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It's one of the greatest times of seasons in any kind of spot. The joining together of every single nation and player to enter themselves into international competition to compete against the best of the best from each individual country (and sometimes, groups of the joined together). Despite having lower numbers from certain countries as opposed to the dominating Canada and United States, the Victory Hockey League has been called home by people from all over the entire world - from Canada all the way to China. You think it, we're sure there has had to of been a player from there (whether or not they became something is a totally new beast to tango with). This season, we're back in action since the last time the tournament took place in S52 and it turned out.. well, pretty realistically and obvious. Let's take a look. Round Robin Standings 1. United States 2. Canada 3. World 4. Mercenaries 5. Scandinavia 6. Europe Team Review 1. United States (8-2-0) Let's start this off with saying they were easily the best team in the entire round robin. They outscored the second highest scoring team by 12 goals, let in the 2nd least and had a goal differential of +16 (FYI, the next highest was +3 being Team World). Then, their special games were on point having their PK place them 3rd with 89.13 and their PP coming in at 2nd with a 25%. Now that we've taken that side of things into account, we could easily argue that they have a top 2 strongest rosters in the tournament with Canada giving them a run for their money. Travis Gowecny led the way with 17 points, with Maxwell and Dragonslayer finishing close behind with 16 a piece. 2. Canada (6-4-0) Oh, Canada. Our home and native land.. something, something hockey, right? I'm Canadian and I know that's not how it goes, but it's generally how it should. Though, it's not how the cookie crumbled this season. While their record isn't terrible and they did manage to finish second (didn't someone great and famous once say "If you're not first, yer last"?), it's not something we expect from the Canadian international team. Other than a great goaltending performance by DeGrath and a top leading penalty kill, the rest of it was extremely average. I'd imagine after the finishing game, they immediately went to the drawing board in a desperate fashion. 3. World (5-3-2) Team World. A group of misfits that everyone has to love. Honestly, they have the ability to take the tournament if they choose to do so and everything works out perfectly in their favor. Going through USA is a whole new tale too though. However, with a strong roster and easily one of the better skilled goalies in the tournament and VHL, they shit the bed and did it with a big, old, greasy beer dinger. Cornerstone, Maximoff and rookie Aleksei Federov on the blue line held down the fort the best they could. In my eyes, we're gonna blame this on a lack of depth and very poor scoring outside of the main few. Let's not jump and blame the goalie - as Holik stood on his fucking nuts posting some pretty attractive numbers. 4. Mercenaries (5-5-0) They're young, dumb and full of something other than skill. With no player rating over 70 except for both their goalies (Moon and Jacob), the team lacks everything and everything needed to win. The fact that they placed 4th blows my mind more than toaster strudels. I wouldn't say it was thanks to scoring as a majority were extremely average or below. May regret this (kidding), but we're gonna point the finger at goalie Astrid Moon for being this seasons hero. 4-1-0, 952 SV% and a 1.58 GAA made him the best goalie in my mind. Kudos to him for shitting his pants hard in last years playoffs to becoming a true champion this season. 5. Scandinavia (4-4-2) A couple good players and then the cliff drops and you slam your face onto a pile of someones piss. Little extreme and off, but you get the point. While both goalies played pretty good hockey, they got lit up too hard and couldn't save the day for their team. Another player who should of stepped up but when out hard in his last ever International tournament was center Sven Wolf. Being a key player to the team and one of the best the team has to offer, 7 points in 10 games for the experienced talent is embarrassing to our standards. Unfortunate for both parties but there's always next time for at least one of them. 6. Europe (2-8-0) No goalie, no problem! Kidding. Big problem. Though Key Perought is young and nowhere near developed enough, he tried his best and that's all he can do. Aside from him trying his best, the team has 2 good players, 2-3 average players and then the rest sitting somewhere near the bottom of international hockey (and the VHL). Europe let in the most goals (let's not blame the goalie) and that's pretty crazy considering they didn't give up the most shots. What's even crazier is that they had the most shots for.. which blows my cock away. @Higgins I can claim 3 bonus for each player?

