RunnerBert11

Johnny Havenk Carison - G

Shawn Glade - D

@Phil Last pick, make it a good one!

Bert Meyers +1

1) Currently, the Titans are only a single point out of first place in the league. How does it feel to be at the top of the pack?  It feels damn good and I'm not ready to come down from this anytime soon!

2) Do we have what it takes to surpass Riga and claim 1st for ourselves? The way Peppers and our veterans are playing I would certainly say so, and our rookies are also stepping up and contributing to help bring home some of those tough road W's.

3) Dan Montgomery currently sis in first for both assists and points as a defenseman. How crucial has he been to Helsinki's success so far? This guy is the glue that keeps the team together and his defense is second to none, I think Peppers could attest to this!

4) Who's your early favorite for the season MVP, given what we've seen? I'd say it's a little to early to say, but there is a decent sized group that has separated themselves from the masses. I think over the next week or two a few will start to separate themselves even further.

5) Now that everyone has had a few games to shake off the offseason rust, do you think we've settled into midseason form? Do we have more to show? I think our goaltending and defense is firing on all cylinders. Our offense has produced enough to keep us at the top, but I believe we have some more in the tank and it will start to show here any game.

6) Which team do you hate playing the most this season? No one in particular has really stood out to me or rubbed me the wrong way yet, but now that the season is starting to take shape and teams are finding their place in the standings I think some teams might find themselves on my shit-list.

As Helsinki and Davos took the ice after the 2nd intermission the scoreboard was reading 2-1 in favor of the Dynamo. You could see a fire burning inside the Titans as the 1st line took the ice for the start of the period. The players must've been listening to the coaches in the locker room because only 1:23 into the period Slade retrieved a loose puck and found Dan Montgomery, who skated it into the Davos zone and launched a rocket for the equalizer, 2-2! This rubbed the Dynamo the wrong way and Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen grabbed a blocked shot off of Kronos Bailey and found the upper corner over Peppers blocker for the go-ahead-goal, 3-2 Davos in the driver's seat again! For the next 13 minutes Davos did an impeccable job of keeping the Titan's at bay and away from Finn's crease. In one last move of desperation Helsinki pulled Pepper's with 2 minutes remaining. At this instance Davos sensed blood in the water and it was on. In the next 20 seconds Davos would record 3 hits on Helsinki players, each time causing them to lose possession. With 1:10 left in the period Bert Meyers retrieved a loose puck after Dan Montgomery was hit by Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen in the Davos zone. Meyers pulled the puck backhand as he skated through the middle of the Davos zone and slide the game-tying-goal just past Finn's skate to tie things at 3 a piece. Peppers returned to net and the stadium and players could sense the impending overtime period that was about to ensue. Fast-forward :25 seconds to Bert Meyers' next shift, with :41 left in regulation, he wins a Davos zone face off back to Dan Montgomery. From the point Dan survey's the ice and sees Bert open off the draw and slides one right into Meyers' wheelhouse for a one-time chance! GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL! Meyers goes right under the glove of Davison for the game-winning-goal and his second goal in :30 seconds to steal this one right from under the nose of the Davos Dynamo and an onslaught and flurry of obscenities polluted the air on both the Davos bench and their home stadium.

This is awesome, nice job!

I created this graphic a few days ago to claim the week of 5/13 - 5/19, can I submit this one? It was created 1-2 days ago? @Motzaburger

On 5/7/2019 at 11:43 PM, Bushito said:

1. @wcats

2. @Renomitsu

3. @Sullvino

4. @Romaris

5. @Phil

6. @RunnerBert11

 
The list after the randomizer is done, it is a snake draft so it'll be starting with @wcats 12-hour time limits per pick, move on after that, don't wait for me or anyone else. If someone has missed 2 picks in a row they will be disqualified and I will finish drafting their team.

 

@wcats

F -  Matt Thompson
F - Edwin Preencarnacion  
F - 

D - Robert Malenko

D - 
G -  

 

@Renomitsu

F -   Podrick Cast
F - 
F - 

D -  Maxim Kovalchuk

D - 
G -   Kallis Kriketers

 

@Sullvino

F -   Oyorra Arroya
F -   Jake Davis
F - 

D -  Ryan Kastelic

D - 
G -  

 

@Romaris

F -  Veran Dragomir  
F -  Sebastian Ironside
F - 

D - 

D - 
G -   Roger Sterling

 

@Phil

F -   Julian Borwinn
F - 
F - 

D -   Samuel Gate

D - 
G -   Alexander Pepper

 

 

@RunnerBert11

F -  Rylan Peace
F -  Beau Louth
F -  Dan Wilinski

D -  Joseph McWolf

D - 
G -  

@Bushito updated it here for you if you want to copy and paste to update on the top of the thread

Joseph McWolf - D

Dan Wilinski - RW

Return to sender, @Phil!

Seattle 4-2

50 Moscow Menace @ New York Americans

51 Seattle Bears @ Malmo Nighthawks

52 Moscow Menace @ Helsinki Titans

53 Vancouver Wolves @ Seattle Bears

Bert Meyers starting to find his groove and make some noise up there with the big boys!! 2G 1A and 4 shots blocked, good enough for a 2nd star and my first big night in the VHL!

