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Obviously, I'd love for Malmo to make it again, but I'm actually going to go with a different dark horse and say it's going to be Moscow. Riga has had terrible luck in the playoffs for as long as I've been in the league, and something doesn't really feel right about Helsinki, although I don't know why. Maybe it's just the fact that they're set up to tear everything down next season or so, but Moscow really looks promising in my opinion. Keep the logo and the name...dammit, I can't say Nuuk Nukes, can I... I'm actually perfectly fine with having a team in Mexico, and I don't feel that it's terribly out of place. But since the idea's been put out there, I suppose I should suggest a city with a significant Native American population--on this list, Oklahoma City and Albuquerque seem like a couple of reasonable choices. I actually very much share the "stop handing out more free TPE" opinion held by a lot of older members of the site, and it's for that reason that I'm not 100% in favor of it. But, whatever, it's the most wonderful time of the year, and I'm not about to say no to some fresh upgrades. Whole lot of family stuff. Going to work late tomorrow, early the next morning, family stuff that evening, more family stuff the next day, so tonight is the last break I'll be able to catch for a while. I do love surprises, but nothing beats a good book. I'll throw out a few. Munch on these, ya creeps. -I'm currently in college, studying chemical engineering. -I'm a fairly decent trumpet player, average guitar player, and shitty bass player. -Even though this is my favorite sim league by far, football is actually my favorite sport in real life.

PLAYOFF TIME! Get those updates in before Friday for maximum power. 1. We've officially finished in second! How happy were you with the regular season as a whole? 2. Our most likely course of action in the playoffs (if we win each round) is Ottawa-Mexico-Saskatoon. How confident do you feel about each round? 3. The Hounds saw many records being broken, including points, goals, and assists. Is this due to a thinner league or the cap rising to 250, or would it have happened anyway? 4. What do you plan on doing for Christmas (if you celebrate it)? If you don't celebrate Christmas, are you doing anything cool on the 25th anyway? 5. At least one VHLM GM job will be open this coming offseason. Any interest in one day moving up the ladder a bit? 6. What are your plans for your player? Going up or staying down, or is it still too early to tell? @AnthonyOuellet @goldenglutes @Frostbite @Apoc_Chaos @Krice13 @Patrik Tallinder @GlowyGoat @DizzyWithLogic @Reegs @Spyro @Justin Frisk @god @73MPL4R @Molly gunnerson @JDGraves @Nykonax @DilIsPickle @Josh

Tired of seeing this get bumped? Well, you're in luck, because this is the last time that will happen. Claim 4 of 4.

I'm still not entirely convinced that Disney won't wait a few years and then try to ram another trilogy down our throats. I thought 7 was good, 8 was shit, 9 was ok, but it's a dead horse at this point and if they try to keep beating it, anything else they do with the franchise will just force it farther downhill.

WAZZUUUUUUUUUUP

Gotta love those games where you don't even need a goalie to win.

DOUBLES WEEKS FOR EVERYONE

I don't know what happened here but I'll take it.

Hello

Hope I did the thread thing right. I'm fairly neutral on the nostalgia thing, I've only watched the movies within the past few years so I didn't really grow up on the stuff. Probably just didn't have the same meaning for me as it did for other people.

You know what, I'm going to start putting stuff in spoiler tags.

I think overall it was a lot more supernatural and ghost-y than any of the others. I didn't particularly like that aspect but the other guy I watched it with loved it. This also bothered me; it was way too much of a cliché movie moment to be a good point in the plot. I did really like how the whole "characters falling in love" thing didn't take over the entire story. That was a big mistake made in the last one and led to my opinion of it being significantly lowered.

It's probably going to take another watching to determine my opinion. Some parts were really cool, some parts seemed a bit too forced. Overall a solid movie but I'm not yet sure I'm happy with it as the final one.

Who here has seen the last Star Wars? I've just seen it. Figured I could start a discussion thread so we could keep the spoilers off of Discord.

I mean, I've never heard of him, but I'm sure there were worse picks that they've made... Ah, OK. Never mind, carry on.

FISTED ANALLY BY A CIRCUS MONKEY

Claiming that extra 1 TPE for doing both theme week things

@Rayzor_7 ?

Claiming the 1-TPE theme week bonus. If this isn't an unsung hero article I don't know what is.

As some of you may know, the voting for VHLM awards is done by the GMs in private. I'm usually very happy with the nominees and feel that the possible choices which are put out there by the commish team are good ones that reflect performance accurately. This past season, though, there was one big glaring oversight--BLOCK BUSTER SHOULD HAVE BEEN PLAYOFF MVP AND WASN'T EVEN NOMINATED. The Hounds began the playoffs against the Yukon Rush, an OK team who was a bit below us in the standings and who we'd done well against in the regular season. I knew the Hounds could win the series, and was confident that this would end up being the case. Game 1 hits and I open up the summary. Hounds outshoot Yukon 21-9; we should have dominated on the scoreboard. Nope, Buster shuts us out 2-0. Tough luck, but I'm not worried. I open up Game 2 and see the same story--Hounds beat them up shots-wise yet again and lose 2-1. So this is interesting--I'm still not incredibly concerned as we're outplaying them, and I just consider it weird sim luck. Being the idiot that I am, I don't change the lines at all because, hey, we're playing well. Game 3 comes up and we finally get the results we're looking for. Outshoot Yukon 28-10, win 5-1, life is good, we've finally busted the Block. Cool, maybe the first couple games were just flukes and we can turn it around and dominate the rest of the series like we were meant to do. ...yeah, no. Game 4 hits and it's the same thing all over again. Yukon gets outshot 25-15 and Buster still manages to pull out a 4-3 win. We're now down 3-1, and nobody is surprised when, in Game 5, Buster shuts us out again, 1-0, to close out the series. Buster continues to win in this fashion, stealing three games from the heavily favored Aces in the next round. Yukon yet again is outshot in every game in the series but one, but still manages to pull out a series win. At this point, they are in the finals solely because of Buster. Sure, they lose the finals (no links here, I think anyone who remembers the finals last season can take a guess as to why), but there is no player more singlehandedly instrumental to the success of their team in the playoffs than Buster. I've already decided at this point where my vote will be cast (does Victor search this word anymore? I guess we'll see). Voting comes up, and the nominees for playoff MVP are--drumroll, please...Khalabib Stiopic, Nate Telker, and Sean McGee, all of the heavily stacked, heavily favored, cup-winning Houston Bulls. I've got nothing against any of these fine players--in fact, two of them are former Hounds--but the fact that Buster--in my eyes the clear and obvious choice for MVP--was not on the ballot is a glaring oversight. The award is "most valuable player," not "best player on the cup-winning team," and Buster was, simply put, most valuable. @Banana2311

Doubles week claim! Also, apologies to those double-pinged; it decided to underline half the article for some reason when I hit submit.