Gustav

TL;DR: I screwed up. This season's draft, as many other drafts tend to do, fell on a day when I had other obligations. While I am the type of person to be around these parts quite a bit, I am not the type of person to be able to guarantee that I'll be around at any particular time. And being that as it is, this season, as I have done more than once before, I made a draft list and sent it in to the blue team in case my ever-devoted AGM found himself similarly inconvenienced. What I failed to take into account was that I should have sent my list in to more than one member of the blue team, as the person I sent it to was also similarly inconvenienced. So, come draft night, I was at a family thing and blissfully unaware that some people were freaking out about what it looked like--that I'd pulled a S69 or a S70 and missed the draft with no prior warning and no backup plan. I ended up getting who I wanted in the first round, because I'd been fairly open about my plans with other GMs and word had more or less leaked out to the rest of the who's-who of the league about our 4th-overall selection, but our second-rounder ended up being BPA'd...and arguably worse for me, I ended up looking like an idiot in front of the commissioners, other GMs, and the league as a whole, and holding up the draft. And for that I sincerely apologize and acknowledge that I should have had the foresight to get my list out more widely--even though I'd finished it late at night both after and before a tiring morning shift. I haven't looked at said list since I made it, and I am positively not going to complain about the outcome of our draft because things like that are best left in the past and I shouldn't be saying negative things about my own organization or the players in it. I do, however, find value in being honest, and there's my story for anyone who was (or is) wondering where the hell I was on draft night. A couple other thoughts because I don't need a .com article this week: -I was surprised to see Mourning drop to 10th. He would have been my #2 choice if someone went rogue and drafted Peepants before me, assuming Tyler Reinhart was also gone. -The player I was more or less specifically targeting with my 2nd was already off the board when that pick came up, even though it was a reach TPE-wise. I won't say who it was, but I didn't end up missing out on someone I really wanted. -We had a 4th round because one existed coming into the draft, but we didn't need one and I don't understand why we couldn't have skipped it. By the time it came up, the last player who had updated had updated 3-4 weeks ago.

For the week ending 7/25: 1. The draft has come and gone, leading us with a few new people--led by 4th-overall selection Poopy Peepants. What's something you'd tell one of our draftees about what makes us unique as a team? If you're one of those draftees, what are your initial impressions of us? 2. Though the offseason has seen some big, big moves, free agency has not gone at all the way we wanted it to. We have some cap space to work with--what do we do to fill it up? 3. What's your prediction for where we end up this season? Have we managed to pull a complete 180 and get ourselves among the league's best, or will we realistically need another season to work up to it? 4. You can make double the amount of money you do currently, but you have to move to the other side of the world to do it. Do you? 5. What popular thing do you hate? 6. You get to be an actor in any kind of movie you want. What role do you play? @Grape @Berocka@Ricer13@efiug @weekz @KC15 @TheCHEESE @Ahma @PatrikLaine @FrostBeard@Midnite @JardyB10

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TARO FLIPPIN TSUJIMOTO @Jubo

Reposting so I can edit as the draft moves: 1. Team Kobe F - Christian Mingle F - Duncan Idaho F - Dakota Lamb D - Bob Tristan D - Jeffrey Pines G - Thadius Sales 2. Team Crstats F - Aloe Dear F - Lee Xin F - Brendan Telker D - L D - Matty Socks G - Grekkark Gyrfalcon 3. Team Gustav F - Taro Tsujimoto F - SS Hornet F - Addison McLaren D - Hard Markinson D - Zeedayno Chara G - Artem Tretiak 4. Team Jubo F - Valtteri Vaakanainen F - Luke Thornton F - John Merrick D - Alex Letang D - Micah Adrienne G - Zamboni Driver 5. Team fishy F - Groovy Dood F - Gunnar Odinsson F - Red Lite D - Scotty Kaberle D - Battre Sandstrom G - Jean Pierre Camus 6. Team Hatty F - Isabella Campbell F - Timothy Brown F - Nathan Perry D - Chris Hylands D - Kasper Kankkunen G - Sirkants Klamasteris

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A good team locker room is where it's at imo. I still have fun in the league server from time to time but I used to live there and after I decided I didn't want to do that I found out that I didn't miss it. I think most of what you've said here is valid and I can agree with it on some level. If you ever do want to give it a chance, I'd personally start with a team server. A good small community gives you a lot less of the issues you brought up than a massive public one.

