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DC.... lines arent - but great game!

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Noted. I'll likely wait tomorrow to bring out an easy one. I'm swamped next week at work soo.. Shopping for some dress clothes and normal clothes tomorrow.

I like it all tbh. keep it ?

I wouldn't put into leadership. Not that it's useless but yeah. Discipline is shit too.

Posting a few days earlier as I'm going to be busy as fuck next week.. Claiming 3 weeks for Smirnov June 18 to July 8th

Speculatoria: Let's look at OSLO! Speculatoria, the magazine version, has not died. I've seen the comments, looked at stuff and have come to the conclusion that despite there being good advances in increasing the quality, I would like to further investigate and do a little researching on how to make it better, but at the same time, also faster for myself as it's too time consuming for the amount of reward. Due to this fact and myself being busy as fuck at work, I've missed some key opportunities to bring about a scouting report or two and captivate the eyes of all our readers and those who give a shit (or as Robbie would add, who don't give a shit. Because I don't give a shit!). This will be our little extra project in the mean time - and you can likely expect two of these a week with some other little projects on the go too. This week, or to start things off with the team analysis, we're going to be taking a look at this seasons Oslo Storm. So, without further delay, let's take a look. Management The management is strong with this one. Led by Head GM @Laflamme who later partner up with EX-Bratislava GM and current Seattle Bears GM of the VHL, Blake Campbell (myself). These two haven't been working together too long behind the helm of Oslo, but since LaFlamme brought in Campbell, the two have been working hard, constantly and quickly to bring about the best hockey for fans in and of Oslo. Their experience together is pretty good and both have been around for sometime. A big props could be in order for LaFlamme too for bringing in a strong presence in Blake Campbell to help guide the teams direction and help start moving things in order. We look forward to seeing what else they come up with, but as of late, they've been killing it. They brought in both Campbell's agencies players in Vyacheslav Smirnov and Maxim Kovalchuk - who both are on a roll. Then they picked up two more signings in @BBNAT's player and @Beerfridge. Ratings: LaFlamme: 7.7B @Laflamme He's a good manager and he's stepped it up heavily the last while. The fact he went active the last time around has some likely concerned, but we feel as time gradually moves on, his score will do the same and will likely increase. He's done a great job and the two together should really bring Oslo to new heights. Banackock: 8.8A Not being cocky, but I feel it's accurate. I have huge experience in the league and while a little out of touch with the rules and shit, I know how the system works. Campbell made some decent moves at the draft and is behind all 4 new players signing in Oslo. Furthering, a quick made up draft list could be credited for their strong draft - picking up a goalie when @Daniel could be missing in action this year and Riga's plan to call him up and shit the season away could be in order. Past success and recent management is a reflection of his overall score. Forwards We're not going to waste our time with players that haven't logged in for a few weeks. I'm not that hungry for words and it's literally just a waste of time. If they ever want to come back to life, they can find their way in one of these reports but for now, tough shit. For Oslo, it's the opposite as they have found themselves a decent set of new players, with a mix of older guys to lead the way. They have the group moving froward that could likely contend this season and we have them as the #2-3 seed team this year. In my eyes, I think they can go far this season. I expect to see them in the finals. Vyacheslav Smirnov @Banackock Future Rating: 9.5A Future Range: 9.0B - 9.5A He's their best player when it comes to effort, consistency and what he's likely to become. The fact he is part of the Campbell agency, but also the Seattle core means that he likely won't fuck up and you can expect him to go balls to the walls. He's a player that maters, so you can expect him to also matter to Oslo's success this season. While we could rate what they currently are, we're more so going at what they'll become. Smirnov is going to be a very strong player in the future Josh Stronk @Beerfridge Future Rating: 7.5C Future Range: 7.0D - 7.5B Pretty fucking to see such opposite numbers or ratings hey? Strong has struggled to somewhat find consistency - not so much in production, but more so in development. He's just at the cap right now for the VHLM, but he's a little bit older of a player. Furthering, he was just moved from calgary to Quebec (if not mistaken) in a trade. Despite all these things, his importance to the team is huge and upon signing, he became the teams best and biggest player this season. In my eyes, you can expect him to light it up, put the team on his back and really take charge of Oslo this season offensively. Shawn Mendes @evrydayimbyfuglien Future Rating: 8.0B Future Range: 7.0B - 8.5B Mendes, for