ShawnGlade

I'm still kickin around, ultimately I joined the VHL when I was 17 in high school with not much going on in my life, I'm 24 now and just have more going on in my life. I graduated college last spring and just been working on my career and life in general. I check back every week or two to keep tabs on the league, and I tell myself that one of these deadlines I'm gonna come from the shadows WWE style with a new player. I'm also still a discord message away! I ultimately decided that if I make a new player, I wanna actually commit to it, not just be a welfare earner. I just need to stabalize my free time a bit first

I've always been curious about how a true farm system would work. Give each VHL team a singular, dedicated minor league team Of course, logistically impossible at this point in time, from building 16 different brands, and then FILLING 16 different teams....never gonna happen. But still cool to ponder

I was never apart of the "fuck VHLE" crowd, but I will admit that over the years I've never really cared for it. I don't think it's bitter sweet for me in the same way it may be for others, but I think you described it perfectly at the end. The VHLE wasn't a failure, in fact my best seasons as a goalie were in the E. I just think it was a league for it's time that like you said, it made sense when the world was in a lockdown and everybody was chronically online (myself included). I think this site has always functioned on a two-league system with not much in it's favor for a third league. I admittedly was coming around on the E, and I realized that as my real life got busier and I was relegated to welfare earning, it was nice to have a middle league for me to play in. Thanks to everyone who made the E possible, the BOGs, Commish, GM, and everyone in between

Holy numbers. For Part 3 I'd love to see some sort of comparison of SV% or GSAA compared to their teams scoring rates, to look at which goaltenders played a bigger part in their team's success (or lack thereof)

@hedgehog337 Hedgehog was my first VHL GM in Riga back in S62. I remember not really knowing where I was gonna go on draft day because I was a projected 2nd rounder (back when there were 8 teams, not that bad) and there was another dman who had a similar build and activity level to myself. Every mock draft had him above me but when it came down to it, hedgehog picked me first and immediately stuck me on the team (pre-VHLE so I was lowkey forced onto Riga anyways). I got PP, PK, and top line time as a rookie even when there were dmen ahead of my on the depth chart, and I balled out that first season. Me and @Enorama formed a crazy rookie d pairing and I was able to win a cup my first season in the VHL. Hedge believed in me and took a flyer on me during the draft, and I'd say it worked out perfectly for both parties. My time in Riga never had any drama, no bad decisions, and hedge always did right by his players, and for that I'm forever grateful. Who knows, if things had gone differently that first season, I may not be here today on the site

All of the VHL can now unclench knowing CGY missed the playoffs Some of your guys takes were pretty close to looking goofy

ahhhhhh i misread your original post, lol sorry

Week ending June 9, 2024 Answer 3 for 1 TPE / 6 for 2 TPE 1. We're HOT at 11-0 currently, why do you think we've had such a good start? 2. Where do you predict we will finish in the standings come season's end? 3. How has your own player's performance been through the first week of the season? 4. Do you think we should make any moves to bolster our team, or should we stand pat with who we have? 5. People are saying our success will come to an end and this is a fluke, when do you think members will start seeing us as the real deal? 6. Where do you think this team needs to improve to be a cup contender? 7. Are you taking the Oilers or Panthers in the SCF? 8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?

Trouble securing victories with a 2.09 GAA and .943 sv% through the first 10 games? Ok

1. The Sadie trade (?) was huge, I really like bringing them into our LR and helping reinforce the roster 3. I don't really focus on certain attributes, just being a complete goalie 4. #1, just a good goalie number I think 6. Honestly I like the offseason as it is. More tournaments would feel gimmicky and it's nice for everyone to unwind after the season 7. I could honestly see any of the 4 teams in the west making it, for the east I'd say NYR 8. I have all 3, but I'd say PC and then PS5

1. I think team-wide depth, just getting better everywhere and the kids will develop 2. I like to think I had a good season in the E. Front runner for MVP and playoff MVP, and a cup to finish it off 3. I'd like to see myself get some time and just continue to earn TPE and develop. I don't see myself as VHL starter material yet but one day I'll hopefully get there 5. Myself. 6. @Spade18 Made a post on the Boston Bruins subreddit about it 8. Met a former Bruins enforcer from the 80s as a camp once. He dusted my team 5v1

What a season, what a team LETS GO OSLOOOOOO

GMing is just so hard in the VHL because to be successful, you need to have a high reputation. Which, yeah that makes sense, but people like you and I may never have a successful GM stint again because of it. It is what it is, I've realized the league is more fun when I'm not in charge of something. Logging in multiple times a day and not paying attention to my own player is no fun. I'd be willing to take on another job on the site, but unlinkely GMing anytime soon And no, you didn't contribute to my hatred of the site lol. I frankly didn't really know you when you took over for me, but every interaction since has been good

