MexicanCow123

Welcome back! Yukon is looking to contend this season and we would love to have you along on this journey. Yukon can offer you top 4 minutes with some PP and PK minutes! Quote this offer and say #FeelTheRush to join!

Does that mean you want to join the Rush?!?!?!?!?!?! 🤯

Hey Jared. Hope you remember me from the good ol' times in San Diego. Yukon wants to offer you a spot on the team. We're a top team this season and we would love to have you.

{["I Ernie King wanted to thank you @diamond_ace  and @MexicanCow123 for believing in me ❤️ @DoktorFunk & @DarkSpyro for you providing me with such a great opportunity last season to join the Lynx and expressing interest so quickly and passionately the nations capital is nowhere else id rather play. Furthermore i wanted to apologize to you and Sypro if there were ANY misconceptions about my most recent VHL.com Article. Ernie King stated in an interview early Monday morning  -"In no way did i have any issues or ANY problems during my time last season with my time in Ottawa and with the Lynx organization@DoktorFunk and @DarkSpyro  (i honestly don't know who runs the STHS , i assume its Dok but idk every team may have different protocol with there AGMs and how much power they have) Dok and Spyro gave me helped me immensely other than a great experience and opportunity provided with slotting me into the lineup RIGHT AWAY , and getting me into the Index and onto the 1st line as fast as they possibly could. Which i also  didn't make easy for them after making them wait so long for me too officially accept the contract on the portal, I know i am not very active as i don't have much of a life online which i didn't make easy for them, however they put the time and effort that i definitely didn't.}])
 
-Quote From VHL.com                                                                               
 
 
-      Dok and Spyro put me a guy coming from what looked to be a retirement when i chose not to sign in the VHLM my contract ended with the Reapers and was not offered a contract to resign, I did what any other EX-Pro hockey player does... move home and DOMINATE the local beer league getting tuned with the boys in the dressing room before and after. it was good times, a former teammate of mine from Bantam started a new team in the local beer league and obviously i wanted to come and show off in front off all the local puck bunnies at the Sunday and Friday 11 or 12 PM 60 minutes straight time hockey . The team turned out to be an actual local news story.. Yup a Beer League team was getting local news coverage online from saultsports and this is coming from a town that lives, eats , sleeps , breathes, and probably shits hockey too with the craziest fanbase and INCREDIBLE minor hockey AAA system and a Junior A team that hasn't been out of the CJHL Top 10 rankings in my lifetime, not to mention the Soo Pee Wee program run by legendary former Sault Greyhound (the "Real" team everyone "KNOWS" everything about and are always right lol) and Former OHL,NHL Star as a player turned coach and also winning a WJHC Gold Medalist as Coach of Team Canada U20 Hockey in the Soo is kind of a big deal.
 
Back to the Beer League , well the teams name was agreed upon by the roster to be the Wheeling Whalers, we had a group of what i thought to be Rag Tag mostly AA even BB or Highschool guys with maybe 1 or 2 games of AAA experience in there life... BOY WAS I WRONG. Back tracking a little, from day one when I expressed my interest to the team manager he asked about what position i am ? I found this question honestly very confusing as i have played Forward my whole life and never once even played a game as a defenseman when we had short roster ive literally never played the position. So i decide to respond with im playing Defence!!! (leading to me being a D now , clearly it was a success and a decision i wish i made as a teenager as i am clearly a born defender and shine much brighter on the back end, NOT saying im not the PF i proved to be in Philly because I can still do all of it. When i saw the team roster i actually only recognized two names... 1st our Goalie and Co Manager/CFO J.Mancuso. Mancuso and i where teammates WAY back when at the age of 9 before AAA was even an option. Mancuso and his family would later go on to move down south shortly after where J spent his years playing hockey down south but never anywhere close to AAA level. Funny enough Mancuso and his family would move back to Sault Ste Marie ten years into the future, a decade later. I only found this out by asking my teammate during a HS game WHO THE FUCK is that silky forward with no # on his jersey !?!? Yup Mancuso wasnt only a top quality Goalie but a Top notch and Top 6 forward caliber player as well and the HS league SOMEHOW allowed him to play both positions .
 
