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Hello, it is me and I am back with my weekly edition of BANA BLABS. Man, I've been so busy lately and so focused on paying down debt, saving money and doing good at my job that It's been a mother fucker to come on and do tasks. I've managed to do it but when you are doing all of these outside things you can really feel the burn. A bunch of buddies and myself also joined a NHL 22 3's league and while our expectations were low, they started to rise. We started 5-1-1 on the season and have no slipped to 6-4-1. NOT good. Talk about being a true Oilers fan. Draft week in the VHL. Some stuff to blab about. Let's hustle, struggle and get it done. Draft is tonight. Seattle hasn't many picks. I don't mind being part of the drafts but our roster is set for the season and I'm VERY excited for it. We have an excellent roster and the group of people we have can be quiet but they're all awesome members of Seattle. Despite it being a potentially quiet draft for us, I am open to swinging deals. We could move a player (who knows) or we could also move an 84 pick for an 83 pick if the deal makes sense. Applied my players TPE and I have no idea what to think. It was harder than a mother fucker and unlike some who probably pissed around, did the math and broke out the mathematic science formula spreadsheets.. I just kinda guessed and tried to focus on ratios etc.. I guess we'll see how it goes. This season I will hit 2,500 games GM'd with the Seattle Bears as I head into my 35th season. OTHER BEAR MILESTONES.. For the Bears, MDM @Beaviss needs 30 goals for 50 in his career and 50 PTS to hit 100. Miglaskems @FrostBeard is 44A away from 100 and 28 PT away from 100! Our amazing captain @dasboot VINNY DETROIT had his best season last year hitting 1K hits as he averages 348.33 a season.. he's also 1 shot away from 600! CHARA @Jubis is one goal away from 100... who will get their milestone first? Will Vinny get one shot... or Chara get his goal??? Eightnine @BarzalGoat is 20A away from 100! Petrenko needs 29 points from 200 in his career ( @SlapshotDragon EZ).. That is all for now, okay?

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Hello everyone, HAPPY SUNDAY! Little less happy for myself and I'd imagine a bunch of you as it's our last day off. I've just had four days off and let me tell you, it's flown by. During these days off I got done a bunch of stuff for my truck, some big time grocery shopping, stuff around the house including cleaning out the mountain of boxes we've had stacking up since Christmas, watched the new Jackass movie (it's pretty fun and super nostalgic) and then played that new Call of Duty mode with the tanks and shit with my brother and buddy. Overall, days off were super good. Weather has been super nice too. For the VHL we always got a ton of shit going on and now that we're in the off-season things have started picking up steam since I last did one of these. With that being said, let's go around the league with yours truly. League Announcements and Links S82 Off-season/S83 Season Schedule Hybrid Attribute Changes S82 Experience Points VHLE Changes Official VHL APP for iOS and Android VHL I can't remember if I included it in my last one but @Doomsday was hired for the Toronto Legion GM job and @InstantRockstar was hired for the LA Stars GM job. Both were good hires for their roles and will do good things with their teams hopefully. LA Stars have had some challenges with superSTAR wanting out and losing a bunch of players to either FA or retirement. They're managed to turn it into an okay reversal though. Toronto is on the complete opposite end and will be one of two teams making good noise in the NA conference. NA CONFERENCE -Weak. Calgary ended up trading Eagles, Reinhart, Nashervov and Jokinen this off-season. Vancouver trades away Nalwa, Aberg and Kitson. DC managed to get a really decent core of D together, their goalie is coming along nicely in development, however, they lack overall depth up front. They're also running out on those magical firsts that everyone is looking for and I question how wise it would be to remove it. At the end of the day, I'm sure they're gonna be okay. Looking strictly at the rosters and not into the future, they're a MID team though. Always have been, apparently always will be. EU CONFERENCE - HELSINKI is back! Florida Man, Jokinen and Nasherov are all new names to the team. They may actually be the team to beat in the EU. Warsaw found it in themselves to respond to DM's this season and it turns out when you do that, often good things have the potential of happening. They capitalized on the LA debacle and then added some strong pieces from Vancouver. It was an incredibly cheap off-season for them and will help them be the top team with Helsinki. The rest of the EU is still looking really good (better than the NA) and will be a blood bath conference this year. Hedge not gonna be happy??? VHLE Rome comes back to reverse the 3-0 on Bratislava. What a cool way to end Rockstar's career in the VHLE. I personally still don't like the VHLE. I understand the purpose of it all but didn't really enjoy the experience too much. No knocks against Barzy or anything. He's a hardworking GM that was one game away from winning it all. He puts in a ton of effort into everything on the daily. Just isn't my cup of team. Looks like @Baby Boomertook over Rome for Rockstar. No offence but I need to start creeping around the forums more because your name is a little less known that probably the other candidates. I guess that's what you get when you have all these leagues, all these teams and sometimes such high turnover rates. I wish you the best of luck in the role. GMing in these leagues can be a lot of fun and rewarding in some form of way. Looking at the trade section on the portal for the VHLE, looks like there has been 5 trades this off-season and somehow Vasteras was involved in all of them? Vasteras must be very busy trying to revive the legacy (never needed to be revived with how people on here always stoke the flames) and make their way towards a championship. Looks like rebuilding is in the cards but they managed to get some nice picks this off-season. Everyone else mostly standing still and remaining the same. A flood of trades and shit always happens at the start of the season. Come draft time, especially with the lower level GM's, you can expect a few more transactions to find their way through. VHLM Saskatoon wild went all the way and honestly not super surprised. Houston, Saskatoon and Philadelphia were the teams that I had thought of winning it all once playoffs started. The one surprise I did have was not Saskatoon winning as mentioned, but the fact that Philadelphia lost out in 6 games to the eventual cup champions. I don't know why. I didn't pay too much attention but it seemed like Philly really dominated the entire season. Saskatoon hoist the cup in 7 games against the Houston Bulls. The VHLM trade tracker on the portal is showing that we've had zero trades this off-season so far? That can't be true... usually the VHLM is popping off.. However, when you make your way to the forum to check things out, you'll notice no trades have been made. The VHLM is frozen and @Nobody is budging. This is more shocking to me than Philadelphia losing out honestly. The moment the off-season hits, VHLM GM's are usually swapping 4th round picks, trades an old player for two 2nds, three 3rds and a 7th round pick and all of that. This silence is strange. MORE TO COME. I expect draft day mayhem then!! Adison Bond @adison currently sits on top of the VHLM for TPE in this seasons prospect pool. Svatopluk Puk ( @Otaznik), Napoleon Dynamite ( @thadthrasher) Callum Murray ( @Berocka) and Cobalt Burns ( @Ledge) round out the Top 5 to make it a very exciting first round of drafting. This draft looks extremely healthy for the VHLM GM's and I could be wrong but looks like we're going to be going into 3 rounds of strong talent and depth picks for teams.

