Peace

"Spam and Game Threads" Close but no cigar.

The Toronto Legion have officially hung up the 'gone fishing' sign on the front door: they're gone, nowhere to be seen. They rushed away under the cover of night to the closest airport, boarded the Legions' exclusive charter plane and left hardly lifelike cardboard cutouts of themselves in various places around the rink for anyone who wanted to snoop around seeking autographs. "I was spooked when I first came in," a security guard confirmed. "I went in to report for my shift and was startled by this huge green cutout staring at me." Some of them were placed in awkward places, some of them had a sense of humor behind them, while others were inappropriate and had to be censored for this article... okay most of them were inappropriate and we had to bleach this entire article, but nevertheless we've located where the team has gone. The real players and their families are now enjoying the warm beaches of Fiji's Tavarua island, completely isolated from society and technology until the VHL returns to play. GM Peace spared no expenses, renting the full island out for his club and their families while following COVID protocols. Some would think it would be irresponsible of the club to vacation during a global pandemic, but that's the last thing they're probably thinking about. Meanwhile -- back in Toronto -- the TSC announced a new initiative in association with the Toronto Legion. The program was announced by the newly acquired Gunnar Odinsson, who revealed an advertisement on the upcoming 'LEGION CAMP' during back to back games against the DC Dragons. The program includes 'beer, beats, babes and songs about former players' indicating that the team will supply your alcohol, crank the locker room music as loud as it can go, hire a bunch of... er... performers and sing songs about former players. That presents a likely affordable option to spend somewhat quality time with your Toronto Legion! Call now at 1-800-LEGION to book your vacation. Not this one though. The Legion and members of the Toronto Social Club are already gone. Liars. Now where would this Legion Camp actually be? The picture fans were given depicted the entire eastern collection of continents, so there could potentially be a wide arrange of vacationing spots. We don't know... GM Peace isn't available to talk to us. We assume he's snorkeling around some reefs, water skiing with his family and getting wasted on a soft beach in the middle of the day. Yes, we can predict it now, the cans of hard ciders surrounding the slurring GM while his players make fun of his drink of choice. One by one the dominoes fall, and the next scheduled game against Riga will be played by the cardboard cutouts while the real players are forced to watch from the nosebleeds and required to drink Okanagan Crisp Apple. A worthy punishment if there ever was one, I reckon. Is that even a punishment though, or is that a second vacation? A staycation if you will, but the game isn't in Toronto... It's in Riga! They'll get to explore Riga with the energy to do it, visit some of the landmarks and maybe eat at a fancy restaurant or two. GM Peace truly must love his players. Wait, wait, no. The game is in Toronto. Yep, it's a punishment. Don't make fun of his drink of choice while he's laying face down with a sunburn on his back!

If I had to guess... his new player is S77, so maybe Jubis is hoping his new guy slides far enough he can use a first on him.

Trade negotiations started at precisely 1:34 PM between the Toronto Legion and the Helsinki Titans, at least according to an insider embedded within the Legions' management group. Initially Toronto wanted permission to talk to Odinsson, and Helsinki granted that permission after a brief understanding of what Toronto was willing to trade back to Helsinki. The cooperation between both teams resulted in a positive exchange between Odinsson's agent and the Legions' GM Rylan Peace -- so by around 9:02 PM zulu for skipper Rylan Peace -- his hockey team had completed their third trade of the season; Strauss went to Seattle for picks, Merrick went to Los Angeles for Lester Green and a pick, and now Helsinki Titan defender Gunnar Odinsson is joining the Legion in exchange for a first round pick in the upcoming VHL entry draft. Toronto has certainly been one of the more active teams in within the trade department, shipping out forwards and adding defensive depth, or at least it appears that way on paper. The reality of acquiring Gunnar Odinsson was his desire to play forward, and shortly after learning he was traded the young Norwegian rookie immediately declared he was moving to the right wing. He joined his new team that morning and took to the ice after a brief practice. Odinsson registered a primary assist on the game winning goal, his first point with Toronto, and played well in the following 2-1 loss to Warsaw later that day. Many say 'the future is bright' when looking at a teams depth, but perhaps the light at the end of this tunnel is truly illuminating.

It was already approved.

I have a user name as 'MrKill' on some role-plays and FPS shooters, which has a background and a story to it, so maybe Kyl has his own little backstory to why his name is what it is. It would be interesting to know!

2/3?

@Beketov tagging you just for awareness!

Aye, th Aye, thanks for the quick and easy trade talks. I appreciate you giving me permission to talk to BOOM directly before any agreement was made, it's a nice gesture and I'm glad we could come to an agreement. BOOM, I don't think I have to tell you how excited I am to have you in Toronto. I did attempt to acquire 10th overall to draft you in the S76 Entry Draft after all! Let's go Legion!

