Mr Bohannan

After the playoffs and the award shows Matt kind of fell of the tracks. Having such a good run which probably will be his best season for many seasons to come, the fact that he ended up with nothing, not even recognition from the judges in the award show, hit hard and Matt lost his motivation. With the changes in league and the training routines getting more demanding and harder, he started to lose the will to put him self out there and fight for anything. He felt like when it comes to the award shows then it is just game of popularity and when it comes to the games then it is just unpredictive, so there are no guarantees. The time to prove himself is over and Matt believes that he did prove himself, just without no benefit to it and with a very little impact on his future. Now Matt is waiting for the start of the next season to see how will he stand against the last seasons performance and can he even be close to the same results. Maybe then his motivation might return, but for now it is quite low.

Saw the Riga Reign and had to come in and give you a rating for the team that is located in the capital of my own country. The first question that comes in my mind is - is the piece a poster, card or a signature? Im not really sure how to look at it, so dont have any sort of guidelines I could go by for the specific type of work. I will assume it's something like a poster, so I will judge it based on that. The renders are chosen well and I like how they are used. Obviously the jersey change is done quite well, maybe not on the front render as the right side just looks like its cut down in a straight line. I would assume that's how jersey bends in the render, but with the jersey change it just looks weird. Although I see and understand why the orange colour is the dominant one in the piece, Im not too keen on it. Might be bit too much of orange for me. When it comes to text, I like that you chose a big and bold font, but the colour itself and the blending mode used does not work for me. I think you could have done much stronger text that would also stand out more and make the graphic more beastly. Overall it is a good job, nonetheless. Rating: 7/10

Hmm very interesting piece! I kinda like what you have done with the render and all the background work. The background gives me this intergalactic space travel vibe, but the render work itself reminds me of ice-man or whatever the villain from Batman is. All together seems a bit neon-ish so a lot of perspectives for this specific work. As you already mentioned yourself then you had issues with the text. Cannot say that the text is bad, not at all, but ye, text is an issue most of the times. Although the piece is busy, I kinda would like to see the background filled up a little bit more and not have that much of the black blank space around. Rating: 8/10

1. Do you think the league is heading in the right direction? - Really depends what is meant by right direction and in which area. Is league heading towards right direction in terms of the new stats, will see in next couple of seasons. 2. What’s your 4th favorite flavor of ice cream? - Vanilla 3. Do you think you play it safe or take more risks than others? - Hard to say. I think my player takes the risks most of the time, but also plays safe, depending on situation. Questions: 1. Why some of the teams are so lazy on Team Press Conferences? 2. How hard did you find the re-distributing the stats/skills? 3. Would you date someone who makes money on Onlyfans?

100% agree!

London is slacking on press conference, so Im back to you guys! 1. Do you have any favourite activities to do in the offseason? if so what are they? - Relaxing for a bit and then back to the gym and focusing on myself. 2. If you had to take the team on a vacation where would we go and why? - I might take them to countries that are not popular destinations due to lack of information about them. 3. Who is your players favourite player in any league (NHL, VHL etc.) and why do you like them? - Henrik Zetterberg, because of his story being drafted 210th and then becoming one of the league leaders. 4. In your experience, did you like the E? why or why not? - What is THE E? 5. What is your favourite memory of this past season? - Playoffs 6. if you followed the NHL trade line, what trade shocked you the most? - To be fair I did not, so have no idea who is traded.

Looking at the graphic straight up I see that you're not very skilled, so now Im looking at it from a beginners stand point. For a beginner this is a solid piece and the only things that could be improved are parts that will get better with experience. For example the background. The background seems like a quite generic background found online. When it comes to backgrounds it is totally fine to use online resources, but you can do so much that I would always suggest trying to find something unique. The text font gives me vibes of Supernatural TV show. Jersey swap is actually the best thing I think on the piece. It is done very good and looks good! Rating: 7/10

Saw my buddy Godlander mentioned, so I had to jump in I give my point of view on the piece made for him. Not sure what it is meant to be, a signature or a poster, but dang it is very London. There is so much London in the background that Im starting to feel that he's the queen of England haha. Not sure what is your skillset in graphics, but even if it's not the highest I would say that a good job has been done. I personally am not a fan of the overall piece, but it is definitely not the worst one I've seen here. Rating: 6/10

1. What aspect of Hockey (Defense, Stick Handling, etc.) do you think is the most underappreciated? -Its hard to answer this, but I will say - Puck Handling! 2. The NHL has the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for the player who exhibited outstanding sportsmanship. What should the name of that trophy be in the VHL? -White Dove Trophy! 3. Who do you think deserves to win the award this year? -Everyone who actually deserves them. not favorites. 4. Who do you think is your team's MVP this season? -Either me, or Godlander or Pierce! 5. What is your favorite holiday? -Summer Solstice! It's a foreign holiday... 6. If the VHL has an expansion, what city would you like to see get a team? Cape Town, just for lulz1!