Happy weekend! The weather is starting to get nicer here... sometimes we get a little bit of snow but nothing ever lasts on the ground more than a day. Tomorrow is supposed to be +12 and the next week or so is supposed to be really nice as well. Gets me excited for later Spring and Summer as I love to hike, adventure, garden and fish the beautiful mountain streams. Me and a few buds joined an Xbox 4's CHEL league and we're doing okay too. My expectations were to go 0-28 on the season... We started the season off surprisingly hot and have hit a bit of a rough little stretch the last few games.. overall we're 6-2-1 which is miles better than I thought. Lot's going on in the VHL, let's quickly blab. World Cup and World Juniors are a go! I've always loved being involved with them. During my time as head of WJC, lots was going on and we always wanted to make it special to help the VHL and it's members. This is the first time in what feels like forever I won't be involved in something like this it feels like... maybe last season etc too but I was part of that other weird tournament ran by members.. It's a good change to not be involved honestly!! Bears are doing good. Got our roster set with some cap to spare... Very happy and excited with the roster. Chara to C, brought in AJW. We're looking good in a weaker conference. Excited to battle it out with @Doomsday and Toronto. Maybe some others in NA. Player builds are weird. Applying the TPE I was not a fan but that's probably to be expected. It's a VERY big change and will take some time to get used to. I'm sure after a career or two, things will be normal and like anything else.

Bana's & Beav's S83 Quick Q's Press Conference Rules Seattle Bears Team Page S83 VHL Draft S82 VHL Index S82 VHLE Index S82 VHLM Index This Season's PC's: *Follow PC Rules. Each time PC is posted, there enough questions for you to answer for multiple weeks if there isn't for the following week. Old weeks/posts will be above as "S83PC - Part X". You have to answer or ask 6 questions, in any combination. ANYONE is more than welcome to ask and answer questions. ENJOY! 1. What are your thoughts on the overall hybrid/attribute scale change etc? 2. How did you build your player? After anyone in the NHL? What kind of player are you going to be? 3. If you didn't in #2 and had to compare yourself to a NHL player, who would it be and why? 4. What are your thoughts on Chara switching for C for us (D->F) @Jubis? 5. What are your thoughts on the team trading for @ajwllmsn? 6. @BarzalGoat wants to take the team on an off-season vacation. Where did you go? What did you do? 7. A workout supplement brand approached you and wanted you to create your own protein. What did you make? What did you call it? Are there any incentives (you get monthly supplements, a bunch of money etc). 8. Springtime is here. What are you most looking forward to now that the weather is getting nicer?

I guess posting your block everyday for weeks does work after all, hehe.

