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21. How has your time been on Seattle? Nothing short of amazing. Love this team and the guys that make it up. Great sense of community, even during tough stretches. 24. What's something you're trying to learn right now? How to get better at badminton; I mean, I was able to make the school club (no tryouts but I did get the singles spot) and it's pretty fun. The main skill I want to learn is how to smash well and effectively. 25. If you had to bring back from inactivity a VHL villain, which one would it be? Not sure if he was much of a villain but I like to consider Ryuu Crimson a pretty notable goon. Yes, I am choosing my own player and yes, I am being narcissistic. 26. Two things are hanging from a cliff. One if Hogan, one is a duffle bag containing $20,000. Can only save one. Which do you save? Save Hogan and help AJ jump the dude who has $20k. 28. Do you have any big plans coming up? I have a badminton tournament on Tuesday as well as a musical one act performance in a week or two. 29. If you had to rebrand the LA Stars (stay in LA, new name), what would it be? Might as well have some relation with the LA Kings and call them the LA Royals. I think that would be sick and opens up a lot of cool logo opportunities. Of course, the KC Royals already exist but I think LA could pull off the Royals brand too.

SEATTLE - Sigard Petrenko has been taking advantage of the long off-season as the Victory Hockey League prepares for big changes this season. Sigard has been practicing with the Seattle Kraken as he has been waiting for the Bears to get action going. Looking to come into the season with renewed scoring touch, Sigard has been taking shots and learning how to transition into offense. He has already shown that his defensive play is solid and it has been his biggest asset but he has realized that he needs to help the team score if he wants to play a part in Seattle’s success. “We have a lot of talented forwards and I’m not saying that I am the main player who provides offense. Far from it, I just happened to be on a talented line and was able to score on their rebounds. But to win hockey games, we need to be able to score and I need to be able to do my share. AJ, Vinny, and everyone else has proven to be excellent in the O-zone. It’s about time I show the team that I am capable of scoring as well.” Sigard Petrenko said in a press conference after the Kraken practice ended. “I’m very thankful that the Kraken let me join them for their practice.”

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Damn, so close haha

Review: Nice! Good to see a fun graphic. I love the visual gag with the player render. I have seen a lot of those bottles facing the wrong way clips but they never get old. You also seemed to have a cohesive theme, especially with the colour. Font choice is fitting and safe but also stands out despite the similarity in colour to the rest of the piece. Background is creative and it has pretty solid composition. My only real feedback is that I wish the graphic was a bit more clearer in terms of the player render; the sketch effect is great all things considered but it looks a bit too scratchy in my opinion. Also, finding ways to remove the glaring NHL logo and the Sens shoulder patch would definitely be big considering how close up this render is. 6/10

Review: Pretty cool! I love having the player in the back and the ice effect in front as a filter. The slogans are pretty fun. Player render choice was excellent and I love how dynamic the pose you chose was. In terms of feedback, I'd probably ask for another font to be used for the players name. Arial text does not look good on a player graphic. I also love the slogans but they differ in terms of colour and style that it is sort of jarring. And I'd love a clear photo of the player to be the centerpiece. 5/10

9. Who is someone you look up to and why? I look up to my gym teacher because the dude is 6'4" and I'm like 5'6". Dude's pretty tall in my eyes. 13. Which teams will be the top of NA? Why? The Seattle Bears. Because we can. 14. You have to implement something crazy into the VHL. Could be anything. What is it?? Every so often, attributes just straight up switch. Like for example, if you have 89 SC, it just switches to like PS. That would be absolutely hilarious. 15. You win 21,000,000 dollars. What do you buy? What do you do??? I would probably buy maybe 1000 dollars of Flames memorabilia, pay for college, and save the rest for my future I guess. I don't have any real wants in terms of buying right now. 16. IF Seattle had to rebrand and be something other than the Bears, what are some ideas you'd have? As a homage to what could have been in the NHL, the Seattle Poopsocks. (Jokes aside, I would love a team called the Seattle Tide. Sponsored by Tide.) 17. If you could eat one thing everyday for the rest of your life, what would it be? I'd probably have to go with Palabok. My favourite dish to eat at parties and gatherings.

SEATTLE - Back from the World Cup, Sigard Petrenko put his bronze medal in a frame on his wall and immediately went on the Seattle Bears’ ice for training camp. A training camp fresh off of a tough competition such as the World Cup might seem daunting to most but Sigard seemed to be eager to get to practice. In fact, he was so eager that he had arrived an hour earlier than the rest of the team. “I had misread the start time as 8:00 instead of 9:00. Whoops.” Sigard explained in a press conference. Sigard Petrenko was happy to be back with his club team. After reaching the playoffs last season and making it past the Wild Card round, this Bears team is hungry for more. With young core pieces returning for another season, the Bears team is looking to go from dark horses to champions. “We were all determined to get better during training camp. The World Cup showed me that I have a lot to improve on if I plan on being a valuable asset to the team. I need to learn how to stand on my own. It’s no secret that Lose and Taro carried my offensive production. But now that I’m slowly becoming a veteran member of this team, I need to be able to carry my fair share of the work. I know that I may not have as good of a season as I did last season but I will try my hardest to help this team succeed, no matter what role I am given.”

