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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?

Whoops, I genuinely thought Rift and Brookside were in. Perhaps a part two may be in order.

Hall of Fame Builders without HoF Players Some of you may recall that I sent out a league-wide survey a few weeks ago about what you think makes a player worthy of a plaque in the VHL Player Hall of Fame. Thank you all for your responses, and worry not, as I do intend to make a media spot elaborating on the results of said survey in the future. Although there are no official prerequisites for induction into the VHL Builder Hall of Fame, one metric does seem to stick out above the rest: having a player from your agency reach the HoF. Of the 53 currently inducted Builders in the HoF, only nine have not had a player inducted into the Hall of Fame. Obviously that isn’t to say these members haven’t tried, as many of them have indeed had great VHL players come from their agencies, but rather to point towards the fact that hard work in the VHL does not always guarantee statistical success or accolades. You can set TPE records (like someone on this list) and finish your career without winning a single individual award, it is an unfortunate reality of the VHL. Lucas Tannahill @PensFan101 (S1) D - Thor Ljunggren, TPE: ??? (S5) G - Anton Nygard, TPE: ??? (S11) D - Jorgen Aqvist, TPE: 515+ (S23) C - Lasse Milo, TPE: 800+ (S32) D - Mattis Trumbauer , TPE: 361 As time goes on and members come and go in the VHL, the number of people who remember Lucas Tannahill dwindles smaller and smaller. For those who don’t know, he was the mastermind behind likely the VHL’s most infamous franchise, the Vasteras Iron Eagles. Tannahill’s obsession with the franchise ran deep, with most of his players always finding their way back to the franchise in some form or another. His players were rarely pushovers either, but none aside from Lasse Milo had great cases for the Hall of Fame (Milo has decent case for the HoF that I will likely dive into in separate article). PensFan’s players were often built as team-first players, with the goal of doing whatever they could to push Vasteras to success at the cost of their own individual achievements. After the franchise was relocated and rebranded as the Stockholm Vikings in the early S40’s, perhaps fittingly, PensFan went inactive and never returned. Sandro Desaulniers @Sandro (S4) LW - Fabian Brunnstrom, TPE: 530 (S11) RW - Sandro Desaulniers, TPE: 545 (S18) D - Dante Terragni, TPE: 511 (S25) RW - Gaz , TPE: 538 (S32) C - Jakub Kjellberg, TPE: 770 (S45) LW - Lucas Zhukenov, TPE: 245 The next builder on the list is former Toronto Legion GM, Sandro Desaulniers; I admittedly remember less about Sandro’s players than I do about PensFans’, as I had much more interaction with the latter due to my own experience with the Vasteras franchise. From what I do remember, Sandro, while not being a TPE whore, did make very solid players who sacrificed individual accolades for team success (as GM players often do). On statistics alone, the only players that you could even attempt to make a case for are Brunnstrom, Kjellberg, and perhaps Terragini, who did make the All-VHL 1st team twice. Tyler Owens @Tyler (S6) RW - Pavel Dubnikov, TPE: 465 (S14) LW - Nicholas Evans, TPE: 545 (S21) G - Andreas Bjorkman, TPE: 733 (S28) C - Connor Evans, TPE: 609 (S35) D - Tyler Owens, TPE: 180 (S39) RW - Milos Denis, TPE: 594 (S48) C - Rene Bergeron, TPE: 30 (S54) D - Slava Aleksei, TPE: 677 (S57) D - Thomas Sankara, TPE: 79 (S59) C - The Charm, TPE: 848 (S64) G - Milan Baros, TPE: 70 (S68) D - Andrej Petrovic, TPE: 563 (S78) LW - Gregory Bates, TPE: 651 (S87) D - Admir Bala, TPE: 860 (S97) RW - Raoul Cyr, TPE: 109+ One of the VHL’s longest tenured members, Tyler Owens has seen his fair share of team success across the 90+ seasons he has been in the league. Owens was the architect behind the curse-breaking S26 Vasteras Iron Eagles, as well as ending a 22-season cup drought for the Davos Dynamo in S61. Perhaps the New York Americans should look to hire Owens in an attempt to break their current 42-season drought? While Owens knows how to build a cup-winning team, he likely also knows that as a GM you are often required to make sacrifices to your own player’s individual success. A HoF case could [and should] certainly be made for his 1st goaltender, Andreas Bjorkman. The Swedish netminder backstopped the aforementioned Iron Eagles to their S26 Continental Cup, won the Scotty Campbell Trophy in S27, won two Shaw Trophies in S26 & S27, made the