Yes, you! Stand still laddie! Last year, the VHL celebrated its 13th birthday--and instead of a boring "post in this thread" thing like we have this year, we had something that was interesting to read through. To claim TPE, you had to post in the thread with a story about a memory you had from when you were 13 years old. There were funny stories, sad stories, interesting stories, and all in all it was cool to sort through and see what people had done in their lives. Here's the thread for anyone who wasn't around and is interested. For that reason, my article this week will be a blurb about 14-year-old me. That was the year the VHL turned 7, and it was also the year I started high school...and though I can't think of anything from that year that particularly jumps out to me, looking back on it I'd say that that year influenced a good part of my life in a significant way. As many people may be able to interpret from online me, I wasn't exactly one of the cool kids. And being not widely popular, not picking any of my classes and being placed into things randomly wasn't very fun for me as most people I had classes with either didn't know me or didn't care. Which is probably the source of many "band nerd" stereotypes, as band was the only thing I chose to be a part of, and it was the one place where I was guaranteed to have a friend group. This became a big part of my life over high school because of that--it went from something I did because I felt like quitting would be wrong in middle school to something I genuinely enjoyed, getting involved in events and going beyond just coming to class. The next year, I'd joined jazz band, and by the end of high school I'd taken two years of music theory. Music is something I even keep up with in college as a hobby, and it's one that I'd probably have zero interest in if it weren't for freshman year going the way it did. So, there's my response to this year's nonexistent question. What's yours?

False, for obvious reasons. Also false--Psychic is a fairly easy role to fake. Also false--Disguiser targets a Mafia member and disguises them as someone outside of the Mafia. Also, you're not who I tracked last night...so nice try? I don't know what you serve to gain unless you're Exe or something (which I'd say would make sense if it weren't for the Vet claim). Unless you're a fifth Maf, which I'd buy given how much you've seemed to buy Barzal's story for days on end.

I AM NOT PEST. The only person with any supposed evidence that I am is someone from the Mafia who made up their results. I don't know how many times I have to say this for my word to be taken...rumors spread in this game faster than E. coli in Walmart. The conclusion that we draw here has to be simple--Al was jailed last night, the Jailor died last night. Nobody visited the Pest, and nobody visited the Pest's target, something that is a wee bit unlikely unless the Pest didn't go anywhere. My conclusion was that the Pest was in jail last night, and killed the Jailor (as a Pest will do in such a situation). So... VOTE BIGAL and I STRONGLY encourage you and @osens to join me. I know who the last member of the Mafia is because I tracked them to ADV's house last night--if you're not that person and you're paying attention to the claims of those of us who are left, you know exactly who that person is. That info is entirely unimportant because after a lynch today, the Pest kills someone tonight and wins the tiebreaker...unless we lynch the Pest. I am telling all of you now that the Pest is Al, Al is the Pest, if you take me out today it's game over for you no matter whether you're Town or Maf. Voting me today loses you the game. Plain and simple. I've been nothing but a servant of the town throughout this game, and I find it ridiculous that I'm being voted out on the word of a proven liar.

DAVID

I'd say probably someone more or less confirmed, for protection...but there's not really anyone I'd call "confirmed" right now apart from Devise. I think Berocka might be Pest, you don't have any heals so there's nothing confirming you, our Vet doesn't have any kills, and we have two Psychic claims (which is a very easy role to fake). At the moment I'd say NSG is who I trust most (apart from Devise), because he claimed his role from the start, but then again I did that as GF. Jail who you want and it's probably best if the target isn't specified in public--if there's no Maf kill tonight we can go for whoever was jailed.

...then I can't track anyone. What would jailing me do to help?