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Review: Love the creativity and just the overall experimentation. This is a really solid graphic and looks very fun. Text is interesting and is quite fun. The composition is pretty nice too. I also love the background and I noticed the blend with the crowd's faces. It's very unique and it's great to see that you have put in the effort to try something less cookie cutter. (Which I probably need to do lol) My only real gripes are with the brightness of the text and player. The text blends in with the background and maybe making it brighter to stand out from it. The player render looks a bit too dark and unsaturated. Typically, I like the player render to at least stand apart from the background so it can be the focus but the unsaturatedness and darkness makes it a bit awkward to notice. 7/10

Review: Pretty solid graphic! The jersey swap looks pretty clean and the colour choices are great. The colours come together cohesively. Text colour fits in with the rest of it but is different enough to differentiate it from the background. The composition is good and the background chosen is cool. The player render choice is also great and matches with the Calgary Wranglers colours. I also love the choice to include it in both French and English. My only real feedback is maybe you could do more. As generic as this advice sounds, I just mean try to arrange the elements of the graphic in more striking or different ways. You played it safe, which is great, but I'd love to see more experimentation. 7/10

1. Absolutely a fan. It allows for so much more diversity and allows for more creativity in player building. Now we just can't spam the best attributes. We actually have to think about which would help us maximize our certain goals. 2. If I'm completely honest, I tried to make Sigard Petrenko a better Ryuu Crimson. Scoring and a hitter. With a tad less fighting, unfortunately. 3. If I had to compare myself to an NHL player, I'd compare Sigard Petrenko to Micheal Ferland. Can score goals but his main strength is his physical game. That might change this season though. 4. No such thing as too much forward depth. Hope he finds success in C and looking forward to playing with him as a forward. 5. Love it. AJ Williams has always been an excellent player and I have a lot of respect for him from my Mississauga days. Great acquisition. 8. Looking forward to the MLB season starting. I'm not a hardcore MLB fan but it's fun to watch when there is nothing else to do.

WHEREVER THE WORLD CUP IS BEING HELD - Sigard Petrenko has been selected to play for Team Eastern Europe. Focusing on getting ready for the next season, Sigard has been working hard in the World Cup in order to keep in shape during the offseason. “I mean, it’s an honour to represent Eastern Europe with my fellow Eastern Europeans. The World Cup is an excellent showcase of each region’s skill and development.” While Eastern Europe has had a relatively tough tournament so far, Sigard is staying positive about the situation. He is not too worried. “This team is an excellent team to play with and we are all slowly figuring things out. I trust in the management of Hedge. Not much else I can say, really. All I can do is play hard and work hard. If I am moved up or down the lineup, so be it. Like I said, we are a talented team and I believe that we will showcase that talent soon.” Sigard has had 4 goals, 3 assists, for 7 points in 8 games. He is currently a -3 and has 42 hits. “Yeah, I’ve been okay offensively but evidently my defense has been quite bad. I’ve been lucky to play with my linemates and I really hope I can figure it out. I need to be better.”

https://imgur.com/a/Uj5EIDt @Moon

Review: Another really solid graphic! I've always found Warsaw's colours hard to work with so I have a lot of respect for you for finding renders that somewhat fit with the Warsaw Predators colours. Font is serviceable, though I found it quite plain. However, better to play it safe than sorry. Logo swap is convincing, though I think the logo is a rotated a bit too much. The sparks filter/effect in front of the render is pretty cool. I noticed those in your Aces graphic and I'm glad they made a return. The photo is a bit too bright and saturated for my liking. Solid graphic, overall, looks decent, maybe you could do more to make it more Galvins and less Puljijarvi. 6.5/10

Review: This is pretty nice! I loved ths whole having the goalie and net as well as the shot included in the graphic while the rest of the background was cut out. Isolating that action is just a really neat idea that I might have to try myself. The cutout is pretty clean, especially the back half of the player. Nameplate swap is excellent and the font chosen matches the jersey very well. My only real gripes with this graphic are that I wish the blue paint wasn't visible as it just sort of looks awkward. Also, the background reminds me more of France than the USA. Something I think you could experiment with is more creative and attention grabbing ways to use text. Having the name and stuff tucked in the corner makes it feel more like an afterthought. 7/10!

94. Moscow because the Meta eliminated us. Get some revenge for us! 95. Unfortuantely, probably Vancouver. They found a system that overpowers teams and it has worked for them so far. 96. Young team and just an overall good season. Players stepped up, and we fairly solid defensively. Showed a lot of promise. Let's have a better one this season. 97. It was an great season. I was lucky to be able to play beside Taro and Justin, who just lit it up. Hopefully I can prove that I can stand on my own. 98. Check out the FA market and sign some guys. We have a young core that is getting better and better but having one or two veterans would help like how Lose and Tsujimoto helped elevate us. 99. Great hires, it will be interesting to see how they run things for those two teams.

