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@vincentlg2007your 12 hours has elapsed for your first pick. You are on the clock for your 2nd pick. You have 7 hours remaining on the clock. Please make both picks before your time runs out and you are DQ'd.

G - Brandt Fuhr @vincentlg2007 you're up for your final two picks.

Copying roster to page 2 for ease of use. 1. DreMin15 F - Zach Kisslinger II F - Matty Fire F - Cobalt Burns D - Tavish DeGroot D - Ryuji Sakamoto G - Papa Emeritus 2. Scurvy F - Vasile Lamb F - Vinny Detroit F - Nezuko D - Brian Payne D - Hari Singh Nalwa G - David Davis 3. InstantRockstar F - Saku Kotkakoivu F - Ryan Vidot F - Girts Galvin D - Scoish Velociraptor Maloish D - Max Torq G - Xavier Booberry 4. Triller F - Nico Pearce F - Brendan Marner F - Nils Godlander D - Jerome Reinhart D - Erlantz Jokinen G - Ben Dahl 5. DMaximus F - Ronan Lavelle F - Hulk Hogan 2 F - Igor Molotov D - Bo Johansson D - AirRig GoodBrandSun G - Brandt Fuhr 6. vincentlg2007 F - Daniel Janser F - Tomas Sogaard F - Perry Laperriere D - Jake Thunder D - Mo Probert G - Wumbo

F - Hulk Hogan 2 @Triller

@vincentlg2007 AJ Williams is retired, https://vhlportal.com/players/playerfocus/4029 Please make another selection.

D - AirRig GoodBrandSun @vincentlg2007 for the next two picks.

I'll take F - Ronan Lavelle @Triller

D - Bo Johansson @vincentlg2007you're up for the next two picks.

@DreMin15 and everyone, please remember to tag the next person so they know they're on the clock. @Scurvyyou're on the clock

@DreMin15 you're up first. Please make your first pick.

My post to track our picks. 1. DreMin15 F - Zach Kisslinger II F - Matty Fire F - Cobalt Burns D - Tavish DeGroot D - Ryuji Sakamoto G - Papa Emeritus 2. Scurvy F - Vasile Lamb F - Vinny Detroit F - Nezuko D - Brian Payne D - Hari Singh Nalwa G - David Davis 3. InstantRockstar F - Saku Kotkakoivu F - Ryan Vidot F - Girts Galvin D - Scoish Velociraptor Maloish D - Max Torq G - Xavier Booberry 4. Triller F - Nico Pearce F - Brendan Marner F - Nils Godlander D - Jerome Reinhart D - Erlantz Jokinen G - Ben Dahl 5. DMaximus F - Ronan Lavelle F - Hulk Hogan 2 F - Igor Molotov D - Bo Johansson D - AirRig GoodBrandSun G - Brandt Fuhr 6. vincentlg2007 F - Daniel Janser F - Tomas Sogaard F - Perry Laperriere D - Jake Thunder D - Mo Probert G - Wumbo

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4. Who is your early prediction to win the Continental Cup? I guess it’s not so early now, but I think Moscow has a great chance to win it all. Also don’t sleep on Chicago. 5. What is your favourite dessert? Really tough, because I’m not sure I had it yet. Tough to top a really good tiramisu. But I’m still holding out hope of something more amazing. Tough to hate on really good ice cream too. 6. What is your favourite Olympic Sport? I like a lot of Olympic sports. One of my favorite things is to watch all the events I normally don’t get to see. This last Winter Olympics I really got into biathlon. Always love curling, short track speed skating as well. Summer games are a whole different story, because there’s so many, but I really like fencing and badminton, among tons of others. Basically whatever is on quickly becomes my faovrite.