Then Devise dies because Pest rampages, so we wouldn't be stopping anyone from dying...and I end up 0% confirmed from it. I understand your reasoning and I do consider both options equally good for the sake of the town, but I feel that nobody believes me and doing it the other way around would at least provide some reason to trust my claim. What if tomorrow or some day down the road I get lynched because I couldn't get the PB suspicion (again, thrown at me by the mafia) off of me? Then we'd end up losing an entire day and by that point the Pest is probably close to winning.

...which I'm only suspected of being due to the word of someone who turned out to be lying. I'm maybe 60% sure I know who the last maf is and if I successfully track them tonight I'm hoping I can become more credible to you guys.

VOTE BEROCKA Let's see if I'm correct. Honestly it's fairly unfounded suspicion but that's all we have on anyone currently.

I have a good guess about who the last Maf is but I'd like to track them tonight to prove it as there's probably some suspicion on me. To that last maf--if you think killing me tonight is a good idea because of that, just remember that last wills exist Berocka is still my educated guess for PB/Pest and that's who I'd vote for but I haven't heard much strong agreement on that so if we have another favorite target I'm cool with whatever so long as the reasoning is sound.

Well shit, there’s a PB in this game…just my luck lmao Whoever it actually is must have been having an amazing time over Barzal coming at me…but we got our man and all is well in Gustav land. PLEASE BELIEVE ME NOW because the person yelling that I’m evil (and getting others thinking the same) turned out to be lying. Last night I tracked Sens to try to Psychic-bust and didn’t see a visit. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s who he says he is but it does check out. Also @bigAL your results don’t prove anything because Ptyrell died and we found out he was evil, but it might be worth it to vote Berocka IMO. Invest is also in the PB results and he’s mostly just confirmed people who already claimed. That’s my best bet for Pest, and it’s even possible that he’s a Consig who outed Barzal on purpose.

UNVOTE BARZAL VOTE JERICHO I'm pretty sure both are guilty (and I need Barzal to go out to show I'm not messing with you guys--I'm not PB!), but we've decided what we want to do and I'm ok with that for now I guess. I also want to point out that Goliathus' response to my result was "I'm not sus but also no you can't have any info," which seems very off. He also completely ignored the fact that I'm Tracker and tried to call me a fake Jailor which confuses me...I'm still going to push for Barzal tomorrow because that's my main source of suspicion and it's started a lot of otherwise completely unfounded rumors about me but I think we might have someone else sniffed out.

We have more votes for Barzal, and I'm very much inclined to believe Berocka given that Barzal's supposed "spy results" painted me in a negative light the day after I contributed a lot. So...for my part, VOTE BARZAL Last night I tracked @Goliathus and didn't see a visit from our friend with no claim yet. What's cooking?

