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1. I expected you to stay and I think you have done a good job, I hope you re-apply and get the job permanentally. 2. I think Proto is a good GM because of his influence in discord. 3. I would certainly hope so, our roster is better than where we are in the standings. 4. Yes, our team is a great mix of returning players and first gens. 5. Yeah, I am pretty happy with how Zod is playing. I wish he could block more shots though. Tell me how he has 62 SBs in 58 games in the VHLM but in the WJC he has 15 SBs in 3 games? 6. The arena is a beauty. Our logo though? Needs an upgrade.

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Today, General Zod finally got onto a leaderboard. He is now in 10th place for all defenseman in the VHLM in points, with 49 points in 54 games. General Zod has been playing pretty well. Of those 49 points, 44 of those have been assists. Unfortunately for Zod, the VHLM has become a forwards dream, so his 44 assists don't even come close to the top 10 leaderboards for assists. Tenth place for assists has 58! In S67, if Zod had kept his current pace, he would have finished ninth. Things have really changed in the minors. He also is nearly in the top 10 for hits, just two hits behind tenth place. His hit totals have skyrocketed in the last week and a half, but in the last few days they have settled down a little bit. Zod was hoping to be in the conversation for best defenseman, but those dreams are out the window. The only thing Zod wants more of are wins and blocked shots. He only has 56 blocked shots in 54 games, which is very disappointing for him. He was hoping to be top 10 in blocked shots in the league, but he is no where near that.

I'll apply, I was GM for Vegas for a while and was very active for about a year before stopping. I came back a couple months ago I think and have been pretty active since then. I want to have a league job but nothing too crazy, and I think being an AGM fits that description. I have experience doing all sorts of GM like things and I will not hold back on calling you an idiot.

Oh my god I didn't read the whole post I'm so sorry

I have an idea for Angela but I'm too afraid to say it

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I think it's a good hire. Disappointing to see Poptart go due to circumstances beyond his control though. 2. Yes I do, our locker room is good. 3. Nothing comes to mind. Just keep getting General Zod and Randy Marsh out there and we will do our thing. 4. This team is very similar to our S68 team. We have a better roster than our place says, and it's because we couldn't pick up a goalie in the draft. No disrespect to our current goaltender, it's not his fault he joined late and he is doing a pretty good job with lower TPE values. 5. Biggest goon!!! 6. 72. Currently I have 35 in 40 games and I want to bring it to point per game. I'm more interested in my hit and blocked shot totals though. My blocked shots are lacking for some reason but recently I have been hitting like crazy, I'm going to crack the top 10 soon I hope.

