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The Stockholm Vikings are rolling through the season and looks like they're not going to slow down the pace. This is the year that someone other than New York could hoist the cup and there's a strong chance it's going to be the Vikings. Let's remember though that regular season play means fuck all or Seattle would have a cup right now (probably two). To cap off his career, Sven Wolf is playing alongside some top end talent like he's done for most of his career. With 50 points in 40 games, it seems as though he too is following his usual, season play and will cap off the season with another good season under his belt. It sucks that I have to retire at the end of this season but I guess that's the way it goes when you're a GM and want what's best for the team. I love being a GM. It has its advantages and has some disadvantages as well. I'm happy to being ending my career here though and that Campbell and STO management were able to find a deal. Play here has been really great. Even if I don't have LR access..... For Forsberg +1

We all know that the VHLM is a war zone these days. From the Las Vegas assholes really living up to their names, to them tearing down the league day by day and making it seem impossible for anyone else to have a shot at winning, some are wondering if the smoke will ever settle. For some, they're happily coasting along in the season - making huge strides, bigger progression and are kicking mightily ass. For some, it's the absolute opposite. Oslo and company are feeling the destruction that Las Vegas is leaving behind them and for a lot of their players, it's really fucking with their production. Mattias Forsberg, a young player who is still in the early prospect stages of his career, is known for his lethal, strong and quick shot. Yet, on the season he has 9 goals through 42 games played with only 19 assists to through into the pot luck as well for a grand total of 28 points. "It was not an easy transition going from the Swedish Elite League to the Victory Hockey Leagues minor associate. Of course, the ice size we use is the same, but the style of play is much different. I think the VHLM is a little tougher - you need to be a little stronger. Where in the SEL, you can get away with being a little smaller as your skill makes up for it. Then we got me trying to progress and find ways to better my playing style. I've been working on about every aspect of my game right now, getting it to certain levels. Puck handling, Skating I feel are the main ones I should look at right now and then focus on the other ones later. I truly feel like having those strong right off the hop will benefit me more in the future. It must not be easy playing in a league where there is one, big dominant team controlling the league and making the future look like all the best you can be is the runner up. Additionally, the Oslo Storm have struggled to find their wings but we don;t feel as though you can really blame management on getting the short stick in this situation. However, it still has to have some sort of affect on it's players - especially those who had expected more from themselves and VHL scouts also expected more from. From the Seattle Bears, here is their scouting pages review on Mattias Forsberg's season so far. Player name: Mattias Forsberg Season Rating: 2.3 out of 5 Potential Rating: 4.2 out of 5 Mattias Forsberg, to safely and honestly say, hasn't lived up to expectations or the hype which he surrounded himself with. If you hear these words, it's likely coming from pissy, sad fans who currently cheer for the Oslo Storm. We've asked the fans why they feel this way and this is what they've stated. He lacks goals, assists, points, hits and anything that makes him a strong, quality players. Well let's get a couple things off our chest here and tell you and them and everyone reading this exactly why they're wrong. Goal Scoring is lacking. Congrats, you hit the ball out of the park on that one. He has only 9 goals in 42 games and it's not what anyone expected. He's known to be a great shot and have a crazy ability to find the back of the net. Yet, this was in the Swedish Elite League. Since coming over, he's only started working on his goal scoring to try and increase it. Point totals aren't what they should be? WRONG and you could never be so wrong. He only JUST became a 90 tpe player and hasn't even (until after writing this article and using my final doubles week) passed the 100 tpe plateau into triple digits quite yet. What are you expecting from this guy? 70 points through the first 42 games? Yes, we agree his goal scoring may be off a little, but his points in our opinion are on par for what we expected. Especially given the league, the team and players he was on/with and the true level of his skills and abilities. We done, 700 words bless jesus. +12 to Forsberg to get him over dat 100 tpe hump