Straight up you can tell that graphics is not something you are very good at or even familiar with. There could have been so much you could have done, even with your limited skills in graphics. The background could by anything, but whatever it is right now. Im assuming that it is suppose to be like a signature, which is another downside of the piece as it is way to large for whatever it is meant to be. At least you chose a bit more interesting font for the text, so I will give you that! Rating: 4/10

Alright, nice to see something different than the usual signature. Looking at the piece I understand, might be wrong tho, it is meant to be a poster which is fine, but kinda would love to see a bit more poster like look as of now it just looks like a picture. Usually I prefer clean and neat designs, but the dirty grunge look is not that bad. I dont know how the original picture looks like, but I like the change of the tone of the players, making it look bit more old-school. Text is very simple and nothing special, therefore could have been worked on more. Rating: 6/10

Oh wow, as this is for me, then I will also use this opportunity to do my weekly review haha. First of all I would like to say that I am very honoured that you made a graphic for me, something I did not even request, because I've always wanted to be that player that people chose for their graphics you know and I guess this season my name was seen enough for someone like yourself to chose me as your player to do the sig for. Thank you! Now to the review! I very much love what I see. Not my players render, as for my player I use Teodors Blugers, but hey, you didn't know. The graphic is not too busy, but still creates a very nice overall composition and I am happy with how it looks. The players render looks very crisp even besides the fact that his uniform is blurred out, but that gives also a nice touch to the design. Not mad about the "Matt" text and actually love it, but the Avens part is not what I would like to see. It is not that much about the look, but more about hte quality of the text as for some reason it gives quite pixelated areas down the sides of the letters like "V" and "A" making it look bad. Not sure what causes it, but if the Avens text would be as crisp as the render or as nice as Matt, then the signature would be a total 9. Thank you again! Rating: 8/10

Regular season was over, but nothing was actually over as now the most important part of the season was about to start. Thankfully for the position where London finished on the regular season standings, they did not have to play in the first round of the playoffs and had to wait to face the winner between Moscow and Malmo. Some of the experts predicted that London will face Moscow in the semi-finals and it did happen although it could have been any teams win, considering that it went to game five in which Moscow took the upper hand and advanced to the sem-finals against London. Now the first two games been played between London and Moscow, the result being 1-1, although after the very first game between both of these teams showed that it might be an easy sweep for Moscow as they did win London 6-1, totally crashing them in the very first game. Matt is doing his best on the ice and fingers crossed that London will pull through and go to finals!

Just popping by :D! 1. If you were in charge of taking the team out for dinner, where would you take us? -I would probably take the team to some good steak house or something like that. 2. What is your favourite fruit. Clementine 3. If you could hire one person to help you, would it be for cooking, cleaning or yard work? Cleaning. Hate cleaning! 4. What is the longest time you have went without sleep? Maybe 12-13hours. Not long. Cannot live without sleep. 5. What is your favourite fast food place? A local burger place near my house. 6. What is your favourite movie? Dont really have one, but if i have to name any then probably - Saw

Straight up you can tell that graphics is not something you do and this was your attempt on one. Taking in consideration your level of skill I have to say that the piece is actually solid. You have taken in consideration several things to make the piece to look clean and smooth. Added a little background effect, nothing too much, just the right amount. Experimented with some additional things like the shapes behind the goalie which is a good touch. Text maybe is not the greatest, but not the worst case. Good job. Rating: 7/10

Very interesting approach to the signature and definitely unique compared to what we usually see, but unfortunately, this specific signature, is not for my taste. All the sharpened and whatever effect all over the signature is bit too much for me. I kinda feel like a little bit of the effect could be fine, but because it's all over the signature, Im not a fan. The only thing that caught my eyes and I found to be cool was the text "Pearce" because it give me a stitched type of text vibe. This in no way is professional criticism as it is not based on skill or techniques, more on how I feel about the piece my self. Rating: 5/10

In my defense and that's also a reason Im not keen hearing that I "abused" the meta is the fact that I just joined the league, never really played in VHL before so I had no clue about such meta even existing. All I did was focused on the stats that I felt were important to my player as a sniper. Obviously main focus was scoring, cuz sniper -dooh, then puck handling, skating and defense, cuz I was told defence helps player to perform well. Maybe it was meant to be as before in other leagues I've had either defence players or playmakers that actually focused on passing. This time I wanted to make that scorer, be on top of the tops with time and I was pleasantly surprised when I saw my player doing that well. Also, it's not like I started to focus on these stats recently, I've been doing that since I joined and I cannot say that this "meta" was breaking scoreboards in VHLM or VHLE.

Moscow who?