Part 2 of a 3 part series Part 1 Part 3 coming Thursday, April 16th While I am sure people that have been around for most of VHL history will disagree with me on this, they would at least agree that the 20th season in our leagues history was one of the wildest. The incredible talent gap between the leagues worst and the leagues best was on full display this year. The sudden increase in scoring. The beginning of the Shaw vs Kanou rivalry that remains as one of the VHLs best player rivalries to date. Today, we will be looking into this season as deep as someone who wasn't around to witness it can. I think we can agree parity is a wonderful thing. It makes sports more exciting. Take the NHL for example, where we never know who will win the Stanley Cup. Anyone can, even in years where it seems like a foregone conclusion, such as last year when the record breaking Lightning got swept. Any team can beat any other team on any given night. But now, let's look at the MLB. Most people don't love it because most teams are tanking, and only some teams are contending. In the playoffs, anything can happen, but it makes the regular season far less interesting. This is very similar to S20, where the teams not in the playoffs were terrible, but the teams in the playoffs were great. Except, unlike the MLB, we are dealing with historic opposites. The top of the league consists of the Riga Reign, Toronto Legion, and HC Davos Dynamo. The Reign have the greatest offense in the history of the league. The Dynamo and Legion have Daisuke Kanou and Aiden Shaw, two of the greatest goalies in the history of the league, and they would form one of the greatest player rivalries of all time. However, we also have the teams stuck in the bottom of the league. The Calgary Wranglers, despite having a solid offense, suffered from one of the worst seasons of goaltending the league has ever seen. The New York Americans, however, took being bad to the next level. Despite having two 100 point scorers, they still had only ten wins in S20. There are many factors to look into when talking about the Americans season. First, let's start with their biggest accomplishment: their incredible losing streak. The S20 New York Americans may be the worst team to ever play in the VHL. Even though they had Jukka Hakkinen and Japinder Singh, both with 100 points that year, they still finished with only ten wins. However, they do have one thing to pride themselves on. They would have the most embarrassing losing streak in the history of the VHL. I say would for a reason. Meet the S46 Bears. I firmly believed the S20 New York Americans were the worst team ever before looking into the S46 Bears. The New York Americans had a 21 game losing streak, starting the season a putrid 1-23. I thought this was the worst losing streak ever. I was mistaken. When I saw the S46 Bears schedule, my jaw dropped to the floor. They started with a win to start the year, and then followed it with 16 straight losses. Pretty bad, but it gets worse. They win another game, but then lose 10 in a row before another win. And then, in between their third and fourth wins of the seasons, it took them a jaw dropping, record shattering, 39 games before they won another game. How is that possible? I couldn't tell you. But at least they will get the first overall pick for their troubles. Oh wait, they traded their pick to Cologne. A four win season, all for nothing. While the Bears put up the worst losing streak in terms of magnitude, the Americans may have been the most humiliating. During the Bears 39 game losing streak, guess how many times they lost by more than five goals. For a team that only won four games, I would assume it would be at least four or five times, maybe more. Well, the actual answer is that it didn't happen a single time. Only four games were won by five goals, and not a single game was determined by more than that. That's only 10% of games being determined by five goals or more. The Americans on the other hand? In their 21 game losing streak, almost half the length of the Bears historic losing streak, they lost by five or more goals 11 times, 52% of the time. The Bears only let up seven or more goals in a game twice during their 39 game losing streak. The Americans let up seven or more goals 14 times, including a stretch of 4 games where they let up double digit goals every game. During the Bears 39 game losing streak, they allowed 103 more goals than they scored. During the Americans losing streak, they allowed 100 more goals than they scored, despite that streak being 18 games shorter than Seattle's. The Bears only lost by five goals four times during their losing streak. The average amount the Americans lost by during this losing streak? 