20th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S85 Another exciting regular season has come to a close. That means we can dole out some regular season awards! Welcome everyone to the 20th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards honoring the highs and lows of S85! Thank you to everyone that reads this. And yes you’re reading that correctly, this has been going on for 20 seasons! These awards have been created by me. There is no voting process and they are not officially recognized by the VHL Board of Governors. For each award, I list the winners from the last 5 seasons. If you want to check out the award winners from every season, use this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sAZtX3bxVpPTIsKe1rSRVOenH1-iyWzbQEdR9ZvYOdU/edit?usp=sharing I also document the “all-time” record for each category. Of course, by that I mean all-time for the existence of these awards, not all-time, all-time. Clear? Ok, good. Let’s get things underway! The Pylon Award (worst +/- rating) – Daniel Clarke @Danzo Riga owned the top 5 (or bottom 5 depending on your perspective) spots in this category. Daniel Clarke stood above (below) their teammates and took the award home with a -65. All-time record: S82 – creed -156 Last 5 Pylon Award Winners: Season Player + / - S85 Daniel Clarke -65 S84 Ryan Li -60 S83 Barron Kruulenstien -66 S82 creed -156 S81 chris foley -96 The Gandhi Award (least penalty minutes, min 1,000 minutes played) – Girts Galvins @Girts Florida Man’s @zepheter winning of the award last season has done quite a number on this award. Everyone’s going crazy and committing penalties now. Girts Galvins wins the award this season with an all-time high 6 PIM. Remember, the purpose of the award is for the least penalty minutes! The goal isn’t to get some penalties and hope everyone else gets more. All-time record: S81 - Brendan Telker - 0 PIM, 2211 Minutes Played Last 5 Gandhi Award Winners: Season Player PIM Minutes Played S85 Girts Galvins 6 2153 S84 Florida Man 2 1880 S83 Mason Jones 2 2146 S82 Omi Aberg 2 2132 S81 Brendan Telker 0 2211 The Major2 Award (most major penalties) - Vinny Detroit @dasboot Based on their play style and high PIM in previous seasons, it’s shocking this is Vinny’s first win of this award. A very strong 12 majors gets the award in Mr. Detroit’s battered hands. All-time Record: S77 – Randy Marsh - 14 Majors Previous Major2 Award Winners: Season Player Major Penalties S85 Vinny Detroit 12 S84 Cadmael Ixazaluoh 9 S83 Brian Payne 11 S82 Owen Taylor 12 S81 Magnus Verlander 9 The Timex Award (received most hits) – Perry Laperriere @KaleebtheMighty A recent trend of this award was that the overall points leader also took home this award. It make sense, to score a lot, you need to have the puck a lot, which means you get hit a lot. Perry Laperriere broke that streak. They won this award with 339 hits taken. Points leader Daniel Janser @Daniel Janser, finished 9th in this category with 273 hits taken. All-time Record: S82 – Bogdan Trunov - 408 Hits taken Last 5 Timex Award Winners: Season Player Hits Taken S85 Perry Laperriere 339 S84 Duncan Idaho 316 S83 Saku Kotkakoivu 346 S82 Bogdan Trunov 408 S81 Lester Green 381 The John Wayne Award (most shots on goal) - Zaza Colors @McWolf Zaza Colors painted the opposing goalies with black by splattering 566 shots on goal. Although I hadn’t considered until now that the pucks in this sim might not be black. Maybe each team uses pucks that are their colors. In that world Colors really lived up to their name then. The multi-colored puck world, that’s a world I want to live in. All-time record: S82 – Jerome Reinhart - 713 Shots on goal Last 5 John Wayne Award Winners: Season Player Shots on Goal S85 Zaza Colors 566 S84 Duncan Idaho 621 S83 Saku Kotkakoivu 692 S82 Jerome Reinhart 713 S81 Jerome Reinhart 711 The “Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots blocked) - Alex Johnston @Alex For the first time in the history of this award, we have a repeat winner! Alex bested their winning total from last season by 1 to end up with a league high 168 own shots blocked. All-time record: S81 – Jerome Reinhart - 204 Own shots blocked Last 5 HtBotB Award Winners: Season Player Own Shots Blocked S85 Alex Johnston 168 S84 Alex Johnston 187 S83 Saku Kotkakoivu 189 S82 Taylor Mourning 195 S81 Jerome Reinhart 204 The “Can’t Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots missed) – Zaza Colors @McWolf Zaza zaza’d all over the boards behind the net. They missed the net with shots 406 times this season. All-time record: S81 – Jerome Reinhart - 532 Shots missed