Mike

I might have to reinstall game for this.  I played from launch for over 2 years ran a top 200 US clan.

Original Article Mr. Tate
 
I don't know the man, but Mr. @Tate is right (seen above).  The VHL salary cap is a paltry 45 million a season.  The NHL is sitting at 81.5 million for the 2019-2020 season.  The VHL has been around for 70+ seasons now, and we are paying our players half of the NHL?  I can sum up the VHL elite in one simple word, GREED.
Far too long have the fat cats at the top of the league prospered while its players have suffered.  The NFL is currently voting on its new CBA deal.  Where is our VHL union?  I think the time has finally come for us players to come together and say enough is enough.  What about the former players, our pension plan? 
Recently requirements were increased (400 TPE - 700 TPE) so that only better, more established players benefited.  What happens to a rookie with a career-ending injury, does he not deserve medical help from the league?  I say the players' band together and go on strike.  Let the scabs who can't even get drafted play a season and see what happens to league revenue.

Original Article Mr. Tate
 
I don't know the man, but Mr. @Tate is right (seen above).  The VHL salary cap is a paltry 45 million a season.  The NHL is sitting at 81.5 million for the 2019-2020 season.  The VHL has been around for 70+ seasons now, and we are paying our players half of the NHL?  I can sum up the VHL elite in one simple word, GREED.
Far too long have the fat cats at the top of the league prospered while its players have suffered.  The NFL is currently voting on its new CBA deal.  Where is our VHL union?  I think the time has finally come for us players to come together and say enough is enough.  What about the former players, our pension plan? 
Recently requirements were increased (400 TPE - 700 TPE) so that only better, more established players benefited.  What happens to a rookie with a career-ending injury, does he not deserve medical help from the league?  I say the players' band together and go on strike.  Let the scabs who can't even get drafted play a season and see what happens to league revenue.

Original Article Mr. Tate
 
I don't know the man, but Mr. @Tate is right (seen above).  The VHL salary cap is a paltry 45 million a season.  The NHL is sitting at 81.5 million for the 2019-2020 season.  The VHL has been around for 70+ seasons now, and we are paying our players half of the NHL?  I can sum up the VHL elite in one simple word, GREED.
Far too long have the fat cats at the top of the league prospered while its players have suffered.  The NFL is currently voting on its new CBA deal.  Where is our VHL union?  I think the time has finally come for us players to come together and say enough is enough.  What about the former players, our pension plan? 
Recently requirements were increased (400 TPE - 700 TPE) so that only better, more established players benefited.  What happens to a rookie with a career-ending injury, does he not deserve medical help from the league?  I say the players' band together and go on strike.  Let the scabs who can't even get drafted play a season and see what happens to league revenue.

The VHLPA was squashed like the vermin they are.

In a reasonably recent conversation or two, someone correctly flagged that my all-time greatest players lists may have a bit of bias or inaccuracies and are also a bit out of date now (even though they were published right before the VHL's dead puck era). I dispute the bias, and I think they were about as good as one man can do with all the information available from the VHL's storied history, but yes – there have been more great players retiring since S63-S64 and my opinions can change. So let's revisit the categories briefly in light of it being near the end of the league's 70th season.
 
Playoff performers
This is the category which would see the most change today. Three players have retired since S64 who all have a strong claim to be the best playoff performers at their position. Norris Stopko's .932 save % and back-to-back Kanou Trophies gives Wingate and Kanou a run for their money, while Mats Johnsson might just take Incognito's crown as the best defenceman to suit up in the postseason. That means goodbye to the two oldies on the list – Schneider and Labatte.
 
Most recently, Matt Thompson put up legendary playoff numbers. McAllister was the first great playoff hitter AND scorer; Thompson in my mind went one better, despite never being crowned playoff MVP. He slots in right between Chershenko and McAllister for me, although where that puts Stopko and Johnsson is hard to tell.
 
@Bushito @Quik @Beketov
 
Defencemen
I don't think there would be any change here, as Johnsson's playoff heroics don't quite push him over the edge with some of the weaker regular season numbers for a Hall of Famer. On reflection, Ay Ay Ron probably drops out of the honourable mentions, but no one new has yet arrived to replace him (but perhaps Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen might?).
 