me, the concern would be activity. He went inactive some what on his previous players and the agency only just made the return a while ago. Despite this, he's looking healthy, good and seeming to have a bunch of activity all while enjoying the site. On top of this, his personality traits really help him but the rating reflects our concerns slightly. He could grow, ranging from that 8.5C or 8.5B range, or he could drop and just become a really strong, consistent depth player that you need and love to have on your team. Marvin Harding @.sniffuM Future Rating: 8.0C Future Range: 7.5C - 8.0B This guy is a tough cookie to call. His determination, activity and all that great shit is there, but at the same time, activity in the future could be an issue as it has been in the past. While we don't believe this will be the case, you never know. For Oslo this year, Harding is their #1 guy on the Wing and will be counting on him and stronk to heavily lead the way offensively. For the future, he could pick it up a tad, while it likely won't be a whole lot, or he could slow down a little bit while still being that nice depth piece every roster needs. It'll be interesting to see how he turns out, but we got a feeling this season all he's gonna do is TURN UP for OSLO! Rauno Palo @jRuutu Future Rating: 8.5B Future Range: 8.5C - 9.0B Currently, he's the 2nd line centre for the Oslo Storm with the strong potential of being the first line guy next season if he doesn't make the jump. His agency has made some great players in the past, but well see if he continues with the consistency he has found thus far. We have a feeling, there will at times be welfare and other shit claimed - just liked others and while you can gain other TPE to make up for the loss, we're unsure if this will always be the case here. Either way, we expect a good - if not, great player out of him and you can see this in the Future Range rating. Defense Maxim Kovalchuk @Banackock Future Rating: 9.0B Future Range: 8.5A - 9.5B He's part of the banacock agency and like Smirnov, he's come out flying. He's gained all the TPE available to him right now and it's likely that he won't slow down for sometime. HOWEVER, he's their second player in the agency and the other player automatically goes to Campbell's Seattle bears so if there's ever a time when one of the two players struggles or doesn't have as much gains, it's likely going to be on Kovalchuk. We do, however, expect him to become a solid #1-2 guy on any team in the league in the future. Lukas Novacek @ADV Future Rating: 8.0B Future Range: 7.0C - 8.5B This one is another wildcard, due to recent events of him walking away from the league and having some form of distaste. However, his attitude and presence in the league went from limited/nothing to back in black, baby. He's not going balls to the walls and that's why he has no rating above a potential 8.5B. Though, when all said and done we feel like he's going to end up asa good player - maybe a better depth piece than most and there's nothing wrong with that. Jacob Smith @jacobaa19 Future Rating: 7.5C Future Range: 7.0D - 8.0C I've always liked Jacob Smith and thought he had a lot of potential, but despite this potential, it hasn't actually been put out or turned into much and I think this has been reflected int he ratings. I think the most likely thing to happen here is that he becomes a nice depth piece if everything works out. Obviously, the alternatives are that I'm wrong and he turns it up and becomes a true great piece, or he regresses further and falls off the map. Currently, it seems he's busy in life and has hit a speed up so just like the many where your eyes are glued to, you should be watching him closer too. B.B Nat @BBNAT Future Rating: 8.0B Future Range: 7.0D - 9.0B He's new so it's really hard to scout and give him ratings. Honestly, anything could happen. He could be an amazing first gen who takes the league by storm, or could completely shit the fucking bed and never become anything on here. Right now? He's kicking huge ass and I've had quite a few talks with him to know he's a great guy who is enjoying the site pretty decently. He fits in good and if he sticks with it, will become a good player and great member. My concern, being the new guy so well have to keep our eyes on him. This is reflected in the future range. GOALIES We're not going to blab a whole lot here, as there clearly aren't as many goalies on a team as there are other positions. For Oslo though, they got Daniel (Arvid Aamo), who likely will be playing in riga and Osmond Kingfisher. Because Aamo is likely to play on a garbage Riga team (poor guy), we're going to skip him and head right onto IKF. Osmond Kingfisher @Spade18 Future Rating: 9.0A Future Range: 8.5B - 9.5B He's the GM player for the New York Americans and if there's any trend that's easy to follow, it's that GM players likely turn out to be hardworking players, with consistent, high levels of gains and obviously... they're good. Being named the possible #1 guy at such an early stage in the season and IKF's career must be nerve racking, but we feel by the time Oslo needs him, his ratings will be good enough to help them fight through it all. We have no worries with this player here. Good member, good agent and has avery strong future ahead of him. 1,800+ words...