Good PF change. Always happy to miss out on TPE. Woooooo

I’d like to thank the academy for this opportunity. @ajwllmsn WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE BABY

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Well, it's another week and another struggle. I am currently on work day number 7 of 10 and am gracefully making my way towards days off. Looks like I have a busy final 3 days and some of them might be challenging but that is okay. Days off are within sight so no matter what comes my way, it will be over before you know it. Off-season has finally come, the Vancouver Wolves won the Continental Cup and I'd think most of the league wasn't super impressed. I can acknowledge that they did nothing illegal and all of that, but the exploitation to bring awareness, cockiness of some of the members and the affect it's had on the league is not really anything I support. Was it smart? Sure. I understand the argument of what is meta VS what isn't. 40/99 is the most meta, imo.. As you go up higher, you get further away. Of course, too, you get randomness from STHS and how all our builds mesh together... I just find with everything that has gone on - just a dick move a little to exploit it... Any other GM's could of done it but chose not to. It doesn't take Nyko or Elon Musk to understand throwing it all together could do what it did. It just took someone like that to do it to that extent. Only my 2 cents and I'm not holding onto them for dear life. It is what it is. It's over now and I think the next little while is going to be pretty cool for the league. Now, outside of that, let's do some quick points and end the misery. Long off-season. I love them. The breaks are always nice. Go play outside. Write articles. Engage with the league and create activity and positivity. Enjoy the break and extended time to earn TPE in your career. My player will be coming up to play for Seattle and I'm skeptical but excited to see how he will do. The new build stuff I have zero ideas about so I am 101% going with the flow! I'm obviously going to stick towards something somewhat similar to what we can do now to the best of my ability. That's the style of player I like to play as. I want to be a strong, two way d-man that is good in a majority of areas. Again, with these new builds, while I feel like there's going to be some challenges down the road that should have been thought out now, it's going to level and increase the playing fields at the same time. No more random. PARITY as the blues love to call it. Challenging off-season ahead? Some teams have nothing. I'd say 75% of the league is selling... AGAIN. This happened a few seasons ago (can't remember exactly now) and it was very unique and interesting. Nice to see that like all things, what goes around comes around and it came back. Seattle is in the mix and we can kind of do was we please. I'm really happy with our roster and feel like we can go either direction. I'd like to get some youthful assets but also don't mind going the other direction as I like the age and make up of members for our roster! Don't read this. Good bye.

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Hello. New week, new me, same old struggle. Back to work! 7 left to go. Life is pretty stressful and going through some things but that's okay. Weather was nice today and Spring is here (but Winter always comes back in Alberta). Let's just get to blabbing, okay? Moscow and Vancouver finals again. Lots of fun. Fortunately, it'll end this season. Once the league put a stop to the exploitation, Vancouver likely to sell. Funny how that works, hey? Don't care who wins. Leaning Moscow for obvious reasons. ALL teams are selling this off-season. Looks like we're going to have a lot of fun again. Okay... not all, but most are trying per normal. Gonna be a very interesting off-season... Mikhail Kovalchuk is coming up to Seattle. The M was okay, the E was meh. Hardly paid attention. Happy to finally be in the VHL. Was gonna go somewhat meta. Only had so much TPE so was building strong meta until I could add into PA etc. Was gonna try and go about 77-83 PA. With these new build things, who the hell knows. bye

Bana's & Beav's S82 Quick Q's Press Conference Rules Seattle Bears Team Page S82 Draft S82 VHL Index S82 VHLE Index S83 VHLM Index This Season's PC's: 82PC - Part 1 82PC - Part 2 S82PC - Part 3 S82PC - Part 4 S82PC - Part 5 S82PC - Part 6 S82PC - Part 7 S82PC - Part 8 *Follow PC Rules. Each time PC is posted, there enough questions for you to answer for multiple weeks if there isn't for the following week. Old weeks/posts will be above as "S82PC - Part X". You have to answer or ask 6 questions, in any combination. ANYONE is more than welcome to ask and answer questions. ENJOY! 94. Who do you want to win between Moscow and Vancouver? Why? 95. How do you think the series will actually go? 96. What were your thoughts on the Bears overall season? 97. What were your thoughts on your players season? 98. What would you do this off-season if you were Seattle's GM? 99. Thoughts on @Doomsday and @InstantRockstar getting hired for Toronto and LA?

