Gustav

Monank Patel drinking Canadian tears after a half century in both matches:

Agree on not repeating a position. You may or may not want to consider forward as well after this draft class--but you earn well enough that lots of people going to one position won't hurt your chances anywhere.

Something I really appreciate about defense is that hits and (especially) SB mean a lot more. Maybe you won't put as many points on the board as a forward, but you also have more numbers to care about.

I've been to a few college hockey games over the past few years and they're interesting compared to my NHL experiences. Our arena doesn't fill up a lot but the student section can still get nuts.

Something else I definitely noticed about college hockey in person is that pro players are on another level in terms of skating and positioning. Last time I went I saw so many people take huge hits that they took themselves right into (I'm sure the defense was more aggressive as well for this reason). I'd rather see an NHL game but if you're ever in NA college is certainly worth it as well.

Me on my way to nerf goalies the second Vandelay retires

I used to give up the Internet for anything that wasn't necessary. Today I have no idea how I pulled that off.

Short answer is no; I'll elaborate on the long answer for anyone curious.

If you were the sort of person to do any of the following, a second account would let you:

• Back yourself up in arguments/unfairly manipulate public opinion
• Gain an advantage on your teams (especially in the VHLM and/or if you were a GM) by essentially placing yourself somewhere twice, or by putting yourself somewhere else and purposely building/earning poorly
• Act disrespectfully to other people under the mask of that other account
• Really just confuse everyone in a community that's small enough where most of us know each other
• Probably some other stuff that I'm not evil enough to think about

The second and fourth points there are especially relevant to our site, and it's why we especially have those rules while larger places (think every social media site) do not. Even if your motivation is just "I really love the VHL and want to do more of it," the point about it being confusing and making the ways we interact with each other really weird is enough reason to say you shouldn't.

Art Vandelay

Art Vandelay

Hi!

GM jobs become available as GMs leave their positions. Generally, this happens during the offseason, and while we hate to see people go, the VHLM is usually hiring then.

Applications are open to everyone, but we'll hire who we feel can make the most difference (new members can make it too!). You can make a great impression on us by earning well, participating actively on the forums and Discord, and being positive and supportive to whoever you come across.

I'm looking forward to seeing where you can go, and maybe you'll be a GM someday!

Welcome to the VHL! Feel free to reach out with any questions.

I really liked that hits/SB became a marker of a good performance rather than just an "oh hey, that's cool but what about my points" thing. You can get zero points in a game but still be really proud of your performance. So I think that by itself (especially with SB) adds another dimension to your player that you wouldn't necessarily care about with a forward. I haven't played defense since S71 and all I'll say is that I'm looking forward to doing it again 

That's actually not abnormal. I'm sure you're aware that the league has had its varying eras of scoring and that Gritty played in a really dead one. The same is true for the M--Garcia was (I think) 2nd in SB with (I think) 120 in S65 and that would be nothing today. Hybrid attributes are part of it, but it's all relative.

We've had weirder. At least the M leaders aren't breaking 200 points (yet) like they've done a few times.

I'm legitimately curious how people would justify being more me than me

Hands up if you'd like me to reopen this thread   

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Nice try mod team

And then 18 years later came "We Built This City". At the risk of sounding like a YouTube comment, what the hell happened?

Awesome song though. It's short and certainly has 60s-level production but still manages to express a lot in a bit of a creepy way.

Hit me up next week about this! I'd design it if you're serious.

I got responses to a survey in my freshman year by leaving flyers about it in random buildings. When the first one hit a couple hours after I printed the first few I was so happy.

This is something that gets brought up a lot but as far as I'm aware no one's ever done it. I don't think whoever makes these things should be able to claim recruitment TPE for them (as there's no one-on-one interaction, and also in case it really ends up working), but if you care about the league itself, whether you get a kickback on it shouldn't make a difference either way in whether you want to do it.

Spartan IA

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when i was 16 i found a thermometer in my bathroom medicine cabinet and thought it was a pregnancy test. i then posted to the vhl discord and got flamed by everyone for being an idiot.

@Nykonax as someone who witnessed this firsthand…I hope you can look back and realize how funny it was. I was also an idiot at 16 who definitely would have done something just as dumb had I been online much then. 

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