Spade18

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Username: Spade18
Player Name: Tullemore Dew
Recruited From: Returning
Age: 18
Position: C
Height: 76 in.
Weight: 200 lbs.
Birthplace: Ireland

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@VHLM GM

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Username: Spade18
Player Name: Tullemore Dew
Recruited From: Returning
Age: 18
Position: C
Height: 76 in.
Weight: 200 lbs.
Birthplace: Ireland

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@VHLM GM

I personally care a lot about insulin for life. They provide a lot for individuals and families who can't afford the drug they need to survive.

Literally 1984

Just give me all the draft picks, and I will make selections for all the teams and ensure parity (for the right price)

Tier 1 - 5 Winners - 5 uncapped TPE
@dasboot
@der meister
@fromtheinside
@JetsGoalie101
@MetalToday
 
Tier 2 - 5 Winners - $15 donation equivalent
@Ben
@JeffD
@npuBeT
@NSG
@Scurvy
 
Tier 3 - 4 Winners - Video Game of your choice
@Darth Kaprizov
@Frank
@Kendrick
@Thunfish
 
Tier 4 - 1 Winner - Nintendo Switch console
@Spade18

Congrats Spade! I've had my eye on one of those for years.

Good news everyone!
 
As you might have seen here, @McWolf is stepping away from the green team. What you likely didn't know is that @diamond_ace  will also be stepping down this off-season after an incredible tenure. I don't think I could possibility summarize how much D_A has done for the league better than his Builder article, so I'll include that for you all to peruse. Please join me in saying, thank you @diamond_ace ! 
 
What this does mean is we have the unique privilege of adding 2 new VHLM Commissioners at the same time! After reviewing the list of candidates that had put themselves forward for the position, we have decided on hiring: @Spartan and @Gustav!
 
Congratulations to the both of you!
- @Commissioner

19th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S84
Another exciting regular season has come to a close. That means we can dole out some regular season awards! Welcome everyone to the 19th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards honoring the highs and lows of S84! Thank you to everyone that reads this.
 
These awards have been created by me. There is no voting process and they are not officially recognized by the VHL Board of Governors. I wrote descriptions for most of these award names in the original award post.
 
For each award, I list the winners from the last 5 seasons. If you want to check out the award winners from every season, use this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sAZtX3bxVpPTIsKe1rSRVOenH1-iyWzbQEdR9ZvYOdU/edit?usp=sharing
 
I also document the “all-time” record for each category. Of course, by that I mean all-time for the existence of these awards, not all-time, all-time. Clear? Ok, good. Let’s get things underway!
 
 
The Pylon Award (worst +/- rating) – Ryan Li @Ryan Li 
 
After coming close to winning the award with a -59 last season, Ryan Li was determined to win it this year. His determination paid off. He captures the award with a -60 this season.
 
All-time record: S82 – creed -  -156
 
Last 5 Pylon Award Winners:
Season
Player
+ / -
S84
Ryan Li
-60
S83
Barron Kruulenstien
-66
S82
creed
-156
S81
chris foley
-96
S80
Nathan Steele
-77
 
 
 
The Gandhi Award (least penalty minutes, min 1,000 minutes played) – Florida Man @zepheter 
 
In what is probably the least likely name-award combination, Florida Man wins the Gandhi award by having only 2 PIM in 1,880 minutes played.
 
All-time record: S81 - Brendan Telker - 0 PIM, 2211 Minutes Played
 
Last 5 Gandhi Award Winners:
Season
Player
PIM
Minutes Played
S84
Florida Man
2
1880
S83
Mason Jones
2
2146
S82
Omi Aberg
2
2132
S81
Brendan Telker
0
2211
S80
Jakob Sosa
0
2052
 
 
 
The Major2 Award (most major penalties) - Cadmael Ixazaluoh @Vice 
 
Cadmeal earned nine majors this season, all of the were fighting majors. They had a symmetric 3-3-3 fight record. Rumor has it that they were going to get in more fights, but didn’t want to mess up their even record.
 
All-time Record: S77 – Randy Marsh - 14 Majors
 
Previous Major2 Award Winners:
Season
Player
Major Penalties
S84
Cadmael Ixazaluoh
9
S83
Brian Payne
11
S82
Owen Taylor
12
S81
Magnus Verlander
9
S80
Julian Nousiainen
10
 
 
 
The Timex Award (received most hits) – Duncan Idaho @OrbitingDeath  
 
The last couple of seasons, this award, the number of hits received directly lines up to the points leader. Duncan Idaho followed suit, they had the most points in the league and they received the most hits, with 316.
 