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Salutations to you, VHL. I hope everyone is having a good week and that they're enjoying their Friday's and excited for the weekend. After a few days of darkness and feeling shitty from Covid-19, I'm finally on the rebound and enjoying my 5th day off. Fortunately, my positive Covid test fell 3 days short of when my actual 4 days off started, so I get a nice little haul of days away before I have to return to work on Monday. Tons of things have happened in the league during these times and while the struggle has been real for me the last few months to do anything on here task related, we're going to spew out some quick words to get this shit done for the week. NEXT WEEK IS A NEW WEEK! VHL Seattle Bears beat the Toronto Legion 3-1 series and then come up short against the Vancouver Meta in a series of 4-2. Honestly, being their last season of being able to exploit, I hope they get another championship that 87.6% of the league won't acknowledge. HELL YEAH. Bring the barn roof down, baby. Speaking of which, can't remember if I talked about it yet but the league came out with some new hybrid build TPE applying format thing. I really felt like Trudeau when he was explaining plastic paper water bottle things. I haven't looked into it too much and I don't like it because I don't understand it but anything is better than letting people come together to exploit it in the sake of "bringing awareness". So looking forward to an improved league because it's been dark times, okay? speaking of meta, Duncan Idaho leads the league in goals and points through 12 games in the playoffs. His passing is pretty damn high and it wasn't meant the player is meta. Just always seems fucking @OrbitingDeath has amazing players. If you want to blame anyone, blame him for kissing Simon T's ass and being on the "right side" of the sim LA Vs Vancouver - don't care who wins. Pains me to say, but it would be easier to listen to Nyko than Rory. Moscow VS Riga - I'm probably pulling Riga here. Hedge and I have a long term battle going on and while he'd probably pull for Seattle against a meta team... anyone else and I just got the vibe he'd root against us... VHLE It's already done. Season is already done. Rome came back being down 3-0 in the series @InstantRockstar and put the steam engine back into the mechanics shop @BarzalGoat I was riding on the train so I feel small pain but IR is a good lad so I barely hurt. Drakon Zabastovka @DarkSpyro leads the league for playoff points. I'm very curious to see who the playoff MVP will be. Goalies had good SV% and decent GAA.. both VERY similar.. Drakon - d-man.. so I'd go with him I think.. VHLM Leandro Goncalves leads the way in the playoffs with 18 points in 9 games played. @leandrofg Tomas Sogaard @Brandon has 9 goals in 9 games and is showing the league he's a goal scoring machinee! Ali Des Aves @ViprVipe has the most attractive record with a 7-1-0 but their Sv% of .858 may be the reason I'd give the top playoff goalie so far to Augustus Kennedy @InstantRockstar Saskatoon is beating philly which is surprising to me.. in the season most probably had them as some of the top favourites.. HOUSTON and SSK both up 3-2 in the series.

Hello - took like a week off last week on doing anything major. Fell ill towards the end of last week and had my first ever battle with Covid. 1.5 bad days where I had really intense fever/chills, a head cold, extremely tired and no energy blah blah... after that it was just a normal head cold basically... but those 1.5 days did absolutely suck ass, lol... Lots has happened since so let's get this blab over with. Seattle beat TOR 3-1 series. YAY! Vancouver beat Seattle 4-2 series. It was expected. VSN was wrong on the prediction of how many games so fuck them! But I think everyone has the exploiters pegged to win one final one... WOO LA beat Calgary and it's LA/VAN. I read a post by thrad who said people don't like VAN because they're really good. I don't like them because it feels like they cheat and exploited a loophole and that's why they won. What a fun piece of history to be part of though. I won but the rest of the league won't acknowledge a potential three time Off-season is coming and 99% of teams are selling again LMAO. I'm sure they'll all be back and forth like they normally are. Seattle? Same course as we've been. A mix of both. That has to bne 150+. This shit gets so old after all these years.

Bana's & Beav's S82 Quick Q's Press Conference Rules Seattle Bears Team Page S82 Draft S82 VHL Index S82 VHLE Index S83 VHLM Index This Season's PC's: 82PC - Part 1 82PC - Part 2 S82PC - Part 3 S82PC - Part 4 S82PC - Part 5 S82PC - Part 6 S82PC - Part 7 S82PC - Part 8 *Follow PC Rules. Each time PC is posted, there enough questions for you to answer for multiple weeks if there isn't for the following week. Old weeks/posts will be above as "S82PC - Part X". You have to answer or ask 6 questions, in any combination. ANYONE is more than welcome to ask and answer questions. ENJOY! 83. What were your thoughts on our Toronto series win? 84. What are your thoughts on losing to VAN? 85. What do you think of Calgary losing to LA? 86. What are your thoughts on LA playing VAN? (the two teams people say are most meta). 87. Are you excited for the off-season? 88. Who are the two teams in the finals? 89. Taro, Lose and Kunibuni are DONE. How did Seattle thank them for their time? 90. What's something you're looking forward to this weekend? 91. How has this week been for you? What did you get up to? 92. How is your sports team doing right now in real life? Edmonton Oilers doing better!! 93. Rumor has it tons of teams are selling. What should Seattle do if you were GM?

Stupid ass $8M contract

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Game 6! Could score goals.