4.8 goals. The Americans took what the Bears did only four times during their 39 game streak, and made it what they averaged every single night. Now, enough with the S46 Bears. They aren't in S20, we only wanted them to compare just how pathetic this losing streak was for the Americans. However, there is more than only a 21 game losing streak that makes the Americans terrible. Let's look at games 42-50 of the New York Americans schedule. Let's also mention game 40, where they lost to the Bears 10-1. Keep in mind the Bears are a team that's only one game above .500. Anyways, let's look at game 42 on the Americans schedule. Riga? Well, we can pencil in a loss, but maybe it will be respectable. If you said that, you would be wrong. They lost 9-0 that game. Game 43 is against the Legion, another top tier team. They lose 6-1. This is more respectable, but still pathetic, considering Toronto had their computer backup playing. The only American to score that game was a computer defenseman. Game 44 is up next, and it's against the lowly Calgary Wranglers. Perhaps a win is in the cards. What happened next just may be one of the most unbelievable games in VHL history. When the Wranglers and Americans meet, the sparks tend to fly. On the all time list for most goals scored in a game, the Wranglers and Americans hold five of the spots in the top 10. The combined 20 goals this game is the most ever scored in a single game, and it likely will stay that way for the rest of time. After one period, twelve goals were scored. After two periods, fifteen were on the board. If they never played the third period, this game would still nearly crack the top 10 list. But five goals in the third period cemented this game into legendary status. The Americans 11-9 win over the Calgary Wranglers is the highest scoring game in the history of the VHL, and it will more than likely stay this forever. How did the Americans follow up this historic game? They proceeded to only win one game out of their next twenty, with their lone win being an 8-2 win over the Wranglers a few games later. They didn't just lose, they got destroyed. In game 45 for the Americans, they lost 10-3 to the Legion. In game 46, they lost 9-0 to the Dynamo. In game 47, another 10-3 loss. In game 48, they lose 10-5 to the Wranglers. In game 49, they beat the Wranglers 8-2, but they followed up their big win with a 7-0 loss to the Bears. In game 50, they lose 6-0 to the Reign. Not only did the Americans lose at a historic pace, they got blown out. Every game. I'll bring up the S46 Bears one last time. For this study, I will say a blowout is a win of 4 or more goals. The S46 Bears, who had only 4 wins, got blown out 23 times. After just 39 games in the S20 season, the Americans had been blown out 23 times. The Americans got blown out an equal amount of times as the S46 Bears despite playing only 54% of the games the Bears had to play to get there. The Americans got blown out 41 times in total during S20. That's 57% of their games. All blowouts. How can a team with multiple 100 point scorers be so bad? How is it even possible? One way to maybe answer that would be their goalie. Wu Tang Fan was the Americans goalie that year, and was he ever awful. He had a GAA of 6.98, and a save percentage of .840%. That is disgusting. The Americans computer goaltender had better stats, with a 6.44 GAA and a save percentage of .862%. Another thing jumped out to me. Wu Tang Fan played in 66 games, but the computer goalie played in 44 games. How is this possible? This led me to uncovering what may be the most putrid goaltender stat ever to grace the Victory Hockey League. Are you ready? The Americans computer goalie started..... eight games. This may not seem so terrible on the surface if you don't realize what it means. Remember that the computer goalie played 44 games. Wu Tang Fan started 64 games that season. That means that Wu Tang Fan was pulled and replaced with his computer goaltender in 36 games. That's over half of all of Wu Tang Fan's games he played in. That has to be a record for most times pulled in one season, and as far as I'm concerned, it probably isn't close. Unfortunately there isn't a list for most times a goalie is pulled in a season, but if there was, Wu Tang Fan would sit at the top. And it wouldn't even be close. In case you didn't get the message by now, the S20 New York Americans were historically bad. But let's talk about one more thing. The New York Americans played 10 games against every team besides the Madrid Thunder and the Toronto Legion, who they played 11 times. The four playoff teams in S20 were the Legion, Reign, Dynamo, and Bears. They have not a single regulation win against any of those teams. They have an overtime win against the Legion and Bears, and then a shootout win over the Bears. In their 41 games against playoff teams, they went an unbelievable 3-38. Now, anyone would expect a horrible team such as New York to do terribly against good teams, that is a very reasonable expectation. But it's more than just losing. They lost to Toronto ten times that season, and lost by 4.6 goals on average every game they lost to the Legion. The Americans lost to the Bears eight times that season, and on average, they lost by five goals every game. They lost to the Reign all ten times they played them by an average of 5.2 goals per game. The Dynamo, however, showed some mercy. I'm just kidding. They beat the Americans all ten times they played each other, by an average margin of 5.8 goals. Every time the Americans played a decent team, they would usually get blown out. While the S46 Bears are statistically the worst team in history, the S20 New York Americans aren't far behind. They were the biggest victims of having to play three all time great offenses in the same season. While they lost less games than the Bears, they lost games in unbelievable fashion. Getting blown out as frequently as New York did will probably never happen again in the history of the VHL. And that's what makes this team so beautiful. Such a unique team. They had two 100 point players on their team, and yet, they still were absolutely terrible. Nothing like this will ever happen again. The S20 New York Americans are the saddest team in the history of the VHL. 2,028 words