All-time Record: S82 – Bogdan Trunov - 408 Hits taken
 
Last 5 Timex Award Winners:
Season
Player
Hits Taken
S84
Duncan Idaho
316
S83
Saku Kotkakoivu
346
S82
Bogdan Trunov
408
S81
Lester Green
381
S80
Asher Reinhart
360
 
 
 
The John Wayne Award (most shots on goal) - Duncan Idaho @OrbitingDeath  
 
Duncan Idaho has always been a force on the ice. This season was no different. They led the league by taking 621 shots on goal.
 
All-time record: S82 – Jerome Reinhart - 713 Shots on goal
 
Last 5 John Wayne Award Winners:
Season
Player
Shots on Goal
S84
Duncan Idaho
621
S83
Saku Kotkakoivu
692
S82
Jerome Reinhart
713
S81
Jerome Reinhart
711
S80
Asher Reinhart
637
 
 
 
The “Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots blocked) - Alex Johnston @Alex 
 
In a very tight race, Alex beat out Duncan Idaho by one blocked shot (187 to 186) to claim this award.
 
All-time record:  S81 – Jerome Reinhart - 204 Own shots blocked
 
Last 5 HtBotB Award Winners:
Season
Player
Own Shots Blocked
S84
Alex Johnston
187
S83
Saku Kotkakoivu
189
S82
Taylor Mourning
195
S81
Jerome Reinhart
204
S80
Asher Reinhart
169
 
 
 
The “Can’t Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots missed) – Baby Bob @Baby Boomer 
 
Baby Bob netted this award by missing the next a league high 415 times.
 
All-time record: S81 – Jerome Reinhart - 532 Shots missed
 
Last 5 CHtBotB Award Winners:
Season
Player
Shots Missed
S84
Baby Bob
415
S83
Saku Kotkakoivu
509
S82
Jerome Reinhart
489
S81
Jerome Reinhart
532
S80
Asher Reinhart
455
 
 
 
The New Shin Pads Award (most blocked shots) – Jaromir Lemiuex @hockeyis66 
 
Jaromir Lemiuex used all sort of combinations to block more shots than anyone else in the league. 268 to be exact.
 
All-time record: S82 – creed - 460 Shots blocked
 
Last 5 New Shin Pads Award Winners:
Season
Player
Shots Blocked
S84
Jaromir Lemiuex
268
S83
Barron Kruulenstien
261
S82
creed
460
S81
Artair McCloud
237
S80
Chicken Wing
235
 
 
The Tired Legs Award (most minutes played) - Jerome Reinhart @MexicanCow123  
 
In an interesting twist, Jerome Reinhart was traded during the season, this led to them playing 74 games. Those two additional games gave them the extra time to win this award over normal 72 gamer, Igor Molotov @Dom. Jerome ended up with exactly 2400 minutes played.
 
All-time record: S82 – Chicken Wing – 2,512 Minutes played
 
Last 5 Tired Legs Award Winners:
Season
Player
Minutes Played
S84
Jerome Reinhart
2400
S83
Rhys Trenton
2374
S82
Chicken Wing
2512
S81
Artair McCloud and Ryan Vidot
2469
S80
Chicken Wing
2333
 
 
 
The Snap! Award (most power play minutes) - Napoleon Dynamite @thadthrasher 
 
Napoleon Dynamite danced his way to this award, spending 369 minutes on the powerplay. One minute more than runner-up Hari Singh Nalwa @Dil.
 
All-time record: S79 - Muffbeav - 454 power play minutes
 
Last 5 Snap! Award Winners:
Season
Player
PP Minutes
S84
Napoleon Dynamite
369
S83
Battre Sandstrom
339
S82
Tyler Reinhart
397
S81
Bogdan Trunov
397
S80
Scotty Kaberle
391
 
 
 
The 1 vs. 100 Award (most time on penalty kill) - Deron Nesbitt @AW13 
 
Deron was on the ice, killing penalties for 335 minutes.
 
