Renomitsu

10. Did you do anything special for Halloween?
I was working in the children's hospital on Halloween; dressed up as the Cowardly Lion as part of a group costume!
 
11. Black Friday is approaching. Have any plans to buy anything? IF YOU could, what would you buy?
Nope, I'm also going to be working Black Friday and have absolutely zero plans of waking up even earlier haha
 
12. Thoughts on how your player is doing this season?
I wish that my player's performance led to more team success personally. It's hard to watch any kind of good performance on a team that isn't doing well, because that means I'm not performing well in the right way.
 
15. @Otaznik leads the way for the Bears right now. They've really turned it up a notch to help Seattle. What's their secret?
Pure, unadulterated skill. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
16. @DMaximus currently needs some help to improve their play. Shit happens! Any secret tips that can give them an edge???
No big concerns from me. It'll come with time.
 
17. @youloser1337 after a rough start of something like 0 points in 5gp, they're now a PPG. What song do they listen to each night before bed for good luck????
There's a recent floorball series from JomBoy media and one of their teams (We Got Ice) made a custom song for scoring goals. I like to imagine youloser's player listens to that.

1.  I am your new AGM. What do you think? *Spins around slowly with arms out for some reason.
I am looking forward to it, especially if you do pressers on the regular!  We have been on teams together in the past and it has been a good time.
 
2.  What do you think about the off-season moves the team has made?
I think its been good, adding a big name to the team is always exciting.
 
3.  The VHL draft stream seems to have lost a bit of excitement. How would you spruce it up for everyone?
I'm not sure, I tend to only watch at most the first round.  They can go on too long on occasion though.
 
4.  Who in the league have you not played with that you would like to?
On my 3rd player its getting a little harder to remember who I have played with and who I haven't, but I'm pretty sure I have never played with @Renomitsu.
 
5.  I need help moving my couch, give me your best excuse to avoid helping me.
I have ankylosing spondylitis, which is basically spine arthritis.  
 
6.  What is your favourite movie monster? Doesn't have to be any of the classics.
I'm not a big horror movie person, but in terms of monsters in general I love Godzilla.

Seattle, WA – The Bears are introducing a Moth!
 
After a tragic end to their season with a first-round series loss to Rome, the Moths found themselves in a position to likely be split up at the start of their VHL careers. Indeed, it was too good to be true – with talent that scaled well into the VHLE despite having just a fraction of a season in the VHLM, the Moths seemed to be on an excellent trajectory. The two met their match in Europe, with Spanish Moon virtually nonexistent on the team through the first 55 games of the season before finally picking up a handful of points in the back stretch while Sunset Moth was steady all season long.
 
With the two both projecting as first round picks with good-to-great potential, there were limited options for drafting to the same team – Moscow had a few picks in the top five, positions where either moth might be considered a reach, Riga owned 8 and 12, and Chicago owned 6 and 11. When Seattle took Spanish Moon it was considered a personal victory – but their second selection wouldn’t become available until just after the Warsaw Predators snatched Sunset Moth with 13th overall.
 
In short, Spanish Moon Moth is devastated to be separated from his moth compatriot. Why do things have to be this way? :<

Seattle, WA – The Bears are introducing a Moth!
 
After a tragic end to their season with a first-round series loss to Rome, the Moths found themselves in a position to likely be split up at the start of their VHL careers. Indeed, it was too good to be true – with talent that scaled well into the VHLE despite having just a fraction of a season in the VHLM, the Moths seemed to be on an excellent trajectory. The two met their match in Europe, with Spanish Moon virtually nonexistent on the team through the first 55 games of the season before finally picking up a handful of points in the back stretch while Sunset Moth was steady all season long.
 
With the two both projecting as first round picks with good-to-great potential, there were limited options for drafting to the same team – Moscow had a few picks in the top five, positions where either moth might be considered a reach, Riga owned 8 and 12, and Chicago owned 6 and 11. When Seattle took Spanish Moon it was considered a personal victory – but their second selection wouldn’t become available until just after the Warsaw Predators snatched Sunset Moth with 13th overall.
 
