bluesfan55

1. Who has impressed you most from the S66 draft (can't pick yourself)? What about the S67 draft? Hans Gruber has been pretty awesome from S66, and I haven’t been paying much attention to S67. 2. Are 90+ member draft classes the new norm? yee 3. Everyone has a role on this team. What makes you feel accomplished as part of the Reign? Now I’m a powerplay specialist to go along with lead shit talker 4. What kinds of hobbies do you have outside of hockey (answer as a member or player!)? video games 5. Go back to your VHL draft night. What were you doing when you got the call? watching the draft at home 6. What would you like to see covered by a podcast or article? iceland 7.What moment in media (movies, TV shows, video games, books, etc.) sticks out/is most memorable to you? when I beat crash bandicoot 8. What's the secret to becoming a VHLM GM? be smart duh 9. Similarly, what's the secret to becoming a VHL GM? be smarterer than VHLM gms duh 10. Shout-out time. What's one person or piece of media you want to let everyone know about? @Nykonax is a bae

Cal Gary 4-2

Moscow Toronto Calgary Helsinki

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Wait a second am I not busting

1. Bjorn-Helge Arne Riise Paderborn Neilsen (LW) 2. Arne-Inge Halfthor Jakobsson Ingebrigtsen-Ljubicic (RW) 3. Felix Mikael Robert McSchützman Grindlich Schwartzmankopf (G)

Recently, Ice Hockey Iceland's Gylfi Finnbogason got a chance to sit down with Arnor Sigurdsson, right winger for the Riga Reign of the Victory Hockey League, before the regular season started. This is a transcript of it. IHI: Hello, Arnor. Welcome back to Iceland! AS: Thanks! I'm happy to be back home during the offseason to practice and visit old friends. IHI: Your rookie season was, in your words from a previous interview, very disappointing. Can you take us through why so people who don't know are in the loop? AS: Yeah, I went into the season knowing that I was going to be up full-time in the VHL instead of playing in the minors, and I knew I wasn't going to be getting a lot of time. I was a rookie and there were much better players on the team at my position, so I knew ice-time was going to be limited. But I was expecting more time, to be honest. I finished second last on the team in time on ice with a paltry 11.48 minutes per game. Do I blame that on why I didn't produce as much? Not at all. I went from being the guy in juniors to being a bit part player on a playoff team. But I do feel like if I was given more time on the ice, I could prove more to the team and management. I mean, they picked me 9th overall over players like Jet Jaguar and Apollo Hackett (a teammate of mine). You'd expect me to be able to repay them with a great rookie season. And I wasn't. IHI: Any path to more ice time that you probably had is gone now, with the Reign acquiring Pat Svoboda and Elias Dahlberg. Have you talked to the GM about possible 2nd line time? AS: Yes. I made it clear that I wanted to play some second line time this season. My hope is to achieve that. Dahlberg and Svoboda are top line guys, and I'm not. But Mikko Aaltonen stands in my way. Now, I love Mikko. He's a fantastic teammate and a great player who's poised to break out with the Reign. I hopefully will provided if I get the time I want. IHI: What would you describe this next season as? AS: Make or break. I know that if I don't do well this season and don't get the ice time that I feel like I deserve, it might be time to go elsewhere. I don't want to, as I like playing in Riga. We have a great young team and I get along well with most, if not all, of my teammates. But, I've heard that some other teams, New York especially, might've been interested in trading for me. But my main preference would to be to stay in Riga. I've settled down here, I'm learning the language, the food is good, and the locals are nice. Not to mention that taxes are pretty nice and everything is fairly cheap. Riga's like a second home to me now, and I'd be pretty sad to leave it. IHI: Thanks for your time today, Arnor. It was interesting to learn more about your time with Riga so far. AS: Thanks, always a pleasure!