Secondly was the name that honestly made me call my dad instantly when I saw because i was so excited. "Kaelan O'Flynn" a.k.a. "Kaelan Brown-O'Flynn", O-Flynn is one of the best players i played with in my youth hockey days and remain friends to this day along with my other VERY close friend who was also a member of this age group so i know the age group very well, Kaelen , Cody and I have always remained in contact regarding our mutual burning passion for watching local minor hockey.  O-Flynn was a HIGHLY HIGHLY touted young player, the only reason we were teammates was because he was scoring 7 goals a game against the kids his age, and they moved him from Minor to Major (about 15 kids usually do this) But Kaelen was still WAY ahead of his age group in development at the time and was after two months placed into the Major league with my Age group Two years Older (THAT NEVER HAPPENS). Kaelen would go on to fizzle out as he was clearly and just like everywhere has them and every age group have those players that hit their peak MUCH earlier than others and never end up being "the guy" everyone touted him to be. O-Flynn played AAA his entire youth hockey career and to say he fizzled out is almost unfair. His age groups AAA Roster was STACKED, The Sault wont ever see an age group so deep EVER again, I don't think there's ever been an age group like the 1996 Sault Boys. With the number and caliber of the Soo's youth program players that would go onto playing in the OHL, U-Sports Canadian University Hockey League, NCAA DIV 1 as well as now AHL and NHL regulars and its a 100% certainty that  more than 4 of these young men have committed there lives to this and will be making a career out of professional hockey and potentially more than 4 will end up in the Pro's and spend their career there..
 
Prior to O-Flynns OHL Draft year, there had been ongoing issues behind the scenes involving coaching issues and conflicts of interest where the AAA Coach's all three had kids on the team and ice time and favoring started to become evident and obviously totally unnecessary with 13 THIRTEEN of the players in this age group O-Flynns life long teammates would go on to be selected and  drafted to the OHL. 3 of these players would go on to be NHL Draft picks all in the top 3 round lowest being 90th Ovr (Amadio). the roster included two players who are currently on NHL rosters and NHL regulars both with over 4 seasons of NHL experience Perlini and M.Amadio have both cemented themselves as NHL regulars playing top 9 minutes and special teams minutes as Amadio being a PK specialist as well as getting PP minutes , not to mention Amadio's incredible OHL career https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/151385/michael-amadio For real check him out !  ., one drafted 11th Overall (Brendan Perlini), 3 players that went on to be NHL Draft pick all in the top 3 rounds lowest being 90th Overall pick by the LA Kings (Amadio). Two other Notable players playing pro right now and working towards cracking the NHL roster is the one player that actually isnt O-Flynns age, and thats New Jersey Devils Draft pick in  B.Speers 2 years after being selected 11th Overall to the OHL by his Hometown Sault Greyhounds Blake Speers__________TBC  . First lets touch on O-Flynns former D partner R.Killins currently signed with the Tucson Roadrunner of the AHL(Arizona Coyotes of the NHLs farm team) Killins split his youth AAA days between moving from Wawa (butfuck nowhere) who only had a BB team to moving in with family in Sault Ste Marie where he spent the majority of his youth hockey. At the time the Sault did not have a Minor Midget AAA program , as ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about the OHL draft you understand the importance of your minor midget year with it being your draft year as well as the HUGE Minor Midget showcases providing players with the opportunity to be viewed playing against players there own age by 100s of Junior A, OHL, QMJHL, NCAA and even NHL scouts coming to these showcases , everyone has a clipboard.... Killins made the bold decision to move down south to live with his mother after making the prestigious Huron Perth Lakers Minor Midget Team of the "U16 Alliance League based  out of the London, Ontario Area the Alliance is the 2nd most prestigious Minor Midget League in Ontario behind the GTHL there's at least a dozen scouts at EVERY game     

GREENLAND GREENLAND GREENLAND
 
Yukon is in some need of Defenceman. We have a solid forward core but we need you Krice. Accept this offer to become way cooler than Z.

Hi Dad, it would be an honour for you to join my team. Yukon needs your beautiful presence. Also we should be pretty good, so I shall deliver you a cup. Join Yukon or I'm not going to bed on time.

I hear you want to deny lots of offers. I'm here for yah 😢

GREENLAND GREENLAND GREENLAND
 
Yukon is in some need of Defenceman. We have a solid forward core but we need you Krice. Accept this offer to become way cooler than Z.

hi son

@MexicanCow123

Congrats Rory. You're a hell of a member.

Awesome Graphic. Logo swap is perfect, Text looks amazing just how it is, Colors work well together, texture just works so so well, very sexy player render. I honestly wouldn't change a damn thing. Absolutely love it. 10/10 would recommend. 

Thanks for shoutout  It was a fun podcast again

Good listen. I'm enjoying this series and look forward to more. 

That's great to hear bud. Glad you stuck it out. Going to be worth it.

