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Offer me mates contracts as well

Imagine not allowing your player's to be their true age. The Leaning Tower of Pisa was made over a century ago. Pls fix.

Player Information Username: caltroit_red_flames Player Name: Genghis Khan Recruited From: Member (Esso) Age: 18 Position: LW Height: 75 in. Weight: 192 lbs. Birthplace: Estonia Player Page @VHLM GM

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tbh trade me to the Aces

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+10 Anton Edvin

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107 Halifax 21st 108 Saskatoon Wild 109 Ottawa Lynx 110 Halifax 21st

3-1 Halifax

Such a tragedy. Edvin will play for Team Europe with the stipulation that an Estonian flag be stitched onto the right shoulder of his jersey.

When is Estonia getting a team?

Stepping Into the Locker Room: Saskatoon -Saskatoon, Canada Anton Edvin has lived his entire life in Estonia. He's spent the last season playing and practicing with the national team in Estonia and has left the country only five times. Each of those trips were with the national Estonian team to play hockey against a different nation (Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Finland). Now, for the first time in his life he has left the continent of Europe to come to North America where he will refine his game to the point where he can become a true hockey player. Having been contacted by a single team from the VHLM, the Saskatoon Wild he jumped on the opportunity to sign on the dotted line and immediately got on the next plane to Saskatoon. He knows very little English and only one person in the entire country, his general manager. This has made interviewing him rather difficult as he is barely able to understand the questions he is asked, and if he does understand the questions he doesn't exactly give the most informative responses. (Anton Edvin gets interviewed after his first practice with the Saskatoon Wild). Reporter: "Anton we're really excited to have you here in Saskatoon. Have you been enjoying yourself so far?" Edvin: "Aaaaa... Jah." Reporter: "Fans don't really know much about you. You're from Estonia and you played for the national team there you tell us anymore about yourself?" Edvin: "(whispering) ma teen hoki... ma teen... I do aaaaaaa... hockey. I do hockey!" Reporter: "That's exactly what we wanted to hear! Anton thanks for taking a moment to talk with me, we're excited to see you skate. Good luck!" Edvin: "Thank!" One good thing that came out of this interview wasn't the content, but rather the public backing of Anton Edvin after seeing how hard he tried to speak in the interview and understand the language the fans of the Wild were both upset with the reporter for asking him to do the interview in the first place and have begun buying Anton Edvin jerseys! Since none are available from the Saskatoon Wild they have actually begun buying Estonian national team jerseys as well as Estonian flags. (Fans of Anton Edvin at Saskatoon WIld game). The interview went viral recently and now Native Estonians across Canada are showing their support on Twitter and Instagram. (Anton Edvin fan goes a little overboard with her support). It's been a little crazy considering the fact that Edvin hasn't even played a game for the Wild yet, but considering how tough the transition is going to be for him going from one country to another the fan support is very welcome. In the future when he learns more English, maybe we'll actually be able to get him to do some interviews. For now, we'll let his play on the ice do the talking for him.

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Anton Edvin: The Next Great Estonian Anton Edvin is an 18 year old right winger from Tapa, Estonia. He is 6'3" and 185 lbs. Unlike most players at this age he has put on enough muscle to feel comfortable in his frame, but he's still growing and could potentially have to add another 10 to 15 lbs before he really is at optimal performance. Edvin's strengths are obvious now after three season of developing his talents with the national Estonian team (see biography). His skating, puck control and scoring abilities are off the charts. Although his skating was pretty atrocious to begin with you can see how playing so much football growing up has given him the innate ability to skate after some learning of the correct technique. His puck control skill is less a result of his talent and more of his hard work. Being a striker in football taught him to shield the ball and get into a good scoring position. Now in hockey he's adapted his talents to protect the puck and make good cross passes or hold onto it long enough to get close to the net and into a great position to take a shot. Scoring is the one thing the really came entirely to him naturally. After watching the Estonian national team play so many games he had picked up a few tricks right away and from the get go a stick in his hands just felt right. From anywhere below the tops of the circles Edvin's wrist shot is absolutely deadly and if he gets in close to the crease the goalie has no chance of stopping his crazy dangles. Most young players have some areas of their game that are underdeveloped, unfortunately Edvin is no exception to this. Coming from being a striker he isn't used to having a play defense in any capacity so his defensive IQ is exceptionally low. He doesn't position himself well to keep opposing players to the outside, he finds himself out of position quite a bit of the time and he tends to coast just out of habit. To make it worse, his national coach rather than fixing this issue has taken to ignoring it and only working on the offensive aspects of Edvin's game. Although this has worked for the lower level competition that Estonia faces nationally, this is going to be a huge hangup for any higher level coaches. In addition he really does not have any checking ability whatsoever. The most contact he makes is generally when he feels he can get the puck from the opposing players and it is less of a check and more of a shove to get into a better position get the puck and skate away from the opposing player. Finally, his slap shot is very weak. His wrist shot and deking skills have been good enough for him to get by for now, but as coaches want to use him more and more on the power play we'll see him spending more time after practice alone working on his slap shot. He's mostly been a net-front guy on the power player for now, but to play to his highest potential he'll really have to develop his shot from the outside.