All-VHL 1st team in S26 & S27, and won three World Cup Gold medals in S22, S24, and S26. Austin Gow @eaglesfan036 (S29) D - Austin Gow, TPE: 401 (S36) RW - Robert Gow III, TPE: 802 (S44) C - Tim TebowGow, TPE: 683 (S50) C - Travis Gowecny, TPE: 555 (S54) RW - JourneyMan, TPE: 195 (S56) RW - The Process, TPE: 204 (S61) D - Chat, TPE: 90 (S63) LW - King Gow, TPE: 70 (S65) C - Gritty, TPE: 1039 (S74) G - Kevin Malone, TPE: 724 (S82) D - Trade Me, TPE: 73 (S89) D - Free Gorlab, TPE: 196 (S93) D - Blaze Thunderstrike, TPE: 313+ When I first thought of the idea about this article, the member that first came to mind wasn’t eaglesfan, but rather his brother, @Fire Tortorella. Upon researching, I discovered that flyersfan did indeed have a HoF player in Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen; I then figured to check eaglesfan, and here we are (both of them used to always have Philadelphia-centric player names and I would constantly get them mixed up). Eaglesfan and I joined the league around the same time in S29, and I always recall him consistently having solid, but never superstar, players (Austin Gow, Robert Gow III, Tim TebowGow, Travis Gowecny) who were often part of successful teams, but never very individually successful. Since the S50’s eaglesfan has been very hit or miss with his players, as Journeyman, Chat, King Gow, Trade Me, and Free Gorlab all being arguable busts for a member of eaglesfans’ caliber. His current player, Blaze Thunderstrike, looks to have the best chance out of his three most recent players to be successful, albeit likely not HoF-worthy. Nowadays I feel that eaglesfan sticks around more for the community rather than the actual sim results, and for those VHL veterans who remember, he was the biggest fan of the long-defunct VHL chat feature. Thomas Landry @Doomsday (S33) RW - Thomas Landry, TPE: 794 (S41) RW - Jack Kowalski, TPE: 572 (S56) C - Charles Murphy, TPE: 41 (S71) LW - Thomas Landry II, TPE: 1527 (S80) G - Oskar Lindbergh, TPE: 1646 (S90) D - YaBoi Oven, TPE: 1477+ Doomsday first broke onto the VHL scene with Thomas Landry in the relatively top-heavy S33 draft as a 2nd-round pick. Landry was known more for his time in football sim-leagues than hockey sims at that time, which is why I presume he was taken so low in the draft at 16th overall. From what I recall, Landry was a fan-favorite around the league at the time, and was eventually traded from the New York Americans to the Davos Dynamo for a 1st round pick and three 2nd round picks; I was the GM of the Vasteras Iron Eagles at the time and tried desperately to acquire him in order to improve Vasteras’ public image, but wasn’t able to put together a package better than the one that Davos offered. Landry would go on to be an integral part of Davos winning two cups in S36 & S38, while also winning the [now-retired] Grimm Jonsson Trophy twice as the VHL’s Top Leader (S36-37) and make the All-VHL 2nd Team in S38. While Landry may not have had the statistics and accolades to make the Hall of Fame as a player, he remains one of the most liked members in league history. I admittedly don’t know much about his three most recent players (all of whom have eclipsed the 1000 TPE mark), but based on their lack of awards their HoF chances unfortunately don’t seem too great either. Eno Rama @Enorama (S63) C - Ryan Kastelic, TPE: 2000 (S69) D - George Washington, TPE: 947 (S74) LW - Ryan Schwarz, TPE: 841 (S80) C - Ryan Vidot, TPE: 1469 (S90) G - Ryan Artyomov, TPE: 1238+ Enorama is the member who was named dropped in the beginning of this article; his 1st player, Ryan Kastelic, became not only the 1st player in VHL history to reach the 2,000 TPE mark, but also the first 1st-gen player to reach that mark as well (Leandro Goncalves would end up surpassing Kastelic’s total 20 seasons later). There is a case to be made that no member in VHL history has been treated more unfairly by STHS than Enorama, with over 6,000+ career TPE(!!!) and not a SINGLE individual award to show for it! I don’t know if there is any easy way to calculate this, but eno’s average TPE between all of his players (1,300) must be the highest in league history for a member with at least five players. I haven’t been super active during enorama’s time in the league, so I don’t know how he feels about his own lack of individual accolades vs the time and effort he has put into the league, but I know it would drive me mad if I was him. Honorable Mentions That I Forgot to Include: @diamond_ace @Devise @Dil 1,600+ Words Claiming for weeks ending: October 27 November 3 November 10