13 hours ago, K1NG LINUS said:

I see Shackleford has decided to start the season by attempting to murder everyone on the ice with 13 PIMs

It's the stache! It cannot be contained and is coming out in the form of punishing play and PIMs!

Rylan Peace

Beau Louth

Right back at ya @Phil!

1 minute ago, Motzaburger said:

 f*** me wow it's perfect

 

That reply is nearly as perfect as the gif sig! Both top notch!

....it's a baby ya shee! (puff puff)

1. You're coming off a huge victory over Halifax, who was favored mid-season for the cup. Does this change your expectations for the VHL? I wouldn't say so. I had quite a bit of confidence in MN from early on and knew once we found our groove we'd be hard to stop, it was just lucky we caught fire when we did! I know I may not have a large impact on the team my 1st season or 2, but I expect to keep improving at the rate I am and believe that a work ethic like that will produce championships in due time.

2. How do you feel about the "I'LL BE YOUR ERNIE" signs that appeared after your first playoff series win? Any interesting experiences with those fans? Haha, at first I wasn't sure how I felt about it, but after I kept seeing more and more of them down the playoff stretch the more they grew on me and were a source of energy on the ice for me. I've had a few curious invitation from a few of those fans, but you gotta keep your nose to the grindstone and stay focused.

3. Your agent was picked up pretty quickly for an Assistant GM job. What's your secret? If you cast a bunch of lines you're bound to catch a fish

4. How do you feel about all of the new-blood GMs and teams in VHLM? Any one in particular you're excited for? I love it, the fact that the league is expanding as well as newer active members getting a chance to shine. I'm excited to see what @GustavMattias can do with the Mississauga Hounds in his maiden voyage as GM of a new team, it's an exciting time to be a fan of VHLM hockey!

5. In your opinion, what needs to be done to a) continue recruiting large numbers of new members, and b) retain the ones we've gotten this season? I think the league is doing a good job currently in their efforts to retain newer members and the current field as well. Through things like polls and actively asking for peoples input and opinions keeps the league evolving with the direction of the player base, you'll never make everyone happy, but you're doing a terrific job of keeping the masses happy. As for recruiting I think it goes along with me landing the AGM role, many lines will eventually catch a fish.

6. Let's suppose it's season 70: you've just finished off a contract and are heading into free agency. What's most important in deciding where you'll go? I think a lot of that depends on how these first couple season go, if I find myself on a cup winning team, I certainly would like to find myself at a rebuilding organization and see if I can help jump start the rebirth. If I come close to a cup or maybe get kept outta the playoffs or exit early, I'll probably want to find myself on a contending team so I can have a shot at a Continental/Founder Cup career!

Thanks for the questions @Renomitsu

Yessir! Sign this kid up!

+1 Bert Meyers

Shots fired and guns holstered Take er easy @DollarAndADream

I'll be the first to admit when I responded to this post I was a little perturbed as I actually did put a fair deal of effort into this sig, at the same time I can see where you are coming from as far as the pixelated look and overall quality, as they do look poor. I will also admit that I am very green to photo-editing and I am using GIMP which I recently found out about and downloaded when I joined this league. In that respects I will admit it takes me a fair deal of time to put together some components that may take a skilled photo-editor a few minutes to accomplish. I also see that my guys name is only one single font opposed to the two different fonts with a team name or position sometimes used, but I thought that the theme and idea of the retro throwback kid picture looked better with just a plain "kiddie tag" (lil' bertie) opposed to the full name, team and position. I will say that your graphics are far better quality, but at the same time I don't think that my graphics are lacking time or effort and I believe the amount of layers and effects I attempt to add are suffience and inline with what I am seeing as a norm across the league.

@DollarAndADream On that note I would like to say I am sorry for dragging your graphics into this and I do appreciate the fact that you take your role seriously and actually look into and question some of the time, effort and quality of the PT's that are submitted. I would like to formally apologize for this little exchange and hope we can put this behind us. Being recently drafted into the VHL I hope to stay around the league for quite some time to come, and don't wish to make any enemies or get on the bad side of anyone, especially someone who has the reputation and long standing history within the league like you do. Have a great weekend, sorry again and good luck to you and your team in the upcoming season. Cheer!

I took a player render of Steve Yzerman as a child, cut that out, put it over a smoke like background. I then took the photo that was wildly old of 12 year old Steve and blended the edges with the background so that it looked natural and not like a shitty cutout pasted over a high def background. I also played with the hues and saturation to give it the color effect that you are looking at. I also added the blur/smudge effect not only on the player render outline, but to his jersey as well to keep the entire thing looking consistent. I also thought I did a reasonable job making it look like an older/retro photo of a current player.

Idk took me probably as long as it would've taken me to write a 500 word article, but you be the judge. It wasn't simply a photo taken from Google...

@DollarAndADream I guess I'm failing to see how this is different than most other graphics and even your last two graphic posts of Bails and Davis...which are player renders, cutout over a background with a player name and a few effects and some lighting....

@K1NG LINUS Hope you like 'er!