I've done redraft articles in the past and enjoyed them--in fact, I've enjoyed draft-related articles quite a bit in general. My GM-ness kind of takes me out of the world of writing about the current draft or doing a mock, but redrafts are always an option and for that reason I'll be going 10 seasons back from the upcoming VHL entry draft and looking at Season 69. I don't have the best memory of what VHL roster needs were back in the day, so I'll be making my best educated guesses based on my impressions of team rosters in the S69 index--not that that makes a huge difference in many cases. Off to the drafting--I hope you enjoy! ROUND 1 1. Benny Graves 347 TPE | C | @STZ | Original Draft Spot: 2 Original Pick: Cinnamon Block Graves came into the draft as the highest-TPE player available, and many had him down as #1 in their mocks. As a team that was still new, Prague had needs just about everywhere, and though their decision to pick Block here probably would have held up in an argument had I chosen to confirm it here, I'm going with Graves based on personal preference. Both Graves and Block had spectacular careers in which they committed long-term to the team that picked them, with both surpassing 500 points (and Graves in fact reaching 598) and seeing themselves among the league's best at their respective positions. But with top-end forwards generally more in demand, I've decided to put Graves first...especially since Prague's roster in S69 suggests that they were still building from the ground up. 2. Cinnamon Block 306 TPE | D | @omgitshim | Original Draft Spot: 1 Original Pick: Benny Graves As one might gather from reading the description I gave Graves, it's fairly obvious that I would put Block in the #2 spot. Block had a somewhat underrated career, spending 7 seasons in Prague before moving to DC for his last. Had he started rather than finished in DC, though, the Dragons would have had themselves a defender who cracked 500 points, 1,500 hits, and 1,000 SB, finishing multiple seasons in contention for individual awards and setting them up with a top-tier player for the long term. 3. Kris Rice 188 TPE | RW | @Ricer13 | Original Draft Spot: 11 Original Pick: Guy Sasakamoose With the 11th pick in the draft, the Calgary Wranglers picked up Rice, then a pass-first winger out of Mississauga. Here, he moves up to #3 in the redraft, based on another underrated career blessed by consistently high-level play after a switch to a scoring build. Over seven seasons, Rice played for three teams, breaking point-per-game pace five times and even going above 100 twice. Had he begun his development at the deadline of S67, it's difficult to imagine anything less than this spot on the list, as he only really needed one big-league season to catch on and presumably could have gone up earlier and done more in a career that already had 543 points. 4. Patrik Tallinder 201 TPE | LW | @Patrik Tallinder | Original Draft Spot: 10 Original Pick: Soren Jensen Tallinder, another product of the Hounds, came into the big-league draft as a pure scoring winger, and stayed that way for his entire career. It's a bit of a tossup as to whether Rice or Tallinder ended up doing better in the VHL--though Rice had more of a consistent career and one more season that I'd classify as legitimately "good", Tallinder at his most highly productive (including a 127-point Szatkowski-winning S74 campaign) was dominant. I've got him one spot lower on this list because he took slightly longer to catch on, but outside of that it's hard to argue that one should be clearly above the other. All in all, Tallinder came up with 530 points for his career, 242 of which were goals. 5. RJ Jubis 212 TPE | LW | @Jubis | Original Draft Spot: 5 Original Pick: RJ Jubis I learned a couple things about Jubis from his portal page. First, he had a dreadful first season, only seeing 11 points in what I assume was a rookie season with a crowded roster. Second, he switched to defense in his last season--which I do vaguely recall--and rerolled his build to a passing style. For these reasons, I have him above Guy Lesieur, who finished 20 points ahead in an otherwise similar career. Career highlights for Jubis include a 100-point season in S73 that marked the second of three consecutive 80-point campaigns and a full 8-season career with Calgary which saw his agent become the team's GM, all part of a 520-point career which put the Wranglers atop the standings twice. 