In short, Spanish Moon Moth is devastated to be separated from his moth compatriot. Why do things have to be this way? :<

1. What is your immediate reaction to our playoff elimination? Are you happy with your individual performance?
Rigged! There's no way we didn't win this one 😠
I think my player did OK, but clearly Spanish Moon Moth needed to do more to prevent the loss in the series.
 
2. Heading into the off-season, what are your plans to prepare for the upcoming season?
Spanish Moon is probably going to mope and be sad for a few weeks in preparation for being drafted to the VHLE and VHL. Losing is hard.
 
3. If you take a vacation, are you staying at home to relax or going away to become a full on tourist?
Recently and generally in my life I would stay home to relax. However, with some big decisions coming up soon I have to be a tourist.
 
4. Where is your player headed to next season? Are you excited for whatever is to come?
I don't know! That's the spooky part. I'm headed to the VHLE draft, where I suspect my stock may drop because my player is only going to be there for a maximum of one season, and some VHL team is going to try to draft my player too I guess.
 
5. The FTX Amazon Apple Microsoft Temu Rogers Rorydome sponsored by Shein is undergoing renovations heading into next season, what do you suggest we add?
Needs more sponsors. I heard X/Twitter is a great investment right now and totally politically inoffensive.
 
6. What is a pokemon that you were positive had an evolution as a kid, but it turns out it never did?
Kangaskhan. I mean, come on, Cubone -> Marowak -> maybe Kangaskhan made sense, right? I know that's not the order you were thinking of since Cubone truly does have an evolution, but I'd think one Pokemon leads up to Kangaskhan.

SPARTAN I did it this time!

SPARTAN I did it this time!

Unfortunate that this had to happen, but establishing a precedent was absolutely necessary. 

1. What will be the biggest challenge when matching up against a strong Rome team?
Consistency. I think one of our challenges this season has been consistency game-to-game and that could easily be our downfall against a Rome team I think we're better than (as it turns out, this was the case 😭 )
 
2. Are you a fan of the new playoff format where only the top four teams make it? Or would you prefer a wild card round be played?
For the VHLE? Yeah, I guess it makes sense. I don't particularly care for a wild card round and we recently contracted, so it makes sense that not everyone is included necessarily.
 
3. If you had to choose between winning some individual awards or winning the cup with your team, which would you choose and why?
The cup obviously. I've never been much of an individual accolades person and I'm OK with personal success only after team success.
 
4. Do you have a lucky piece of equipment that you keep around? Why or why not?
Absolutely not. Spanish Moon Moth is someone who believes in their personal fortitude, strength, and skill over superstition (though if the superstition helps I suspect SMM would be open to the idea).
 
5. You have been tasked with coming up with a mascot concept for the team, but the mascot absolutely can not be a lighthouse. What is your idea?
It'll be a destroyed seafaring ship, with the implication being that our maritime infrastructure would fail without us (plus it'd be a weird homage to the angry boats).
 
6. The NHL will be starting up shortly. Are you optimistic for your favourite team heading into the season? Or are you more worried about their chances?
I don't follow the NHL. I know it's crazy, but it's true nonetheless. I've only been playing make-pretend hockey for like a decade.

1. If you were Bratislava GM, which area of the team would you look to strengthen in a trade, and why?
Ex-AGM (not you, hylands). dylan is quite mean to me.
 
2. There has been basically no trade activity around the league, why do you think that is?
Probably a touch lower overall activity, plus I think the standings show there are pretty distinctly competitive vs non-competitive teams, so I guess there isn't much marginal benefit to be gained from teams with few resources and poor standings.
 
3. For those of you that have been VHL drafted, which team will you be graduating to, and are you excited? For the moths that haven't been drafted, do you have a preference or any hopes for the eventual VHL draft?
Wherever Sunset goes. Preferably somewhere good, but McWolf and I have been on the same team only sparingly for our entire existences :[
 
4. Are you at all interested in becoming a GM in one of the leagues? Or have you had past GM experience?
NOPE. I GMed a successful team in the EFL for several seasons and I'm good with just having that experience.
 
5. Can you recommend me an awesome band that I've probably never heard of?
I don't know what bands you know! I love Sammy Rae and the Friends, Lawrence, and Couch. Does that help?
 
