ShawnGlade

@Poptart grats bud!

1) Anything by Taylor Swift, she's my favvvvvv 2) How do i make it to the VHL? By the way what is the VHL? 3) Us, you got me on the team, plus yknow some other good players 4) A lot? 5) VHL Draft, unless i fuck up, then I'll prolly spend some time in the minezies 6) More than I should, but not bad for ya right?

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tankfest 2k19

Recently we saw the end to the wonderful career of Shawn Glade. Glade was regarded as maybe the best two way defenseman in the s60s, at least in the mid s60s. He reached the PPG mark twice in his career, and finished with an impressive 379 points in his 6 VHL seasons. However, he was never a man of points, rather he went for a much bigger prize: cups. In his 2 VHLM seasons, he reached the Founder's Cup finals twice, however losing both. Following these back to back finals losses, Glade joined a stacked s63 Riga team, that won the Continental Cup that season, earning Glade his first ring in his rookie season. He took a hiatus the next two seasons, making the playoffs in both seasons, however losing early. He made it back to the finals in s66 if the Vancouver Wolves, however lost yet another finals appearance, making him a sad 1-3 in finals he had played in. However, Glade would win the cup again the next season with the Wolves in s67, and then won it yet again in s68 with the Seattle Bears, meaning Glade had gone out on top with 2 consecutive Continental Cups, making his finals record an even 3-3 in his career.

oh noooo

1) I think middle of the road to start, but i'm confident in the managers to make us a great team 2) Maybe bias, but Davos' logo is sick as fuck 3) I think the reapers, their logo is just so sick 4) Boston Bruins, ez 5) Not really, i was hoping to go way earlier but i started to buckle tpe wise so it makes sense 6) Pretty alright, we're where I expected to be, but it's pretty nice to be among the top 3 players on the team already

Wow this is amazing Really sad to see this group of players go, because when I joined the site, these were the people I battled and played with, so it's fitting to retire on such a good note with these boys Also I'm so glad my first player on the site had such a storied career. Played S61-S68 and only didn't make the finals twice, that's 6 finals appearances in 8 seasons. Points are nice but not many can say they've won it all 3 times in one career

Wasn't Peace drafted by Riga? Regardless, GREAT career! excited to see where your next player goes

That's what my "bad eggs" comment was about, there were members who stirred shit and people followed making it a less welcoming place I mean personally, I haven't done much of note besides struggle with my VHL team, and it seems like I can't talk in the discord without people being toxic towards myself and others, and just being annoying in general. i know you're kinda friendly with a few of those members, and i'm not blaming you at all, just saying we probably have different experiences

I agree with some parts of this. When first joining, I found it extremely fun to actually work towards something, and the community was awesome. The discord was brand spankin new, and aside from a few bad eggs, it was more or less what you described, people actually discussing vhl Then the wave of younger members came in from god knows where (I won't act like I'm super old either, I'm only 18) but it was i think the mid teens members who came in and were typical teenagers, and it sorta just created a toxic environment in the discord, and soon everyone followed suit for some reason But discord aside, I feel like it definitely has become more of an unwelcoming place as of late, and less fun because of it. The site has developed a "be tough and toxic and if you dont like it youre a fucking pussy" which i dont like at all

Davos: We wanna tank Davison: Whats that?