6. Guy Lesieur 208 TPE | RW | @KC15 | Original Draft Spot: 6 Original Pick: Guy Lesieur I must admit that it's quite difficult to rationalize these rankings when so many players from this class put up similar numbers for their careers, and Lesieur is no exception. I'll also admit that I had no idea that his career numbers were on par with the likes of everyone else from 3-5--his career was just followed with less public hype than the rest, I suppose, because although I remember him being good, I don't remember any sort of big "wow" factor (even though it was just as deserved as it would have been for anyone else). A potential lack of such a thing is supported by his numbers being on the lower end for the first half of his career--as it took until S73 to break 60 points--but his last four seasons were great, with 90 being broken three times (in fact, 66% of his career points came in the second half of his career). He still finishes below players like Rice and Tallinder if career lengths are normalized to seven seasons, but there was quite a bit to like. 7. Guy Sasakamoose 245 TPE | D | @Cxsquared | Original Draft Spot: 3 Original Pick: Ben Storm Though we've seen some picks that perhaps could have been better, here's our first that was certainly one the GM would like to have back. Storm was a highly active and motivated player who disappeared clean off the face of VHL Earth shortly after the draft, while Sasakamoose--originally picked 3rd overall--falls here in the redraft after a strong career spent on Riga's blue line. Ironically, our first three Riga picks were all Riga picks in the actual draft, so nothing's changed yet--and from that we can safely assume that Sasakamoose would have had a career that shaped up in just about the same way--which is quite a good thing for anyone familiar with how it went. Starting off slower, as many careers do, his most dominant seasons were from S73-S75, where he topped 80 points twice and 70 points in all three. On top of this, his defensive play was solid as he broke 1,100 SB for his career, an underrated number that isn't brought up nearly enough among defenders. Overall, he finished with 462 points in a career mostly spent with Riga but including a productive stint in Malmo. 8. Jimmy Spyro 111 TPE | G | @DarkSpyro | Original Draft Spot: 18 Original Pick: Erik Summers At the time of the draft, Spyro was a mostly unknown player, but he would end up blossoming in activity and productivity in the seasons to come. Originally going in the second round to Vancouver, he would prove to be the only truly serviceable goalie in the class at a time when career Titan Alexander Pepper's career was starting to wind down. Though Spyro's career was somewhat limited by two seasons spent as a backup and one down in the minors, he still managed to compile a record of 186-116-33 throughout six seasons as a starter and lead the Wolves to a championship in S74. That's about all that could be asked of anyone in net, and as such, the Titans would have been very happy to select him here as a very solid future investment. 9. Erik Summers 217 TPE | D | @Erik Summers | Original Draft Spot: 8 Original Pick: Hiroshi Okada I remembered coming into this that Summers had a few very good seasons, and looking at his numbers, that would be a correct statement--he got off to one of the hottest starts out of anyone in the class, winning Top Rookie in S70 and even winning the Beketov in S71, where he put up 63 assists and a career high in SB. From there, he would go on to break 60 assists (and 80 points!) three times, both very impressive marks for a defender. Overall, he would finish his career with 448 points, and would very likely be higher up on this list had he stayed active--after a while, he ended up dropping off, and as a consequence was hit hard with depreciation and found himself unable to keep up with his early-career pace later on. Overall, he still had some very productive time in the VHL, and comes out as a first-rounder with some significance. 10. Soren Jensen 337 TPE | LW | @Velevra | Original Draft Spot: 4 Original Pick: Patrik Tallinder STHS can work in curious ways, and Jensen is no exception to that rule. Coming in second in the class in TPE, and max earning for most of his career, Jensen consistently underperformed in relation to what was expected of him for most of his career. And, of course, by "underperformed" I do mean that he put up OK numbers...he just wasn't special. Part of Jensen's particular "player isn't simming well" curse came from a certain "team isn't simming well" curse that he also dealt with for just about his entire career, spent between New York and Davos. He would have two notable seasons in S74 and S75 with Davos, in one of which he would break 40 goals and 80 points, but he simply wasn't dominant in the way that he would have been expected to be at his skill level, playing a full 8 seasons up and having 462 points to show for it. All in all, not a bad player, but one which was fairly consistently outperformed by some others. 11. Hiroshi Okada 253 TPE | C | @enigmatic | Original Draft Spot: 9 Original Pick: Kris Rice The Wranglers were very forward-heavy in this draft, Okada included, albeit two spots ahead of this at #9. It's easy to imagine a more productive start to Okada's career elsewhere, as S69 to halfway through S71, where Okada was moved out to Helsinki, only had 63 points to talk about. Ironically, Okada's production picked up after eni's activity dropped off into mostly welfare territory, as S72-S75 with Helsinki saw just about point-per-game pace (including 79 in S73 and 80 in S74). While never a star, teams knew what they were getting with Okada, who proved to be a fairly consistent all-around player capable of generating solid numbers. 