Exlaxchronicles

1 because I'm number 1

Congrats Riga! Nice job on the V.

For overachievers you guys have done well, congrats! Idk about this game sim though.

3-1 curse, pt. 1?

Riga? More like Rigged-a, am I right?

Sweet! Thanks Ty!

1. As a pro player trying to be the very best I can be, I think its important to do anything within the rules as well as toeing the line to help with recovery and improvement. So ya I definitely would if I was able to
 
2. I hope I can be a leader. I worked really hard this year and I hope to keep that up. Just have to keep plugging away and the results will come. I want to be in New York for a long time and I think I can help build a winner
 
3. I like the old school wooden sticks. Makes me feel super strong when I snap one in half.  The old sherwoods are my favorite.
 
4. Hard to count out the Wranglers, but I think this is Seattle and Rigas year to shine. All three were so good but home ice will be so important in these playoffs
 
5. I wish there was a way to do live streams of more games like we did the all star game. That was a blast. Good excuse to drink too

1. Now that marijuana is legal in Canada would you use the cbd oil for post game and injury pain if you could?
2. Since your not retiring and were just drumming up drama,do you think in the next few years you'll become a team leader?
3. Do you prefer old school wooden stick s like I do or composite sticks?
4. Which two teams will end up in this years finals?
5. What do you dislike about this game?

It doesn't feel too long ago that we were once again starting another rebuild during my tenure. We drafted some nice players, got a nice core and eventually introduced some other young players into the mix. Before I could even blink, it was last season and we really felt as though next season would be the big push to maybe become serious or atleast somewhat contenders. Maybe some teams would dip out, maybe some would try to sell and maybe, just maybe we could land something in the Free Agents period. Fortunately enough, this off-season was a pretty significant one. We landed numerous trades which seen us bring in the likes of Robert Malenko, Jake Davis, Gabriel Mcallister and Otto Axelsson. With the final cherry on top, we landed veteran winger, soon to be defender, David Kiaskov. Things were looking really good, the guys were very excited and we had nothing but big hopes and dreams for the season. Eventually, they became reality. 
 
The Bears finished the season with the most wins, despite finishing in second place. 52-15-5 is nothing to be disappointed about and to be fair, we played fairly well against Riga and Calgary and such. It was a really strong season from a majority of the teams and it really made things interesting. It seems whenever I go for it, so are most of the other teams. Tougher. Better! And this season, there was a lot of that from the Seattle Bears. Not a single player had a poor season and we seen so many career highs, career records and strong improvements or performances from each player. @Will Roger Sterling improved his career high in wins from 30 to 46, while also leaving the season with a better GAA, Save %, Shut outs, least losses and minutes played. @Exlaxchronicles David Kiaskov had a career high of 76 points. He swapped to defence for us and managed to bump it up to 85 (pretty impressive). @Reives Jake Davis managed to follow up his rookie season total of 70 points with an 84 point performance, @pennypenny Robert Malenko went from 74 points to 92 on the Bears back end and seen @Dangles13 Otto Axelsson get a career high of 63 points this season with the Bears (1 higher than last season. While Thompson @Beketov and my two players (Kovalchuk and Smirnov) maybe weren't as dominant as last season (very hard to be and likely unrealistic to expect that year in and out), but they still had solid campaigns as they totalled for 255 points (and 113 goals). Then, we witnessed history as a hero returned! The man who journeyed with me as I captured my first championship with the Bears. @CowboyinAmerica Gabriel Mcallister, the rightful MVP, took the season with 55 goals, 84 assists and 139 points. This not only was a career high for him, but the first time he has reached 100 points also since last being with the Bears. Big shout out to each member on the Bears for making it a fun and successful season! @Laflamme @AdamEss
 
This season was full of a lot of excitement and expectations. I feel like we can say we met those and are happy where we've played. Looking towards playoffs, excited and nervous to see how things pan out. Not a weak team in the playoffs this season and it could be anyones trophy at the end of the day. Best of luck to all teams!
 
The conclusion of the regular season marks an end to my 15th regular season with the Seattle Bears. Happily improved my overall record this season to 15 Seasons - 1080 games - 552 W - 446 - 82 OTL. Had to share it because I just feel very grateful to have been on this lengthy journey - to have managed to find a way to stay behind the reigns for 15 straight seasons, take the lead in Bears all-time wins by a GM and just be a part of the Seattle organization. Period. It's been awesome and will continue to be awesome until I decide to walk away. Really hoping to improve my playoff record this season too - so here's to hoping. 
 
GO BEARS GO!
 
