Patpou22

Yeah! 1st VHL goal for Edward

Yeah! 1st VHL goal for Edward

Happy Birthday VHL!
Now Lets get some ladies in this league (Even if it's just in bot form!)

Boys are in Blue and Girls are in Red lets get this list going :

Philadelphia Reapers: @Jubo07 (because I can't tag myself )

RW-Talia Al’Ghoul

C-Typhon King (named for the Greek mythological father of monsters)

D-Jack the Reaper

LW-Maddie Hatter

D-Mercy Killer

D-Hannah Belle Lecter

G-Ima Keeper

Las Vegas Aces: @Matt_O

G-Goldie Glove

RW-Mercedez Bends

Helsinki Titans : @Quik

LW-Hyperion Zalapski (named after a Titan)

Rhea Sunshine (Also named after a Titan)

Calgary Wranglers: @Bushito
LW-Malice Walker

D-Rita Ruffhim

RW-Ravina Lovejoy

C-Bronnie Bombardir

RW-Mya Valentine

G- Diana Saurus Rex (she is a beast)
Other Names I like:

RW- Misa Da’Meaner

D-Kandii Crush (imagine the I’s dotted with hearts lol)

C-Annie Mall

LW-Suzy Sidal

C-Coco Caine @Nykonax Sounds like a match for Mexico

RW-Kami Kazi

LW-Lucy Skywalker

C-Pepper Spray

D-Katniss Evermean

LW-Arya Snark @Banackock I Know you like game of thrones lol

D-Luna Shovegood

Ari Hell @Beketov thought you might like this twist on a Disney name based on your suggestion

D-Bella De Brawl

D-Dee Railya

D-Kitty Killmore

RW- Sidney Slaughter

LW-Rose Hypnol

C-Lucy Purr

LW-Buster Hymen

old/unclaimed work.... he's still on HEL tho so there's that. 

Editorial Comment
Happy Birthday, VHL!
 
ECN's journey and my journey, in particular, started here actually not that long ago, in February of 2019. It has been truly a wild time as not only ECN but my own time has proven to be well spent and brought some truly fun moments into my life. Starting out in VHLM is tough at first but with good guidance, the hardships are overstepped and a wonderful view of excitement and opportunities awaits everyone who is willing to put in hard work. That is how I believe I was put in the position at first to be Co-commissioner of World Championship Juniors and moved later on to have a chance at being a GM of Houston Bulls. It has truly been a great work of everyone around VHL, from people I deal with daily - GM's of VHLM teams and VHLM Commissioners to everyone that is responsible for running VHL and Portal. This just brings me to the point to say that VHL has made my every day more exciting and interesting, has made think out of the box more often than I would usually do. Thanks, VHL, thanks to everyone who is making it possible for many people all around and I truly hope you will have many more years of running so that when the 24th Birthday hits I can still be here! 
 
FrostBeard, GM of Houston Bulls and Chief Editor of ECN

Skaters:
A Skater Bot, See You Later Bot
Bobcat Jones (Ottawa Lynx)
 
Goalie:
Ken M
 
For what it's worth from someone who just joined, this seems like an awesome place, and I hope I'll be here for a few more birthdays to come 

Happy Birthday VHL! 
 

 
For any of you who are unaware, today, Thursday July 18th, 2019 marks the 12th anniversary of the VHL opening its doors, all the way back on the original Invisionfree forum that many sim leagues used back in the day. A lot has happened over the years, as nearly 100 of you described last year. 
 
With our birthday comes the annual tradition of gifts for all the league’s members, in exchange for a small amount of work, of course. This year, we are asking all of you to come up with at least three creative player names* to be used in replacing the bots in the sim, including at least two skaters and one goalie. If you'd like, you can specify which league and/or team the name would go on. As a reward, you will receive 12 Uncapped TPE, as well as a Doubles Week to be used with a Point Task submission in the next month**. The ones we like the best will be used to replace the generic "TEAM C1" names currently in the sims.


 
*Please remember that the league does not condone the use of slurs or foul language in the naming of its players.
**Uncapped TPE and Doubles Week must both be claimed by the week ending August 18th 

What a defensive performance. GG @Greg_Di
 
 
@Will
@hedgehog337
 

1st VHL point for Edward! ?