Jakab Holik - Seattle Thanks You! "It's safe to say he was easily one of the biggest players this franchise has seen during the Blake Campbell era" - VHL Times Magazine "Always the backbone of the team. Saving us when we didn't think saving was possible" - Sven Wolf, Stockholm Center As VHL Times Magazine said best, he was one of the better players to enter the Bears organization during Blake Campbell tenure so far. During an abrupt, tricky transition from a contending team to an absolute tear down and rebuild, the Bears were sent into hibernation mode and immediately went looking for answers. With one of the big deal during the S49 season, we seen the Bears and Davos make a blockbuster swap which seen 3 players and a couple picks change places. In a deal that saw Shawn Muller and Sandro Clegane heading to Davos, the Seattle Bears picked up a 1st and 2nd round pick, along with their future starter in Jakab Holik. "It was a tough trade to make. To complete and commit to the rebuild at that time wasn't something we wanted, but we knew in order to get the most out of our assets the time was then and now. Losing a player like Sandro Clegane is never easy, but we knew the type of guy Jakab was going to turn into and we hit it right on the head with that one. He showed up to practice early, was always one of the first and last ones on the ice and came up huge for us throughout his entire career. We owe a lot to him for the success, fun and times that we had. Holik will always be remembered as one hell of a Bear' S49 - Picked up at the deadline - but we don't feel dead. The deal happened at the S49 deadline. The Bears sent their best players packing with the rebuild just fueling up. He was one of the first few pieces that Campbell put together when putting acquiring his assets for the organizations future and can confidently be noted that it was also one of his best. Holik was struggling in Davos, sporting a record of 13-18-4, Save percentage of .911 and a GAA of 2.86. The moment he was sent to Seattle, the statistics rose and so did the atmosphere in Seattle hockey. Finishing his short stint with the Bears playing 37 games, he went 18-18-1 while nabbing a 0.923 SV% and a 2.10 GAA. Safe to say? Holik was here and it didn't take him long to make a name for himself. S50 - The Climb Begins It's gotta get shitty before it becomes great and every rebuilding team has to start somewhere. While this season wasn't anything special and the Bears did miss the playoffs (almost a given), there was some signs of promise. AK-47 and Petenis were added to the organization during the off-seasons draft. Bogdan Podarok finally hit a point per game, getting 74 in 72 and Jakab Holik was once again showing management, the fans and the entire league that despite losing conditions and lack of talent, he's able to stand tall and play strong. Though his record was dipping below 0.500, it shouldn't be looked at as the biggest stat for the season. Posting a record of 25-33-6 was sub-average, but his save percentage of 0.923 and GAA of 2.34 were well above standards and what Campbell has expected at the time. S51 - They're back, baby! Title speaks for itself. The rebuild could technically be said to be over as the Seattle Bears finally made their way back into the playoffs. With the playoff birth, the 2 year "drought" was officially over and it was thanks to a weaker conference but also a stronger team. Petenis and Wolf were both full-time VHLer's now, Bubba Nuck made a return and the team picked up Gow and Rodriguez on the back end. Things were finally starting to look up for the Bears! Another thing going up? Holik's stats. 35-25-4, with a 0.923 SV% and 1.97 GAA easily had Holik as one of the higher up goalies in the league and also easily made him a fan favourite in Seattle. S52 - We're going for it! The Seattle Bears were back and they completed their climb to the top. Hibernation was over and the Bear woke up pissed off. This was the usual chatter of Seattle fans throughout the city during the regular season. The team was the best team in the regular season and earned the crown for that, but the playoffs were a whole new tango where they couldn't learn the dance in time and lost out to the eventual champions, New York. Despite the shitty loss, the team had quite a few highs during the season. They added huge pieces in Odinsson, Jarvi and Kyanon and also seen career years from a majority of their own players. This included, Jakab Holik. 64 games played and he managed to win 54 of them. 54-9-1 was the record to beat and no one did it better that season. Aside from the playoff loss, A+ from Holik all year. S53 - One last time, One final season This season had its highs, and it had its lows. The high's being that the team brought in elite players in Jeff Hamilton, Pietro Maximoff and Zach Parechkin. With this, the team had amazing seasons from each of their players during the regular season and once again were crowned the regular season champions. As always, Holik followed suit and stood on his head for the complete season - taking 50 wins from his opponents and icing the cake off with a similar GAA as last season with 1.58. Little did Holik know, but during these playoffs, would be the last time he'd place a Seattle Bears jersey over himself and skate out on the ice with the organization. ------------------------------------------------- The Seattle Bears organization would like to thank @Beketov / Jakab Holik for their time with the organization. Despite never winning a cup, you brought us so much success over the past seasons and seasons. Holik was one of the first few pieces I added to the organization and it was easily one of my best moves adding you to the roster and locker room. Amazing player and person and a very important person to the VHL. I'm sorry I couldn't find a way for us to win a cup. You stood by the team during most of your career and showed a crazy amount of loyalty and commitment and I feel like I failed a lot of you guys. Really hope you find that cup you've been chasing. You deserve it. Take it easy Holik - hope to see you on the other side (not gates of heaven, huh. Just a new player ) For Federov (last double for 12 TPE)