Sam was right in pronunciation - it's (EIVENS) rhymes with "safe haven". Haha

Against all imagination, Matt is doing super good in his rookie season in VHL and that is due to his perfect line chemistry with Zaza and Godlander who are doing as exceptionally as Matt is. All three players are in Top3 position in the rookie rankings with Matt and Godlander not only being top 10 players in the league, but steadily gaining higher and higher positions on all time best rookie seasons with several games still left. Knowing that a lot of people are playing fantasy league Matt was actually wondering how many people expected him to do so well and did anyone even picked him for his fantasy. It would be kind of a safe assumption that no one did, because it is very doubtful that anyone would think that Matt would do so well and be a top10 player in the league in his rookie season. Nonetheless the inner rivalry with Godlander is still going on as they both are fighting neck by neck. Seems like Godlander is more known between the VHL fan base as he was chosen to play in all-star game while Matt was not, but Matt is not bothered about it. All the focus is on growing as a player and as a team mate.

1. We are at the top of our conference and have been for pretty much the whole season. Can we keep it up? With half of the season still to go will we finish at the top? -Oh hell yes we can! All we have to do is to keep grinding as hard as we have and we will stay where we are! 2. How do you feel the ambience is in our locker room right now? With all the rookies carrying the team and the few veterans we have taking a supportive role how do you feel about that? -As one of the rookies who is carrying the team I feel blessed to have the veterans having our backs. Im a team player, so I know that I would be happy for the team wins while still doing my best to support whatever way we win. 3. What team is your favourite to play against? Which is your least favourite? -To be fair I don't have my favourite team to play against, but my least favourite teams are the ones that we haven't managed to beat this season. 4. If the league were to expand what city would they go to and what would the team be called? -Uuuu, this is a good one. Let's go with the current worlds support and say - Ukraine. And the team would be called Chernobyl Atoms! 5. Our team is currently at a lull and we are coasting until the playoffs come. So there something the team or the league can do to spice things up during the season? -Have no idea what "lull" means, but I dont think we need to spice things up as every game is spicy enough to stay on top! 6. When the United visited the Queen on our annual visit, what did the Queen say to your player when they met? -Thank you for not being another football player!

Ok, very confusing work to be fair and let me explain why. Looking at the piece it feels like there is nothing done, like only text applied on top of the picture, but I might be wrong as it is super hard to say without seeing the original picture. Obviously the picture has had some editing, like for example blurred out background to keep the focus on the player and also some colour filters, but I cannot tell was it actually done by you or is that's how the picture came. The text is actually not a bad one, because it reminds me a little bit of a player card signature time of text. Overall if you did the changes I mentioned then it is an OK piece, could have made it to look more fun. Rating 5/10

This signature is an interesting one due to several reasons. The first reason would be the fact that in this particular piece you have used a render/player form a game or at least it seems so which is a different approach from what you would usually see. The second reason is the very colourful background that is nice in some ways, but for my personal taste - not a fan of it. I feel the piece is little bit chaotic and at the same time quite empty for my liking. The text as always is something I think could have been done better. Rating: 6/10

The season has been so great so far that a little inner competition has started as a joke. Matt and Nils are low key fighting for the top Rookie position and every time they do better than other one they would point it out to the other person. It is very good to have such thing as it keeps you on toes and makes sure that you perform and do not slack. Obviously Nils has no chances to beat Matt and any time Nils gets close to Matt, it is only because Matt purposely allowed Nils to be so close that he can eat Matts smoke. Matt has already had some rivalries in the past and they did not pan out to be as good as this one, so he is happy that there is a good rivalry in the team in order to keep everyone working to perform on every game night and keep London United where it is and who knows, maybe even pick up that cup! Whatever the situation might be, Matt is happy with the progress and cannot wait to season to finish to know how the season will end!

1. After 26 games we are 1st in the European Conference and tied for 2nd overall!!!! How do you feel about this and are you excited to see how we do in the next few weeks? Of course Im excited! I came to London with rumours that London sucks, but now we are on top with the hard work! 2. Our whole team is doing great but who’s performance stands out the most to you and why? Mine! Cuz Im the best! Rest of the guys are fine as well! 3. How is your performance so far this season? Is there anything you would like to improve on? I think my performance is actually great and the statistics show that. I guess I could improve on actual scoring, considering my assists are close to goals, but my passing skill is not close to scoring skill. 4. What are your thoughts on the upcoming All Star Weekend? Are you excited to see what happens or are you just focused on the season. To be fair as I was not picked for the all star weekend, then Im just focused on the season. 5. What is your favourite Olympic Sport to watch and why? Ice Hockey for obvious reasons! 6. Did you watch the Super Bowl? If so how did you celebrate the weekend and which team did you cheer for? I did not watch the super bowl as Im from Europe, so the interest in that sport is small.