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Two consecutive blown 3rd period leads

1. The Lynx just won Game 7, defeating the Halifax 21st 2-1, how were you able to help the team win the series tonight? 2. After going down 3-2 in the series, what was said in the locker room that eventually led to the series comeback? 3. Who was the X-factor for Ottawa this series? 4. Do you think this Lynx team has what it takes to win the Founders Cup? 5 You face a tough San Diego team next round, what will be the keys to victory for you guys? 6. Whose draft stock has risen the most after their 1st round performance?

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Borrowing a concept from MLB The Show

This is very likely due to the smaller player pool at the time, especially in the very early seasons (pre-S15). Petr Shirokov is the most egregious example I can think of off the top of my head.

1. Did you expect the team to make a trade? Yes, I did. We started off very hot to begin the season, but have cooled off immensely and are sort of floundering in the standings right now. We absolutely needed scoring help. 2. How do you think the acquisition of Sarkanis will affect the team? I think Sarkanis will drastically improve our offense, which has gone very cold in the 2nd half of the season. It felt like we went through a stretch where we were getting shut out every other game. 3. How did your player welcome Sarkanis to the team? Neutron welcomed him to the team by showing Sarkanis his vintage duck figurine collection. 4. Should the Ottawa Lynx get a mascot? What would we name it? Yes, and it should be a massive, 30-foot tall animatronic Mallard. 5. Whats a rule you wish you could add to the VHL? Not necessarily a rule, but I wish that the VHL was stricter/more stringent on what content automatically gets 6 TPE. In a league that is already very luck-based with the sim, having an auto-6 sort of de-incentivizes people to put out quality content. 6. How excited are you for us to get to playoffs in a few weeks? Decently excited, but I am more excited for the draft tbh.

I check my Player Page before I even breathe in the morning. I try to limit my time on the VHL to only while driving or operating heavy machinery.

OTTAWA, Ontario - As the S96 campaign draws to a close, S97 draftee Hugh Neutron has largely been a disappointment offensively for the 2nd-place Ottawa Lynx. Despite consistently holding the top spot in practice hours for the S97 draft class for weeks, his time in the practice facility has not led to on-ice success for the Retroville native. In 56 games played so far this season, Neutron has only managed to accumulate a measly 19 points, which is quite a far cry from the 21 points (in 18 games!) he put up with the Halifax 21st last season. To give Neutron credit though, he was playing top line minutes on the 21st last season, whilst this season he is playing on the 2nd pairing with journeyman defenseman Masa Akimoto. Instead of relying on Neutron to anchor their blueline like Halifax did last season, the Lynx are instead led by S96 2nd overall pick, River Harrington, who is putting up an MVP-caliber season so far.

I always appreciated that you went against the leaguewide stigma at the time of being anti-Vasteras to sign an extension there with Toriyama, especially since you had bounced from team to team with him quite a bit already, if I recall correctly.

1. Fiancée and I dressed up as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad. 2. I would love to have played with Pan Daffleck, as I don't think I've played with any of Green/OrbitingDeath's players yet. 3. Tend to his Duck Figurine collection and read magazines about Pie. 1. What, in your opinion, is the team with the worst current prospect pool in the VHL? 2. Can you think of the time that you were the most proud of your VHL player? 3. If you could add an expansion franchise to the VHL, where would you put it?

I was in the midst of claiming a multi-week PT before Theme Week was announced, so the capped TPE for this is for the Week ending November 17.

S31 Davos Dynamo - The notoriously infamous [but successful] GM Tyler Barabash @Bushito went inactive early in the season, leaving the players on the team to pick up the pieces. Thankfully for Davos, their roster included five players whose agents are Hall-of-Fame builders: Phil Rafter @Phil, Felix Peters @gregreg, Ying Qin @Baozi, David Smalling @Knight, Emerson Byer @frescoelmo. With the veteran leadership at the helm, the Davos locker-room was able to submit lines and set strategies, culminating in a playoff run that saw the Dynamo dispatch the Riga Reign in 6 games and the New York Americans in 7, with HoF forward Phil Rafter scoring the cup-clinching goal at 12:44 of the 3rd period. “Am I eligible to like dicks this?” - VHL Admins & Commissioners used to have a lot of fun; @JardyB10, then a commish, changed the word-filter from “claim” to “I like dicks!”. Before the portal, members had to post whenever they “claimed” a special Point Task with a post in the thread saying such. Then a new member, @Devise, asked in a PT Giveaway thread, “Am i eligible to claim this? If so, claim!”, which ergo posted as “Am i eligible to I like dicks this!? If so, I like dicks!”, which doesn’t seem extremely hilarious in hindsight, but I do remember it being much funnier back then, and I think Jardy even had a screenshot of the post in his forum signature for a while. DDOS Attack - The VHL’s first forum was an invisionfree forum (which can still actually be viewed on the Internet Wayback Machine HERE), but before the switch to our current forum hosting site, there was another, the name of which is currently escaping me. Regardless, the forum switched from invisionfree to the site that I am talking about in the early S30’s, but was actually DDoS’d by an unhappy member (I believe their player’s name was either Edward Eldred or Edward Eldritch, something along those lines). I recall attempting to log in, only to be met with a 404 error; thankfully there was a large population of the VHL on the SHL, and it was there that I was able to learn what had happened. Rebuilding the old site was tough, as we basically had to rely on Google Caches and the Wayback Machine to get Player Pages, Trade Threads, Signings, etc. It was a lot of tough work that was indeed pretty stressful at times and we lost a good chunk of members, but somehow we managed to pull it off. I’m pretty sure nowadays the forum is backed up monthly or so to prevent this from happening again; for a minute there it really did feel like the VHL might have gone belly-up. ~455 Words

Claiming Week 3 of 3

my god. we suck now

The VHL exists in our universe in our timeline. The players age 8x as fast as humans

Have you ever ventured outside the VHL to sim leagues other than hockey? If so, which? What position is more enjoyable for you in the VHL, Offense or Defense? Do you think that the VHL should find a way to use the updated version of the sim in order to have Giveaways and Takeaways as a stat? Is there any accolade/achievement in the VHL that you haven't achieved yet? If so, what is it? Over the course of your VHL career, who would you say has been your biggest rival (member and/or playerwise)? Have you ever demanded a trade? If so, why, and if not, what was the closest you were to demanding one?