Take it easy, @evrydayimbyfuglien. Thanks for all you've done. Good luck chasing that cup! Accept.

STO - 5 RIG - 1 Sven Wolf - 3 pts Guntis Petenis - 0 pts, 19 Penalty minutes. Can't stop, won't stop.

wut a career

2 would have been the golden number. Unfortunate enough thought was not given to the removal of 2 VHLM teams before actually pulling the trigger. Dust will settle soon enough.

Playoffs here we cum

No rush, man. Always next week's PT.

SICK Mind doing one for me??? Aleksei Federov? @NUCK

yay no pts

gud win

meh

Peter Forsberg was almost a household name to hockey fans when he was around playing. In fact, you head on over to Sweden and mention the name and I betcha most will still remember the legacy he left himself with the game of hockey. This persona is not so much happening right now for relative Mattias Forsberg in the Victory Hockey League. Though he is priding himself in currently being a 2-way forward who is big on winning face offs, he needs to do more to help his team win. Though he is sporting a high FO% of 64.53, his offensive production is lacking strongly. With 9 points in 19 games, the media asked Forsberg "How do you feel with your play so far?" In all reality, it is what it is. I feel as though the season is a struggle and currently am finding it difficult to adapt. Minus 10 is extremely discouraging and my points production is very similar. Sure, face offs are rolling but that was almost a given. Going to have to focus more on the offensive side of things. Not happy at all and am expecting management to make some moves. For Mattias Forsberg (1tpe)

123 Saskatoon Wild 124 Oslo Storm 125 Las Vegas Aces

Las Vegas 6-1

#Legendimo

While there weren't too many candidates, I'd say we're pretty excited and confident in the guy who is about to take over the Yukon Rush. A past member making a return, we hope he stays around the VHL for quite sometime while also bringing the golden (get it?) days back to the Yukon Rush. Welcome aboard and good luck, @Laflamme! You know where to reach us if you need anything.

6-1 NYA

Titans Express Meute Vikings

Reward: FREE WEEKS Eggs Cost: 2 For Player: Forsberg AND Federov

Great career.

