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    VHL Donation Index

    in VHL Donations

    Posted · Edited by Corco

    Season 71 Donation

    *I made this donation before @Beaviss' announcement thread about donation changes, so I'm hoping I'm still able to get the 4 rewards?

    Doubles Week

    Doubles Week

    5 Uncapped TPE

    Free Week

     

     

    Date:    March 16, 2020
    Transaction ID:    2536-9008-7496-4893
    Donation to:    jeffory_james@yahoo.ca
    Donation amount:    $20.00 CAD
     

    Broken portal

    in VHL League Discussion

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, Beketov said:

    For me it’s not even about how often we can do the updates; though that’s a nice bonus, it’s the ease of it. I think I have to click maybe 10 times to update every player. That process used to be a pile of manually entering numbers into a spreadsheet, it was a shitshow.

    I remember when Jardy used to sim, your player attributes were lucky to get updated more than once during the season; it used to drive me insane.

    S70 Playoff All-Time Stat Notes

    in VHL.com Articles

    Posted

    • @hedgehog337's Kallis Kriketers retires having moved into 3rd all-time for most playoff games as a goaltender with 73; only @Mike's Mike Szatkowski Jr. (77) and @CowboyinAmerica's Hans Wingate (80) have more. Kriketers also moved up to 2nd all-time in playoff losses as a goaltender (31); @Higgins's Tuomas Tukio and @scoop's Benjamin Glover are tied in 1st place with 33 each.
    • @Beketov's Mikko Lahtinen set a rookie record for most penalty minutes in one postseason! Lahtinen spent an entire game's worth of time in the sin bin in during the S70 playoffs, surpassing the previous record holder, @Phil Villeneuve in S37, by 19 minutes. Lahtinen's turned into a pugilist in the postseason, as he received FOUR five minute majors for fighting, including two in one single game!
    • @Enorama's Ryan Kastelic retires tied 22nd all-time in playoff points (76). He also finishes his career tied 18th all-time in postseason assists (47).
    • @Jubo07's Julian Borwinn finishes off his career tied for 20th in playoff goals (31).

    Toronto Legion Weekly Presser

    in Team Press Conferences

    Posted

    1. The playoffs are finally over with the Moscow Menace winning their first title! Who do you believe was the most unsung hero during their playoff run?

    2. Which Legion players do you see making their Nation's World Cup Squads this offseason?

    3. Erik Killinger will be Toronto's only 1st round selection this season, barring a trade up into the 1st round; do you see GM Peace making a move to get into the 1st round to select a player?

    4. Are there any targets in free agency you would like to see Toronto go after?

    5. How do you think Toronto's rookies Erik Killinger, Kristopher McDagg, and Jaxx Hextall will perform next season?

    6. What are your player goals for next season?

    Career Records and Their Chances of Being Broken

    in Archived Media Spots

    Posted · Edited by Corco

    It’s been a long 70 seasons in the Victory Hockey League; around 2,000 individual players have skated on VHL ice in those 70 seasons. Something I’ve always loved was how meticulous the league is at maintaining its storied history, and how well we take care of our record books. In this article I’ll take a look at every mainstream individual player stat record and attempt to determine its ability to be broken, so without further ado, lets begin.

     

     

    Games Played

    Record: 648

    Record Holder(s): Sterling Labatte & Markus Lidstrom

    Likelihood of Being Broken: Never (0%)

     

    Hall of Famer defenseman Sterling Labatte and Markus Lidstrom will forever hold the Games Played record so long as the league doesn’t make any rule changes that increase career length. Thanks to a technicality in the early days of the league, Labatte and Lidstrom were able to play a record-nine VHL seasons, culminating for a total of 648 games. To my knowledge, the league has no intention of increasing the maximum career length, so Labatte and Lidstrom’s record is likely one of the safest on this list.


     

    Goals

    Record: 599

    Record Holder(s): Scotty Campbell

    Likelihood of Being Broken: Never (0%)

     

    Expect to see Scotty Campbell’s name a lot on this list; I even considered omitting him from this list because most of his records will never even be close to broken, but I digress. Campbell’s record of 599 Goals (really wish he scored just one more, but oh well) will never even come close to being eclipsed, especially with the amount of league parity that exists now; no other player in league history even has 450 goals, let alone 500. The highest goal scorer in recent memory is @Beketov's Matt Thompson, who scored a total of 422 in the S60s;  it’s very safe to say that Campbell will forever be the VHL’s goal-scoring king.


     

    Assists

    Record: 639

    Record Holder(s): Scotty Campbell

    Likelihood of Being Broken: Never (0%)

     

    I told you that we would be seeing Campbell’s name a lot on this list; his 639 career assists are 59 more than 2nd place defender Japinder Singh. While I would still consider this record untouchable, I would say that it’s not AS untouchable as the goals record. If the league expands again and parity decreases to the levels it was in the S20s/30s, I could see someone somehow approaching this record, but the chances of that are one in a million. @Quik’s Mats Johnsson is the highest assist compiler in recent memory, reaching a career total of 469 in 8 seasons between Stockholm, Calgary, Seattle, and Helsinki.


     

    Points

    Record: 1,239

    Record Holder(s): Scotty Campbell

    Likelihood of Being Broken:  (0%)

     

    Shocker. I’ve heard that there were rumors of rigging when Scotty Campbell played (as he was the simmer back then I believe), and while people are always making claims like that when a player does well, I can’t blame people for accusing him. The guy scored over one THOUSAND points; no other player has, or ever will, do that again. If scotty was indeed rigging (which I don’t believe, because to rig that hard for 8 seasons would be a pain in the ass and extremely pathetic), I can only imagine that he would go into the sim, boost all of his ratings to the max, sim, and then return them to their original levels before exporting the updated index. With the current parity in the league it will be tough for a player to ever even break 900 points; Cast was the closest recently, scoring 846.