All-time record: S79 - Gustislav Nasherov - 447 penalty kill minutes
               
Last 5 1 vs. 100 Award Winners:
Season
Player
PK Minutes
S84
Deron Nesbitt
335
S83
Zeedayno Chara
340
S82
Hulk Hogan 2
359
S81
Sven Eightnine
319
S80
Sven Reikkinen
346
 
 
 
The Sean Archer Award (highest face-off win %, min 1,000 faceoffs) – Paul Atreides @Mr_Hatter 
 
Apparently there is a big mess-up in the index for Faceoff stats.
Based on the index, the winner is Igor Molotov with 33.09% of 3,835 faceoffs taken. That number changes when you go to their individual page in the index, which shows 52.10% faceoffs won. That’s still nowhere near what the actual winner would have, so I had to dive a little deeper. The individual leaders page appears to have the actual values displayed. According to that, Paul Atreides gets the award by winning 61.22% of 3,040 faceoffs taken.
 
All-time record: S74 - Brock Louth - 63.72% face-offs won
               
Last 5 Sean Archer Award Winners:
Season
Player
Face Off Pct
S84
Paul Atreides
61.22%
S83
Zeedayno Chara
63.17%
S82
Pistil Stamen
62.10%
S81
Aloe Dear
60.70%
S80
Dakota Lamb
60.66%
 
 
 
The Castor Troy Award (lowest face-off win %, min 1,000 faceoffs) - Pistol Pete @PistolP 
 
In the history of running these awards, there’s been situations with the stats where I had to decide a tie-breaker or figure out who to give an award to on the fly. I’ve never encountered a situation like this though. The results displaying in the index itself for FO% are inaccurate. That’s really making it difficult to figure out the actual winner. The only thing I can come up with is to use the dreaded asterisk. With the previous award, I was able to get the stats of the actual winner by going to the individual leaders page. Unfortunately for this award, that page only displays the best and not the worst. So, this one is kind of a guess.
 
Pistol Pete wins it with an inaccurate 25.12% of faceoffs won, on their player page it says they won 43.73% of their faceoffs, which probably has them in the running if the stats were accurate.
 
I’m not going through an looking at every single person’s page to figure it out. Maybe I’ll change this after the fact if someone can send me proof of the actual winner.
 
I really don’t understand how this happened, but the show must go on….
 
 
All-time record: S79 - Gustislav Nasherov – 29.60% face-offs won.
               
Last 5 Castor Troy Award Winners:
Season
Player
Face Off Pct
S84*
Pistol Pete
43.73%
S83
Gregory Bates
31.86%
S82
Eeli Rantanen
30.47%
S81
Otto Numminen
44.06%
S80
Frank Funk Jr
39.19%
 
 
 
The Triple Deke Award (most penalty shot goals) - Zach Kisslinger II @Kisslinger 
 
Zach Kisslinger II finishes in first place for this award by scoring 7 penalty shot goals. The next closest was 4 goals. Great job!
 
All-time record: S67 - Veran Dragomir and S78 - Thomas Landry II - 8 penalty shot goals
               
Last 5 Triple Deke Award Winners:
Season
Player
Penalty Shot Goals
S84
Zach Kisslinger II
7
S83
Zeedayno Chara
7
S82
Baby Bob
4
S81
Armani Calamari
5
S80
Calvin Hobbes
5
 
 
 
The Rocky Award (most fights won) – Paul Atreides @Mr_Hatter 
 
Mr. Atreides brought down the house with a fantastic 4-0-2 fight record this season. The 4 wins nabbed him the award outright, but 0 losses means he would have likely won the tiebreaker if there were on anyway. For those interested in last year’s rookie sensation Brian Payne @Scurvy, they followed up their all-time great season with a much more average 2-3-1 fight record for this season. No one said winning fights is easy!
 
All-time record: S83 Brian Payne – 7 fights won
               
Last 5 Rocky Award Winners:
Season
Player
Fights Won
S84
Paul Atreides
4
S83
Brian Payne
7
S82
Owen Taylor
4
S81
Pistil Stamen
3
S80
Jared Carter
4
 
 
 
 
The Glass Joe Award (most fights lost) – Deagun Rust @Spade18 
 
Deagun Rust may have needed some oil to help them out. Their fight record was a league worst 0-3-2. Their three fight losses tied them with Brian Payne @Scurvyand Cadmael Ixazaluoh @Vice, but Rust loses on the tie breaker.
 
