Gustav

Wow, 2nd round for me. I like it!

Why do we keep beating Halifax

Helsinki 3-2

New York Helsinski Riga Toronto

Jerry Garcia gets his 4th goal! Didn’t think I’d be getting anything when I put nothing at all into scoring.

Anyone know how to join on mobile? I don’t have computer access at the moment as my wonderful laptop decided to stop working on me this week.

Weird funny article. I like it.

Nice! More room for all the prospects in this super deep draft.

Lines for Team Asia have been created and (hopefully) sent in. Let me know if you don't get them or if there's anything additional I should be doing with the file.

When it's a win but it's also against Philly

Not great to see your team lose to a team that's in the race right with them. Good to see Lynch getting on the score sheet right away.

5-4 to Minnesota again...that's a bit of a shame. Twice in a row now we've come close to beating the league's best team on paper but can't quite make it.

Always nice to see your goalie only allow 1 goal. Good to see we can play solid defense.

9 goals from Houston! I don't care if it's against Philly, that's impressive. Check out the distribution of points too--this team's top line is still super impressive, but the team isn't just the top line anymore.

Hey, 5-1 win. But whatever, it's Philly. At this point they're making a conscious effort to lose.

MacElroy has been turning it on lately! Not bad for some drunk Scottish guy.

5 points from Kirbsson. 4 from MacElroy. 5 players with more than one point. This is how you win games. Oh and something something Halifax worships Satan.

First of all, a disclaimer: I am not a member of the EFL or the SBA, so I'm basing my answer here on what I found most interesting based on what I've collected from checking out both sites. While the EFL has many of the same TPE activities that we do here in the VHL, whether it be graphics, articles, what-have-you, I noticed that their pick 'em threads, along with the Guess the Score threads, are organized in a separate category called "Weekly Games." First of all, I'd like to point out how difficult sites like these can be to navigate for new members--5 minutes after I created my player, I almost logged off for good because I couldn't figure it out. Having things like these in a clearly displayed, clearly designated thread on the front page of the site does wonders for the learning process, and, I'd argue, would certainly help with new member retention--though I may have things largely figured out by now, my first few days on this site weren't all that fun, because I had absolutely no idea what was going on. (I'd like to make another paragraph here but my enter key decided to randomly quit on me so whatever) The EFL also, in this thread, has a few games that aren't present in the VHL: the Stat Master game, in which members can guess at stats, both in the sim league and in real life, and the Playoffs Casino Challenge, in which one is given three "tokens" that can be used to bet on winners and in turn exchanged for TPE. I'd be a big fan of either of these being introduced to the VHL, and believe that these changes will make our community a better place.

USA

#3? Wow, I can't believe it! Again, incredible article. Loved every bit of it and I'm really loving the first real attention for Garcia I've seen in this league. ...Also, I can confirm that Beau Buefordsson will be a steal.

HALIFAX--Though T-Series may be nothing but a bitch lasagna, they seem to have gained a few loyal supporters among Halifax management. The Indian corporate-owned music and entertainment YouTube channel, which within the past year has been a consistent threat to overtake Swedish creator Pewdiepie (Felix Kjellberg) as the most-subscribed to channel on YouTube, has within recent weeks managed to briefly claim the number-one spot for a few short moments of time before Kjellberg's loyal fanbase stepped up with a wave of new subscribers. The battle, aptly dubbed "Pewdiepie vs. T-Series," has been a strong focal point of Internet culture for months, being the topic of many a meme and most recently generating renewed interest as the channels race to the 100-million subscriber mark. It's even relevant and entertaining enough that it was mentioned a grand total of zero times in YouTube Rewind 2018 ("Everyone" Controls Rewind). And though freedom of expression is of paramount importance to the values of a democratic civilization, it is a generally accepted truth here in North America that supporters of T-Series are traitorous filth. Hell, I don't even watch Pewdiepie's stuff, and I'd agree with that statement. This shared belief among us Westerners with anything at all in our heads, whether it be brains or a can of tuna, makes the latest revelation about the Halifax 21st, a consistent top-3 finisher in the VHLM, all the more shocking. Google's advanced analytics team, when sorting through subscriber counts of both channels to ensure the battle's integrity (as supporters of both sides have been known to resort to cheap tactics such as the use of bots), discovered a minor discrepancy in the distribution of subscriber count by location. T-Series' subscribers are, obviously, largely concentrated in India. A few subscribers may be scattered here and there throughout the globe, but the channel's powerful main form of support stems from the country of over 1.3 billion people (fun fact: the USA is the 3rd-largest country in the world in terms of population, and if it gained a whole billion people, it would still be the 3rd-largest). And while many experienced hackers have been known to disguise their servers as European (due to Europe's strong reputation for cyber security), the team found a small clump of subscribers in Eastern Canada that they felt were worth checking out. And as it turns out, every one of these subscribers was a player, coach, or manager of the Halifax 21st. Google is thought to have asked for details, as they themselves released a statement explaining the nature of the situation: With regards to the recent emergence of subscribers in Halifax, we are told that the Halifax 21st organization is subscribed to T-Series by orders of management. We are not authorized to remove these subscriptions unless a subscribed individual directly asks for their removal in writing, and as of now are, by our own policy, unable to alter the situation in any way. When met with questions from the media, Halifax players, coaches, and management declined to comment.

Great game by May. Keeping another playoff contender to 1 just puts us one step closer.

I could have sworn I heard demons being summoned from the Halifax locker room before the game. That probably explains it.

I mean, we put up 4 goals. We kept it in there. It's a shame we couldn't bring it in seeing as how we're right on the edge of the playoffs.