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D.C. Salamanders strike again

You can already buy uncapped TPE packages up to 20 TPE. I've bought several of them.

The grand majority of league jobs count against the weekly cap. The only ones that don't are ones that pay out just a little bit each year. And the average for someone capping would actually be quite a bit higher, closer to 15, once you factor in all the uncapped opportunities.

Toronto is also trading away everything they've got for picks or prospects because they're entering a rebuild. You probably just got a lower return because you were inactive.

Maybe if you'd a) done some scouting before the draft, b) been present at the draft to pick people that had scouted well (as in wouldn't have minded being in Davos), and/or c) actually talked to your draftees (I know for a fact one of them got a contract offer from you and an invite to the LR but no personal message or anything), then you wouldn't be delaying your rebuild by another year.

Just another excuse to replace that shitty logo

I dost sweareth to my God that I shall traipse the great white North to knock upon the door of Sir @Beaviss

@Beaviss I stg I'm about to snowshoe to Vic

Welcome back

Eloquently put

That's my point, why not sooner? Everyone's been saying this for a long ass time.

So the simple change that literally everyone has been suggesting took... a year and a half to implement? Is this VHL BoG or the US Congress?

Weird, your finances have that marked, but the portal still has him listed under upcoming free agents.

I was kind of surprised nobody's taken a run at this yet, because this year's free agency class is actually pretty interesting. First; the biggest players by TPE (S64) RW - Matthew Materazo Prague 984 (S64) C - John Madden HC Davos 867 (S65) C - Orion Slade Seattle 717 (S65) C - Teagan Glover Toronto 630 (S65) C - Anthony Matthews Riga 601 (S67) RW - ACL TEAR Riga 597 We have a few inactives, one former inactive returned to inactivity, and Robbie. No offense to anyone on that list, but for the "upper end" of free agency, that's pretty weak. I expect Matthews to re-sign in Riga, Robbie to make a big spectacle* over which team he's going to, and the inactives to go... wherever. *he'll be the only one actually paying any attention to the spectacle. This isn't the S50s Robert, we have more than 20 active members, so most storylines go unnoticed, especially when they're orchestrated by a cock. There are a few other interesting players a little deeper into the list, for example; (S67) D - Kevin Low New York 597 Low is actually tied in TPE with TEAR, but TEAR's user has been Taken, so he's no longer updating. Low is also the first dman on the list, and I expect he'll have a fair amount of wooers. (S64) C - Mark Gebauer 527 Up until a couple days ago, Gebauer was on Prague, but then was bought out. Is this the sad end of the line for this 500+ TPE inactive? (S67) C - Zeno Miniti Prague 393 Last I saw, this man was actually active, but I'm guessing he isn't any longer if he's still sitting under 400 TPE three full seasons removed from his VHL draft. 286 words. Yeah it's a shitty article, sue me, I only need it for the uncapped.

Off-seaaaaason 1. The draft just finished, who is the biggest steal? (I think Cile is probably the only real answer right now) 2. What are the odds that we make playoffs this season? 3. Out of Fish, Ritchie, and Frostbeard, who will turn out to be the most important add this off-season? 4. How should bonus money be divvied up this season? 5. What's a mascot that the VHL doesn't have yet but definitely needs to add in the future? 6. Dessert or appetizer?

