Jables

Did I scare you? Good. I'm not here to announce I am leaving, don't worry. Rather, closing a chapter in my GM career I always hate to do, saying goodbye to those leaving for various reasons, whether it be to their respective VHL teams or going into the draft next season. In San Diego, we made it a mission to keep our players as happy as we could from start to finish of their careers with us, and the following players we're sadly losing after the playoffs: 
 
Lincoln Tate
Edgar Tannahill*
Phil Marleau
Greg Eagles
Pierre Persson
Rhys Chism
Ryszard Franciszek
Andrej Petrovic
Charles Drumm
Dalton Wilcox
Sean McGee
 
When you look at this list, you think...wow. San Diego is going to be a whole different team next season, and sadly we are. I do have questions if Edgar (Greggreg) will be going up as he's not been all that active sadly and hasn't updated in ages, which could be a good thing for us, but maybe also a bad thing? If he comes back, he's 100% gone. As for the others, in one way or another, whether being called up or going into the draft, we're losing a lot of the guys that were able to make history for us. They've had the absolute pleasure of making history here, and I've had the pleasure of GMing and coaching every single one. They've been nothing but a pleasure to spend time with through this season, and I'm genuinely going to miss having you all on our team. One team, one dream, always a Marlin ❤️ 
 

We were within 5? Well that's a good sign.

Jeez Chism has been on a tear since joining the Marlins

Another great win, New guy Chism lighting up the scoreboard!

Lots of new guys applying ?
 
Of course, I can vouch for the greatness of a few with whom I have had the pleasure of playing or GMing--@Radcow, @cody73, @Jables, @FacebookFighter, or @HulkHogan to name just a few, but the very best of luck to all! Should be interesting to see who's hired, and I'm confident that our fine commissioners will make a good choice.

San Diego has been relatively quiet this season, the odd-time they'll sign a new player to the team, but other than that they've silently been waiting for the right moments to strike and make some big moves this season, and with the deadline looming, they did just that. In total so far, they've made two big trades to hopefully add to the depth of their team and also add to the skill-power, and we're going to break them down: 
 
TO MINNESOTA: 
W - Lexington Lewis
S67 3rd Rounder
S67 8th Rounder
 
TO SAN DIEGO:
C - Balls McZehrl 
 
So with the first deal, they instantly gain a promising C with a lot of upside. His rights are theirs regardless if the player remains active or not so this deal could be huge for them even moving into next season to gain another asset. For now, it improves their third and fourth line respectively as they now have a good C who can win draws and make a name for himself, all while giving up some later picks and an unfortunate inactive piece in the process. 
 
TO PHILADELPHIA: 
C - Scotty BigShotty
S67 2nd Rounder
S67 4th Rounder (Ottawa)
 
TO SAN DIEGO: 
C - Rhys Chism
 
Without speaking too much on the situation, Chism wanted out of Philly, and San Diego wanted him, it made perfect sense to pair these two teams together to make a deal as San Diego was willing to move some pieces to get him. In the end, a heartbreaking move to have to give up BigShotty who their GM is quite fond of, but improving their centers once again adding a capped C is not an easy feat and should give them some leverage moving forward. 

@Jables

Thank you, Blade.

Let’s do the damn thing!!!

Confirming that PHI 5th S68 was part of that deal. @Jables Philadelphia wishes you well as you continue your career, @FerdaJets welcome to the Reaper Party ? hope you are ready to have some fun. 

San Diego also received PHI 5th S68, just not in portal. 
 
I love @FerdaJets a lot, this was not an easy decision for me but at the end of the day, I'm here to win a cup, next year is in shambles for me, so lets do this thing! Welcome @Jables lets make it official boi! 

San Diego receives:
Rhys Chism

Philadelphia receives:
Scotty BigShotty
S67 SDM 2nd
S67 OTT 4th

This trade has been accepted by both parties.

Congrats @DMaximus!

Mississauga receives:
Andreas Sundell

Minnesota receives:
Khalabib Stiopic
S67 MIS 3rd

This trade has been accepted by both parties.

San Diego receives:
BALLS McZehrl

Minnesota receives:
Lexington Lewis
S67 SDM 3rd

This trade has been accepted by both parties.

With the my recent hiring I know I'll need an AGM to help me out in Minnesota. Therefore, welcome @DMaximus to the Minnesota Storm! 
 
With his recent hire as an updater, the interactions I've had with him and him being a man of stats and analytics, I saw a good fit for the position.
 
Welcome @DMaximus and we will let everyone else weather the upcoming Storm!

is it thranduil?

Accepted

Well this is my official offer to you @alex-daigle.
Quote this and say "accepted" and I can send you a contract offer to join the Minnesota Storm!

Congrats, dude! You’re gonna do great!