Oh phew, it had been a couple months since my Davos stint was mentioned, I was starting to get worried Jokes aside, I will say I think both sides could've done better. The site has seen multiple users pour their hearts out in posts about how shitty it is to be the butt of a joke or have your entire existence being memed, and those users have gotten support.......except I was told to suck it up. Some other GMs who I worked alongside (who will remain nameless) were actually kinda dicks about it too. People can question my trades and whatnot, but truth is I did what I thought would be best. Something I see people bring up a lot is that I traded my own player through Davos to contenders for personal gain. Without context, sure that seems to be the case. Except both times I traded for my own player, I gave up Davos assets because my player was the exact player Davos needed. People forget that in the mid-late seasons of my tenure, Davos was a playoff team, in fact if memory servers, we were one win away from a finals appearance at one point. Those teams were offense heavy with subpar defense, and my player was a top dman in the league at the time. Figured I'd trade for myself and BOTH stints he had with Davos sucked, so he was a deadline deal both times to recoupe something. Yes, my player went on to win a cup both times he was traded away, and honestly for that I'll just call it blind luck. ANYWAYS, it was shitty to go through what I did, I didn't even wanna log on to the site or discord anymore. With the drafts, what had happened was I wasn't available to make the time for a draft one season and instead of trying to find a different time like we usually did when the league was smaller and had less schedules to work with, but I was pretty much told I was fucked and I had to be there. Well I was on vacation so didn't have a PC to sit there forever and make it a list, so I just typed something up on notes and sent it away, and put "BPA" at the bottom when my list ran out, which is what happened. Sure enough, the next season I couldn't make the live draft again, and was again told I was shit outta luck. So I figured, what the fuck ever who cares then, and no showed. I could've handled it better, but it was a not-so-secret that I was on the chopping block regardless of the draft, so I figured I just didn't care anymore. Not justifying what I did and ultimately it was wrong, but it's the truth. I'm pretty much over it now. It was an overall shitty time in my life and I was happy to move on from something that brought me no value. I just can't get over how public everything became. Did my best to keep things private and behind doors, but everyone in the community knew what was happening because nobody really kept their mouth shut. It's pretty damn hard to do ANYTHING when that kind of info is out there, but GMs like Bush can get away with being genuinely MIA for over a season. Just felt like every little thing that happened to me was some big story that had to go public Anyways, rant over EDIT: Yikes, I forgot about those threads I created. Oof, yeah I don't have much to say about those, those are pretty bad and cringey to read looking back

I stay disrespected

Fully agree. It's puzzling that we have 3 leagues with over 30 combined teams, and not a single team in the rocky mountains. Even though the Pro-Am was a disaster, I thought it was really cool that two Denver-based GMs got to run the Denver team, and even though my loyalty to Halifax runs deep, I have always said that I would be interested in coming back to management if Alaska or Colorado got a team

checks out tbh

It's always the ones you most expect.

I'll apply, would be cool

I'd like to apply, hey 10th times the charm right?

awkward GO HALIFAX

LETS DO THIS

On Halifax you'd literally start on the first line in front of a good goalie and a great FWD core. Plus we have an all-star locker room this season, and you've never played for Halifax is memory serves correct

PREACH I remember I got so much shit with Davos for stuff that I couldn't even really control (in fact youll still see Nyko spewing some random shit to this day) and I really affected how I viewed the job. Did I do a perfect job? No, there are things I wish I could change but that's just life. People thought I was just soft and couldn't take the heat, but the reality is that most of this community is under the age of 19 and doesn't realize that the people they're hurling words at, is another real human being. Light jabbing is fine, but it got to a point where I couldn't talk in general chat without someone mentioning Davos and how bad we were. I mean, it didn't even stop after I was let go and Gustav took over the team. I just got back into GMing a bit ago and have been hesitant to make a move to the VHL (whether it's in the cards for me or not is debatable, but my feelings towards it aren't). Like you said, it's easy to criticize when you're on the outside looking in. Are we perfect? No. Have we made some mistakes that shouldn't be made? Absolutely. But it's a fucking sim hockey league, there's a track record of stuff like this happening to GMs and the response from the community and high-ranking site members is usually "get good" or "grow thicker skin" I went through it, Cow went through it, now you're going through it. You're not alone my friend and I'm here for you

Funny enough, they're supposed to split playing time 50-50. I set them to alternate each game but then I had our simmer put in a new waiver, which subsequently messed up our lines, and I didn't notice until your post, so I thank you Also, Reingaard has been in the lineup since Day 2 when we acquired him