General Zod (D) Week ending 4/19 Checking +5 (55-60) Puck Handling +5 (60-65)

Player: General Zod (D) Claim Jason Demers

Damn 18 hits in 3 games for Zod, but three L's.

We are playing poorly. 7 hits for Zod though.... not bad

Yesterday, it was kind of late, and I realized I had to write a media spot. At first, I was just going to bs my way to 500 words and call it a day, but then I had a better idea. If anyone hear watches SB Nation, you may have heard of Jon Bois. I love his videos, so my media spot idea to write about S20 in that way, and also make it a multi part series, was because of his work with Chart Party and Pretty Good, which are both amazing series on youtube. Back in my VSN days, I wrote mostly about history. Sometimes it was difficult, because I had to find stuff since I wasn't around for the old days. This one wasn't difficult, since I wrote an entire super super long article about S20 for my first ever VSN article, probably over a year ago. I didn't really use that article, but it helped me have the knowledge to even think of this topic in the first place. I would like to believe I did a pretty good job writing about how insane S20 was, and the amount of records that were broken that year. When I saw the plus minus stat, I was shocked. The fact that S20 likely rewrote an entire all time top 10 list and it stayed the same way for nearly 50 seasons was unbelievable to me. On Thursday, part two will come out, and next Monday will be part three of the series. They won't be as good as part one, but I still found some interesting stuff.

1. Yes, but we can do better. We are in sixth place, come on now, we were in second like three days ago. We have to pick it up. 2. Zod is doing pretty good. He had a great start, cooled off a little recently, but still is playing point per game, and racking up hits. Pretty happy with his play, but I want more hits and definitely more blocked shots. 3. Of course, I think I get the most ice time on the team, or almost the most. I'm more than happy. 4. We are a lock for the playoffs. Unless we lose every game or something, we will make it in. 5. Yes of course, when I was GM we did it but most seasons we only had a couple active guys, so it wasn't much of a show. Now we have a good team so it would be very good. 6. Look at Proto man, so inspirational