All-time record: S74 - Lee Xin and S69 Rusty Shackleford - 5 fights lost
               
Last 5 Glass Joe Award Winners:
Season
Player
Fights Lost
S84
Deagun Rust
3
S83
Kyle Glass
3
S82
Vasile Lamb
2
S81
Magnus Verlander
3
S80
Magnus Verlander
3
 
 
 
The Stars Award (most stars won) – Duncan Idaho @OrbitingDeath  
 
Duncan Idaho claims this award for the second time in their career. They amassed a fantastic 33 total stars this season. A very even-keel 10 1st stars, 10 2nd stars, and 13 3rd stars. Special recognition to both Nico Pearce @Spartan and Baby Bob @Baby Boomer who tied for the league lead with 15 first stars. Also shoutout to Papa Emeritus @Beketov, who led all goalies with 24 total stars.
 
All-time record: S76 - Mikko Lahtinen – 34 total stars
               
Last 5 Stars Award Winners:
Season
Player
Total Stars
S84
Duncan Idaho
33
S83
Zeedayno Chara
31
S82
Taylor Mourning
33
S81
Justin Lose
28
S80
Duncan Idaho
28
 
 
 
The “Always a Bridesmaid” Award (most stars without winning 1st star) – Asher Reinhart @rjfryman 
 
Asher was burned by never being given a first star. But they get to claim this award because of it, their 13 stars without a first start ties the all-time record and wins them the award for this season.
 
All-time record: S84 – Asher Reinhart, S72 - Lewis Dawson, and S67 Dan Baillie - 13 stars
               
Last 5 Bridesmaid Award Winners:
Season
Player
Stars
S84
Asher Reinhart
13
S83
Tui Sova
12
S82
Gustav Hjalmarsson
9
S81
Donny Carter
8
S80
Mistxh J
12
 
 
The Biggest Backpack Award (player with the largest difference in points from the rest of their team) - Nico Pearce @Spartan 
 
Nico was the centerpiece of the Helsinki offense. They scored 32 more point than their next teammate, Nezuko @Baozi.
 
All-time record: S82 – Taro Tsujimoto - 52 points more than nearest teammate
           
Last 5 Backpack Award Winners:
Season
Player
Point Difference from nearest teammate
S84
Nico Pearce
32
S83
Saku Kotkakoivu
23
S82
Taro Tsujimoto
52
S81
Alex Johnston
32
S80
Nathan Perry and Julian Nousiainen
22
 
 
 
The Anniversary Award (rank in total points matches season number) - DB III @wcats 
 
This is season 84, so the award goes to the player in 84th place in total points. Congratulations to DB III! They recorded 51 points this season, good enough for 84th place.
 
Last 5 Anniversary Award Winners:
Season
Player
Points
S84
DB III
51
S83
Robert Wilk
54
S82
Jakub Brozik
71
S81
AJ Williams
76
S80
Frank Funk Jr
71
 
 
 
 
The Eggshell Award (goalie with most overtime losses) - Cole Pearce @N0HBDY 
 
Cole Pearce and Oskar Lindbergh @Doomsday tied with 9 OT losses. Pearce gets the award because they played in less games.
 
All-time record: S82 - Sirkants Klamasteris, S78 – Calvin Harvey, S75 - Doug Dimmadome, and S71 Jaxx Hextall - 11 OT games lost
 
Previous Eggshell Award Winners:
Season
Player
Overtime Games Lost
S84
Cole Pearce
9
S83
David Davis
9
S82
Sirkants Klamasteris
11
S81
Papa Emeritus
9
S80
Aksu Maronen
10
 
 
 
The Jason Voorhees Award (most PIM by a Goalie) - Oskar Lindbergh @Doomsday 
 
Clearly being upset by the number of OT losses, Oskar Lindbergh committed 16 PIM, more than any other goalie this season.
 
All-time record: S76 - Doug Dimmadome - 29 PIM
 
Previous Jason Voorhees Award Winners:
Season
Player
PIM
S84
Oskar Lindbergh
16
S83
Ben Dahl
14
S82
Thadius Sales
18
S81
Barry Taffe
23
S80
Tater Tot
14
 
 
  
The Poke Check Award (highest % of penalty shots stopped, min 10 penalty shots against) - David Davis @Josh 
 
David Davis saved saves 80% of the 25 penalty shots they faced. That’s enough to lead the league and win the award.
 