Last 5 CHtBotB Award Winners: Season Player Shots Missed S85 Zaza Colors 406 S84 Baby Bob 415 S83 Saku Kotkakoivu 509 S82 Jerome Reinhart 489 S81 Jerome Reinhart 532 The New Shin Pads Award (most blocked shots) – Deron Nesbitt @AW13 Deron blocked a very-satisfying-to-type-out 222 shots. All-time record: S82 – creed - 460 Shots blocked Last 5 New Shin Pads Award Winners: Season Player Shots Blocked S85 Deron Nesbitt 222 S84 Jaromir Lemiuex 268 S83 Barron Kruulenstien 261 S82 creed 460 S81 Artair McCloud 237 The Tired Legs Award (most minutes played) - Florida Man @zepheter Florida Man avoided the heat and humidity by spending a league leading 2221 minutes on the ice. All-time record: S82 – Chicken Wing – 2,512 Minutes played Last 5 Tired Legs Award Winners: Season Player Minutes Played S85 Florida Man 2221 S84 Jerome Reinhart 2400 S83 Rhys Trenton 2374 S82 Chicken Wing 2512 S81 Artair McCloud and Ryan Vidot 2469 The Snap! Award (most power play minutes) - Bo Johansson @Shindigs I had to double check my work here because the next closest Chicago player was 20th in the league. It’s really difficult to understand how a player could spend so much more time on the powerplay than their teammates, but Bo made it happen and led the league with 344 minutes on the powerplay. All-time record: S79 - Muffbeav - 454 power play minutes Last 5 Snap! Award Winners: Season Player PP Minutes S85 Bo Johansson 344 S84 Napoleon Dynamite 369 S83 Battre Sandstrom 339 S82 Tyler Reinhart 397 S81 Bogdan Trunov 397 The 1 vs. 100 Award (most time on penalty kill) - Hari Singh Nalwa @Dil Hari must like special teams. They were the runner up for the Snap! Award last season and take home this award with 317 minutes killing penalties. All-time record: S79 - Gustislav Nasherov - 447 penalty kill minutes Last 5 1 vs. 100 Award Winners: Season Player PK Minutes S85 Hari Singh Nalwa 317 S84 Deron Nesbitt 335 S83 Zeedayno Chara 340 S82 Hulk Hogan 2 359 S81 Sven Eightnine 319 The Sean Archer Award (highest face-off win %, min 1,000 faceoffs) – AWARD SUSPENDED The Castor Troy Award (lowest face-off win %, min 1,000 faceoffs) – AWARD SUSPENDED I talked about this in last season’s award show. Basically the face-off % in the stats index is broken. For example, the top player won 30.86% of their face-offs. Then when you go into their individual player page, it shows they won 35% of their face-offs. Something’s wrong because they don’t match but also there’s no way the top face-off % was 35%. There’s a player who took 2 face-offs, their reported % is 30.71, a mathematically impossible result. Last season I was able to cobble together who I think won the awards and handed them out. That took more time and effort than it should and I’m not even sure it’s accurate. Because of all that, we’re not handing out the face-off awards this season. Hopefully whatever bug is causing this gets fixed in the future. The Triple Deke Award (most penalty shot goals) - Hammar Voss @BOOM This award is normally reserved for the top skilled forwards in the league, but defenseman Hammer Voss is changing the norm. They won this awards by scoring 6 penalty shot goals. More than any other defenseman or forward in the league. Great stuff! All-time record: S67 - Veran Dragomir and S78 - Thomas Landry II - 8 penalty shot goals Last 5 Triple Deke Award Winners: Season Player Penalty Shot Goals S85 Hammar Voss 6 S84 Zach Kisslinger II 7 S83 Zeedayno Chara 7 S82 Baby Bob 4 S81 Armani Calamari 5 The Rocky Award (most fights won) – Vinny Detroit @dasboot There’s two ways to win this award, get in a couple of fights and win them all or get in a lot of fights and win simply though the sheer volume of opportunity. Vinny Detroit went with the later. They racked up 12 fights this season, ending with a 5-3-3 record. The 5 fight wins nets them this award, but who’s the best fighter this season will still be debated with many fans pointing to the more impressive 4-1-3 Jared Carter the 2st @jaredc7 All-time record: S83 Brian Payne – 7 fights won Last 5 Rocky Award Winners: Season Player Fights Won S85 Vinny Detroit 5 S84 Paul Atreides 4 S83 Brian Payne 7 S82 Owen Taylor 4 S81 Pistil Stamen 3 The Glass Joe Award (most fights lost) – Henri le Massif @Garsh There’s many signs that can indicate it’s time to retire. Getting repeatedly punched in the face is one of those signs. Henri le Massif read the signs from their league worst 3 fights lost and retired at the end of the season. Two other players also lost 3 fights, Rocky Award winner Vinny Detroit and tied-for-this-same-award-last-season-but-also-didn’t-win-because-of-the-tiebraker