If we're talking Erik Karlsson.. I'd imagine you'll follow suit and leave to hey? ;

If we're talking Erik Karlsson.. I'd imagine you'll follow suit and leave to hey?

OSL offers: 1M We've talked in PM's. COME and help us bring the STORM!

Looks good.

Welcome, man. @Hunter

Welcome, Mikey.

His life story is likely the first you've heard of in the VHL. You hear the regular stories of them growing up in their respective places of birth, growing up with their families, who either struggle or don't, and typically, they play hockey since young and it's a given that they're going to continue on this path. But, this isn't it for Maxim Kovalchuk. Well, sort of. We start of in Sochi, Russia, where he was born. It one of Russia's largest resort cities and was home to the Winter Olympic games in 2014. Despite not partaking in this event, Kovalchuk wish he could and evidently, possesses the ability to take place in such event. Nevertheless, here we are. Maxim grew up a normal life. Well, as normal as they could become. His father was a drug user and drug dealer in Sochi and was known under the name as "Sergei the Strange". He was in the Russian Russu" group and was heavily known by police federally and internationally. Despite this, his mother, who was also a paramedic, divorced him while Maxim was aged 5 and became single for some time. During which, and likely different to 99% of things you read on here, his mother found a partner of the opposite sex. Yes, the VHL supports everything and while some shit is super weird, this is not. Love is love. Anastasia Kovalchuk met Maria Bavlechnko and wed, making Kovalchuk one of this first players to enter the VHLM with obvious and announced singular marriages couples. Good for him. At the age of 5, he entered school. A little earlier than most, but his mother.. mothers.. believed that his ability and intelligence was above the rest. Was this because of feminism? Who knows? but later in his life, he'd likely learn to thank them. Throughout his school years,he learned that being smart was a good thing. He gained his grades, paid attention in class and was always respectful to anyone that wished to gauge his attention. Despite being smart ins school and getting good grades, he also managed to get the bitches and was extremely involved in school. He never missed a party, whether it was at the dock - a meeting spot that the kids partied at, or banging the hottest bitches in class, school or schools away - Kovalchuk was a fucking legend. You can imagine this carried on for quite sometime, and if you did, that's correct. His lifestyle continued and progressed much into college. As a back up plan, he took political and law studies. If he decided to shit the fucking bed on his hockey career, he'd prefer to have something to back him up on. Thank fucking christ he did. During college, he bagged every single hot bitch that walked his way. He snorted molly, cocaine and smoked a fuck ton of weed. He danced, he partied and he said fuck you to the government. I'm here to learn, but I'm also here to have a fucking good time. What a greta fucking mentality to have. Hey? I'm trying to get through this bio, fuck off. He managed to keep his good grades, and the hot bitches. He went through college, playing on the top hockey team, getting the top grades and banging the shit out of the top girl in school (who made little freshman's nerds pants wet when they walked down the same hall-way). While in school, eventually he found himself struggling with substance abuse. It started off, like most young little shits in school, dibbling and dabbing in this, trying out that and hanging out with your pals at some house, listening to trance music, slugging the brews and watching some fucked up shit to get a good trip going. But for him, it started to escalate. The partying started to become too much, not that he was doing it on his own and a full blown addict, but the partying started to consume him. It did not make him fuck up with hockey, but it started to increase and become more frequent (his partying). He continued down this path for a few months before some of his buddies came together, all knowing they were on the same boat as him (and the same hockey team) and decided it was time to slow the shit down or things could get negative. One night, while sitting around a fire and passing around a joint, they decided it was time to put the hard shit away and start focusing on other things - like a career in whatever, and for Kovy, hockey. Just to add in, Vyacheslav Smirnov was one of the buddies sitting around the fire with Kovalchuk that night and both are fellow Russians entering the VHL at the same time. (in case you missed the Smirnov bio, they go way back). That night, Marijuana would be the only thing these straight up G's would touch for the rest of their days. Sort of a proud mom moment right there, hey? School finally ended for the summer and Kovalchuk ended up getting called to go back to Russia to play in a summer league know as the Russian Summer Hockey League. Real original name, right? Yep. During the regular season, he fucking lit up the league and left fire everywhere he went. Through the 32 game season, he got 18 goals, 23 assists for 41 points as a blue liner on the back end for a team that was otherwise fairly mediocre. They finished the season 20-11-1 and made it one game away from winning the final where they got their assholes handed to them in a heavy defeat (5 to 2). After the year finished off, his phone rang from the VHLM commissioner Beavy saying they wanted him in the league - that a player like him is special and it's time for his career to grow and blossom. The next day, he boarded a plane and was off to North America for a meeting with the commissioner in Ottawa (why they were there, who knows). The plane landed, he got off, they hand the meeting and he signed his first real big deal with the Oslo Storm for 1M shortly after. Now, he eats Lobster 3 times a week with the most expensive champagne to gargle after brushing his teeth. 1058 +10 Kovalchuk

lol Federov was my first to hit 8 too... sad days

Not bad, man. Good to see the effort and enthusiasm. You look good thus far

Looks like we may have a bruiser on our hands. Welcome to the league @MrYams

Welcome to the league, man.

I also wouldn't put it into Leadership and would more so put it into anything else (other than Discipline) @CahillNFLD

Welcome to the league, pops.

So tag him, not quote me. Either way, @BBNAT welcome to the team

@Laflamme let people go. Youre refusing to let me let people go, which LaFlamme and I discuss together anyway, so not my issue. So don't say "again" and whine and give me shit. I cant let people go. I would If I could. However, the league should not prevent players from going where they want to go. Especially amazing, hardworking members like @BBNAT. 1st GEN STUD?!! Im not an assistant GM. I'm a Co-GM. LaFlamme and I discuss all moves - transactions etc. It's a joint team.