I can offer you a spot on Yukon, but you accepted Mississaugas Contract. @ColeMrtzshould be offering you a contract soon.

Since you already accepted the Hounds offer goodluck with Mississauga!

Like i said. I am not offering a contract until granted permission by the bosses. Mississauga offered 1st the that's the team he should go to. I don't want to be breaking any rules here.

Love you Z. You're going to absolutely kill it. Go make me proud son.

Love you Z. You're going to absolutely kill it. Go make me proud son.

AMEN 

AMEN 

Many people know that updaters are there to approve your work and give you TPE. And yes, that is not wrong. However, the job can be tough especially during Christmas or an event that keeps giving free TPE out like it’s growing from money trees. I’ve been updating for a bit now and have noticed some things that slow down the updating process significantly.
 
SO THIS IS A GUIDE TO HELPING YOUR FELLOW UPDATERS
 
First off, press conferences! I’ve seen far too many people linking the questions instead of your answers. The questions are made by someone else hence they are not for you to claim. However, I know that many of you don’t have the intention to claim the questions. For your information, updaters have a set of guidelines to follow and press conferences are not excluded. We have to check how many questions you answered and how much effort you put in as well. Yes, effort counts here. Anything less than a sentence or just one word and you’re claim will get denied. And that brings me to the next part, the minimum effort for a press conference. These are worth 2 TPE for 6 questions and 1 TPE for 3 questions, answered or asked. So please answer them with some effort and not treat them like nothing. These were originally put in place to help teammates know each other better ~ @Quik
 
Acceptable Press Conference
Not so good one
 
Your press conference doesn’t have to be like the one I linked as the acceptable one. It can be just 2 sentences but if you’re feeling chatty, why not answer like that? Makes the person asking the question happy when it’s not just 1 word answers.
 
Summary:
1. Use your answers to claim TPE. This will make things go faster as we don’t have to search for your post.
2. They need to be at least one sentence.
 
MOVING ON!
 
Media Spot/VHL.com Articles. Everyone does great here and there’s nothing much I can complain about. However, I am very picky so this one thing will help me at least. The WORD COUNT. Yes, I’m sure all of you know that there are minimum word counts to be met when writing one of these up. The media spot is worth 6 TPE for 500 words at least and the VHL.com article is worth 2 TPE with at least 150 words. BUT we would love to see people write roughly 200 words here. Like I said earlier, it’s the effort! Reaching the word count is important but you have to show it off otherwise it’s useless really. Place the word count for all to marvel at plus it saves updaters a lot of time.
 
I want to emphasize next on claiming the same article for multiple weeks. We shall start out with media spots. If your creative juices were flowing that week and you made a 2000+ word media spot, you are eligible to claim that for 4 weeks/1 month. Please state the week endings where you’ll be claiming the article. It helps us make sure that you’re not over claiming anything.
 
Media Spot Guidelines
VHL.com Article
 
So combining the both from above and to make our lives better, state your word count and date below at the end of your article. You only need to write the date if the media spot is going to be claimed for more than 1 week. An example is below.
Example: 1289 words, claiming for week ending 10/1 and 17/1
 
Couple more examples so you can pick and choose:

Just kidding no more examples because everyone is being naughty not putting dates (jk).  
 
MOVING ON AGAIN!
 
Podcasts! There are many podcasts out there now and it will probably keep coming. A large majority of these audios come with multiple talkative VHL souls hence it is very likely that there will be multiple claimers. BUT updaters can’t read your mind. Please bare that in mind, we are not psychics! We may approve your updates lightning quick (by accident) but we are not psychics. Hence, please state who is claiming the podcast and how long you are claiming it for. This ensures that we don’t get sus when you have another person claiming it.
 
Podcast Guidelines
The guideline will have this amazing table that makes things easier for you to figure out. All the math done. So a couple of podcasts that do this well is The Fishy and Spartan show, Three Podcasts playing at once just to name a few.
 
NEXT AGENDA TO COVER! WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME SO HURRY!
 
Reviewing! This is probably the one that requires the least effort but I do see some of you putting in critiques that are really for improvement. This is worth 1 TPE for each review and you can do a maximum of 2. Something that would greatly help updaters is that you link your damn post! Pardon my French but this is repeated in the press conference. Don’t link the article/graphic/podcast, just please don’t. We have to scroll through the thread, through multiple reviews and search for your post. It takes too long and rory might just deny your update like how he threatened the Christmas rewards.
 