 

Haha I'm not actually going to retire. Just making things interesting. NYA is gonna be a scary good team one day and I cant wait for it

@Beaviss pop this in the twitter if you want

ALL STAR DEFENSE PUBLIC VOTE SELECTIONS:
 
Joseph Bassolino (RIG) @Smarch
Sidney Crosby (HSK) @SidTheKid87
Joseph McWolf (NYA) @McWolf
Mats Johnsson (CGY) @Quik
Robert Malenko (SEA) @pennypenny
David Kiaskov (SEA) @Exlaxchronicles
 
Congratulations 

YouTube worked better than twitch so I'll be using YouTube 

I like how you've designed the two toned background, looks so cool.
And the filter you used on the SIG gives it an almost mixture of b&w with some color mixed in. Very nice!
Awesome that you did a logo swap! And its positioned pretty well with good coloring.
Not my fave font but decent choice of color to contrast against what's its layered over. Might have just moved it up a touch so its more centered and mostly off of the logo.
Pre nice SIG Boomer! 6/6
 

Uh huh uh huh I see where you're getting at here so let me straight here... You're telling me to redo a free of charge sig I did for you over because the player in it doesn't match your quota? Uh yeah... I'm pretty sure that's not how that works buddy.

Thanks for saying that DA. I've been looking for a sim type of game such as this instead of what you find on gaming systems. Sims games are more personal and socially interactive, and I don't have to press twenty damn buttons just to play the game.
 

Thanks for saying that DA. I've been looking for a sim type of game such as this instead of what you find on gaming systems. Sims games are more personal and socially interactive, and I don't have to press twenty damn buttons just to play the game.
 

The VHL Brand thing reminds me of the SBA All-Star week - never cared very much, but it gives me more TPE than in usual week. So yeah, I cared enough to sign both players with two different brands and now I can do what I need to boost this mediocre Kallis ass. That's pound another 12 TPE to him. I'm not interested to puzzle over some previews or analysis and I suck at graphics. I will do much more simple article. Just going to name my brand teammates and comment on a user or a player. Because it's still counts, right? Let's go with Netflex.
 

 
Brand Executive: @Romaris
Executive Player: Roctrion King ($1,250,000)
 
So what can I say about Romaris? He seemed to not be hyper active here and King is still a welfare player. However, he started to pay more attention to this league after the draft. And launching the brands helped him with maintaining a better activity. He had problems with getting it started since it was unfamilliar thing, but looks like he's feeling better now as the executive. As about King, he's having a deent season in a rebuilding NY. 61 points in 62 games - can't be mad at this performance.
 
1. $3,000,000 - Kallis Kriketers @hedgehog337
 
Ok, this interesting. I believe I was one of first members he contacted. And he offered me 3M right off the bat. Well, can't decline the max contract you know. There are talks that he is kinda overpaid, my teammate @Victor even had an article about overpaid/underpaid players and Kallis was considered as the overpaid dude. Can't argue much about that. In the first 40 something games we were witnessing him ruining a couple of games for Riga with his inconsistent play. He picked it up lately and has the most SO in league at this point. But .917 is still not elite even if he's having better stats than Stropko. Lol.
 
2. $2,000,000 - Casey Jones @der meister
 
We had a long history with each other in other league when he was GM'ing my goalie. And how about my goalie being his teammate now? We also were teammates here in Riga when I was GM'ing his Ravenwing. And we even managed to get the championship unlike the Riot scenario. Probably because he has much more calm persona than me. His Jones is having a solid career so far and while I'm not sure about his HoF chances, he is doing big things with cementing Quebec's defence.
 
3. $1,500,000 - Dan Montgomery @BarzalGoat
 
Another welfare member. But he also holds an important job - Yukon GM. He also is known for S61-62 members from S61 VHLM finals fiasco (lines and such). He was heavily memed about this and while they aren't making fun of him anymore (because Shawn Glade exists), he has a truly legendary moment to brag about. Or he won't - this is not really a situation to be proud of. Anyways, Montgomery is doing nice in a promising Helsinki squad. 71 points in 63 games with ''only'' -11. I mean, Helsinki isn't supposed to compete so these stats are really nice.
 
4. $1,250,000 - Leph Twinger @DollarAndADream
 
Oh hey, I'm GM'ing this player! At some point, I was a teammate of Dollar in pretty much every sim leagues we were in. GOMHL's Ottawa and VHL's Toronto is what I recall more though. Especially Toronto - being a part of making history in this team can't be forgotten. Then I wastrying to help him with Petenis when he was GM'ing the Legion. And now it's vice versa and I believe this is the first time he's playing in Riga. Twinger had a very good last season and while the first half of S63 wasn't a spectacular one, I'm feeling like Twinger is starting to find his play again. Also, he's pretty much is the only power forward in our team.
 