It's one of the greatest times of seasons in any kind of spot. The joining together of every single nation and player to enter themselves into international competition to compete against the best of the best from each individual country (and sometimes, groups of the joined together). Despite having lower numbers from certain countries as opposed to the dominating Canada and United States, the Victory Hockey League has been called home by people from all over the entire world - from Canada all the way to China. You think it, we're sure there has had to of been a player from there (whether or not they became something is a totally new beast to tango with). This season, we're back in action since the last time the tournament took place in S52 and it turned out.. well, pretty realistically and obvious. Let's take a look. Round Robin Standings 1. United States 2. Canada 3. World 4. Mercenaries 5. Scandinavia 6. Europe Team Review 1. United States (8-2-0) Let's start this off with saying they were easily the best team in the entire round robin. They outscored the second highest scoring team by 12 goals, let in the 2nd least and had a goal differential of +16 (FYI, the next highest was +3 being Team World). Then, their special games were on point having their PK place them 3rd with 89.13 and their PP coming in at 2nd with a 25%. Now that we've taken that side of things into account, we could easily argue that they have a top 2 strongest rosters in the tournament with Canada giving them a run for their money. Travis Gowecny led the way with 17 points, with Maxwell and Dragonslayer finishing close behind with 16 a piece. 2. Canada (6-4-0) Oh, Canada. Our home and native land.. something, something hockey, right? I'm Canadian and I know that's not how it goes, but it's generally how it should. Though, it's not how the cookie crumbled this season. While their record isn't terrible and they did manage to finish second (didn't someone great and famous once say "If you're not first, yer last"?), it's not something we expect from the Canadian international team. Other than a great goaltending performance by DeGrath and a top leading penalty kill, the rest of it was extremely average. I'd imagine after the finishing game, they immediately went to the drawing board in a desperate fashion. 3. World (5-3-2) Team World. A group of misfits that everyone has to love. Honestly, they have the ability to take the tournament if they choose to do so and everything works out perfectly in their favor. Going through USA is a whole new tale too though. However, with a strong roster and easily one of the better skilled goalies in the tournament and VHL, they shit the bed and did it with a big, old, greasy beer dinger. Cornerstone, Maximoff and rookie Aleksei Federov on the blue line held down the fort the best they could. In my eyes, we're gonna blame this on a lack of depth and very poor scoring outside of the main few. Let's not jump and blame the goalie - as Holik stood on his fucking nuts posting some pretty attractive numbers. 4. Mercenaries (5-5-0) They're young, dumb and full of something other than skill. With no player rating over 70 except for both their goalies (Moon and Jacob), the team lacks everything and everything needed to win. The fact that they placed 4th blows my mind more than toaster strudels. I wouldn't say it was thanks to scoring as a majority were extremely average or below. May regret this (kidding), but we're gonna point the finger at goalie Astrid Moon for being this seasons hero. 4-1-0, 952 SV% and a 1.58 GAA made him the best goalie in my mind. Kudos to him for shitting his pants hard in last years playoffs to becoming a true champion this season. 5. Scandinavia (4-4-2) A couple good players and then the cliff drops and you slam your face onto a pile of someones piss. Little extreme and off, but you get the point. While both goalies played pretty good hockey, they got lit up too hard and couldn't save the day for their team. Another player who should of stepped up but when out hard in his last ever International tournament was center Sven Wolf. Being a key player to the team and one of the best the team has to offer, 7 points in 10 games for the experienced talent is embarrassing to our standards. Unfortunate for both parties but there's always next time for at least one of them. 6. Europe (2-8-0) No goalie, no problem! Kidding. Big problem. Though Key Perought is young and nowhere near developed enough, he tried his best and that's all he can do. Aside from him trying his best, the team has 2 good players, 2-3 average players and then the rest sitting somewhere near the bottom of international hockey (and the VHL). Europe let in the most goals (let's not blame the goalie) and that's pretty crazy considering they didn't give up the most shots. What's even crazier is that they had the most shots for.. which blows my cock away. @Higgins I can claim 3 bonus for each player?

Yeah, I was getting right to them today after work. Either way, thanks a lot @Kendrick . Appreciate it!

22nd. Nah, busy as shit. Thankfully made the draft!! Will be posted tomorrow saaaaay.. 10PM EST.

With the 7th overall pick, Seattle selects Xavier LaFlamme @Laflamme With the 8th overall pick, Seattle selects Nicodemus Raven. @Fowll With the 9th overall pick, Seattle selects Key Perought @NUCK

Yep. Will tp extend and stay fo 5 seasons. 350 tpe dman - likely gonnabe very good. An entire career ahead of him. So yeah, I wont acceptjust a single 1st. Sorry

accept

hey i dont do that shit no more.

I wish Didn't know I had to ask. Figured blue team would be on it via trade area.

RHETTTTT. 58 wins good GAA. Fuckin Outstanding in y mind

gretz and corner Maybe Kohlner but idk. STO didnt let me in their LR

FABIOOOOO

Accept. Very happy with this high end return for such an all-star dman.

So you swapped positions or is it a new player? If it's a new player and this tracker was for a previous player, it is no longer claimable.

3.5

3.5

s55: $7M

Forsberg for 4. uhhh

So, over the month of May there been a demon in the VHL closest of mine and that of course being the fact that I've had no motivation and/or ideas for writing. I think a lot of this could be the fact that everyday I've worked overtime at work and since the emergency we had a couple Saturdays ago, I worked 61.5 hours overtime and also took on working this Sunday as well. Furthering onto it, I haven't had the greatest drive to make one of my 2 players good. Between work, VHLM commish and a GM - it's a lot to tackle. Federov is coming along nicely and is my first dman EVER in ANY league. I want to try my luck and see If I have more luck making a dman than forward in the VHL. SHL I had quite a bit of luck. Forsberg, my GM player on the other hand, may dibble and dabble into the welfare life from time to time. Perfect 150 words. PEACE

