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  1. 6 hours ago, Daniel Janser said:
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    Welcome back @ColeMrtz,

     

    I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise coming from a rebuild and we can offer you a top six spot.

     

    We are sitting on a playoff spot at the moment and hope to enter the title race as a darkhorse in the playoffs.

     

    The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build.

     

    If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us.

     

    Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Luke Glendenning.

    I’ll join the Hounds, I didn’t think I’d be able to join any teams yet so y’all caught me off guard lol

  2. 1. You get to represent the first iteration of the VHLE's Cologne Express.  How does it feel to be on the Inaugural team?

     

    It's a chance to make history, it's hard not to be excited at that prospect.

     

    2. Given all the tremendous leadership throughout the locker room, who do you think should be Team Captain?

     

    I want to lean towards Darth Kaprizov or Josh, but it's hard to pin down one guy in there.

     

    3. The Cologne Express have a lot of history in the league, as a former participant in the VHL, do you think that kind of history puts a little bit more pressure on you to perform?

     

    Having joined the league post-Cologne (hehe), I don't have much of a connection to the franchise's history. I think bringing an old face into an entirely new league is good for the game, but at the end of the day it's just that, an entirely new league. The history we make here will differ wildly from the Cologne of the VHL.

     

    4. Of any player selected in the VHLE Draft, who would you like to steal for the Cologne Express and why?

     

    Genghis Khan, dude was a monster in the VHLM and has continued to be in the VHLE. Would love to pad my stats passing to him when he's automatic for one a night.

     

    5. Who will be the biggest steal of the VHLE Inaugural Draft?

     

    I'll say it again, Genghis Khan. Good for a goal a game and he was drafted 64th overall in the ELEVENTH ROUND? Highway robbery.

     

    6. Who will be the biggest bust of the VHLE Inaugural Draft?

     

    I'll bite that bullet for now, I should be performing to a much higher standard than I have been, and a league leading 36 PIMs has done nothing but hurt the team. I need to be much better to be worth my draft stock.

  3. The VHLE is... weird. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the level of parity in this league is uncanny. Before the last batch of sims, Cologne led the league with a 5-3 record and a GD of... 0. The New York Islanders of the VHLE if you will, stringent defense and absent offense that ultimately just works. The most recent sim treated the franchise rather harshly, seeing the team drop two games and FIVE STANDINGS SPOTS to fifth in the league, with a .500 record. It's a strange sight when the worst team in the entire league is as good as they are bad, and I don't know how sustainable it is. As the season progresses I would expect we see some separation develop between the teams, however as it stands now the difference between the top and the bottom is 3 points. Rome or Cologne could win one and lose one in OT and as long as the team they beat was Istanbul or Vasteras they'd shoot to the top of the standings. It's a little absurd how tight things stand at the moment, but it is very hard to imagine it staying this way for much longer.

     

    Player development will completely change the landscape of the VHLE pretty soon here. Take Istanbul for example, the team is already monstrous with the highest scoring offense in the league, yet they also boast the second leakiest defense. This is somewhat explained when you see their D-core doesn't have a single player over 300 TPA and their DF stat is hovering around 80 (with the glaring exception of a 70). As these players earn more and grow their game, Istanbul will tighten up on the backend and their already dominant offence should continue to get the job done. This will be an interesting season to watch no matter who you're rooting for.

  4. Scotty Campbell, Brett Slobodzian, Aidan Shaw and so many more. The names of the league's legends live forever etched in the names of our coveted player awards. With the VHLE kicking off shortly a new batch of awards are up for grabs, and as it stands (to my knowledge) they are actively unnamed. This opens a window for the first generation of VHLE stars to leave their mark on the league and seek to set the bar for future players. Through these first couple seasons, VHLE players that stand atop the class may very well carve their name into VHLE history, leaving these awards named after their historic performances. Will the next generation of VHLE goaltenders be fighting for the Tobias Reinhart Award or Xavier Booberry Award? Will Genghis Khan transfer over the level of skill he exhibited in the VHLM and establish himself as the league's top performer? There are so many players with the potential to be game breaking in the VHLE, because we have never seen this level of competition at scale before. The closest we've come has been the recent iterations of the World Junior Championship, and there have been some wild performances there. Who's to say what the VHLE landscape will truly look like even 15 games in? S80 will be the start to determining the answers to these questions, and I think it's fair to say we are all eagerly awaiting. Here's to a great inaugural season and to history in the making.

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