1st VHL point for Edward! ?

Adrienne’s Future
 
Condor Adrienne might be one of the most coveted players in the upcoming VHL draft based on his practice hours, but this is not a guarantee for a high selection as there are doubts on how he will progress in the future. The last players from his agency all declined with the practice ethics the further their careers went, making Adrienne a pick with a high potential, but also a high risk.
Next to that it also seems that Adrienne refuses to commit long term to several franchises, as his agency is eyeing cup wins with the two new VHL franchises, Moscow and Malmo. Nevertheless, he will be a pick that should hold decent value and it would be weird to see him fall outside of the first round, as many expect him to be drafted by one of the lottery picks. To land Condor Adrienne, you would definitely need a 1st round selection, so Toronto and Riga are out of the question right now.
 
This leaves the following eight teams:
New York - NYA 1st
Moscow - MOS 1st
Malmo - MAL 1st
Davos - RIG 1st / DAV 1st
Helsinki - TOR 1st / HSK 1st
Seattle - SEA 1st
Calgary - CGY 1st
Vancouver -VAN 1st
 
After seven games into the season the New York Americans, Seattle Bears, Vancouver Wolves and Moscow Menace are all in a lottery spot and all of them still have their own pick. It will be exciting to see which of the teams would like to take the gamble on Adrienne and which of the teams would go for Lance Flowers, who might sound more like the most reliable pick considering the careers of Wingate and McAllister who were represented by the same agency.
 
 

An invitation for the White House

 
While the Fake News Media had not picked up this story yet for national coverage, we have insider information that the following events actually happened. The Philadelphia Reapers, who had won the Season 66 Founder’s Cup, were invited to the White House by the president of the united states of america, to celebrate their victory.  They were also joined by the next generation of Reapers, as the team is an actual family for eachother, no one is left out. The day started with the president, he who shall not be named, who started of with a speech were he congratulated everyone on their fine achievement in keeping this cup away from Canada. Edward Vigneault was triggered by this remark, saying Canada contributed as much to the victory as the Americans and threw a poutine in his face. No one even knew why he was carrying that, but that was only the start of the visit. 
 

 
After the speech was done the Reapers were invited to a ‘home cooked’ meal by the in house chefs of he who shall not be named: McDonald’s , Kentucky Fried Chicken and New York Pizza. When the personal of the trainers Kyle Sabertooth saw this he immediatly forwarded to the table and yes, you guessed right:
 
Step 1:
 
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
 
 
Step 2:
 
┻━┻︵ \(°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻
 
 
Indeed, all the tables had to be flipped with all the 'food' (as much as you can call it food in Sabertooths eyes) was thrown away all over the ground. "You are not feeding my athletes this kind of crap you monster" he shouted. Yes, quite the start of the evening... Hiding in a corner while this all happened was Mrs Maiden, the Philadelphia General Manager, who only just now realised that she brought even more insane people to the White House (next to those already living there) and this could only end badly.
 

To get everyone away from the mess 'he who shall not be named' asked everyone to calm down. There was a party in the main hall with his personal playlist. There would also be drinks and snacks (nothing healthy, but Sabertooth was already removed from the party to be locked up in the local police station) so everyone could have a great time, the best time in the world, a great time like no one else had before.
 
 
The first song started playing and Zappa was sounding over the speakers. Well this shouldn't be too bad everyone thought, I really expected worse from him. Shamefully not everyone agreed. Icelandic player Sigard Gunnar started to make a fit about this and in a horrible icelandic accent he started screaming that we are not ballgame players, but that we play with pucks and sticks, almost tossing over the music installation, while security had to hold him back, he lifted his finger far enough to hit the next button, which soon enough he would regret, when a song of a young czech kid singing about Pokemon Go started. You saw the blood of Gunnar boiling up, it wouldn't take much or he would explode. Luckily the song didn't last long, but just as he started to calm down he heard the following lyrics sang over the speakers:
 
 
 
No, noo, nooo, nooooooooooooo!!!!!!  NOT FRIDAY, NOT FRIDAY!!!!!! Sigard shouted. I CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE.  Sigard ran straight to the glass door escaping the party who so far played only played songs he really disliked.
 