It's the unfortunate side affect of being a VHL general manager. Wolf could of continued to play on the Seattle roster, but for what purpose? What could would it have brought me? Him? The team? Other than potential, and very small chances, as individual accolades and accomplishments, there was no point on keeping him around or active. Regretfully, Sven Wolf has a lot on him as a player as he was supposed to be a big impact player for the Bears organization during our up swing. I created a goalie prior to him and retired him 180 tpe in or something because Seattle needed a center man if we were even going to think about contending in the next couple of seasons. Thus, Sven Wolf pops into the league. He wasn't in the league long. In fact, only a S50 player and still very young at first glance while skating for the Stockholm Vikings this season. Generally, it's never easy to have to lace them up early, put them away and start looking for a new job. As stated, for Wolf, its very early in his career and he may be going through a punch of thoughts. With average success and never an extremely strong break out year and zero cups to show for anything, its safe to say his career was a blended up bunch of average placed into one steaming pot of disappointment. Some though, may argue that. My career was my career. Vaguely put, it was both amazing and disappointing. I enjoyed my time in Seattle. The team was amazing and the guys were even better. We came together as a family and truly tried to push to make it all the way to the end. Year after year it seemed we pushed harder, became a tighter group. It just wasn't what happened in the end every time. We didn't win that cup. My rookie season there was embarrassing to say the least and the season following that I was also very, very unhappy with. VHL S50(SEA) 72GP | 4G - 27A - 31P | -20 | 120SHT | 1GWG | 12PIM | 62HIT | 10SB | 54.2FO% S51(SEA) 72GP | 15G - 40A - 55P | +10 | 188SHT | 2GWG | 24PIM | 51HIT | 12SB | 60.7FO% The next 2 seasons with Seattle were what I expected. I wasn't a goal scorer by no means, but the amount I got was something I at least wasn't upset about. It was expected. My assists and everything else were very good and my face off's percentage was coming along nicely and strongly. Seattle was pumping and I was finally coming along as a player - FINALLY. We chased the cup both seasons. We chased hard and despite coming up short each year, it was still a rewarding and enjoyable experience. The group of guys was amazing and after each loss, it was tough as hell. Things then went downhill, management started trading everyone and next thing you know - I'm on the move to Stockholm. S52(SEA) 72GP | 25G - 68A - 93P | +47 | 280SHT | 5GWG | 24PIM | 45HIT | 29SB | 62.8FO% S53(SEA) 72GP | 27G - 59A - 86P | +65 | 335SHT | 4GWG | 27PIM | 94HIT | 29SB | 64.3FO% This was it. Stockholm. Best team in the regular season. Biggest, best roster in my opinion in the league. Easy cup were my initial thoughts at the start of the season and end of the regular season. Hell, it was even my thoughts during the start of the playoffs. My experience here? Very little. Not enough for me to enjoy it. I never got LR access and was never apart of the team. Not overly too sure why I was never included in that but that easily could have made my second time around as a Viking a better one. So, we lost and I retired without a cup. I have some questions, some regrets and some wishes that I wish would have went the other way. Yet, it was a good run. It was a fun run. Maybe even one of my last strong ones. S54(STO) 72GP | 33G - 64A - 97P | +96 | 337SHT | 8GWG | 104PIM | 318HIT | 13SB | 65.9FO% Career totals: VHL S50(SEA) 72GP | 4G - 27A - 31P | -20 | 120SHT | 1GWG | 12PIM | 62HIT | 10SB | 54.2FO% S51(SEA) 72GP | 15G - 40A - 55P | +10 | 188SHT | 2GWG | 24PIM | 51HIT | 12SB | 60.7FO% S52(SEA) 72GP | 25G - 68A - 93P | +47 | 280SHT | 5GWG | 24PIM | 45HIT | 29SB | 62.8FO% S53(SEA) 72GP | 27G - 59A - 86P | +65 | 335SHT | 4GWG | 27PIM | 94HIT | 29SB | 64.3FO% S54(STO) 72GP | 33G - 64A - 97P | +96 | 337SHT | 8GWG | 104PIM | 318HIT | 13SB | 65.9FO% VHL PLAYOFFS S51(SEA) 6GP | 2G - 4A - 6P | -1 | 18SHT | 1GWG | 2PIM | 4HIT | 5SB | 44.7FO% S52(SEA) 5GP | 1G - 3A - 4P | -1 | 10SHT | 0GWG | 0PIM | 1HIT | 4SB | 50.6FO% S53(SEA) 7GP | 2G - 2A - 4P | -1 | 22SHT | 0GWG | 0PIM | 12HIT | 5SB | 51.2FO% RIP Wolf. Claim 6 for Federov.

We'll safely put any of this to rest for the sake of @NUCK being on here. I want him to enjoy the site and stay with the VHL for as long as he can/wants. He an excellent member. Thus, Nuck will not be drafted by the Seattle Bears (which is a shame - he's a really good member and we go back to when he first started on the SHL). Either way, we got a goalie who I trust in.

Not happy about this result at all. Very, very poor season by Oslo.

booooooooooooooo