There are also guidelines to reviewing someone’s work. Linked it below: 
Reviewing Rules
 
 
NEXT! HOW TO INDIRECTLY HELP US.
Do us a favor and don’t ask us when your update will get approved. Your updates will generally be approved within 48 hours and only if it passes 2 days/48 hours, you can come and talk to us. BUT DON’T BUG US. And don’t ask us to bump you up the queue as well.
Consequences of bugging us include:
1. Deletion of your player
2. Denying your updates
This is just a joke, don’t sue me.
 
The next way to help us directly is to not put in updates ahead for the week. Yes, this is a rule. We cannot/shouldn’t approve those updates hence it can jam the queue up. If you think the queue is always empty, think again. I have proof to prove you wrong. We try our best to make the queue look like what it is on the right so help us out here, TPE demons. 358 isn’t the highest ever because during Christmas, it reached 500+.
 
           
 
So to summarize once again.
1. If a post directs you to link to that post, for the love of all that is holy, don’t make an extra post saying “claim”. Just link to the original post.
2. Place word counts and dates of when you’re claiming the task so we can roughly have an idea of how many times you’ve claimed that one media spot. We also don’t have to count the words with a word counter.
3. Follow the guidelines set for each task because we (at least for me) don’t like to deny updates. We (at least for me again) want you to get that TPE.
4. Mention who is claiming the podcast with you (host) so we know not to deny that random person claiming it.
5. Don’t bug updaters about when your update will be accepted. In general it will be within 48 hours. Don’t bother them until at least after that point.
6. If you are uncertain how to claim something, ask an updater.
 
There it is. I know many of you do all this but it’s a gentle reminder. If you follow this, you might be able to get your TPE faster and not be on an updaters bad list. Most importantly, makes updating a lot smoother. I hope it doesn’t sound like I’m nagging but I just want to help get to everyone out there that might be new to TPE sim leagues on how to claim. To those wondering how to link your own post, I have a few pictures below to show you how to.
 
First step: On the top right-hand corner, you have these 3 cute dots. Click on it and the dots are ticklish so a pop-up will be shown with maybe a bit more options since it’s your own post. But as you can see, this is not my post because I’m not a commish.

 
 
Second step: After clicking on the share prompt, select and copy the link. Then use it to claim! Easy as 123. #chicat

 
Thanks fellow updaters for your help and ideas, let’s keep this queue at 0!
1415 words, claiming for week ending 17/1, 24/1

Well, we are almost to the first big milestone of every player's career: The Draft. Although I'm actually getting a bit nervous as honestly I have no idea where I'm going to land despite a few teams reaching out to me, but as the days go by and the playoffs are getting closed to finished, the inevitable will come to see what franchise will pick me up.
 
However, this article isn't about the draft and the teams that I think I'll end up going to and why teams should pick me up. No, this is about showing respect to my roots that I will never forget and that I will hold in the highest regard.
 
What I'm talking about is being reached out to by @fromtheinsideand @MexicanCow123to join the Rush despite already having the season starting and starting out from the very bottom pairing. The Rush and these two guys in particular really helped me grow as someone apart of the VHL community (despite being here only for a small amount of time) to learn the basics and ins and outs, really getting accustomed of what the best way to grow my player and going out of their way (particularly Scotty @fromtheinsidewho had to very much sit with my many questions about where I can earn that sweet, sweet TPE so I can get the maximum amount I could from the get-go and as the season went on) to make sure I'd fit in with the Rush.
 
But besides the above, overall both of them are amazing people that I honestly have huge amounts of respect for and who I'd gratefully call friends through and through.
 
I will forever be a member of the Rush in my heart no matter where I go in the upcoming drafts, and I hope that one day I can return in one aspect or another.
 
#FeelTheRushForever

Returning for a third straight offseason, the Victory ProAM Tournament is now starting their seasonal recruitment drive. We have managed to expand our tournament this year with many players already involved! To fill our rosters, we need 4 Forwards, 6 Defensemen and 2 Goalies. Players are allowed to switch positions as need (Forward can play defense, defense can be forward). We will be trying to fill those holes ASAP, so feel free to drop a reply with your position, team and player name below and look to join the tournament discord (We are in many VHL and VHLM LRs). If we do not have enough goalies, we may let players switch over to goalies but we'll only do this if we don't get the two goalies we need. Hopefully it will not need to come down to that.
 
Also, GM applications are OUT! The post is in the tournament discord and all you have to do to be considered is react on the announcement. If you have any more questions or concerns, feel free to contact either myself, @Zetterberg or @MexicanCow123 via VHL messaging or preferably via Discord. We hope to see you there just in time for the offseason! Be quick though, because GMs will be drawn on December 28th!

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