@Quik @flyersfan1453
 
Goaltenders
I think the one blatant omission I made on the 5 all-time lists was not mentioning Markus King at all. The ninth-winningest goalie ever (eighth at the time as Kriketers has only just overtaken him) deserved better, although I think I can see the logic of including Sandro Clegane at tenth place instead – the younger Clegane had one less season and played for weaker teams, while also having the better playoff record. However, while my honourable mentions were intended to recognise two older goalies who are largely forgotten (Devereux and CAL G), King was clearly eleventh in my mind so should have been included there as well.
 
It might all be moot point now though as Norris Stopko, still active when the list was made, might just slot into tenth place now anyway. He was a bit weaker in the regular season (although still won 3 Shaws), but clearly one of the all-time greats in the playoffs so probably gets the nod as of S70.
 
@Kendrick @Bushito @hedgehog337
 
Two-way forwards
With 4 Scott Boulet Trophies, Thompson definitely enters the conversation here. His stats are eerily similar to McAllister's, at which point it becomes a question of would McAllister still beat out the more conventional top two-way forwards in Smalling and Parechkin if I compiled the list today. Depending on where you stand on this determines where Thompson places in the top 5.
 
@Beketov
 
Forwards
This is only really going to be about Thompson and Cast from the last decade, but this is also a list which I think is most subject to change purely based on the vast array of players available. I think the top 4 is set in stone, and Szatkowski is also still safe in fifth. Cast might miss out completely as he doesn't quite qualify entirely under 'stats' or 'awards', but on further thought he could also knock out either Bunclewirth or Rybak. Thompson goes in for sure and undoubtedly into section 2B (which despite the “B” is in my mind the more impressive column). I think I'd struggle to rank Thompson above Chershenko (although he may very well disagree), but he has every chance to beat out Jenkins for an unofficial 7th/8th spot all time.
 
@Beketov @me 

Get in line EaglesFan is my bitch.

Well it is good to know that somethings never change.  I always loved Victor's spreadsheets I used to make them too.  Not nearly as crazy and specific as him though.

It is time a new generation of VHL snowflakes learn the correct and abrasive ways that is Mike.  There are probably way too many people in the VHL now who don't know that I'm always right and they are just living in my world.  I think this league could use a little drama.

Player Information
Username: Mike
Player Name: DeFenz Mann
Recruited From: Other (Self)
Age: 19
Position: D
Height: 75 in.
Weight: 220 lbs.
Birthplace: France

Player Page
@VHLM GM

It is time a new generation of VHL snowflakes learn the correct and abrasive ways that is Mike.  There are probably way too many people in the VHL now who don't know that I'm always right and they are just living in my world.  I think this league could use a little drama.

Player Information
Username: Mike
Player Name: DeFenz Mann
Recruited From: Other (Self)
Age: 19
Position: D
Height: 75 in.
Weight: 220 lbs.
Birthplace: France

Player Page
@VHLM GM

In a surprise announcement today, the 90+-year-old VHL Hall-of-Famer Mike Szatkowski has resurfaced in the league.  Not for some charity event, to manage some team, or to get back onto the ice.  It has been to announce a new draftee DeFenz Mann.  A 19-year-old defender from France hoping to one day play in the VHL.
 
Szatkowski has gone into coaching youth skaters, hoping to enter the VHL.  Using his vast array of hockey knowledge, connections around the league, and a desktop PC to create a new hockey school.  With the rising cost of tuition in traditional colleges across the world, Szatkowski has gone online.  In the first school of its kind: "The Mike Szatkowski Center for Kids Who Can't Play Hockey Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too."
 
As more and more youths around this world are getting their degrees online, it is only a matter of time.  Soon all professional sports leagues will be pulling talent from online schools such as Phoenix University online.  Szatkowski is hoping to prove this business model with his first and only student Mann.  More to come on how this even works.  An online school where Szatkowski and Mann had never yet met face to face.

In a surprise announcement today, the 90+-year-old VHL Hall-of-Famer Mike Szatkowski has resurfaced in the league.  Not for some charity event, to manage some team, or to get back onto the ice.  It has been to announce a new draftee DeFenz Mann.  A 19-year-old defender from France hoping to one day play in the VHL.
 