What's so bad about it.

You done flogging a dead horse?

He's an integral part of the Toronto Social Club.

In before Toronto gets a 0 game sim for the third time. Gotta happen eventually.

I am absolutely in. I want to test 1.5 publicly as much as possible to determine how viable it'll be for our community, gives GMs a little more tools as well.

That's all it'll take? Alright guys, we know how to make Bana leave now, let's get to work.

The rabbit hole is deeper than you think. *Noise of metallic sentinels.*

Rookie.

EDIT: You know what, I'm just done with the petty drama and childish behavior. Be angry, be mad, but I'm not going to let myself be consumed by it any longer. EDIT 2: Deleted the 'evidence' folder I had against you too, so let's agree to just drop it. What has been shared has been shared, history will sort it out. Pictures are 'for the record', do what you must with it.

Apparently I need to create drama to get this seen a little more... So uh... Hey Commish team!

I’m just a GM playing a GM who’s playing another GM! ”The GMs are emerging!”

I formally request we remove the pictures, please. It’s supposed to be a private LR.

You know I just wanted to come home and relax a bit after a long day of bad back pain and annoying people, but here I am with bad back pain and reading an annoying persons rant about his former team with some pretty inaccurate self claims. I'll be honest here, I had the full intension of dismantling this entire thread and turning you into the science ship seen on 'The Expanse', ripped apart right down to each individual paragraph from sentence to sentence. Frankly I'm too lazy to do that, so what I'm actually going to do is just perform an post-mortem autopsy of Steve's attempted rant. Power to you, rant away if you want, but at least be accurate. Next time you leave a Discord, make sure you tidy up after yourself, delete the posts you've made because they can be used against you in the future. No... no you're not. The amount of times I deleted you and Greg fighting one another, sending passive aggressive comments towards each other was... beyond as much as it should have been almost right from the start, I should have known then what I now presently know. You claim you're here to do well as a player and a team, okay fine I get that because this is a hockey simulation, but the only extension of good teamplay from you is when the club is winning games. To correctly address what Merrick is: only here to produce on a team that wins. When you're winning and you're producing you're happy, but when the team is winning and you fail to produce you get irritated and angry, depressed and downright hostile towards your teammates. I get it, this is a hockey game at it's core, a simulation that you certainly take too seriously. You think you've become an expert on STHS just because you read the index file, won a few cups with Bana's mind blowing S67 SEA core and deeply understand what this garbage sim engine spits out each game? Sorry to tell you some unfortunate facts, Steve, but you are not an expert -- you're just another guy sitting in the field thinking they know better -- and I'm very comfortable saying that because every single GM is sitting right there with you. We are all at the mercy of how random any sim can be, hoping that line combinations and the roster we've built leads to victories. You said so yourself in Toronto's LR, actually, which I would have hoped is an acknowledgement you can't be an expert on something this random. You wished VHL used 1.5 so team strategies, ice time percentage and all the useful features we currently lack could be used because without them the sim engine was unpredictable and random. Yes. Random. It's okay though. Call my players sheep, deem me the shepherd; the blind and dumb leading the blind and dumb, right? "The GM needed to bolster the defense from last season but instead loaded up on forwards that wanted ice time." Yes, yes, because drafting three fucking defenders isn't loading up on defense. Did you suddenly and conveniently forget about Jolly Green Giant and Scotty Kaberle joining the team with 400 TPA each, or -- you know -- the fifth overall pick in the latest entry draft joining the club at just under 300? Yeah, I bet you did, but no, no, no... I didn't load up on defense at all. The reality of that claim is I traded Killinger and Magnum away in order to quite literally load up on quality defenders. I also loaded up on forwards? Strange, I seem to recall drafting only one: Frank Funk Jr. John Callahan Jr was promoted to the big leagues after crossing the VHLM cutoff. I guess we did sign Joe Proto so Funk Jr and Callahan Jr would have a 400+ TPA player to play alongside with... at the time, anyway. Here's the thing, Steve, you didn't want to succeed as a team. You wanted to win, yes, but only if your player was producing in the win. That's not winning as a team, that's winning as a Merrick, so thank god you're gone now. I read way too many DMs and passive aggressive shit in the LR while you were in Toronto. Cried about your player getting five points in a loss. Cried about your player being on pace for one hundred fucking points while the team is winning games! 