For Forsberg (1 of 2 double weeks used for him) +12

Rodriguez in his Quebec days sending a member of the Reign to their asses. The Seattle Bears have been quite the Roller-coaster team ever since GM Blake Campbell took over the reigns from previous management. During his first season, the team made a run for it knowing that they had the potential to be a strong contender. Despite their high talent level, their conference which they played in was an exact match and than some for their talent and depth. This resulted in GM Campbell giving up on the season, the team and their goals and totally entering a rebuild. Selling off each asset they could to get some more of a future asset or "help us right now" piece. Campbell was quoted in saying that he wishes to not enter a full rebuild. That his goals were to skip some of the initial stages to allow some sort of competitive hockey in Seattle and hopefully make the process go a little quicker. "That's exactly what we did. We missed playoffs the following year and then we were laughing. We brought in some top pieces to add onto the great pieces we already had in AK-47, Podarok and Wolf. Adding Petenis was a huge piece for us and bringing in Jakab Holik was one of the best moves we could have done. He's an elite goalie, whether his numbers truly made people believe that here. He was a huge reason for the success in the season and the team just couldn't handle playoff atmosphere so we crumbled." Another key piece the Seattle Bears add was at the time defender Fillipe Rodriguez. Coming in from a trade from Quebec, Rodriguez wasn't sure on how he felt on the deal. If correctly remembered, he was indifferent on the situation and was almost blindsided as Quebec seemed to be all over the place with what direction they were heading. Though he wasn't exceptionally excited about coming to Seattle, he was ready to make it his home and home it became. Rodriguez fit in well with the teams plan and made the locker room a more enjoyable experience. At the time, he held down the fort on the back end with numerous other partners and night in, night out displayed performances that easily made him one of the Bears top players. Blocking shots and laying the body was part of Rodriguez' job with the Bears Joining the team to enter Season 51, the Bears went on to make their first playoff birth since starting the rebuild/retool era of Campbell's tenure. With a 37-29-6 finish, the Bears barely clinched by 8 points. The team seen some average play from a majority of their players and while not having amazing elite depth, they still managed to see exceptional depth scoring from most of their players. From Rodriguez, the team seen 19 goals, 43 assists and 62 points through 72 games that season. On top of that, he added 238 hits and 116 shots blocked. Rodriguez had just begun making a strong name for himself in Seattle and he hadn't yet known it. Season 52 was next and it was the first of two seasons where the Bears stood up, said fuck yeah and then failed in the playoffs. Adding even more depth through trades and free agency. Joel Jarvi, Biggu Kyanon and Thor Odinsson all ended up joining the team in the off-season. With a huge performance in the regular season, the team finished with a 58-11-3 record and easily coasted to being the best team in the regular season (who also scored the most goals by a landslide). One of these huge performances, while not a huge increase, was from Rodriguez once again. 21 goals, 48 assists, 69 points, 199 hits and 85 shots blocked to end the regular season off put Rodriguez at the top of Seattle once again. Rodriguez found his scoring touch the moment he switched positions (49 in 72) Season 53 was extremely similar to Season 52 for the Bears. The team played huge during the regular season, going on to win the regular season crown for a second straight season. The team managed some trades, as well as a huge free agent signing in one of the most elite defender to lace them up, Jeff Hamilton. Jakab Holik was bigger, better and stronger than he's ever been and the team was sharp and ready to get things underway. The team seen huge numbers from almost all of their players and GM Campbell actually ended up praising the team for their offensive capabilities a couple times throughout the season. The one biggest difference in the season was that the top pairing on the blue line lost Rodriguez. The team desperately needed to fill a void at Center and true colors, loyalty and a sign of Rodriguez' character shined bright like a diamond. Rodriguez decided to switch position, going from a stay at home - two way defender, to splitting time on the 1st and 2nd line with Sven Wolf. Let's just say, this move paid off for him and he climbed to the top of the ranks for Seattle, engraving his name into S53 as the biggest reason why the team was able to make their final push. With a career year behind him, he finished the season with 49 goals, 66 assists, 115 points and all while still managing to play one hell of a physical game with 226 hits. "Fillipe Rodriguez was a monumental asset the moment he walked on that plane with a ticket saying Seattle on it. Though he wasn't hugely open to the idea of becoming a Bear right away, he grew to the idea and were very happy for that because he will go down in my books as one hell of a Bear and one of the best players to work with. We knew when we picked him up what kind of player we were getting. Someone who put the team first, was extremely loyal, was an exceptional asset to have in the locker room and someone who would become a strong player for whatever franchise he played for. All of these things, he was or became for us. His loyalty was beyond what we expected and each season, he got better and better for us. Rodriguez was a key piece to every season and when we mentioned our original players to our plans, he was always on of them. He was a stone set in place for us. One of the originals to the plan we wanted to build around. Rodriguez, the Seattle Bears organization would like to thank you for your time with the organization. Your loyalty and character which you added to the locker room was what made the team a better place to play with. You were a huge piece to the team but especially in S53. I don't want to take credit away from Holik, Hamilton or anyone else deserving, but if you wouldn't have switched to center, we would have been in trouble. I could go on forever giving you and the media reasons as to why you're an amazing player and person. We could thank you for countless things and be here all day. Simply put Roddy @evrydayimbyfuglien , we thank you and hope that your agency and our organization once again can cross paths. All the best and with much thanks, GM Blake Campbell