5. $1,250,000 - Ismond Kingfisher @Spade18
 
The teammate and rival at the same time. After all, 'Fisher is fighting for the starting spot with Kallis. I don't know Spade very much, but I do know he actually can consider himself as the S1'er. Even if he went inactive in no time. Also, he is one of these fresh bloods that came in S56 (to become a S57 draftee) to start the VHL's reborn. He's a bit in Beaviss' shadow when we're talking about the recruitment, but he has a GM job. As about Ismond - he was created to fill the hole after the forced retirement of Arkander, but it appeared that NY was going to a rebuild anyways. Now he's a locked starter for this team. He isn't having spectacular stats, bu sometimes he's stealing games for his team hardly, like posting 76 saves out of 80 shots. Damn.
 
6. $1,000,000 - David Kiaskov @Exlaxchronicles
 
The player I was trying to get in FA, but he went to Seattle. Another fresh blood from S57 draft and also a steal of that draft as well. But I was not surprised about his draft position as much as his real life age. He's actually almost/or already is 53 now. WOAH. My eyes is still wide open. Let's talk about his player now. Kiaskov has an interesting build. It isn't really the best to have a HoF career , but at least he can do everything. And not having to pound good chunk of TPE in another attribute when switching positions is nice as well. He had three 76-point season in a row which is kinda funny, but looks like he's about  to set a new personal record in this season.
 
7. $1,000,000 - Sebastian Ironside @DollarAndADream
 
The player I was trying to get via trade, but the league put a stop on it. Ok, thanks for Kastelic then. I already said things about Dollar other than he's one of the calmest members in sim leagues. Sebastian switched to a center this season and this is definitely his breakout season. And it's nice to know he can keep this player too instead of a forced retirement after JB Rift goes up. It's just he will never be a Toronto player following next season.
 
8. $750,000 - Kisshan Shan @Kisshan
 
Kisshan really started with a bang when he joined this league. He was close to become a TPE whore, but he decided to calm down somewhere before the draft happened. But it's nice to see he didn't go inactive and still claiming welfare at least. Ok, he actually posted a brand related article this week, so he's even doing more than just welfare. And I'm starting to feel like he's becoming a bit more active again, but seems like he isn't going to push himself back to whoring for TPE's. Nothing wrong with it, it's not like you can't make a solid player if you're not capping every single week. Shan is currently playing in Yukon and he may have a nice achievement tracker payout. 72 points in 61 games, I think this is going to be more than 10 TPE. He is planned to be called up to Riga next season.
 
9. $750,000 - Samuel Gate @street
 
Streetlight is a well known member here and also in EFL too. The most interesting fact is I managed to recruit one of his players to a team I was AD'ing (Oregon Ducks). That was really the only useful move I made there lol. Here he had some break after Maxwell and mist4ke, but decided to return with Gate. He was one of contenders for being a #1 pick in the S61 draft, but got picked second by Quebec. Right now, he is more active in EFL than here, but he already managed to make Gate a force to be reckon with. His stats are not flashy, but as well as Jones he's helping with making Quebec's defence a brick wall.
 
10. $750,000 - Ryan Sullivan Jr. @Advantage
 
This is another attempt of returning to this from Advantage. Last couple of players didn't have much success, including Novacek that was drafted by me in S62 draft. But Dexter Lane was a legit player that even managed to win an award in uhmm....in Riga. Making a ''son of a HoF player'' isn't a new concept in sim leagues. Some of them were as good as their fathers, some of the failed. Only time will tell what's going to happen with this guy. Anyways, he's projected to go #1 in the upcoming draft which is cool. The another question is - will he become a GM again. He expressed his wish to managing a team again and cementing himself as the best GM ever. Stay tuned.
 
11. $500,000 - Scott Shawinganen @Cornflakers
 
Corn started pretty well in this league with having a good activity and earning TPE enough for being considered as the TOP 5 draftee. Shortly after the draft however, he started to fizzle out a bit. He named a reason for it - he simply doesn't have much possibilities for being as much active like once was. Not having other than mobile at home and work limited his chances on spending his time here in a pre-draft rate. But it's nice to see he didn't completely go inactive and I guess I can take his name out of a potential busts list in my article. As about Scott, he's yet another player in NY that has 61 points so far. No wondering why Romaris wanted to sign this player and eventually Corn accepted this deal.
 
12. $500,000 - Kyson Blake @TMI
 
I think nobody is more unique member than TLO in terms of having a very late peak in sim leagues. He reached his peak like, 10+ seasons after he signed to his first sim league or something? That's wild. But there are few more members with a similar story, like Peace and this man - TMI. He even had a player back then, but went inactive real quick. But the most crazy thing is he is none other than BWIII a.k.a. Philadelphia Liberty GM in NSFL. Which means he's a also GM'ing my player there. So it makes sense to snatch him in the S63 draft, right? While I'm thinking about this possibilty, let's look at his stats. 32 points in 61 games with Sasky. Considering that he made his recreate during the season and doesn't have 200 APE - a decent result.
 