12. Griff Manzer 93 TPE | D | @Garsh | Original Draft Spot: 23 Original Pick: David OQuinn The last spot of the first round goes to someone who was originally almost the last pick of the second round in Manzer, who if I remember correctly had just joined the league Discord server around the time of the draft. He's since emerged as a consistent earner and one of the league's more active voices, so it's no surprise at all that he managed to climb up the rankings in our redraft. Spending 7 seasons up in the big leagues, his last four seasons (much like Okada's) were very much a mark of consistency as he finished between 63 and 68 points in each. Had he played one more season up, and produced at that level during it, he would have finished up his career just short of both 400 points and 1,000 SB, not bad numbers at all for a defenseman. In total, his 334 points, +73, and 1,056 hits finished him up as a respectable player worthy of any roster. ROUND 2 13. Oskar Lagesson 135 TPE | D | @fever95 | Original Draft Spot: 21 Original Pick: Will Clarke Lagesson, whose agent is and was a noted sim league vet, came into the draft as a mostly-welfare defenseman and stayed that way for the grand majority of his career. That's not to say that he couldn't contribute, though--over a 7-season career, he broke 50 points three times and finished with over 1,300 hits. Though Lagesson would only break 60 points once, he put up respectable defensive numbers and provided valuable depth for Moscow for six seasons before finishing up his career in Riga and Malmo. 14. Markus Nygren 137 TPE | LW | @Devise| Original Draft Spot: 15 Original Pick: Solomon Crawford I wasn't quite sure where to put Nygren here. Towards the end of his career, he ended up being one of the more recognizable faces of the LA Stars, and he put up bigger numbers than players like Lagesson, totaling 319 points over 7 seasons (including 80 points in S73). He was even a very good physical player, becoming one of very few these days to break the 2,000-hit mark. A downside to all those hits, though, was a lot of penalty minutes--though he'd break 2,000 hits, Nygren would also break 1,000 PIM, including one season with 200. Here, he goes to Prague, who find themselves a respectable player who was an asset so long as he could stay out of the box. 15. David OQuinn 192 TPE | D | @David O'Quinn | Original Draft Spot: 12 Original Pick: Markus Nygren Coming into the draft, OQuinn looked like a very promising prospect as both a player and a member--for a brief time, he was one of the league's more active players and members, something which brought him onto New York at the end of the first round of the draft. After a while, though, he began to fall off into welfare territory as he was moved to Vancouver and then to Davos. While he didn't end up reaching the high ceiling he had coming in, he still managed to hold down a top-2 spot on the Davos roster for three seasons, with his most impressive season being his last in S74--which brought about 59 points and 170 SB. 16. Kristopher McDagg 81 TPE | LW | @Wolverine | Original Draft Spot: 26 Original Pick: Shush Nyko This pick annoyed me to write because I only came across McDagg's name when I was almost done with the draft...and then had to spend a little time figuring out where he'd fit in and rearranging some things to make it happen. Originally drafted by Davos, McDagg was moved out early on in his career and spent a couple seasons in the minors. His career was short, only spanning four seasons, but those four seasons were productive--he would break 50 points three times and 60 points twice as a steal for Toronto. 17. Fernando Jokinen 164 TPE | D | @Ahma | Original Draft Spot: 17 Original Pick: Fernando Jokinen The new and impressionable members among us might see Jokinen at 17 as a surprise--he clearly outperformed the career numbers of many others ahead of him, including players at his position like Lagesson and OQuinn. And, of course, that's correct, and were this article written purely based on numbers, this pick would be different. It is, however, difficult to ignore certain circumstances which led this pick to go this way in the first place--and which would very likely cause it to go the same in a true redraft. 18. Nicolas Fomba 80 TPE | G | @efiug | Original Draft Spot: 28 Original Pick: Jimmy Spyro In many cases in our redraft, I see the redrafted pick as an improvement--and I'd like to think others here would agree with that. Here it is most decidedly not that, but only because Spyro's career went the way it did after a bit of spectacular earning on his part. That's not to say Fomba isn't worthy of this spot, though--the Wolves were looking for a goaltender, and while they wouldn't have gotten one to save the franchise with this pick, they would have picked up a dependable earner who eventually became one of the league's premier backups, even making his way into the starting role for Warsaw's inaugural season. Overall, Fomba would go 33-46-8 for his career, with a SV% of .904--not terrible at all for a player who spent the majority of his starts on a new expansion franchise. 