I would want to vouch for 3 players here - @DMaximus, @TheFlash and @DilIsPickle, I think they would make an excellent GM. All three are great community members and super awesome people to deal with. You really can't go wrong here with these three. I would say that @Jables would be my fourth option, but I need him as my AGM, so, I don't vouch for him, he is horrible.

Born in 1986 in a remote Ontario town Colin Conklin always adored the game of hockey. He started playing street hockey with friends and watching every hockey game he could. He started off as a forward when his dad signed him up, but his skating was never really exceptional, he struggled greatly, Not scoring for most of the year in his first year of Timbit hockey at the age of 7. The following 2 years were difficult for him as he struggled to find his love for the game again, He became bored of hockey and began playing soccer and stopped playing hockey. On a really sunny summer day a few of his friends were playing street hockey and invited him, he joined them but one of his friends, his teams goalie fell and scrapped his knee pretty bad so he went home. Without a goalie his friends decided to go home but Colin said he’d try it out since buddy left his equipment. He loved it. The adrenaline rushes, the shots flying towards him, he loved it all, and that night he told his dad he wanted to play hockey again, but this time in net.
 
They went down to the arena and met with the manager who was a goalie himself and had even played some AHL Games. He gave Colin some older pads and his dad bought him a plain white helmet and promised to paint it for him for his birthday. He got flames and his new teams logo on his and in his first practice on the team, he stopped everything. That minor hockey team did pretty well and Colin cemented himself as the starting goalie and played really good hockey, keeping his team in games.
 
CHL
He played a year of midget in the Toronto minor Hockey System and ten was subsequently drafted by the Calgary Hitmen of the WHL. He didn’t play his first season in the WHL, he spent another year in the minors, Improving his game and won the championship and was named MVP Goaltender for the tournament. The following season, with both goalies being overagers, Colin was brought in as the 1B Goalie but quickly took the starting reigns and ran with it. Putting up a .932 Save percentage and 1.96 goals against average. 
 
The hitmen were eliminated in the First round that year, but the following year, Colon continued to dominate the scene, putting up a .946 Save percentage and a 1.87 GAA. The hitmen went on to win a championship, And Make the memorial cup where they were swept and Colin allowed 15 goals in 4 games. Colin was passed over in the draft and Played the next season with a .942 And 1.99, and his season finished in the second round. 
 
 
 
Being too old for the CHL Colin went on to play university hockey, he played 2 Seasons with studying business the the Calgary University. In those 2 seasons his addiction the game game slipped as he focused on his future, he stilled watched the game, but he found it began harder to find time to play and practice. After graduating he signed a 1 year contract with a ECHL team, played 44 games with a 32-9-3 Record before a leg break ruined his season, Even after s tremendous season his contract wasn’t renewed and Colin’s career looked to be over as he went into the real estate Buissness.
 
 
Professional 
He played in semi pro leagues on the side as well as beer league teams, always being one of the best goalies, his senses and quik hands never truly leaving him. His employer, a real estate company began doing a fundraiser to raise money for charity, a hockey game with former Professional players, Being a former WHL Player Colin was chosen as one of the representatives of the company to play in the game, which would take place in Houston. He trained for weeks, hoping to impress his boss and get lots of money for the event, Then he flew down and took part in the charity tournament. He played extremely well, Winning all 4 of his games, 3 on a shutout. The Assistant GM Of the Houston Bulls @Jables Was watching the tournament and decide to meet with Colin, being so impress he offers him a job as a Emergency backup to Nicklaus becker. He graciously accepted, quit his job, signed a contact and prepared for his Opportunity. 
 
 
Before his first game as Backup, Becker Claimed he felt sick, and that’s when Colin was called upon to start. His first game didn’t go as planned as he was pulled after being lit up by The Marlins. The following game he improved and since then he has shown slow improvements and become the team bonified starter. Despite Being 33 year olds, Colin has shown that some things just get better with age.
(Colin makes a save for the bulls)

S66 vs. S65 Draft Comparison 
 
#2 The Meat 
 
The VHLM Season 66 Dispersal Draft took place weeks ago, and is now at the edge of the league’s collective memory. However, there are still many comparisons still left to be made, so today we continue the S66 vs. S65 VHLM draft class comparisons with the meat of this draft sandwich.  
 