1. Vancouver recently acquired Ismond Kingfisher, who becomes the clear and obvious starter for S67. How does this shake up the North American conference? Vancouver becomes a favorite now, no doubt about it 2. Do VHL rosters have enough space to accommodate members now? I don't think so. Look at my case for example. 3. The recent Top Prospects game ended 10-8 with multiple players over 20 PIMs. What happened? They all watched Apollo Hackett highlights, duh 4. What does the top prospects game say about the incoming class? Buncha goons 5. Welcome new draftee Lincoln Tate! What can you tell him about our team? Mess with me, and I'll fuck you up and probably maybe do stuff with your girl 6. Would you rather have a very top-heavy team with a handful of stars (e.g. Helsinki) or a deep team with above-average players? Top-heavy. They normally do better in the playoffs. We're the latter but we still got killed in the playoffs. 7. High fives, fist bumps, hand shakes, or something else? High fives 8. In your opinion, who is the most interesting member on the site? don't care 9. Early predictions - who wins MVP this year? If you picked a player on our team, who'd be your best choice from a different team? don't care 10. Any thoughts about the recent discussion about TPE inflation? don't care

Malmo 4-2

56 Helsinki Titans 57 Toronto Legion 58 Malmo Nighthawks 59 New York Americans

oh no

moi last pick D - Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen @Patpou22

F - Elias Dahlberg @DenisLever

D - Tyuzu @Patpou22

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F - Jake Davis @DenisLever

G - Ismond Kingfisher @Patpou22

1. Lots of moves over the last few days, and our roster looks a little different. Which trade/draft pick did you like the most? Getting a proven star in Elias Dahlberg. 2. Who do you think will take home the gold in the World Cup? If you picked your own region, who has the second-best chance? Europe. Canada. 3. Veran Dragomir is this offseason's big free agent prize; he signed with Toronto earlier this evening. Does this put Toronto over Helsinki as a contender? No. Helsinki is still insanely stacked. 4. Toronto also got Cayden Saint, a former Reign player. Got any words for him? Fuck you bud, next time I see ya you're getting a spear to the balls. 5. Who on our roster is most likely to have a breakout season? Me. I deserve it. 6. I hear we need a daycare for all of the VHLMers this upcoming season. What's with all the new kids? They all smell like poop. I think they need their diapers changed. 7. Marvel or DC? Marvel 8. To follow up on that: Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, or Tom Holland (or someone else) as Spider-Man? Tom Holland 9. We found out that Benjamin Zeptenbergs/hedgehog is actually a hedgehog. Can he... can he talk? How does he do all the paperwork? he just sits there 10. What are you looking forward to most this season? Clapping bombs and crushing folks

F - Beau Louth @DenisLever

yes ples

nice

even without max earning I'm still top 10? nice

Gold: USA Silver: Canada Bronze: Scandanavia

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1. Well, our season is over. But that means it's time for the draft - what position do you think needs the most help? Everything. That show was just plain embarrassing and we can't let that happen again. 2. The Davos-Riga curse continues. Why do the Swiss have our number -- is there some secret voodoo they practice? They just outplayed us. 3. Aside from us, who has the (very early) advantage to win next year's championship? Don't know, don't care. 4. Do we have enough roster space to take on all of our S66 and S67 (called-up) players? I don't know after the trades we've made. Hell, I don't even know what my future is with this team anymore. 5. Who on our team would you have liked to see in the All-Star Game among those that didn't make it? HHH cause go rookies 6. (regarding #5) What about players not on our team? No one cause everyone else sucks 7. What would you like to see change about the VHL? Make it more fun. I find myself not caring about updating at all and just doing it for the team. Make it more engaging. 8. What's your unpopular opinion about the VHL (or its players)? Most of them are massive dickheads but don't show it 9. Aside from yourself, which of the Riga players has the best career ahead of them? HHH 10. As a (hypothetical?) GM, what's your preference - an old head with seasons and seasons of decent but not elite TPE earning, or a brand-new, unknown guy with 5-6 weeks of maxed-out TPE? The old head, because the brand new guy could easily drop off.