19. Gary Tarantino 81 TPE | RW | @Garrett | Original Draft Spot: 27 Original Pick: Blacker Velvet Though Tarantino would come into the draft as a relatively unknown welfare player, his selection 8 spots back of his placement in our redraft would turn out to be a steal. He would never quite pan out in Helsinki or Calgary, where on both teams he was buried on the roster to start his career in S71, but after being moved to Prague in S72, he would blossom as a player. His best season would be a 66-point effort in S73, something which would be considered very impressive for any third-rounder. These days, Gary Tarantino II is set to make his way up to the VHL in the system of the Vancouver Wolves, after a selection in the second round of S77. 20. Shush Nyko 124 TPE | LW | @SDCore | Original Draft Spot: 16 Original Pick: Daldo At this point in the draft, I'd say we start to move into lesser-known players, but Shush Nyko was, for obvious reasons, one of the more well-known names of the draft when he first came around. Originally drafted by Riga, Nyko would spend his entire career there. There's not much that could have been done to find the perfect player at this point in the redraft, but the well-named Shush Nyko is a good example of a player who was able to fill a depth role in his team nonetheless--from S71-75, Nyko (or is it Shush?) would put up 162 points in total, with a career-high 51 in S73. 21. Will Clarke 173 TPE | D | @Will | Original Draft Spot: 13 Original Pick: Oskar Lagesson Clarke came into the draft with reasonably high expectations--he was at the time a semi-consistent auto-12 with an agent who had done more for the league than most other members can even dream of doing. This wouldn't hold up in the long run, though, as his earning would prove to be spotty at best and Clarke lacked the ability to put up big numbers on either end of the ice. Surprisingly, this was not a reflection of his team's results, as he would play for Moscow, Seattle, and Malmo from S70-72 and win the Cup in each of them. 22. Solomon Crawford 181 TPE | G | @AW13 | Original Draft Spot: 14 Original Pick: Richard Fitzwell I feel that I'm underrating Crawford a bit here, but that's due in large part to the fact that I had Helsinki picking up Spyro earlier and Moscow was seeing the rise of future star Raymond Bernard at the time...so neither team really needed a goaler. There is a case to be made for Fomba and Crawford to be switched, too--Crawford reached a higher TPE level--but Fomba managed to start for one season while Crawford was at best a backup who was given some extra starts from time to time. Crawford's numbers were also slightly less impressive--30-53-15 with a .900--but he still earned 429 TPE in his career and spent parts of four seasons with Malmo and Prague appearing in 20 or more games. Though he wouldn't have been the solution to what was at the time an impending retirement for Kallis Kriketers, he would have likely helped Riga bridge the gap, and for that reason he ends up being a steal in this redraft. 23. Milos Slavik 117 TPE | LW | @Frank | Original Draft Spot: 25 Original Pick: Griff Manzer I was surprised to have Slavik move up from his original draft spot, as he would go inactive shortly after moving up to the VHL. With that said, he still managed to earn a good bit past the cutoff, and as such a player, was able to make his way around the league on a few rosters as a depth piece or a roster filler (back when teams wanted roster filler even a little bit). Slavik's career would span S70-74, moving around four different teams and reaching a career high of 47 points in S73 with Chicago. 24. Daldo 151 TPE | D | @Harpskii | Original Draft Spot: 20 Original Pick: Kevin Reegsman Though Daldo would break 500 TPE, they weren't a player who was able to make a lasting impact anywhere. After spending two seasons down, Daldo would end up playing three underachieving seasons in Helsinki before moving to Toronto for S74, where their best season (51 points) would manifest. It would seem that things were looking up at that point, but depreciation would hit a newly-inactive Daldo hard prior to S75 and their role would then be very limited across three teams over two seasons before retirement. Still, though, was Daldo worth it, and could Daldo filled a role when called upon? S74 was certainly a bright spot, and 7 power-play goals then as a defenseman was something to look at. There are two rounds, and as you may have guessed...there's not really room for a third. Read this one, have fun reading it, then get yourself ready for the real draft on Sunday! 3,633 words

I'm an idiot who can't read smh I was skimming for an eagles post and didn't see it. Anyway sleep tight y'all

Keep in mind that if we're being fed false spy info it could be something that's being played off to confirm omg. Yesterday Barzal said there wasn't really anything important to contribute even though this would have supported the claim of omg being forged...

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