yes, right after you did

@zepheter - 15 TPE

So maybe not my typical post, maybe you expecting a Davos article? Anyways, I wanted to give my reasons for leaving VSN after about 7 months of managing it, and give my side of the story in the shitstorm that I created. But first, a little bit of backstory So back when I took over VSN, I was a highschool senior with lots of free time and the league was booming at the time. The recruitment team did a fantastic job bringing in new guys, and VSN at the time was in a bit of a downfall. The previous management team had let VSN go down, and so I was put in charge of the operations and had full control over VSN. I implemented new rules, brought in new guys, talked to Beaviss about new ideas, everything was great. There were rough patches in the months leading up to this story, but they were more or less handled and were all good. Over the summer, I made a typical teen move and met this girl, fell in love, blah blah you get the rest. Basically, my time on the site wasn't as high, but I still was an active GM and VSN manager. VSN took a bit of a free fall however when I had college coming up and needed to get my shit in order for that, as well as working full time. I wasn't the most active in the weeks leading up to me heading off to school, but at least i gave a heads up beforehand. And now the juicy stuff So in the past month or two, people were calling for my head when VSN was in limbo, not producing really any content. There was a dumbass poll or whatever set up by Dill (I think?) to replace me, but I refused to let go of VSN because i still wanted to make it something great. Along in my DMs, Banackock comes and gives me all these wonderful ideas of VSN, which I admit were really good ideas. I decide "Hey, people obviously think I'm literally Hitler because I've been dormant with VSN for a bit, why not bring Bana in so people will shut their fuckin traps?" So bana hops aboard the VSN train, toot toot. And immediately VSN takes off in the right direction again, and I'm thinking "finally, maybe bana was what i needed...." Yeah, so fuck that. I don't wanna make this a rant on bana post, because I could probably write a ~2k word article on that, but I'm "inactive" so I don't have time for that. However, I can't ignore Bana's role in this, as it's my main reason in leaving. Anyways, firstly he brings in a whole new crew overnight without telling me. I was sorta indifferent about it, and I had a word with him about it, but ultimately decided to not fight that battle because it seemed like a good crew of guys. The next Bana move was making an entirely separate VSN discord server. I knew about this and was also indifferent about it, I left it up to the people to decide and they agreed, so we made it........well Bana made it. I wasn't really upset about it, he made the server fully functional and cool in like an hour, maybe less. My gripe about it was again, he did it without talking to me at all, not asking for ideas or anything, after all we were co-running this thing. After this is when I start having my real beef with Bana. Sometime in between VSN battles, Seattle wins a cup, with my player on it.......with Bana as the GM. For a brief period of time, I was at an all time high with Bana, and I was ready to start working side by side with him to make VSN great again, except that's not how it happened. A bit after Seattle's cup win, we butt heads again, this time about me being "inactive." I will be the first to admit that my activity maybe wasn't ideal, but I will die on this hill: I was FAR from inactive. Tell me how someone claiming 12 TPE a week plus running a team is inactive, because I'd love to hear the logic. Anyways, we had a huge fight and we even fought in the thread of a trade I made (that's funny, calling me inactive in the thread of a trade I made literally half an hour before?) The thread is locked but I'm sure you all have seen it. Basically the guy was being an asshole and calling me all these things and making accusations that I won't go into for now because I don't wanna give him undeserved attention because that's all he wants. (Sidenote, today he literally called himself one the top 3 greatest GMs of all time in this league, lmao) But he decided to go in too deep on me, and say I was inactive for missing the S69 draft. (My reasoning? It was just scheduled during a time i couldn't make it, and I didn't want the draft time to change just for me, so i just had to miss it.) Regardless, I can assure you I'm pretty fucking active, don't listen to what bana might tell you, or what he might tell your FAs to try and persuade them to leave Davos, by basically calling me a huge asshole and saying I'm not active. Point of the story: Bana nearly single handedly killed my interest in VSN But he's not entirely the reason, I can't forget about some of the process and the way things went in this "New Look VSN." For starters, I got shit on for collecting pay, wtf? I only claimed pay in weeks that I put out an article, which is how it's always been done. Apparently nobody else got the memo that there's this new thing called TPE that you claim for doing your work what a concept. Anyways the entire crew shit on me for claiming for whatever reason, so that annoyed me a lot, because now I'm sitting here with this new player that I am now way behind my draft class with because other people can't figure their shit out. The whole reason behind it was because I guess Bana and Frostbeard (notice how I was again not kept in the loop) were deciding on what pay should be for everyone so they can present it to the Blues. Tell me why it took almost 3 weeks to tell the blues "yeah so we're gonna change the pay except everyone is literally getting paid the same amount they were before." This was almost the final straw for me. However the real final straw was already mentioned, how Bana was a complete dickhead towards me and acted like he was the fucking man all along. Either way, I was not a fan of how things had gone over the past few weeks. As far as activity goes, again I'll admit I maybe wasn't the most active, but real life got in the way. My apartment building lost power for a few days, I left for a hockey trip, came back and found out a friend of mine had committed suicide in his dorm, and then went on another hockey trip, all of this going down while Bana was being a real asshole. (For clarification, I play hockey for my college) But to wrap this up, this is the end of my VSN reign. It was fun while it lasted, but I have fill faith in the crew to make VSN a great media outlet again. I just don't want to be involved in all the drama and bullshit anymore and get back to having fun on the site. i just hope Bana doesn't run it into the ground. --- 1,316 words, claiming for weeks ending 11/24 and 12/1