We've gone through D.C.'s drafts thus far, now it's time to examine some trades, as they kind of go hand in hand. S67 off-season This one was simple, take a guy that Shawn asked me to, and he gives me a decent free pick. Of course, the player was inactive, and I honestly can't even remember who it was off the top of my head, but I'll take the pick regardless, seeing as how there were not many players on Davos I was particularly attracted to. Similar idea to the one above, but this deal was actually made during the draft. Bush told us that whoever took Malenko from him first would get the third, I ended up taking him with the 5th pick in the expansion draft, awarding me a mid-round pick. This one raised a few eyebrows, but I think it's quite simple really. I was hoarding picks, and would have loved to take advantage of the pick attached to an inactive player that a lack of actives would have given me, but Seattle had a couple active players. Even before this pick, Prague took advantage of it and grabbed an inactive and a 4th from Toronto, leaving me to figure out what to do with Seattle. I figured that if I took Kovalchuk, Bana would be likely to send me an offer at at least the same value as what d_a took from Toronto. Lo and behold, he instantly shot me an offer of 3rd + 4th, which was better value than the pick right before me, and I was happy to take it. I have made my distaste at my initial draft position quite clear at this point, and I wasn't satisfied with 11th overall. If the league wouldn't help me, I'd do it myself. This trade up to 5th overall let me bring in Valentino @Kekzkrieg, the first entry draft pick of the franchise. Couldn't be happier with it. S68 This was supposed to be the first part of a trade that would have me claiming Kingfisher in IFA and sending him over later in the season. A wrench was thrown into this when I actually lost the claim on Kingfisher (somehow, another thing to complain to the league about I suppose). Victor promised to make it back up to me someday because otherwise I just paid to pick up a cap dump. The nerve, eh? First real player trade for D.C. here. We played a few games with just a bot goalie and really only two-three active roster players before bringing in @frescoelmo and @Snussu. To date, the two remain with the team, and the value that we gave up for them is far outweighed by the value they bring to the team both on the ice and in the locker room. The only reason they ended up coming so cheaply was because Vancouver simply had too many players, and weren't able to give either of them any ice time at all. The first big boy, and the first time I ever traded away any player (an active player to boot). When I took Jerwa in the expansion draft, my intention was always to sell him as a rental at the deadline. Luckily, @majesiu was a good sport about it and waived his No Trade Clause to give me the best return I could find, which was stapling a 3rd round pick to him and sending him to Davos for what I hoped would be a lottery 1st round pick. Davos ended up making a late season push for playoffs, so it fell to 7th overall, but that was good enough for me to bring in another really solid player. The kicker is that Jerwa ended up coming back to D.C. in free agency, despite offers from better teams. S68 off-season Picking up an extra 4th rounder in exchange for taking on two seasons of Jenton's and MacBurn's salaries (Puidgemont expired the same off-season in which they were acquired). The value I got here is virtually nonexistent truthfully speaking, but I also only really lost out on a bit of bonus room for my active players. The real win for me here is the goodwill I hopefully accumulated for some future deals. This is how @Victor ended up making things right from our part 1 up there. Shipping me some salary and a 3rd while also sending me that 4th rounder back. Komarov actually retired before the season and Hawk was eligible to be sent down, so I ended up eating 0 salary in this deal. It all worked out. This really should have gone under the draft article, because this was a draft day deal, but it is technically a trade. From several weeks before the draft, @McWolf (DCD AGM) and I had our 7th (or was it 8th) overall pick chalked in as being Guy Lesieur @KC15. He was projected to go a few picks later, and he'd written many articles talking about how he really badly wanted to be a Dragon, so we didn't think we would have any issues picking him up in that slot. Then @hedgehog337 came in and did some hedge things, and we watched Lesieur go off the board just one pick before our own. Now, I was at some party or other halfway across the world at this point, so McW and I had organized a contingency plan in case this specific scenario occured. I told him to instantly offer anyone who grabbed Lesieur 1-3 slots ahead of us the Davos 1st plus our 3rds in the next two drafts. Thankfully, hedge accepted the offer, and we brought our boy home. Although I'm sure most viewers of the draft were annoyed by the 5-10 minute delay between the two picks. Simple cap dump deal, we've still got some cap space to work with, so we reacquire the 3rd we gave up for Lesieur and send off the later 4th. S69 Oh look, here's that S70 DCD 3rd again, going back to Riga. Good thing that isn't actually a player, because then he'd have spent dozens of hours on planes at this point. This deal was actually interesting though, not a cap-related deal, as it was executed mid-season on the same day that we picked Mars up from inactive FA. Actually, hedge's reason behind giving us the upgraded pick was that seeing as how Mars was on inactive free agency, any attempt at picking him up would be made public, and anyone with a higher priority than Riga (basically the whole league) would have the chance at grabbing him. D.C., on the other hand, was first in the priority list, so we were able to grab him instantly, and ship him off to Riga right away for an upgraded pick. S69 off-season This is where things start to get fun. After two losing seasons, D.C. is starting to look like a hockey team. Toronto is entering a fire sale, and so we grabbed a dman from them for a pair of mid-round picks. The added bonus to us is that @Sharkstrong actually joined the locker room and returned to activity shortly after the deal. The jury's still out on whether Fish stays on defense or if he makes the switch to forward, but he's poised to be an impact player right away for the Dragons regardless. This deal actually took forever to iron out. I knew that I wanted to trade our S70 1st if it didn't lottery out to 1st or 2nd, as I felt like the top two in the draft were eons beyond anyone else. I had some offers that related to draft picks and other players, but some players in Seattle were the ones I was most interested in, due to their combination of age, member, TPE earning rate, etc. Understandably, @Banackock was having some real issues trading any part of his beloved core away, which is why negotiations took so long. This deal will end up looking like an extreme boom or bust depending on whether or not @FrostBeard chooses to leave in free agency or if he extends with the Dragons. 1,569 words. Claiming for Washington for the weeks ending 1/19, 1/26, and 2/2.

TID: 0P797725LJ0221828 Reward 1: Doubles Week 1/19 Reward 2: Doubles Week 1/26 Reward 3: 5 Uncapped TPE Reward 4: $1,000,000 Player Store

Hextall hit 200 TPE +10 Also +1 for 50 and +4 for 100. Total: 15 TPE.

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Great podcast so far, really lovin it

@DangerGolding ?

