Bushito

Yeah nobody uses discord, we need chat. I'd pay to have chat back

It will be when we are missing 2 800 TPE players and are forced to play a winger at center. But 2-0 with an incomplete roster is a great start

Thank you Bush! Congrats to my Wranglers teammates as well!

Doing mine now

S72 Team Captains Reveal
 
The Wranglers added some great youth this off-season and has a very developed roster that looks to be back in the North American playoffs once again at the very least and with that we will lean on some of our senior members on the team for leadership this season including a new/old Captain, one new Assistant and one experienced assistant.
 
We are proud to announce the captains of your season 72 Calgary Wranglers

(C) LW - Sigard Gunnar @Big Mac
Gunny is back at captain after we gave it to our Mexican friend for his swan song. We look forward to having Gunnar back at the helm and pushing our not so young youth to a better end of the season than we had last year. Time for Sigard to impose his will on the league and lead this team to glory.
 
(A) RW - Kris Rice @Ricer13
Rice is getting his first crack at an "A" and it's well deserved after he took it upon himself to help the team this off-season and went through a lot of practice with the new rookies getting them acclimated to life in the VHL.
 
(A) LW - RJ Jubis @Jubis
Jubis is assistant GM, assistant captain and is one of the teams greatest allies. I can not tell the guy how much he means to the Wranglers and am happy to have him here as another well deserved assistant.

Gunnar and Barabash

You can remake the two picks I just did then.

I also like this one but apparently it looks like a hedgehog and not a horse
 

I also like this one but apparently it looks like a hedgehog and not a horse
 

Edmonton with this logo.

Moscow 3-2
 
3 Uncapped TPE
@gorlab
@Matt_O
@a_Ferk
@Jubo07
@Garsh
@Lockdown Defense
@Kendrick
@Advantage
@frescoelmo
@omgitshim
@joeg
@CowboyinAmerica
@Erik Summers
@McLovin
@Kekzkrieg

391 D.C. Dragons @ Helsinki Titans
392 New York Americans @ Riga Reign
393 Seattle Bears @ Moscow Menace
394 Toronto Legion @ Vancouver Wolves 
 
2 Uncapped TPE
@a_Ferk
@jRuutu
@Jubo07
@Erik Summers
@Jbeezy76
@jman9theman9

391 D.C. Dragons @ Helsinki Titans
392 New York Americans @ Riga Reign
393 Seattle Bears @ Moscow Menace
394 Toronto Legion @ Vancouver Wolves 
 
2 Uncapped TPE
@a_Ferk
@jRuutu
@Jubo07
@Erik Summers
@Jbeezy76
@jman9theman9

Moscow 3-2
 
3 Uncapped TPE
@gorlab
@Matt_O
@a_Ferk
@Jubo07
@Garsh
@Lockdown Defense
@Kendrick
@Advantage
@frescoelmo
@omgitshim
@joeg
@CowboyinAmerica
@Erik Summers
@McLovin
@Kekzkrieg

Hardest Shot - Jordan Tonn @MexicanCow123
Shooting Stars - Sigard Gunnar @Big Mac
Fastest Skater - RJ Jubis @Jubis
Accuracy Shooting - Willie Dredge @Speed
Save Streak - Jacques Lafontaine @SlapshotDragon

Seattle 3-2

Why I Keep Returning To The VHL
 
For almost a decade, my relationship with the VHL has been a back and forth love affair. It's been no secret that my interest in the sport impacts my interest in participating, at length, in the VHL. While I've maintained a membership in the SBA and EFL over the years, as well as many other start up leagues that are no longer with us today, I've never managed to stick with y player in the VHL. That makes my opinion on the VHL, it's recruitment and it's retention, a unique one. I very well may be the only member in the VHL today, or ever, with the experience I have had regarding the Victory Hockey League. So, in the spirit of Theme Week, I'm going to bypass my weekly Welfare post and explain why I continue to come back to the VHL.
 
For me, the VHL stands for one thing more than anything else. Community. I think a lot of people have, and will, say that Longevity is the first thing they think of when they think of the VHL. While I believe that to be obviously true, I don't believe any sim league stands the test of time and rests it's name on Longevity without the power of a strong and dedicated community. In the decade that I have been engaged in sim leagues, I never never quite seen a sim league take as many lumps, get back up and keep pushing forward than the VHL has. From it's humble beginnings, fighting for memberships with the SHL and every start up league you can think of, to it's server hack and loss of a mass number of members, to bouts of inactivity that other leagues may have folded through, the VHL has fought it's way to 71 seasons and counting and a lot of that is due to it's membership and leadership.
 
Now, with an ugly disagreement between leadership at the VHL and the SBA lingering over the past year, the VHL encounters yet another bump in the road. Does anyone expect that this loss of affiliation spell the eventual decline of the league? Hardly. It's because those who have been here longest know that nothing has gotten in the way of the VHL reaching what we all know it will one day reach. The historic 100th season.
 
In addition to my understanding that this community is a strong one, with quality leadership, I can't write about my experience and constant interest to partake in the VHL without mentioning a handful of members who I will forever member as staples of both here and several leagues I have been a part of. Guys like Jardy, Street, Bushito, Diamond_Ace, CowboyinAmerica, STZ and several others I could earn 6 TPE for just naming in a row. One, however, had stood above the rest. He helped me create the framework for what has become the SBA. He helped me create an unheard of project, at the time, in the SSN. He's taken over the leadership role over the VHL in the time that I have mostly been away. Beketov.
 
Beketov and I go way back and it's my hope that we'll go way forward, if that's a thing, for years to come. It was Beketov who first introduced me to the VHL and it was Beketov who relentlessly tagged me in an SBDL Discord server to return again. It's our conversations that has led me to take the challenge of assistant GMing, and hopefully eventually GMing, and it's because of him I get to write this Point Task and add them to yet another attempt in a VHL Player.
 
I can't guarantee that I will make it to the VHL with Cal Conway, or my next player. I can't guarantee that something won't come up in my real life and I'll vanish from the forum as quickly as I arrive every 2 years. What I can guarantee, however, is that the VHL will be here all the same. And the stable of guys I've grown to have, at the very least, internet friendships with will be here to catch up with and shoot the shit with. It's them, as much as anything, that get me excited to return to the VHL and engage the community. And it's them that I believe is ode a debt of gratitude for 71 seasons of success, and many more seasons to come.