13. $500,000 - Eric Parker @Eparker24
 
I don't know much about this member since he's not very vocal and I'm not a super active here either. But I just looked up to his update log and saw that he's a welfare member. So that figures. One interesting fact - Tagger was mentioning in his first mock that this player may be drafted by me. We shall see. He's also currently playing for Las Vegas so he's Random's teammate. Nice one. He's being a nice defenceman with 47 points and 53 shot blocks. Not a groundbreaking stat, but can't complain about this either.
 
14. $250,000 - Dan Baillie @wcats
 
Like TMI, this member didn't join the VHL this year. I believe he didn't even have a player until he created Baillie though. He is another welfare member, but is doing more than members who are only claiming practice facility and welfare. He's also doing press conferences and participating in VHL fantasy. You already can figure it out I don't know about this member either so I'm just naming his actions in this league. But seems like this player could be more promising than other welfare players. Dan is another player that plays in Yukon and playing in a contender team cut his playing time so he's doing much now (17 points in 61 games).
 
$250,000 - Diljodh @DilIsPickle
 
He only joined VHL a month-and-week ago, but already managed to become a notable one. He is very active on discord and having a decent activity on forums as well. He kinda reminds me of Penny since he likes to post memes as well. As you can figure it out I'm not very familliar with this member too since I basically went inactive on discord (only rarely posting something there). At this point he's a TPE whore and while I'm hoping he isn't gonna push him to his limits (since it's likely going to end up in a burnout) I'm also hoping he won't fade out either. Another Randoms' teammate in Las Vegas by the way. Also not having very heart pumping stats (27 points), but you can't expect something big when he joined after this season started.
 
 
 
So this is a short 2000+ word article about Netflix, it's members and players. Thanks for reading this.
 
That's it and I'm out.
 
6x2=12 TPE [this week]
6x3=18 [for next three weeks]
 
goes to Kallis
 
19.11 - 25.11.
26.11 - 03.12.
04.12 - 10.12.
11.12 - 17.12
 
 
 

Damn it Riga!

Naw DnD, we just have better defence and all our lines are firing on all cylinders.

I haven't been following the WJS at all but did just take a look at the recent game. Now there were a few standouts on team Canada and I thought a few on team world as well.
 
   Now I'd like to focus on a player from each team that had great games for their perspective clubs.
For team World once again, I'm going to talk about my Seattle team mate Mountain Thunder fist. @AdamEss This guy is a beast and I believe he's only going to get better at his game as long as he applies himself. 
 
   For team Canada my focus is on Dan Wilinsky, @oilmandan an underrated RW for NY.
 
The Bears Thunder fist played a strong game despite his club getting out shot 51 to 24 against a tough offensive team in the Canucks. He still managed an assist and was one of the few players to not be in the negatives when it came to the +/- stat.
Mountain was on top of his game once again, dishing out a game leading six hits and blocking eight shots during the match. He led all players in those stats. That should tell you how valuable he is to this WJ team and the Bears.
 
   Canada's Wilinsky played a solid but quiet game out there in the clubs victory.  No three stars selection but he managed to notch three helpers, was a + 2 in the +/- department and was third on the team/game in shots with seven.
On New York he's third in scoring with 22g and 19a in 52 games, on a young club that lacks any depth. 
  But while these two guys' take a back seat to their higher profile team mates, they none the less are both an underrated yet integral part of their clubs success this year, regardless where they are in the standings. 
 
2 + 1  = 3 TPE for the Kiaskov
 
 
 
 
 

Here I am grading the guy who approves my TPE for this!
Anyways, love the background colour scheme going on there.
I like the filter effect being used, gives it a comic book look and feel to it. Nice.
The colors are all decent in contrast and you have a nice subtle use.of saturation. Nice blend.
The idea of the large font layered between the player and the back drop is a good idea but you may have to guess what his last name is. The colors are enough of the same but also contrast from the background. Your smaller font style is plain but works but a little too dark and doesn't pop enough for me.
Nice man..6/6

Guess no one likes my phone graphics. Oh well, I rate it then.
Think I prefer the bottom SIG to the top one. Once again they're too big and should be condensed.
I like the background filter to soften it all up and how you've adjusted the lighting so its not so dark.
The scratch effect on the back drop is kind of cool..if you can notice it.
Pretty cool how the player is transparent in that you can see all the mountain yet still see most of the player clearly. Nice touch.
Font style is kinda cool to go along with the red neck Calgary cowboy appeal of the city.
Also like the logo next to the player.
Just a little too much saturation in his face I think.
Pretty good for an all phone gfx.

Aww man, how come Thunder fistfuck gets all the fights? Good win btw.

A good time for the hat trick. Plus a Thunderfist goal!