All-time record: S81 – Tater Tot – 100% penalty shots stopped (10 shots faced)
 
Previous Poke Check Award Winners:
Season
Player
Penalty Shots Stopped
S84
David Davis
80.0%
S83
Dexter Vaughn
80.0%
S82
Tater Tot
88.2%
S81
Tater Tot
100.0%
S80
Kunibuni UnGuri
81.2%
 
 
 
That wraps it up for this season! Another year, another successful award ceremony! Congratulations and/or condolences to all the winners! As always, please provide any suggestions, insights, or thoughts in the comments. Thank you all for reading and continuing to make this a successful column!
 
 
Over 2,000 words. Will claim for 4 weeks.

For those of you who do not know me, I joined the league in the early 60s (August 2018). When I came in, the VHL was recovering from what was a very rough decade for the most part. Many would consider some of the early classes of the 60s (62, 63, and 64 especially) as the rebirth of a league that at least a few people thought could be on its last legs. So how did a league that actually had to shut down two franchises in S58 grow to the point of needing back to back expansions just 8 seasons later? I'll take a look at the timeline.
 
In my opinion, the simplest ways to examine the overall activity level of a league all involve the draft(s) in some way or another. #1 of course being the total number of players selected, and #2 being how long the draft goes on before the picks turn into what are obviously shots in the dark.
 
In the final draft before retraction, S57, let's look at those figures.
 
Total players selected: 30
Subjectively, the draft seems to turn to random picks around pick 14. Obviously there's no hard set objective way to measure this, but I think taking multiple sub-50 TPE players in the 2nd round tells us all we need to know about the overall class quality.
 
Two months later, we're hit with this announcement.
 
Goodbye Stockholm and Cologne, and the league returns to 8 teams. No surprise from me given that the average team in the last draft didn't even get 1.5 meaningful picks. As an aside here - reading that thread really makes me feel for @Advantage and I'm glad he got a shot relatively quickly thereafter with the Malmo expansion. 
 
Now, let's take a quick look at the draft classes I mentioned earlier as being a big part of the resurgence, and just stick with # of players selected to keep it simple.
S62: 29 players
S63: 32 players
S64: 32 players
 
Obviously, looking at this, you can see my argument falling apart LOL. I'm going to have to eyeball it and see how many seemingly non-random-dart picks there were in each of those.
S62: 16
S63: 25
S64: 22
 
Now we can see specifically in those last two how even though the draft may not have necessarily grown in quantity to a massive level, the quality runs quite a bit deeper. In S63 in particular that's 3 players per team (double what it was in S57!). Shortly after those drafts, S67 entered as an absolute banger with 59 players selected. By this point, just over 12 months after the VHL was forced into retraction, the league announced back to back expansion franchises. The Moscow Menace in S65 followed immediately by the Malmo Nighthawks in S66. It only took two further seasons before the D.C. Dragons and the Prague Phantoms entered the fray. Overall, not even 2 years had passed between retraction and 4 expansion franchises.
 
As for why this actually happened? Obviously there's a multitude of reasons. The number 1 thing that should jump to everyone's minds at the time is the stellar work of the recruitment team at the time, where @MubbleFubbles and @Spade18's names jump to mind. In addition to that, there were several active members that were dedicated to engaging with new members and definitely made me more likely to come back those first few weeks (shoutout to @Beaviss, @Banackock, and @ShawnGlade for filling my DMs that first month). Lastly, there is an obvious snowballing effect to recruitment, in that members who are enjoying the league are very likely to invite their friends, with Beaviss and I probably recruiting a few dozen people between the two of us in a 12 month period.
 
Anyways, thanks for coming to my annual article. I hope there were at least a few interesting tidbits here and that it wasn't all rambling. See ya!
 
 

So here it is, VHL is going further into the teenage years as it's celebrating the 15 year anniversary. Some of current members here aren't even that old so that's something. So the theme week said we can look back and reflect and I guess I can do that. Most of memories are gonna revolve around my GM tenure since uhhhh....out of 44 seasons I already spent here I was a managing a team for 35 seasons and counting (including Bratislava).
 
My first comeup - late 40's.
 