6. If you were in charge of taking the team out to dinner, what kind of restaurant are you taking us to?
Thai food. Everyone loves thai food.

Bratislava, Slovakia – Well, it only took 50 games into the season, but it looks like Spanish Moon Moth might finally start contributing. The thoroughly overshadowed centerman-turned-wing (temporarily) has finally caught up to the second-to-last leading point earner on the team in Loki Baker DMD, with 15 total points. The moth was added in the offseason in a supposed blockbuster Free Agent signing and sign-and-trade situation in which Bratislava also was able to obtain defender Sunset Moth. The latter of the two immediately began contributing and currently sits at 32 points, with 10 goals/22 assists as their split and a team-leading 9.62% shooting percentage. On the other hand, Spanish Moon Moth was in the single digits for scoring as of a dozen games ago and has finally hit 15 points, in their case with a 9 goal/6 assist split despite playing 24 minutes a game. Five of these points – a full third of SMM’s total for the season – were obtained in just two games. The first was a September 13th game against Rome where Spanish shot seven times and had a hat trick, the only goals scored by the Watchmen in that game, and the second was a two-goal game against the Cologne Express where Spanish shot another six times – which ultimately made the difference in a 3-2 Bratislava win.
 
With how boom/bust Spanish Moon Moth has been, many fans are still wondering if his signing was worthwhile this offseason – but if he can put up games like this in the last third of the season, hopefully he can continue to quiet his critics.

1. The team has been one of many streaks this season, our most recent being four losses. What do we need to do to turn that around?
I'm not advocating for any of us to become Tonya Harding, but perhaps we could use coercive tactics...
That's right. Full send into Fighting and Checking.
 
2. Which team's position in the standings (could be any one of the three leagues) are you most surprised about this season, and why?
Ours. WHY AREN'T WE FIRST ;-;
The sim is a fickle mistress.
 
3. Having gone through half a season so far, do you think the contraction to six teams was a positive change?
Yes, I'd say it feels overall competitive (save for the Olso Storm) without feeling explicitly coin-flippy against every team. It seems like we're clearly top four and only regularly lose to Vasteras.
 
4. Who would be your early pick for MVP of Bratislava so far, and why?
@McWolf/Sunset Moth, of course 😍
How could I choose anyone else? Sunset balances out how terrible Spanish Moon has been, and we've already had a question about how awesome our goalie is so I need to pick a new answer.
 
5. Do you have anything special in your locker in the dressing room besides hockey equipment?
Mothball remover. Don't ask.
 
6. Which city that hasn't seen a franchise among all of the VHL leagues would you like to see get a team?
Atlanta would be an interesting North American Conference add. Or maybe Minneapolis-St. Paul? I thought we used to have a Minnesota team but I might be mistaken.

1. We are about 1/3rd of the way into the season. Is your player performing how you expected them to?
Actually I'm much less involved in the offense than I expected to be. I'm a little saddened by it to be honest
 
2. Our goaler Jonny Elgar leads the league in save percentage and goals against. How important is an elite goaltender to the team's success?
I dunno, I feel like I hear "yes you must max earn" and "goalie TPE doesn't matter at all" sometimes one sentence after another. Is it a random number generator or directly proportional to your TPE? We've gotta get that story and fact straight.
 
3. If you could be any animal, which one would you be and why?
A capybara. Imagine being at one with the world as they always seem to be.
 
4. If you were stuck at burning man, what lengths would you go to to survive?
Why am I at Burning Man? Do I hate money and myself?
 
5. Are you a beach and ocean type person, or more of a woods and lake type person?
Why not both in different weekends? I'm probably a bit more of a woods/lake type person, though if we could do that without the risk of ticks that would be great.
 
6. What is your favourite nostalgic media to consume?
Probably Dragon Age: Origins. Is that too specific?

Damn you didn’t need to make a whole theme week for my player..
 
thanks Bek 🍻

I'm not doing the whole google form and stuff that I did last time in 2021, so will just use this thread/reactions as expression of interest.
 
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Bratislava, Slovakia – After an absolutely horrendous 0-4 start, the Bratislava Watchmen have ostensibly righted a ship – their own – and stabilized to a 14-10 record through the first couple dozen games, culminating in a critical 4-2 win over the league-leading Vasteras Iron Eagles just in the last day.
 