SEATTLE - Sigard is determined to be better. After getting a taste of what could be in the playoffs, he and the rest of the Bears have been hungering for more. Losing Lose, Tsujimoto, and UnGuri will definitely hurt the team as they will lose major veteran pieces. Zeedayno Chara and Sigard himself will be the only returning members of the Bears that were drafted earlier than Season 80. While there is always free agency, Sigard feels a sense of responsibility for the upcoming season. “I proved that I could score as well as hit last season. Great. I need to be able to do that every season now. The organization has a lot of trust in me. Drafting me in the first round, giving me the alternate captainship, and more. I’m set on showing them they made the right choice.” Sigard said in a Zoom interview. “We’re young, hungry, and ready to kick some ass this season. The glory days for the Bears are just getting started.” We all hope that Sigard is right.

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1. What do you think is the best jersey colour combination of all time? 2. Speaking of jerseys, do you prefer the captaincy and alternate captaincy letters on the left side or the right side? 3. Still on the topic of jerseys, would you rather see nameplates on the bottom of jerseys or normal jerseys riddled with ads? 4. Because I love jerseys so much, what do you think the most creative NHL jersey was? (doesn't have to be good, just creative) 5. What are some of your player's superstitions? 6. Holes in hockey sticks; yay or nay?

Review: Pretty snazzy and jazzy! Love the glam and glitz and the overall showcasing of the swagger that Trunov has, both on the ice as a player and off the ice in his fancy suit! The fancy font is great and adds to that jazz and spice the graphic brings to the table and this just seems to be an overall fun graphic! My only real gripes would be that it's too dark to really make out anything and sort of just makes everything hard to see. Trunov is looking snazzy and the world should be able to see how he glows with charisma! The other thing is that there is too much red showing on the right render. Sorta like ketchup. Other than that, this is pretty neat! 7/10

Review: I feel you, first of all. The first graphic back after a break is very rough and can be quite surprising, haha! Regardless, I thought this was a pretty solid graphic. The font choice was excellent and the player render looks fairly clean in terms of background removal. The jersey swap had effort and thought put into it and I thought the position of the player render was good. Font choice was solid too, albeit the joking nature of the text at the bottom probably helped it. My only real feedback is that the logo swaps while serviceable look pretty rough. The Legion logo's blue does not match the blue of the jersey in the render. Also, I would have loved to see more be done with the render. Overall, fairly solid! 6/10

SEATTLE - Being eliminated sucks. After a great series against the Toronto Legion in the wild card round, the Bears found themselves being edged ever so slightly by the Wolves until the final game. They fought hard against the favourites to win and did get a game but the playoff hopes of the Bears ended at the hands of Vancouver. It was a tough and bitter loss, although not unexpected. The Bears were a hard fighting and hard working team but were unable to beat the likes of Sales and other stars on the Wolves. “It really hurt. Really did. This team was ready to go all the way. But we lost the first few games and they finished us after a solid win.” Sigard Petrenko commented in a press conference after they were eliminated. “We had the tools and we had everything we needed. Unfortunately, so did the Wolves. We all played our hardest but we came up short. I feel bad for the vets; ‘specially Lose and Tsuji[moto]. We’re sorry we couldn’t get you one. But I still feel confident this group will kick ass in the future.” With the loss of Taro and Justin, the Bears will have to find players to step up to the plate. But that will be worried about later. For now, the Bears are watching from the sidelines and thinking about the what-ifs.

https://imgur.com/a/TAfEOWj @Daniel Janser

74. What are your thoughts on the new anti-meta build stuff? I personally think it's great. Gives people to be more creative and forces them to be more thoughtful about their builds other than simply just following what everyone else does. Hopefully it adds some diversity to the types of players within the league. 78. Seems theme week is a revolving door of the same old same.. create your own theme week the league could use! I think a cool Theme Week would be different fake brands that could sponsor the league. Except, we don't do Sponsor's Shield. It was fun having fake brands; SS just kinda blew imo. 79. What are your thoughts and emotions on your players play this season? Good to see, doesn't matter if it doesn't help the team. Team success comes over all and also, I need to see my player be consistent with this season after season for me to be satisfied. 80. A hot air balloon company wants Bears tough man Vinny Detroit to design a hot air balloon for them... what's in going to look like? If it's not a huge flying boot, I don't know what would work. Don't even know why I associate Vinny with a flying boot but it'd really fit them. Though I guess another hot air balloon design that would work would be a giant Bear. This man encapsulates the team and really has the spirit of the bear in terms of the team and the animal. 81. Hogan was recently banned from Wal-Mart. What was he doing? I still have no idea how he got that monkey to aim at shoppers with a Nerf gun. 82. You could pick anywhere in the world to travel and visit tomorrow for X amount of days.. where you going and why? The European Conference champ's arena for 7 days. No need to explain why. To win the cup. Hopefully though, this won't just be a PC hypothetical.