Don't exactly remember in which season, but I became something bigger than ''clicker'' with Zeptenbergs in the second half of S40's. I even was leaving teams to FA couple of times and I think this means something. Later I even started to do medias, though it was very uncertain for how long I could last with the grading system we had these days. Luckily for me, that system was abolished which gave me a breathing room and perhaps this was one of main reasons why I actually stayed in this league.
 
Did I have any part in making VHL toxic in S50's?
 
I think, not. Like always I was being a bystander and making lots of side comments in hot threads because why not. You know the feeling when you're reading the hot shitstorm and then comes members who are spamming some random shit ''for fun'' and killing the whole vibe of the thread. I was being like that. I remember that Riga locker when most of times we were discussing Helsinki and @boubabi in particular. That was also pretty much peak Riga forum locker under my tenure. Though the S76 thread blew out the water every other season post number wise, but these days we had more than two members participating in locker. Anyways, yeah VHL was suffering in 50's. Burnout from PP2 and constant drama made members less invested in this league. And new members never really came cause nobody had the energy to recruit. Though ironically these were the days I really started to flourish. Bratislava and then Riga GM, the rise of my activity, making good players...
 
Most fun times #1:
 
...speaking of which. I really was having fun seeing some members in shook when 450 TPE Krīgars started to light up the league for some reason. Well, with the help with the 440 TPE inactive Locke. You think 70's meta is something new? Riga was out there exploiting this in late 50's already, though I obviously never knew anything about 40 passing meta stuff. Also, Petenis in mid 50's was something lol.
 
PP2
 
Another part of history of the league. Not a small part either, even to this day this is being mentioned. The higher ups were trying to save the league from dying by implementing idea from @Molholt. We did get more players, but also on top of that we got more players that got burned out from trying to work with 2 players at the same time. By the way, Krīgars was the product of PP2. At least it gave VHL more hall of fame players...eh?
 
Most fun times #2:
 
It correlates with the previous two points. Winning is fun and having back to back is even better. Everything worked in our and my favor. Getting a hall of fame goalie for cheap, meta being on our side. For obvious reasons I was a fan of that.
 
Beaviss.
 
At this point pretty much iconic member for VHL. He came in S56 and quickly climbed up in ranks with his hella active energy. Seeing that this league is not far from crumbling he decided to do something. No, not to quit VHL. He and his ''right hand'' @Spade18 actually managed to do a proper recruitment which actually gave results in rather quick fashion. Some of the first wave first gens that came in early 60's are still in this league. His efforts in recruitment brought us to the first point of culmination - the S66 draft which was the biggest and deepest the VHL has ever seen by that time. He kept his energy until mid 70's when the league was already very far away from the 50's shitshow times. @Beaviss
 
VHL portal.
 
''It goes hand in hand'' - pretty much recruitments relations to portal. The idea that was started by @Devise(?) was done in real life by @Will in early 60's. Then it was and still being improved by @Josh and @Dil. The portal is named one of the biggest reasons why the recruitment was so successful. Earning TPE and updating player became an easier job. It made VHL more casual which appeared to be a positive since more members were buying into this idea.
 
My first step down - S54.
 
Yall out there thought I only started this in mid 60's? In my very first season in Riga I had a dubious trade idea which never worked so I went to cry a river to not so oldhead GM @Banackock and told him I'm about to step down. Oh if he ever knew who will still be Riga GM in 31 seasons he would probably told me that this job is not for me. Instead, he was telling me to not give up....well I didn't lol.
 
My least favorite playoff series.
 
S65, Toronto 4-1 Riga. Thanks I hated that. I was so pissed I even was typing in caps lock on and I pretty much never do that even when I'm mad. So you know how livid was I after losing game 5.
 
Dead puck era (S64 - 72)
 
The successful recrutment effort brought lots of fresh blood into this league which meant we had less horrible teams that could be dunked on. The scoring league wide went down really quick and even having expansion teams didn't stop overall scoring from plummeting. We were witnessing some fascinating achievements like winning the scoring title with as low as 88 points. Goalies for sure were eating really good these days.
 
Second big rectuitment wave (S72-75)
 
Well, you could say it wasn't as much as recruitment crew job as it was from something unfortunate thing. That thing was named C-19 and the lockdowns that were a result of this virus. People had nothing much to do at home all the times and VHL was the one way how to spend the time. Regardless if you were a sim league veteran or a newbie. The draft classes were really booming these days which culminated in the biggest draft in VHL history - S75. That was really something huge and I'm pretty glad I had lots of picks there hah. Some of newbies from that timeline are already holding high positions in this league and one of them was even a commish for a moment. Truly great days.
 
