Kriketers let in 3 goals on only 15 shots.

Whoa -- fantastic powerplay performance from Malmo this game!

Both goalies paralyzed by opposing team spies confirmed Look at these poor saps' save %

Our offense is so inconsistent. Hopefully we can figure out whatever worked against Seattle here.

Even had 7 power play attempts this game and couldn't score on a single one. This is disappointing. ?