Of all the official league jobs that you have held, which has been your favorite and why? If you had to pick, what would you say is your biggest gripe regarding the STHS sim engine? Do you think you'll ever create a goalie? If you were commissioner for a day, what change(s) would you make? What currently inactive member do you miss the most? Have you ever considered making a "gimmick" (putting all points into Fighting/Leadership/Faceoffs/etc.) player, and if so, how serious were you about it?

G - Ryan Artyomov @rory

Game 37…

F - Antonia Bucatini @Jubis

This is good to hear, I really like the "Active only" VHLM policy. I'm happy that players like Jeevan Samuelsson aren't allowed to run roughshod on the VHLM anymore. My mistake, in my original post I meant to specify that the graduation rate of 1st-gen players should be of paramount importance when discussing the merits of VHLM GMs. Which GMs have been removed from their post for failing to do their duties (not including members who simply go inactive)?

I agree that we will eventually get to the point where we have enough members to have those full rosters, and it's certainly going to be interesting to see how the admin team handles that issue. The effect it will have on career scoring numbers will also be interesting to see, as the better/higher TPE players will have less ice-time with bigger rosters (as you said) to rack up the point totals players like Rafter & Smalling used to. I actually do remember when that happened in the S30's; the GM was Bushito right? But going back to the career-stats thing, I think HoF Voters will definitely need to adjust how they vote towards accolades and stats being impressive for each players era that they existed in (which I think they certainly will do).

[Not to say that this is the point you are making, but in my opinion] a VHLM GM's skill/success should be measured more by the VHL graduation rate of their team as opposed to Founders Cup wins. Do we have any current mechanisms or bonuses in place that reward this?

Joshua Schwarzer - F @rory

D - Snubbe Analfist @Jubis

Callum Gary Yannick Janser @rory

1. I really enjoyed Cabin in the Woods. I thought it was a nice twist on the genre itself while still giving a "horror" feel. 2. I'm replacing the Maple Leafs with the Oslo Screaming Seamen (look it up, it was a real VHLM team at one point). 3. Goaltender; not only do they have to stop the puck [obviously], but they also can act as a playcaller, letting their teammates know what is developing on the ice as they can see the entire rink from their position. 1. Do you think that "roleplaying" a VHL player is a lost art? As in, players method-acting as their player (whether it be serious or outlandishly hilarious) on the forums or on discord? This used to be an actual thing in the VHL. 2. Who do you think is the best GFX artist currently in the VHL? 3. Off the top of your head, how many defunct VHL/VHLM franchises do you think you could name without cheating?

F - Severus Targaryen @Jubis

Perhaps you could only win the TPE once a month or season to mitigate this?

As a self-proclaimed forum devotee in the Discord vs Forum debate, I am always looking for ways to increase in-depth league-related discourse on the forum by any means necessary. I am dating myself here, but a long time ago, the league used to ”grade” media spots and graphics on a scale of 1-6, which meant that getting a full 6 TPE wasn’t always a given. And while I agree that the removal of that system has done more good than bad, I feel that it took away a small amount of the incentive for members to consistently create high-quality Media Spots and GFX. Hence, I am proposing that we institute a “Media Spot/GFX of the Week” program in place that would award members 1 uncapped TPE to the MS and GFX that the league determines to be the best of a given week; we could have a thread every week where members would submit their work to be included in the voting for that week and then the league could vote on Sunday to determine the winner.

Did the VHL actually have full rosters (12F-6D-2G) at this time, or at least more than the VHL of old 6F-4D-1G? Was reworking TPE salary brackets considered as well?

True, but I am in agreement that the removal of the VHLe is probably better for the long-term health of the league. I mean no offense to them when I say this, but I don't believe placating to members (clickers) who aren't really bringing anything of substance to the league other than a low-earning player hitting buttons in the portal is a good way to grow the community. I would have been in favor of a free-market approach, letting the low-TPE tweeners sit unsigned in Free Agency until they earned enough TPE to be worthy of a roster spot, but I understand that my opinion may be a bit draconian on the subject, given the popularity of the Welfare Program we have (a program that I actually do like). Overall though, it seems like it was a good enough solution at the time to what was an precedented situation in the VHL.

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