My least favorite period (S77-81)
 
I think I don't need to explain again why. Good summer, shit results, lots of job. All of that came up in one time and drove me out of the league for the most part. My activity during that time was the worst since early Zeptenbergs days. Thanks, I hated that too.
 
Meta/high scoring (S76-82)
 
I have to say, the first seedings of that were planted earlier by @FrostBeard's Malmo. Even in S71 when he tried to rebuild during the season I felt like the players he got from that big Riga/Malmo trade actually made this team more offensive based as their builds were scoring friendly. That even helped them to leapfrog Helsinki for the last playoff spot though before that trade they were trailing behind. Couple of seasons later he assembled players that were really about scoring and not much else and that worked pretty well. Not without Condor's help of course, but still. Soon enough, they won a championship. In fairness, I doubt Frost had any idea about making the scoring heavy team, he just was drafing and trading for players that were fitting into their timeline and that's really about it. Neither other GM's were watching him like that. But something here was really up - get more scoring first players; do not even bother for physical or passers and get what you want. Other GM's were starting to do the same stuff (though again, I don't think Malmo was the reason). Year by year we were witnessing teams getting more scoring based until @Nykonax said fuck it and assemble a 40 passing team. I think we all know how it went for his managed Vancouver and why the hybrid system was implemented in the first place.
 
VHLE (S80 - )
 
Something nobody ever thought it would happen. A third league. The so called ''C-19 recruitment'' also brought a good amount for clickers who weren't that active to have a big role in a team, but still were decent enough to have a spot in a team. Soon enough teams were having large problems to land them anywhere since they had no cap or roster space. In the attempt of these 300-400 TPE clickers not ending up without a team this league was created.
 
 
Alright, enough about history stuff I'm tired and I'm off to sleep soon.
 
That's it and I'm out.

I got 1st star but didnt have any fights?... 
 
... I dont understand.

Poopy Peepants beats up B-NYA C4 at 6:04 of 1st period
Poopy Peepants (DCD) for instigated a fight (Game Misconduct) at 6:04
Poopy Peepants ejected from game at 6:04 of 1st period
 
Get on my level.

Paul Atreides and Duncan Idaho fight to a draw at 5:38 of 3rd period
 
Was this scene from the books or the movies? @OrbitingDeath  @Mr_Hatter

We spoke earlier about the draft, and spoke about it's successes, and after the draft completed, the roster still had to make some final changes to be considered 'complete' also. The first big step was signing the rookies that LA intended to have play up, and then of course just fill out the roster as best they could. This season, is going to be the season of rookies as Cameron Elsby @Spence King makes the jump to the pro league after officially signing an extension with the club, as well as Art Vandelay @Gustav (1st OA pick) and Callum Murray @Berocka (3rd OA Pick). Returning teammates included Finn Davis @M1nT, Nic McMuffin @Ente2997, DB III @wcats, Deagun Rust @Spade18 and Barron Kruulenstein @LefLop. As also mentioned in our previous article, James Glove Dropper @Jamomayo joined the team and now... Bob Vladovechsenkchushkin @Grape has filled out the roster. 
 
6 Forwards, 4 Defenders & 1 Goalie... this team looks like a dream. While they may be underdogs and may look less fierce than some of the other rosters, the LA Stars do plan to make a push this season & especially next season as they look to continue to grow together. 

I didn't include theme week ... lol

Glad to make this list, not really but hey, I still have a stat near a possible HOFer so I’ll take it

Good... Good.... I'm here to fight, not to score.
 
Let the hate flow through you

I'm ready to sit in the box boss.

@JardyB10thanks for the shout out my guy.
 
also, as an unironic fighting and leadership build I can now say that the blue team is racist against fighters and I will be unionizing and tearing this racist racist league down and will be taking this to the media.  My people will not be marginalized.

thnx bb

Grit has fighting and checking in it 🙂

I don't wanna read all that

speaking of efficiency

Vasteras receives:
Bob Vladovechsenkchushkin
S83 OSL 2nd

Oslo receives:
Deagun Rust


This trade has been accepted by all parties and is pending league approval.