Anton Edvin: From Small Beginnings Anton Edvin is an 18 year old Estonian who has just begun his journey in the minor professional ranks of hockey. Growing up his favorite sport was hockey, unfortunately he was unable to play it for most of his youth due to the financial state of his family. Only the richest of Estonians who lived in Tallinn, the capitol of Estonia, were able to play the sport and those who were talented enough eventually left for Latvia or the Nordic countries to play in their junior leagues. Instead played football (soccer) and filled the void by watching the national team play friendly matches when he saved enough money to buy a ticket and listening to radio broadcasts when he was lucky for his mother to allow him to use the radio for the evening. Those were only on nights that his father was still out working in the fields. (Tapa, Estonia. Anton Edvin's birthplace). The day he learned to walk Edvin began working for his parents on their farm in Tapa, Estonia. He started with simple tasks like collecting eggs each morning from the chickens and apples from their few apple trees to collecting the wheat during harvest and planting it at the beginning of the new season. His father introduced him to football at a very young age and he joined his local club as a striker. The entire town of Tapa loved the local football team and when they heard about this young striker the hype around him was unbelievable. From a very young age he was known by all of the most important people in his town. He learned about hockey when he was seven. He saw some kids skating on a pond and asked what they were doing. When they explained the game of hockey to him he was immediately hooked. Anton's father didn't support his dream of becoming a hockey player, though. He told him "Anton, you be a footballer or a take my farm. No more of this silly hockey." For the next eight years he would continue playing football and being a great striker for the local club at that. Although most of the village was very poor, especially his family, on game weekends they were asked to come to local restaurants and stores to do their eating and shopping at a discount as a show of appreciation by the townspeople. As a young boy he loved the attention and adoration his friends and fans gave him, but as he got older he realized how weird it was to have an entire town idolize him for him football skills. He realized that if he was going to play football professionally he'd have to leave Estonia and play somewhere new. Somewhere where the entire town didn't know his face, name and his parents personally. When he began going to Gumnaasium (High School) as a 15 year old Anton was hoping he would either be asked to play football by one of the professional teams throughout Europe and if he had not been approached by any teams after turning 18 he decided he would go to a university in Germany and learn some field of work. He wasn't exactly sure what he wanted to learn at a university, but he was certain that he didn't want to take over his father's farm, although it would break his father's heart. Farming wasn't something he did because he wanted to. He did it help keep food on the table in his home, but it wasn't something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Fortunately he had in fact been approached that season with an offer to play football in the United Kingdom for Shelbourne in Dublin. He got the offer while practicing with his club team and it was too good to be true. The entire way home he was scared, excited and nervous. Would he have to leave the country alone, as a 15 year old? What would become of his parents? Would he ever see them again? He decided to wait to speak with his parents about the issue until he knew what he really wanted. After all he had another three years before he really had to make a choice about what he wanted to do, why rush it? (Tallinn International Ice Hall. The first rink Anton Edvin ever skated at). Then one day the coach of the national Estonian hockey team came to his school and asked that the best athletes in the school be allowed to accompany him on a field trip to the national team's training facility. There Anton was given the chance to finally skate on ice for the first time and play the sport that he so desperately loved watching and listening to while growing up. He was an awful skater, just absolutely horrible, but being a striker on his club football team for many seasons he had a natural nose for the net and being so tall and athletic he was able to keep "control" of the puck, if you could call his hobbling around the ice with the puck constantly bouncing away from him control. He was especially great at scoring while close to the net and the national team's coach took notice. After the skate he was asked to move to Tallinn and go to a boarding school to finish his education and learn to play hockey for his country. He was totally ecstatic. For the next three years of his life he would spend every day training. Skating, shooting, lifting weights and eating like a king to fill out his frame. The product of this training regime was a 6'3", 185 lb right winger. This young man from a small farming village named Tapa (population 5,400) would go on to play for national Estonian team at the age of 18. After his first IIHF tournament he was asked to play in several junior leagues. The MHL in Russia, the SuperElit in Sweden, the USHL in the United States and the OHL in Canada. None of them were able to measure up to the offer he got from a team in Canada though, so he declared his intention to make his way to the VHL by way of the VHLM. Now he is traveling outside of the country for the first time without the Estonian national team to Saskatoon, Canada to make a name for himself, his family, and his country in the world hockey.