Szatkowski has gone into coaching youth skaters, hoping to enter the VHL.  Using his vast array of hockey knowledge, connections around the league, and a desktop PC to create a new hockey school.  With the rising cost of tuition in traditional colleges across the world, Szatkowski has gone online.  In the first school of its kind: "The Mike Szatkowski Center for Kids Who Can't Play Hockey Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too."
 
As more and more youths around this world are getting their degrees online, it is only a matter of time.  Soon all professional sports leagues will be pulling talent from online schools such as Phoenix University online.  Szatkowski is hoping to prove this business model with his first and only student Mann.  More to come on how this even works.  An online school where Szatkowski and Mann had never yet met face to face.

In a surprise announcement today, the 90+-year-old VHL Hall-of-Famer Mike Szatkowski has resurfaced in the league.  Not for some charity event, to manage some team, or to get back onto the ice.  It has been to announce a new draftee DeFenz Mann.  A 19-year-old defender from France hoping to one day play in the VHL.
 
Szatkowski has gone into coaching youth skaters, hoping to enter the VHL.  Using his vast array of hockey knowledge, connections around the league, and a desktop PC to create a new hockey school.  With the rising cost of tuition in traditional colleges across the world, Szatkowski has gone online.  In the first school of its kind: "The Mike Szatkowski Center for Kids Who Can't Play Hockey Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too."
 
As more and more youths around this world are getting their degrees online, it is only a matter of time.  Soon all professional sports leagues will be pulling talent from online schools such as Phoenix University online.  Szatkowski is hoping to prove this business model with his first and only student Mann.  More to come on how this even works.  An online school where Szatkowski and Mann had never yet met face to face.

In a surprise announcement today, the 90+-year-old VHL Hall-of-Famer Mike Szatkowski has resurfaced in the league.  Not for some charity event, to manage some team, or to get back onto the ice.  It has been to announce a new draftee DeFenz Mann.  A 19-year-old defender from France hoping to one day play in the VHL.
 
Szatkowski has gone into coaching youth skaters, hoping to enter the VHL.  Using his vast array of hockey knowledge, connections around the league, and a desktop PC to create a new hockey school.  With the rising cost of tuition in traditional colleges across the world, Szatkowski has gone online.  In the first school of its kind: "The Mike Szatkowski Center for Kids Who Can't Play Hockey Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too."
 
As more and more youths around this world are getting their degrees online, it is only a matter of time.  Soon all professional sports leagues will be pulling talent from online schools such as Phoenix University online.  Szatkowski is hoping to prove this business model with his first and only student Mann.  More to come on how this even works.  An online school where Szatkowski and Mann had never yet met face to face.

Player Information
Username: Mike
Player Name: DeFenz Mann
Recruited From: Other (Self)
Age: 19
Position: D
Height: 75 in.
Weight: 220 lbs.
Birthplace: France

Player Page
@VHLM GM

I got an e-mail to join the VHL how I do dis?

My day 7 memory is having the points trophy named after my first player.  I worked really hard in those early days glad it paid off 57 seasons later still near the top.

Won't stop can't stop

Day 5 memories calling everyone Scott Anderson who was new.

I hadn't even thought about trying to GM again but if there is literally no1 to take the job I would.  Wouldn't care if Devise did all the work either won't be in the VHL for a while anyway.

It has been a fast few days for Mike Szatkowski III.  He suprisingly declared for the Season 57 VHL Draft, signed with the Las Vegas Aces, and has already played in three games.  Those within the family knew this was always the path but as the deadline approached many started to wonder. 
 
"I always planned to follow in the footsteps of my father and grandfather in the VHL.  I didn't want the circus following me or for my legacy to carry me.  I know the name will only take me so far and at the end of the day the results need to be there on the ice.  Do I have a potential leg up over the competition?  Yes.  Probably.  That doesn't mean they don't want it as bad as me in fact they will probably hate me for my past and I'll have to work twice as hard to earn their respect." 

If this is still open i'd actually like to throw my name into the ring.  I have a proven VHL track record dating back to the beginning.  I've held nearly every VHL job over the years.  Not familiar with Indesign but have decent amount of exp with photoshop, illustrator, gimp, and others.  Just did some googling there are some other programs I could use for this as well once I learn them.

I'd like to apply if given the opportunity I promise to do everything in my power to destroy the NYA franchise that I hate so much.
 
That is all