     

    +/-

    Record: +643 & -345

    Record Holder(s): Scotty Campbell (+) & Sam Pouza (-)

    Likelihood of Being Broken: Never (0%) [+] & Extremely Unlikely (10%) [-]

     

    Once again, nobody will likely come close to Campbell’s record; @STZ’s Unassisted is the closest behind Scotty, and he is over 100 short (+530) of the record. Interestingly enough, the top 10 isn’t filled with players from the VHL’s early days; only Campbell and fellow HoFer Josh Vestiquan have played in the VHL pre-S10 from that group. On the other end of the spectrum is Sam Pouza; Pouza is an interesting player, he finished his career in the relatively exclusive 2,000 Hit club, and scored over half a point per game. Unfortunately, he won’t be remembered for his positive accolades; Pouza is the unfortunate record holder for the worst career +/- rating in history, at a whopping minus-345. Pouza has none other than the S19-S21 New York Americans to thank for this, as he compiled a mind-blowing -204 rating in those seasons combined.


     

    Penalty Minutes

    Record: 1858

    Record Holder(s): Peter Payne

    Likelihood of Being Broken: Likely (70%)

     

    Finally we come across our 1st record that will likely be broken! Noted enforcer Peter Payne spent over 1,800 minutes in the sin bin during his career spanning S8-S15. The next closest to Payne record is @Tagger’s Edwin Encarnacion, who retired only 53 penalty minutes shy of Payne’s record. More recently, Luc-Pierre Lespineau-Lebrunette finished his career 292 PIM short of Payne’s record in S66, but he only played 7 seasons; I have no doubt in my mind that if Lespineau-Lebrunette played a full 8 seasons, he would have surpassed Payne’s mark.


     

    Hits

    Record: 2769

    Record Holder(s): Zach Parechkin

    Likelihood of Being Broken: Unlikely (25%)

     

    @DollarAndADream’s Zach Parechkin set the current Hits record during his final season in S53, and it looks like nobody will be coming close anytime soon! There are currently no active players within 700 hits of Parechkin’s record, but I feel that if a player made a build solely chasing hits, then they might be able to overtake the Hall of Fame winger.


     

    Shots Blocked

    Record: 1407

    Record Holder(s): Markus Lidstrom

    Likelihood of Being Broken: Plausible (50%)

     

    Lidstrom makes his 2nd appearance on this list, having been a human sandbag in his 9 season career. You could also make the argument that this record should belong to Edwin Encarnacion, as 99% of the VHL has only played 8 seasons, and Encarnacion is the true career leader, with 1,388. I could definitely see this record being eventually broken though, as the VHL seems to be entering another low-scoring era; @McWolf’s Joseph McWolf, @tfong’s Tzuyu, and Sidney Crosby are all recent players who have eclipsed the 1,000 Shot Block plateau.

     

     

    1,000+ Words

    S70 FInals Fantasy Zone

    in VHL Fantasy Zone

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Steve said:

    Part I - Pick em' (Pick the correct winners of all three games for 2 TPE) 

    Game 3 - Moscow Menace @ Calgary Wranglers

    Game 4 - Moscow Menace@ Calgary Wranglers

    Game 5 - Calgary Wranglers @ Moscow Menace

     

    Part II - Predict the Score (Predict the correct score and winner of this game for 3 TPE)

    Game 5 - Calgary Wranglers-2 @ Moscow Menace-4

     

    Part III - Player Predictions (Predict the correct player for each category, 1 TPE for each correct answer)

    Series leader in points: Jet Jaguar
    Series leader in goals: Jet Jaguar

    Series leader in assists: Randoms

    Who has the series PIM lead: Randoms

    Who scores the series winning goal: Jet Jaguar

    lead me to the promised land brother

    Toronto Legion Weekly Presser

    in Team Press Conferences

    Posted

    21 hours ago, Peace said:

    1. Any surprises in the VHL playoffs so far? 

    2. Top Legion prospects on Houston face off against future starting goaltender in Hextall against Minnesota in round two of the VHLM playoffs. Who takes the cake -- can Hextall shut down McDagg and Killinger? 

    3. Chad Magnum has officially reached four hundred TPE, and following quickly behind him is Jaxx Hextall and Erik Killinger. With the addition of potentially three 400+ TPA players, do you think Toronto will have a winning record next season if the roster doesn't change too much? 

    4. What would you say is a top priority for the Legion in the off-season?

    5. ... what is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

     

    6 ... I'm out of questions, so what is your favorite style of pizza?

    1. I was pretty surprised to see Seattle dispose of Vancouver so easily, especially after their mediocre regular season.

    2. I would certainly love to see Hextall beat them; playoff success is all about your goalie getting hot at the right time, and it would be a huge boost for Toronto if Hextall turned out to be a big-game goalie.

    3. I think we certainly have a chance! I definitely wouldn't consider us contenders, and would rather see positive development from all of our prospects than us making a run too early in the rebuild.

    4. Keeping prospects active; I've been a GM and this is one of the hardest things to do, because sometimes no matter how hard you try, people just go inactive. In a rebuild, we need all the active prospects we can get.

    5. Monster Mash from Friendly's

    6. Margherita

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