100 wasn't enough? Cried about Toronto winning five games in a row and Merrick getting 0 points in some of them. Cried about Toronto blowing teams out and Merrick was scoreless. Strange... you also claimed I was the best GM you've ever played for, and that you loved Toronto and all your teammates! Well that's when Merrick was producing and we were winning, the story was different when we were winning games and Merrick wasn't producing. All good, keep the story a little straighter next time though. The problem with those 'suggestions' were the basis you made them on. You flaunted your experience -- again acting like you're an expert in the field -- and quoted the success you had with the team Bana assembled, not you, as if you were right and the answer you provided was correct when the lines were already corrected and... well guess what? They weren't as good as you thought they'd be. Again with that STHS randomness or something like that, but what do I know? Right, I think I'm following now. It wasn't the opinion, it was the presentation of that opinion. How you delivered it to the LR, not that you voiced it. I think you're the one who needs to learn how lines work, and I'm saying that to someone who apparently reads every sim and looks at the index files with absolute certainty that it builds quality experience with the sim engine. You know the saying 'practice makes perfect' only applies if you're practicing good practices, right? You may have been the leading scorer in the league, but make no mistake on why you got one additional point over the second point scorer. I don't think anyone -- or I would hope no one thinks this -- assumes you scored 107 points because you were a 'star' player. The reality of that situation was you were the top player on a mediocre team, and that's a repeating pattern that produces players who would have otherwise foundered on a better team. Let's break this down a bit: - No, you were absolutely negative almost every time Merrick wasn't producing the way you imagined him to be. - Your line wasn't separated like you claimed in the LR, it was moved down the rotation from 1/3 to 1/4 due to the two additional active forwards joining the team (Callahan Jr and Frank Funk Jr). The 'SMS' like, or Strauss - Merrick - Sens if you can't remember your line mates, stayed intact and played at every key portion of the game. Line 1, PP1, PK1, 4on41, last minute attack and defense if I recall correctly. I may have made changes to some of those, but for the most part that SMS line was together. - You directly stated that the first line should play more (30 minutes) over two rookies who joined the team who were only getting a handful of minutes anyway. You were greedy, wanted your 30 minutes a night, even if it meant two other very real people were only getting between 1-8 minutes. I said the average for you would be around 25, and that's lower than the average TOI you left Toronto with, but that simply wasn't good enough for 107 point Merrick! It was okay for you, even though you would have inevitably complained about Merrick not performing when Toronto won... or whatever else would have happened, to take ice time we could have spread across new prospects. Real team player there, hey? Nah, all about Merrick. I think I'm about done with this one. Oh but you did, yes you did... numerous times, and I can supply picture proof of them! I'd refresh your memory with those pictures, but frankly I can't bring myself to post images from what is supposed to be a private Discord locker room and direct messages considering I've gotten very angry at those who've revealed them in the past. I disapprove of the ones already posted, morally I can't sink to that level and feel right when the sun sets. But I just want to point out something here. It seems like your expertise in STHS just failed you here. You predicted because you were such a high TPA player playing with shitty TPA teammates you'd slow down in production -- which when that comment was made Merrick had 23 points in 17 games by the way -- never happened and the 'SMS' line and their play actually elevated above even your highest expectations. Guess what? You were wrong, flat out, full stop. You thought Merrick would regress from his rookie season, and the randomness of this sim engine told you to fuck right off and awarded you with a season anyone on this forum would love to have. I wonder why you were wrong. Turns out even I was wrong as well! I predicted you'd get around 87-90 points, but at the same time I was right; strategy had nothing to do with it because the sim doesn't care -- 1.1 and all -- yet Merrick had a wonderful season alongside Strauss and Oh Sens, who were contributors and not detrimental to your 107 point season in any way... but they're shit TPA teammates. Turns out the sim engine isn't liking what you are doing. Now you're alongside a 'better' TPA player in Pines and you're struggling more on LA than you were on Toronto, but I think I've surmised why that's actually happened. If not just read above and there -- boom -- context I suppose. Shot percentage is way down, goals per game is down, points per game is down. You've got... less than one minute more on average than your time on Toronto and LA is using you in the 1/3 line rotation. Appears as if those variables I mentioned are affecting those lines, no? You're not even playing hockey! It's a fucking sim league. You're sitting on your ass, staring at a monitor, and getting sweaty at the thought of success. What do you win, what do you want to be recognized for? Plenty of people max earn and are actually liked by the community because they recognize this is quite literally less than a video game. Get over yourself. Won most points in the league? Your 107 point season will be forgotten about at the next award show. You win bragging rights for... two or so months. Whoopie? You're proving yourself toxic right now to much more than just a private locker room. As your former GM I can absolutely confirm LA was the only team that was willing to even talk about trades for Merrick. You'd think a 700+ S73 player would be a hot topic, but I nearly had to beg just to get someone interested in you. Thank you Josh from rescuing Toronto from Merrick, I guess asking once a day in the VHL GM Chat kinda worked a little. I think this is all I need to say.

Damn. We played good against Seattle, feel like we didn't deserve that 5-1 L.

You're just displaying more and more why trading you was the right decision.