“They seemed on the verge of just burning it all down and trading everyone away in an attempt to salvage the season,” one totally-not-dubious source reported to local media, “everyone was open for trade talks and it looked like the Moths were on their way out, yep, totally. Nobody has ever over-reacted to the first sim but this time it happened.”
 
Though the above source refuses to be named and seems to be putting controversial news out for the sake of clicks, which has never happened on the internet before, one player that is clearly struggling is Spanish Moon Moth – one of the free agent commodities from this offseason. His companion Sunset Moth has made a huge impact with the third-highest points on the team (20) as a defensemoth as well as an impressive 52 shots blocked, making the team’s trade seem as though it has paid off in spades. Unfortunately, they’ve only gotten truly half of what they planned on benefiting from as Spanish Moon lags behind with just 4 points generated and a pitiful 3.92 shot %.

I like the part where WWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWWWW showed up

Bratislava, Slovakia – After an absolutely horrendous 0-4 start, the Bratislava Watchmen have ostensibly righted a ship – their own – and stabilized to a 14-10 record through the first couple dozen games, culminating in a critical 4-2 win over the league-leading Vasteras Iron Eagles just in the last day.
 
“They seemed on the verge of just burning it all down and trading everyone away in an attempt to salvage the season,” one totally-not-dubious source reported to local media, “everyone was open for trade talks and it looked like the Moths were on their way out, yep, totally. Nobody has ever over-reacted to the first sim but this time it happened.”
 
Though the above source refuses to be named and seems to be putting controversial news out for the sake of clicks, which has never happened on the internet before, one player that is clearly struggling is Spanish Moon Moth – one of the free agent commodities from this offseason. His companion Sunset Moth has made a huge impact with the third-highest points on the team (20) as a defensemoth as well as an impressive 52 shots blocked, making the team’s trade seem as though it has paid off in spades. Unfortunately, they’ve only gotten truly half of what they planned on benefiting from as Spanish Moon lags behind with just 4 points generated and a pitiful 3.92 shot %.

ESPN.SK - The pendulum of momentum in the VHLE are one that swing from side to side, and it's taking the entire league, other then Oslo, for a ride. The entire season has been one of ups and downs, and this is elemented by none other the Slovak representation in the league - the Bratislava Watchmen. Starting the season 0-4 might have caused some panic in the eyes of fans of the Brat Watchers, however the patience and belief in both the locker room and front office turned around into a 5 game win streak. Since, they have been battling for both a playoff spot, and the league lead. Only being separated by 4 points, the VHLE is in the most competitive season in it's short history. The marquee players in Bratislava's turnaround have been their 2 duelling star forwards - Otis Boudreaux Jr, and Harry Callahan, as well as the battle for the starter's net between WWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWWWW and Jonny Elgar. What's missing for the Watchmen? Their first overall selection Walter Fitzroy Jr. has had an awful adjustment to the VHLE, and the team must be praying for the connections in their head to be made.

1. Yes. This is still an unmitigated disaster season, burn it all down. No more watching the Watchmen.
2. Nah, I think the top 2 or 3 will show their differences soon.
3. Probably the Vasteras Iron Eagles. Through the first couple dozen games they look incredibly strong and might even pull away.
4. Rory because they are a master of geography and travel.
5. I follow the NBA peripherally, the MLB this season only because the Orioles are actually good for the second time in my life, and only pirate the NFL because it's a generally disgusting organization who allowed Dan Snyder to do terrible things for decades. Go Ravens.
6. The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom is a wonderfully interesting read. Would also recommend Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain.

Graphic courtesy of Leandrofg
 
Callum has played twenty games in the S90 for the Saskatoon Wild. The Canadian team is still behind expectations and made some moves to round out the roster. The Swiss defender looks like on track to repeat his production so far. He even has a game winning goal to his name already, which he was not able to do last season. However, his more notable progress he has made is in his defensive abilities with more hits, better +/- and more PIM. This is not very surprising, considering the extra sessions he has had with Phil 'The Rock' Johnson during the offseason.   
 
In the interim, Callum has found a new home some 25 minutes outside Saskatoon. He has bought a car as well and is planning to do some renovation on the taxidermist's home he is sitting during their absence.
 