Cadmael Ixazaluoh @Vice. Massif won on the tiebreaker because of their overall fight record of 0-3-2. All-time record: S74 - Lee Xin and S69 Rusty Shackleford - 5 fights lost Last 5 Glass Joe Award Winners: Season Player Fights Lost S85 Henri le Massif 3 S84 Deagun Rust 3 S83 Kyle Glass 3 S82 Vasile Lamb 2 S81 Magnus Verlander 3 The Stars Award (most stars won) – Saku Kotkakoivu @DollarAndADream Saku won this award with 28 total stars. He reached those stars in a somewhat unorthodox fashion, by netting 8 3rd stars. Multiple players have more first stars, but no one had more total stars. Special recognition to Zach Kisslinger II @Kisslinger and Nico Pearce @Spartan who tied for the league lead with 14 first stars. Also shout-out to Augustus Kennedy @InstantRockstar who led all goalies with 22 total stars. And of course Clueless Wallob @DMaximus who led the goalies with 12 first stars. All-time record: S76 - Mikko Lahtinen – 34 total stars Last 5 Stars Award Winners: Season Player Total Stars S85 Saku Kotkakoivu 28 S84 Duncan Idaho 33 S83 Zeedayno Chara 31 S82 Taylor Mourning 33 S81 Justin Lose 28 The “Always a Bridesmaid” Award (most stars without winning 1st star) – Hard Markinson @STZ Markinson found it extremely difficult, tough, onerous, exacting, arduous or some synonym of that to get a first star this season. But they wound up with a total of 16 2nd and 3rd starts which is the all-time record for this award. Congratulations on that! All-time record: S85 – Hard Markinson - 16 stars Last 5 Bridesmaid Award Winners: Season Player Stars S85 Hard Markinson 16 S84 Asher Reinhart 13 S83 Tui Sova 12 S82 Gustav Hjalmarsson 9 S81 Donny Carter 8 The Biggest Backpack Award (player with the largest difference in points from the rest of their team) - Jerome Reinhart @MexicanCow123 There was actually a tie between Jerome Reinhart and Sirdsvaldis Miglaskems @FrostBeard who each outscored their nearest teammate by 20 points. Reinhart wins on the tiebreaker because they score more total points. All-time record: S82 – Taro Tsujimoto - 52 points more than nearest teammate Last 5 Backpack Award Winners: Season Player Point Difference from nearest teammate S85 Jerome Reinhart 20 S84 Nico Pearce 32 S83 Saku Kotkakoivu 23 S82 Taro Tsujimoto 52 S81 Alex Johnston 32 The Anniversary Award (rank in total points matches season number) - Sting Chameleon @Hybrid1486 This is season 85, so the award goes to the player in 85th place in total points. Congratulations to Sting Chameleon! They recorded 51 points this season, good enough for 85th place. Last 5 Anniversary Award Winners: Season Player Points S85 Sting Chameleon 51 S84 DB III 51 S83 Robert Wilk 54 S82 Jakub Brozik 71 S81 AJ Williams 76 The Eggshell Award (goalie with most overtime losses) - Boris Tsezar @comrade cat 8 must have been a popular number this season because there was a 5-way tie for this award with 8 OT losses. Boris Tsezar wins it because they played less total games than the other goalies. All-time record: S82 - Sirkants Klamasteris, S78 – Calvin Harvey, S75 - Doug Dimmadome, and S71 Jaxx Hextall - 11 OT games lost Previous Eggshell Award Winners: Season Player Overtime Games Lost S85 Boris Tsezar 8 S84 Cole Pearce 9 S83 David Davis 9 S82 Sirkants Klamasteris 11 S81 Papa Emeritus 9 The Jason Voorhees Award (most PIM by a Goalie) - Oskar Lindbergh @Doomsday Oskar Lindbergh claims this award for a 2nd consecutive season with 12 PIM. Brandt Fuhr @Tate also committed 12 PIM, but Oskar gets the award because they played less total minutes. All-time record: S76 - Doug Dimmadome - 29 PIM Previous Jason Voorhees Award Winners: Season Player PIM S85 Oskar Lindbergh 12 S84 Oskar Lindbergh 16 S83 Ben Dahl 14 S82 Thadius Sales 18 S81 Barry Taffe 23 The Poke Check Award (highest % of penalty shots stopped, min 10 penalty shots against) - Oskar Lindbergh @Doomsday The same stick work that won them the previous award appears to have come in handy to win them the Poke Check award as well. Oskar stopped 88.5% of the 26 penalty shots they faced. All-time record: S81 – Tater Tot – 100% penalty shots stopped (10 shots faced) Previous Poke Check Award Winners: Season Player Penalty Shots Stopped S85 Oskar Lindbergh 88.5% S84 David Davis 80.0% S83 Dexter Vaughn 80.0% S82 Tater Tot 88.2% S81 Tater Tot 100.0% That wraps it up for this season! Another year, another successful award ceremony! Congratulations and/or condolences to all the winners! As always, please provide any suggestions, insights, or thoughts in the comments. Thank you all for reading and continuing to make this a successful column!