 
 
With the glass shattering, the music also stopped playing. He who shall not be named started to shout 'who put this on my playlist? I only had great songs on it, the best songs in the world!' People were looking at him like he was crazy. Vigneault shouted to him in his frenglish accent YOU ADDED IT, IT HAS YOUR NAME ON THE SPOTIFY LIST.  And then it happened, a 15-second intro started followed by a bass drop,15 seconds with the bass and a lion roar at the end of the first 30 seconds. Yes.... it was the Harlem Shake. Vigneault also started to get angrier and angrier. WE WERE PROMISED GOOD MUSIC!  'Ok ok' he who shall not be named said, lets try this then. This is really one of my favourites.  And while he said it, we were hearing 'a little bit of monica in my life, a little bit of erica by my side...'  now Condor Adrienne also started to look angry... 'God I hate this song' he whisper in Vigneaults ear. We need to get find a way to end this night, or we will be scarred for life by this.  When the next song started to play 'DES-PA-CITO" Vigneault couldnt do anything but agree to Adrienne. Okay, you have a plan for this? Because I cant take this much longer. 
 
 
Wait guys wait.... If you dont like this one, maybe you will enjoy this artist I brought in for you, it is the best artist in the world, he is so good, you have not seen such a good artist in your life! Suddenly the spotlights went to the eastern side of the room where a small podium was build. A ukulele started to play a few chords. Vigneault heard the first tones and was like 'oh fuck'. It was indeed Livin'in the sunlight, lovin' in the moonlight, another song he hates with passion.  He stormed forward, grabbed the ukulele off the cover artist (because  let's be honest, he who shall not be named would not hire an a-artist for this) and started smashing his face in. It partly worked as the song did stop as the artist, but the side effects of broken bones and bleeding teeth, was not something the security liked to see as they grabbed Vigneault with four off them and put him back on the first plane to Moscow.
 

 
So before Adrienne and Vigneault even made any plans, Vigneault was gone and the party continued. Tu du du du du - tu du du du du du, he who shall not be named had started his spotify list again. Man, this song even was known in our part of the galaxy Adrienne mumbled, one time tu du du du du, two times tu du du du ,  and i fucking hate this. With that french canadian bastard gone I need to find more help, there must be someone able to end this party once and for all. He looked to his right side and he saw Kevin Low nodding, he knew exactly what Adrienne was thinking. The two of them ran suddenly towards their assistant general manager Julian Borwinn, Adrienne grabbed his legs, Low grabbed his arms and they started swinging. One.... two.... three....   and Adrienne already let go of his legs as they hit the ground on which Kevin goes four... five..... Adrienne shaken his head in disbelief, we always let go at three. Luckily Borwinn didnt land on his head before it would have been the end of a career, but their plan to toss the assistent gm towards the music system horribly failed with result that the next song started playing 'I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa' and just as we seen before with Gunnar and Vigneault, something just snapped with Adrienne. His 6'8 frame and 240 lbs stormed himself towards the sound system to make sure this was the day the music died. 
 

 
The music indeed stopped as the sound installation fell into pieces, his teammates were cheering as the party finally would be coming to an end, no more horrible music, no horrible food and finally rid of he who shall not be named. Let's all go home guys Brandon Leblanc said, I've had enough of this shit, let's get back to training for the next season. The team all left and took the plane back home and continue their workouts. On the plane Dylan Doyle had a surprise for the team, as he was the only one who stayed behind in the dining hall, he had gathered up all the Big Mac's he could find and started to passing them along, they might be cold, but food like this never loses its taste, it's almost like it's chemical! With Sabertooth still in prison, the team finally could enjoy their meal.
The next day after the Reapers had a practice session, Fox News was playing on the background and 'he who shall not be named' was discussing another of his worthless plans. "Thanks for coming out everyone, this will be a great speech, this will be the best speech ever" he said.  After recent events I have decided that Mexico is no longer a threat, we will not build a wall at the border, they wouldn't pay for it anyway. We now have decided we will build a wall around Philadelphia.  You noticed the crowd being confused, they really wondered what he smoked this time as it didn't make sense. Philadelphia is a threat to the nation, Philadelphia attacked the White House yesterday. One by one you saw the crowd moving away and you could hear them whispering. This time he has really lost it.... 
 