We also will look at one of the Calgary native's strongest competition for the number 1 spot in the upcoming S91 entry draft: Grimgor Ironhide.
 
Grimgor is rocking the league with Mississauga. He is leader in goals, assists and obviously points. It should not come as a surprise that he is in the forefront of shots taken, +/- rating, game winning goals as well as hattricks and is top five in hitting to boot. The question is: what is this player not able to do?
 
Well, from reliable sources around the brass in Mississauga we hear that Grimgor is a locker room pest. Figuratively and literally. His demeanour is... rough on the edges we have been assured (in other words, his communication is conducted at the noise level of a starting fighter jet) and his mood is inconsistent (which means it swivels from irritated to outright killing spree).
We also hear that his foul breath is one of the reasons why no-one on the team is getting closer than three feet. His body odour is fit to melt stainless steel. One of the players (who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous) has been quoted with: 'I do not believe that Grimgor's iron hide has been voluntarily been touched by water since he was a little green spore in the Badlands.' 
 
This still does not take away from the indisputable talent of the Black Ork chieftain, and we could see a rebuilding team taking on the power forward as a first overall choice.
 
Other candidates are Greenland forward Thor Reingaard, Manx defender Sunset Moth and Center Spanish Moon Moth (the latter two have already played with Janser in Mississauga last season). These three players have all chosen to play in the VHLE (Vasteras for Reingaard and Bratislava for the Moths). All of the above vy for the number one spot in the upcoming draft. 
 
Other realistic top picks include San Diego's Leif Reingaard, Mississauga's Toby Kadachi, Miami's Lionel Collberg, Callum's team mate in Saskatoon Joshua Schwarzer and Mina, who earns their pay in Mexico City.
 
Cal-Gary's stats are as follows:
20gp, 4g, 6a, 10pts, +6, 26 PIM, 62 hits, 22sb, 1gwg 
 
We will follow up with news as soon as same are available.
 
https://vhlforum.com/topic/137991-cgy-janser-scouting-report/
https://vhlforum.com/topic/137981-callum-gareth-gary-yannick-jansers-rocky-road-to-professional-icehockey-a-biography/
https://vhlforum.com/topic/140256-cgy-janser-finding-a-new-home/
 
 

Reno, just a sim league person?!? 

Henrik and Daniel Sedin are Swedish twins who were selected 2nd and 3rd overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1999 entry draft. Behind one of the biggest 1OA busts Patrik Stefan.
 
The Brothers spent their whole career in Vancouver and together account for 2636 regular season games with a total of 633 goals and 1478 assists for 2111 points (mostly they passed to one another). 
 
Last year they were inducted into the HHOF, their Jerseys 22 and 33 were retired by the 'Nucks and either one or the other hold any significant franchise record for forwards.
 
@Ricer13 feel free to jump in if I omitted something

Bratislava, Slovakia – Things got a little dicey in the Watchmen’s locker and war room after a dreadful 0-4 start to the season. The Watchmen, who were slated in official pre-season media to finish third-ish in the VHLE, took initial offense to the preseason rankings, and followed it up with a winless first week/sim day. It ignited some tensions in the locker room, including requests from the general manager to show some fruits from offseason and early season training in a more organized fashion. A later request for “get[ting] that tpe before I have to ping you” was met with some disdain from members of the locker room.
 
Unexpectedly, the team’s former AGM @dylan dragged players also represented by the Renomitsu agency into the fray, suggesting that the hospital in which SBA guard-forward Animated MRI Machine previously had residence burned down (though the people were safely moved to another location with no damage to their physical or mental well-being) with all of the machines burning in an entirely unrelated event. Though the Renomitsu agency’s players all improved in meaningful ways this week, the suggestion that a hospital might be used as an open threat to require improvement of the team’s players was met with some concern.
 
“Am I to believe that millions of dollars of medical equipment is at risk at the whim of some crazy former assistant manager? Don’t get me wrong, we all want to be the best hockey players we can be, but this is absurd,” one anonymous member of Bratislava was noted to comment at a recent presser.

I have no idea what this means because I don't actually follow hockey but yes absolutely