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Part 1 of a 3 part series Part 2 Part 3 coming Thursday, April 16th While I am sure people that have been around for most of VHL history will disagree with me on this, they would at least agree that the 20th season in our leagues history was one of the wildest. The incredible talent gap between the leagues worst and the leagues best was on full display this year. The sudden increase in scoring. The beginning of the Shaw vs Kanou rivalry that remains as one of the VHLs best player rivalries to date. Today, we will be looking into this season as deep as someone who wasn't around to witness it can. First, lets make this clear. This season shattered the record book in ways no other season has. S62 can give it a fight, but S20 wreaked havoc on the record books and many of the records held by teams from S20 still stand, 50 seasons in the future. This is because the good teams in the league were elite, while the bad teams were terrible. This allowed for the good teams to beat up on the bad teams and score tons and tons of goals, which led to inflated scoring. There also could have been a change in the version used in STHS, but I am not sure if that's true. The Riga Reign perhaps put the biggest dent in the record books. They had Tarik Saeijs and Max Kroenenburg that year, who both scored 157 points. Keep in mind, when we show stats, anything prior to season 20 may not be counted because of the fact that their are no indexes for them, so we can't get a fully accurate number. We are simply using the VHL Hall of Fame's record books, and any archives I can use. For some reason, Saeijs and Kroenenburg don't appear in the VHL's record book. Why? Perhaps the VHL is trying to hide this season away, ashamed of the chaos that was created. Anyhow, both Saeijs and Kroenenburg had 157 points that year. That would place them tied for third all time in the record books. If we included the early VHL, with Campbell and Slobodzian, they likely would barely crack the top 10. But it's incredible that two teammates would both be that high up. They would also be in fourth and fifth place for goals, as Saeijs had 71 goals and Kroenenburg had 70. But it's not only those two that put up points that year. In S20, the sixth placed scorer was Markus Strauss, with 139 points. That total would be enough to be the leagues leading scorer in 50 of leagues 70 seasons, (two of them would have been ties). That's either as good or better than 71% of the leagues top scorers in history, yet he finished sixth that year. But that's not it. Judging solely by the VHLs record book from the Hall of Fame, Strauss's 139 points that year would put him tied for tenth all time. The fact that SIX players in S20 had seasons that were good enough to be in the top 10 most points in a single season shows just how crazy this year was. But it's not over yet. Not even close. Remember Saeijs and Kroenenburg? Well, they helped engineer an offense that was the best in the league that season. They scored 371 goals that season. Where does that rank all time? Oh it's first place. Well, who could be in second, probably another elite offensive team. It happens to be the HC Davos Dynamo. What season? S20, of course. The two greatest offenses in the history of the league, and both of them played in the same season. But that Riga team, the greatest offense of all time? They scored 47 more goals than the Dynamo. The Reign not only had the greatest offense of all time that year, it wasn't even remotely close. Now, what does the rest of the top 10 look like? Probably a good combination of other seasons and teams, right? Well, if you said that, you would be half right. Actually, less than half right, because SIX teams from S20 are on the top 10 list for most goals scored in a single season in VHL history. That is absurd! That should not be possible, yet it happened. But even then, we still have just scraped the surface. We looked at most goals in one season, what about most goals in one game? Believe it or not, an S20 team isn't at the top. Or second, third, or even fourth. Four teams in history have scored 12 goals in one game, and none of them did it in S20. What a breath of fresh air. We can breathe easy, S20 finally isn't dominating a top 10 list for offense. Actually, I may have spoke too soon. The next six of the top 10 all scored 11 goals in one game. All of them happened in S20. The offensive surge in S20 is off the charts. But there's more, don't worry. Has anyone ever heard of the stat game points? I didn't until I searched through the archive, and I've come to the conclusion that it's the total of all your players point totals. I'm sure you can see where this is going. The Riga Reign are the only team to ever reach 1000. The Dynamo from S20 and the Reign are the only teams to ever reach 900. Six of the top ten teams for total game points in a season belong to S20. Remember the Reign? Lets talk about them again. Saeijs and Kroenenburg scored six goals in one game on separate occasions. Six goals from one player has happened eight times in VHL history. These two both did it in the same season. This Riga team was simply unreal. Now, my final point. S20 rewrote the record book like no other season, but it's possible this is the most remarkable achievement from that year. Plus minus is a controversial stat, some say it's poorly represents players. That may be true, but take a look at this. The top 10 list for best plus minus by a player in VHL history is the most jaw dropping stat of this season. Take a guess how many S20 players are on the top 10. Three? A little too low, bump it up. Five? Seven? Eight? You would be wrong with all of those. On the top 10 list for best plus minus in a season, nine spots are from players in S20. Five players finished with a plus minus above 100, all of which played on the Reign. No one has ever had a plus minus of over 100, before or after this season. In fact, the Reign have seven spots on this list. The only player not from S20 to make this list is Matt Thompson from S68, with a plus minus of +52. Naturally he ruins our perfect list of all S20s, but lets think about this. That was in S68. Before S68, I have a very strong feeling that Patrick Bergqvist's +46 that season would have finished 10th all time. S20 completely rewrote the top 10 list for best plus minus, and it stayed like that for nearly 50 seasons. S20 is the most incredible season in VHL history. Today we only looked at the way it shaped the record books. Next week, we will look into other stuff. What is that other stuff? I truly have no idea. But I will find stuff for y'all. And until next time, I hope you enjoyed. Also, I'm well aware that S1 Calgary Wranglers are the best team ever and better than the Reign. But they weren't in the HOF record books or the index, so they didn't count for this. I also am aware that I switched between the HOF record book and index record book, but I'm not gonna go back and fix it now. 1,300ish words

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General Zod Claim Leading goal scorer: Kucherov

1. Connor McDavid 2. Martin Jones 3. Brian Elliot 4. Nikita Kucherov 5. Jamie Benn 6. Vladimir Tarasenko 7. Seth Jones 8. Alexander Edler Claim for General Zod (D) I think I may have missed the predictions rip