 
 
Words: 1564 - For three future media spot claims

Didn't know, will do it next time, sorry!

1. Who would you ask to help you if your muscles froze up after a workout and you couldn't move?
Call the medics from the team, as simple as that
2. Name something you gave a nickname to that is work-related, what nickname did you give it?
My stick is called Frostbeard, cuz he's a stong independant stick
3. What’s the most beautiful place you’ve ever been as part of your hockey career?
When I first visited Moscow when I got drafted by them, a beautiful place.
6. Who is the Philly GOAT (Greatest of all Time?)
Frostbeard of course, ez
8. What is one thing you refuse to share?
Frostbeard, my stick!
9.  If you could make a rule for the Reapers and everyone had to follow it, what would it be?
Post a least one thing in the LR each day
 

1. How do you think the reapers are doing this season?
We are rocking it, as expected with such a stacked team
3. The reapers are having a bake sale for charity, what are you baking?
I will bake some cookies made with a fruit from northern quebec called chicoutai.
4. What is the one think that could make our LR better?
Obviously a french channel...
6. Your one piece of advice for a new member.
Don't be afraid to talk in the LR, we all love new people! Don't be afraid about Frostbeard, he's a kind guy.
8. What is the once piece of equipment that would affect your game the most if you were forced to change it?
My stick, it is perfect, just the right flex and the right curve, long enough to have a good reach, I can't change that. It is too important.
10. YOur personal best and goals for the future.
Would love to make a big impact positively in the Moscow Menace roster!
12. Pic a fictional character that would represent your players personality in on the ice 
Bonus one, I would pick the lobster in sponge bob.
 

Didn’t we just sweep the two matchups last night?

Team Canada Official Roster

Well shit, I can't find where I had my speech prepared previously. 
Screw it.
Welcome to team Canada guys! Lets go get some metal!
 
Forwards
Anthony Matthews @Anthony Matthews
Connor McDavid @Rocketman04
Edgar Tannahill  @gregreg
Tyler Barabash Jr  @Bushito
Don Draper  @Infernal
Blake Laughton  @Grape
Jordan Tonn  @MexicanCow123
Cody Smith  @cody73
Blake Gaudette  @Gaudette
 
 
Defenceman:
Mitch Matthews  @Antone10
Edward Vigneault  @Patpou22
Sven Hitz (JaysFan26)
Rhye Tyr  @Plate

Goalies:
Rayz Funk @Rayzor_7
Chase (Klein)
 
Four changes were made to the roster, two cuts and two additions. Everyone else sorry for the tag again.
Congratulations to all who made it and good luck next year to those who didn't.

The Official Philadelphia Reapers Team Signature Collection
 
-- Defense --
Boomer Kuwanger @Hybrid1486

 
Duncan Jeffers @Tophdaddy

 
Brandon LeBlanc @Psanchez55

 
Kevin Low @Smarch

 
Edward Vigneault @Patpou22

 
Condor Adrienne @Green

 
Boone Jenton @FakeJenton

 
-- Forwards --
 
Scotty BigShotty @FerdaJets

 
Walter Clements @cpetrella

 
Dylan Doyle @zepheter

 
John Frostbeard @FrostBeard

 
Devin Gabella @Gabella19

 
Ben Hafkey @ItsMcLovin

 
Kyle Sabertooth @uphillmoss

 
Bjorn Scoringsonn @11 Eleven

 
Matt Tocco @Matmenzinger

 
Anthony Hawk @ahawk2191

 
-- Goalies --
Kolur Bjoernsonn @jblock3

 
Sunny Burst @Sunburst

 
- - Management - -
 
GM - Blade @BladeMaiden

 
AGM - Jubo

It looks sooo good !!

@Jables

The Philadelphia Reapers have decided to celebrate their 2nd season with some new merchandise  starting with Kevin Low @Smarch and @Patpou22 the top defensive pairing for the reapers team! You can finally bring home your fav Reaper home with you in plush form.  
 

Another point, what a time to be alive.

1st goal for Mikko in the big boy league, lets go 

More so than the rest of you it seems.