Great GM recipe Being a great GM isn’t all that difficult. You really just need a few key ingredients in the right proportions, some time to let everything combine, and maybe some ideas cooking in the brain, and boom you have a great GM. Here’s my recipe: 1 cup of passion – This is far and away the most important ingredient. If you don’t have passion for the position, or passion for position, or passion for the league, or passion for the community, or passion for the people on your team, or passion for the other people in the league, you’re doomed before the whole thing even takes off. You have to care in order to even have a change to succeed. I think everyone has passion when they first start, but, for some, it goes away. GMing is sometimes a thankless job, it’s sometimes burdensome, it’s sometimes a drag, it’s sometimes a letdown. All of that wears on you. The only way to combat that is with passion. Caring about you and your team. ½ cup of time (add in small increments) – Let’s face it performing all the GM duties takes time. But (unlike the writing of this article) it’s not like you can handle all the duties in one big clump on Sunday night. To be a great GM, you need to check in here and there throughout the week. You need to be around to help anyone or answer questions. You need to be around to sign players. You need to be around to motivate your players. You need to be around to represent you team. Each of those things don’t take a lot of time individually, but collectively being a great GM requires a dedication of your time. ¼ cup of personal skills – The crazy thing about the VHL and the reason it’s so different from CPUs in video games is that the VHL is comprised of real people. To be a great GM, you need to be able to interact with people. You need to be able to find ways to motivate them. You need to find ways to keep them interested. Then you also need to be able to interact with all the other GMs. You have to be able to communicate with them when trying to figure out a deal. You have to be able to find ways to understand what is import to someone else and use that to make a deal that helps our you and your team. All of those things rely on your personal skills. 1 tsp luck – A little luck never hurt anyone especially when it comes to STHS. ¼ tsp hockey knowledge- Yes this is a hockey sim, but really you need almost no knowledge to be a great GM. Let’s face it STHS is not a sophisticated sim engine. There are very basic elements at play here that barely represent actual hockey. Essentially if you know what offense and defense is, you’re good to go. The instructions are to combine all of those things into yourself and apply for a GM job. Keep at it until you’re a great GM.