Why each EU team lost in the playoffs After an amazing regular season by each EU team, each team fell apart, as the entire conference failed to win the cup. So what exactly went wrong? Davos Goaltending It's weird that the team with the top goalie in the league, had goaltending as it's downfall. This being said, it's not entirely on Finn Davison here. Coming into the postseason, Davos had the league’s best defence as well as goaltending. They finished top of the league in all defensive categories, which is surprising considering their defensive woes in previous seasons. They came into the playoffs on a red hot streak, winning around 80% of their last 25 games. They found themselves in a first-round matchup with a familiar foe in Malmo. Surprisingly, the Davos offence looked strong against Malmo. Throughout the season, Finn Davison put up monster numbers, including a 0.927 save% and a 2.2 GAA. Amazingly, he put up 10 shutouts and got 37 wins. Over 25% of his wins this season were without allowing a goal. So what went differently in the playoffs? Malmo had an explosive offence that torched Davison and the Davos defence repeatedly. While it's not all on Davison to stop goals, it's hard to win with a 0.887 save%, and that's even with Davos forcing a Game 7 and losing by one goal. He also had a GAA of 2.71, with 1 shutout, meaning in games in the other 6 games of the series, he was letting in above 3 goals average, which is hard to win most of the time. Ultimately I don't think anyone on Davos blames their goalie, as he outperformed everyone during the season, but just couldn't find his stride in the postseason. Helsinki Titans Offence It's hard to win a series when only 1 line is producing. In the regular season, Helsinki appeared to be one of the more well-rounded rosters. They obviously had the top-line talent, but their defence and goaltending were stellar as well. The story of the regular season, however, was their second line struggling to pick up the pace, which seemed to be the case in the playoffs as well. Their top player, Kronos Bailey had 7 points in 6 games, which isn't bad, but he should be the one carrying the dead weight. His two linemates each had 6 points, so overall their top line averaged a PPG, except the 2nd line had 7 points COMBINED all series, and that's terrible. On top of this, their scoring wasn't consistent either, in the final 3 games of the series, they scored 3 total goals, which contributed to 3 wins for Riga, which finished them off. It's not like they played bad defence either, but in the latter of the series, they averaged 1 goal per game, which doesn't win you anything unless you goalie stands on his head, which Alexander Pepper actually did, but the players in front of him couldn't get it done. Riga Reign Penalties Another team with a solid regular season, Riga managed to sneak by the entire EU en route to a top seed finish. They came into the playoffs on fire like Davos, and it’s easy to tell why. They have a stacked offence with superstars and a defence core that outplays any of team on any given night. After beating out Helsinki in round one, they find themselves against Malmo. While again their offence wasn't spectacular, I'd argue that their PIMs is what lost them this series, specifically, Riga's top defensive pair. While McWolf and Hackett are good players, they did no favours for the Reign. They did an alright job playing defence itself, but the Reign were constantly on the PK, with McWolf racking up 22 PIMs, and Hackett with 34 PIMs of his own. That's an average of over 3 PIMs per game in the playoffs for Hackett, which doesn't do any favours for them, especially when 6 total Riga players combined for an average of a penalty per game. Doing the math, Riga averaged 12.63 PIMs per game, which is a little over 1/6th of the game. In just 11 games, the Reign had 139 PIMs. That's not good at all when trying to take down a top team such as Malmo, with their deadly powerplay. You can't win many games when you rely on your PK that much. Malmo Nighthawks Collapsed Maybe not the answer you wanted, but Malmo just forgot that they had to play another series. They had a spectacular regular-season run, and a great, deep playoff run. The roster is littered with high-end talent, thanks in part to key FA signings and great trades by their GM. Everything pointed to Malmo making a deep run, as they sat as the 1 seed for a majority of the season, but maybe had a more difficult path to the finals when they faced division rival Davos in round one, and the Riga juggernaut in round two. The truth is, no one thing went wrong because EVERYTHING did. Swept in 4 games by the champion, Seattle Bears, Malmo's offence did alright, scoring 10 goals in 4 games, however, this was the league's best offence by a longshot, and was outscored by a team that wasn't even projected to make it out of the first round. Their defence shit the bed and couldn't stop allowing late goals, and well as their goalie turning into a pumpkin for 4 straight games. It seems like Malmo just flat out got outplayed by a team that's worse on paper. It sucks that Malmo did this well to get stomped in the finals, but Seattle earned this win after Malmo celebrated their victory a round too early. VSN writer ShawnGlade

im gonna start crying

i absolutely would and im glad you decided to not buy a shit ton of product and then sell it

dammit finn

everyone has that burnout phase eventually, but if youre enjoying it then keep going

You quoted me, you knew exactly what you were doing

So now I’m inactive AND my heart is in the wrong place. Got it and you can doubt it all you want, it’s still true.....

Again, Dahlberg in s66 lmao Claiming pay even though im not doing anything? Bana, you're seriously not this stupid. You know they deny my claims when i havent worked for it right? they actually fucking check, and if i got my pay that week, means i did my work just said it was fishy and you clearly showed your innocence. Again, why do you keep bringing it up when I said you were right? Oh I know, but fuuuuuuuck I'm willing to put $20 down on a bet that ive had more talks about you with some of your vhlmers

RIP Davos

here we go again *sigh* yeah no shit you messaged all my players, everyone did lmao. and i didnt accuse you of anything, i said it seemed fishy but in dms i said i dont care tbh, and the screenshot clearly shows youre innocent, so why are you getting your panties in a twist when i made that comment once? sorry i cant make a draft? i got realm life shit to do, and i was more than fine with a bpa considering i had a nice draft mmmmmm my activity has been pretty good, ive done far more than you this offseason, and it's typically the case that i make far more moves than you do. "but ohhhhhh im a commissioner and VSN and and and my jooooooob" fuck man, im a full time student athlete with a job, how much free time do you think i have? even then im still here multiple time a day. and yes this is true, youve seriously killed all my interest in VSN as of late. and correct me if im wrong, but the last player to ask to leave davos was Elias Dahlberg in like s66? Like, 6 months ago? no shit bana i'm a GM because im not an asshole and new members like me, they dont complain about me in DMs, but there's a fat list of funny conversations from vhlmers about you....