Big P.K. fan eh? Too bad he sucks buttholes this year

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Yesterday marked my third VHL Entry Draft since being named GM of the North American expansion franchise the D.C. Dragons. Now that I've got a decent sample size down, I figured I would do some base level analysis on how my picks have looked thus far, starting with our inaugural draft in S68. S68: Round 1, 5th Overall: Luciano Valentino @Kekzkrieg I used a S69 2nd round pick to trade my S68 12th overall pick to 5th overall because I had my eyes on some specific guys in the 3-6 area. I couldn't be happier that Valentino is who I went with in the end. He's been a great member of the leadership core of our young team, and he just signed himself a career contract to stay a Dragon through to retirement. Round 2, 14th Overall: Kaspars Claude @Bruins10 A first gen member that I thought had a ton of potential because of the way his graphics were getting pumped up left and right, but life got in the way and he dipped out fairly early into his rookie campaign. I've heard that he's since returned to other leagues, but has not been active here in quite some time. This was really early for me to be landing my first major bust. Round 2, 18th Overall: Ricky Johnson @Midnite Johnson has done well for his draft position. As a SBA welfare member, I was afraid that the split would scare him off, but instead he's been just as active since then. Just recently, he put pen to paper on his first regular contract and he's in a position to be a solid #3 dman for quite some time. Round 2, 25th Overall: Balentine Kidd @TukTukTheGreat This was looking like a steal of a deal right after the draft and I thought I would be able to pull his max potential out of him due to us having ties from EHM leagues, but he quickly lost interest in the league shortly into his second VHLM season, and has gone entirely active since. Another bust for me. Round 3, 31st Overall: Mac Hooper @MacH I thought Mac would have an easier time than others would staying active due to how his articles and graphics were more inventive than what you would normally see from a first gen member in their draft year, and this proved to be true for the first year following the draft, but this didn't last for long. He has since fallen off the face of the earth, and due to how deep this draft class was, this marks another bust. Round 3, 37th Overall: Liam Rooney @elrune1988 Same story as Kidd up there, but he was slightly less active in the lead up to the draft, hence his lower draft position. The third of the EHM league trinity, Telker @Telkster, was who I had pencilled in here, but @Victor had to go and yoink him earlier. Round 4, 46th Overall: Block Buster @Banana2311 Buster was poised to be the steal of the draft when she restarted updating the day after picking her up in the 4th round. At this point nobody being taken had updated within the past week or two, so to even get a single update out of Buster would be considered a win. The young goaltender went even further, claiming ~10 TPE every week solidly for a couple seasons, even making some solid VHL starts to the tune of .908 SV%, but then she up and retired, citing a lack of time to visit the site. Round 4, 49th Overall: Julian Blackthorn @LattimoreIsland This is the first attempted steal of a pick based on affiliate members. Latti is a GM of mine in the EFL, so I knew I could drag him over here occasionally. He updated a bit following the draft, but has since fallen to inactivity once more. Can't call this one a steal nor a bust, more of a "eh". Round 5, 61st Overall: Raleigh Ritchie @DangerGolding Remember how I almost called Buster the steal of the draft? Forget that. This man returned from the coma that sidelined him for a full season before the draft and has now surpassed 300 TPE and will be starting on the second line of the Dragons for S70. I picked him based on recognizing the name from an active member in the SBA, so I knew that he could get some easy TPE every week should he be convinced to re-join the VHL. In a re-draft, you'd likely see Ritchie going somewhere in the 2nd round, making him not only the steal of the draft, but potentially one of the biggest draft steals of all time. S69: Round 1, 2nd Overall: Benny Graves @STZ Pretty obvious choice at 2nd here, and he was who I had pegged at 1st overall anyways, so I was ecstatic when he fell into my lap. Since draft day he's already cemented himself as our 1C for the foreseeable future and has earned himself an A on his chest. Round 4, 47th Overall: Igor Trice @jakejohn17 45 entire picks later we finally hit our second and final pick of the draft. By this point everyone that had updated within the past several weeks had been off the board for at least 10 picks, so I picked someone based on name alone (Igor is fun). Much to my surprise, jakejohn is actually an active member of the SBA. I was able to contact him the day after the draft, but he wasn't interested in returning, such is life. As an aside, the person I was angling for at this slot was @LittleRiDog, but he went two slots earlier to Calgary. He's since retired and recreated, so there's a possibility I could have dragged him back with his OG player, who knows. S70: Round 2, 14th Overall: Derek Eriksson @DirtyDerek After trading away our 3rd overall pick to add some firepower to our offense now (named @FrostBeard), we enter the draft early in the second round. I was always angling towards a forward at this slot (had @JDGraves in mind before he went to Helsinki at 10th) or goaltender (had @ROOKIE745 in mind before his unfortunate BPA to Davos at 9th), but Eriksson was on my short list of three from the beginning as well. He'll be easy to harass to update going forward because I can be at his door in 14 minutes or so, so he'd best turn into one of the best performers of the draft class or he'll answer to me. Round 4, 42nd Overall: Crush Cile @Savoire Faire Similar pick to Ritchie in S68 and Trice in S69, I picked Cile based on him belonging to an affiliate member, Savoire Faire is better known as KWally in other leagues, and I knew he was still active in these other leagues, so I shot him an invite to our LR this morning after drafting him late last night. He's since joined the LR, sent in a few updates, and has expressed a desire to stay active via affiliate welfare for the time being, if we were to re-draft this today, we'd likely put him somewhere in the late 2nd or early 3rd, making this mid 4th round pick an early contender for the steal of the night. 1,220 words, claiming for Kastelic for the weeks ending 1/19 and 1/26