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With the first day of regular season right around the corner, what are your expectations for this season? I know that we have a young team. I expect us to have some bumps in the road. I hope that we’re able to stay together as a team and overcome whatever comes our way. Which VHL team do you see winning the cup this season? It looks like Vancouver is going to be really good. You can never count out Moscow either. Oh wait, I mean Prague. What type of player do you want your player to be? I just want to be someone who goes out there and gives it their all, night after night. If I leave it all on the ice, I’m satisfied, Also, don’t come into my crease.

S85 Pre-Season Rankings Last season I wrote a media spot with my pre-season rankings. I enjoyed making the article, so I figured why not have another go at it. In addition to the rankings, I used tiers last season. This season many teams are pretty close in talent. It was tough to make meaningful tiers. So, no tiers. I know the season is already underway, but you’ll have to trust me that I made this order before the season started. Actually you can probably figure that out once you see the ratings. 16) Riga Last Season: My Prediction 9th. Finished 6th. I give Riga props for fielding a full roster, even if it is mainly comprised of players who wouldn’t start on most VHLE and even some VHLM teams. Riga is mainly composed of aging players who haven’t updated their skills in a while. They’ll stay at the same level all season while the rest of the league gets better. Not a good recipe for success. 15) Prague Last Season: My Prediction 16th. Finished 16th. Prague’s best days are in front of them. Aging in some areas, young in others, Prague’s roster won’t strike fear into too many opponents. What will strike fear is their prospect pool and future draft pics. At least they have a great goalie. 14) Helsinki Last Season: My Prediction 3rd. Finished 4th. I placed Helsinki so high last season because of their goalie Xavier Booberry @CowboyinAmerica. They’re still on the team, so why the big drop? Look at the remainder of the roster. Outside of a couple of players, Helsinki is lacking in talent. 13) Los Angeles Last Season: My Prediction 14th. Finished 13th. I think Los Angeles’ similar ranking to last season speaks to the strength of the rest of the league, rather than a deficiency with the Stars. L.A. has a bona fide star in Sirdsvaldis Miglaskems @FrostBeard and some good young talent in places. If there was a team on this list that I think could be the most off from where I place them, it’s L.A. They have a chance to finish much better than where I am putting them. 12) London Last Season: My Prediction 10th. Finished 11th. London has a solid roster up and down. Their unproven goaltending and lack of an offensive star, or even really a clear top line, are the causes for concern. 11) Toronto Last Season: My Prediction 5th. Finished 8th. The retirement of Paul Atreides @Mr_Hatter leaves a hole in this roster that doesn’t appear to have been filled. They have a nice top line, but will someone step up and be the leader of the team? Until someone does, Toronto might find themselves on the outside of the playoffs, looking in. 10) Malmo Last Season: My Prediction 15th. Finished 14th. Malmo struggled last season because they were so young. With a season of experience under their belt, Malmo should make some good strides forward this season. I still think they’re a year or two away from making it to the top of this list, but they’ll get there if they stay on the same path they’re on. 9) Seattle Last Season: My Prediction 7th. Finished 3rd. I undervalued Seattle last season and it appears I’m doing the same thing this season. Unfortunately, I just can’t convince myself to rank them higher. They have a great top line, but the lack of depth and young goaltending are what I see holding them back. But look, one thing Seattle has shown time and again is to not underestimate them. New York Last Season: My Prediction 13th. Finished 12th. New York has a great balance on their roster. Young, old, experience, leadership, it’s all there. Really the type of group you can see banding together and making a run when it matters most. 7) D.C. Last Season: My Prediction 1st. Finished 2nd. I said this earlier in the article, but it bears repeating. D.C. is ranked here not because they are all that much worse than last year. It’s just the rest of the teams in the league got better. I think D.C. fans should be excited for this season, they might not be on the top of the conference, but they’ll be right in the thick of it at the end of the season. 6) Chicago Last Season: My Prediction 11th. Finished 7th. I went back and forth between ranking Chicago or D.C. higher. Ultimately the reason I ranked Chicago higher is because of their talent goaltender, Cole Pearce @N0HBDY I think he’ll pull out a couple wins this season for Chicago, which will keep them ahead of D.C. 5) H.C. Davos Last Season: My Prediction 6th. Finished 10th. There’s not a lot of separation between these last 5 teams. Davos has a great roster up and down. I probably should rank them 3 or 4. But they’re getting 5th because I messed up their prediction last season by overvaluing them. Davos will need to prove to me they’re really ready for the big stage before they get ranked there. 4) Warsaw Last Season: My Prediction 8th. Finished 5th. Although they finished 5th in the regular season, Warsaw went on to win the Cup in the playoffs. Warsaw looks ready to defend their championship. The only thing that might hold them back is a slight lack of depth, but they should be able to handle that as they defend their championship. 3) Calgary Last Season: My Prediction 2nd. Finished 9th. Speaking of overvaluing/underperforming, we have Calgary. I thought Calgary were due for great things last season, they disagreed with me. I think Calgary is in a very similar position this year. They have a great looking roster, are they ready for greatness this season? 2) Moscow Last Season: My Prediction 4th. Finished 1st. Moscow easily won the Victory Cup for best Regular Season record for the 2nd consecutive season last year. You would think that would give them the nod into 1st for these rankings. And you could make some very strong arguments for why they should be first. I placed them second because I just like the look of the first ranked team a little more. 1) Vancouver Last Season: My Prediction 12th. Finished 15th No contest for the biggest jump from last season to this season. Vancouver turned an aging roster with weak talent into a powerhouse in just one offseason. Bravo! We’ll see how it all plays out, but Vancouver has strength in all areas and should cause problems for all other teams. Thanks for taking the time to read. Until next season, take care!

G - Brandt Fuhr F - Brendan Marner @Novanod- still on the clock.

I'll take: F - Sigard Petrenko D - Max Torq Back to @Novanod

Sorry for the delay. Forgot to check last night. Here's my two picks: F - Vinny Detroit D - Erlantz Jokinen @Novanod

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