 
 
57 LW Chett Bandy  HFX | G Sean Dennis  YUK 
Beginning this list is one of the active vs inactive match ups that were so common in the later selections. While Sean Dennis remained inactive since creation, he did play a single regular season game for the Yukon Rush in Season 65, in which he stopped 27 of the 31 shots against him, ending up with a 0.871 SV% and a perfect 4.00 GAA. Chett Bandy, on the other hand, has been very active since being drafted, and is putting up impressive numbers through the first third of the season, making Bandy the definite winner in this comparison.  
56 RW Callum MacElroy  HOU | C Scotty BigShotty  SDM 
MacElroy vs BigShotty is one of the more even comparisons on the list. Both were chosen with the 56th pick of the draft, and both have been very consistent welfare collectors throughout their respective careers. However, MacElroy has proven himself to be reliable over a longer career, and also managed to produce a whopping 56 points in his debut season, while BigShotty has only gotten 2 points through the first third of the season. Scotty will have quite a bit of work to do to prove he is on the same level as MacElroy.  
55 RW Michael McConway   PHI | C Eeli Harju  MCK 
This is another even match up, but unfortunately not for positive reasons. Both players updated only a few times in their careers, but McConway had an incredibly disappointing season leading up to being drafted, while Harju put up an impressive 45 points in his first season prior to being drafted. While Harju has almost doubled McConway in TPE, they are both sitting at 0 points thus far in Season 66, making them equally bad picks.  
54 LW Magnus Pederson  LVA | RW Flash Lightning  MIN 
Flash Lightning is a very solid winner in this one, remaining a consistent welfare recipient and practice facility attendee. Pederson started out with promise in immediately doing a rookie profile and graphic in his first week, but ended up nowhere near as valuable of a pick as Lightning. While Pederson did manage to score 3 goals in the 20 games he played in Season 65, Lightning is just a goal behind at the time of writing, and with how active he is and the defensive contributions he has made for the Storm, he is head and shoulders above Pederson as a hockey player.  
53 C Josh Wilson  HFX  | G Thorvald Gunnarsson  HFX 
Comparing skaters to goaltenders can sometimes be difficult to do, but not in this case. Both players were selected by Halifax with the 53rd overall pick of their respective drafts, but where the inactive Wilson was released just 8 games into his disappointing season with Halifax, Gunnarsson has been having remarkable success as one half of the current goalie tandem for the 21st. While he would probably like to improve his SV% and GAA, he has won 8 out of 10 games at the time of writing, and has created what is becoming a massive goalie controversy in Halifax with Gunnarsson’s surprisingly good play thus far in the season.  
52 G Pekka Pouta  OTT  | LW Koda Adok  HOU 
Many will recognize Pouta as one of the established better goaltenders in the league, and at the time of writing, he is leading the VHLM in GAA, Shutouts, and almost at the top of SV%. While his first few seasons were a bit more rough, that is to be expected from young goaltenders in this league. Pouta has definitely cemented himself as one of the best goalies in the minors, and one of the best 7th round picks ever. Adok is a newer player, but in their short time they have been very active collecting welfare every week, and most recently doing a media spot as well. Adok has a lot of potential, and has been putting up impressive numbers to boot, with 13 points in 19 games played. Only time will tell if Adok can become as great of a player as Pouta already is.  
51 D Robert Burns  LVA  | RW Sami Van Den Dreissche  YUK 
Another comparison between inactives, but Burns is slightly more inactive than Van Den Dreissche. Burns fizzled out shortly into his career, updating only on two non-concurrent weeks and then disappearing forever, whereas SVVD was an active member up until becoming a World Junior Cup GM, at which point he suddenly became inactive. SVVD put up decent numbers last season, and is continuing to help out his team this season as well, making him the better choice among the two.  
50 RW Dick Rash  HFX  | LW Antonio Gonzalez  LVA 
Once again we have two inactives to compare, but there is no contest here. Gonzalez has no record of any updates at all, but has been producing modest numbers for a player with such low TPE. Dick Rash was very active in updating for a few months, but then stopped for essentially all of Season 65. On the surface, it appears that Dick Rash would be the better pick, but both players are surprisingly tied for points in Season 66, making it a very narrow win for Dick Rash.  
49 G Clayton Park  YUK  | LW Tormund Giantsbane  SSK 
Back to another tough match up, we have Clayton Park, currently a starting goaltender in the VHL, and an absolute superstar in Season 65 for Yukon. Park is the player that makes Pouta one of, and not the best 7th round pick ever, which is definitely a title reserved for Park. While Clayton Park has struggled a bit after being called up to the VHL, he still proved himself as a fantastic pick at 49th overall. Tormund Giantsbane is no slouch either, though. He is a welfare collecting player, but gets a whole 6 TPE each week from it do to his veterancy and affiliation with other leagues. He is also rumored to have an interest in an extended minor league stint with Saskatoon, the team that drafted him this season. While both players are steals this late in the draft, Park would have to be the decisively better player for the 49th pick of both drafts. However, depending on the length of Giantsbane’s time with Saskatoon, he may manage the monumental task of overtaking Park in the future.  
48 D Joseph Gagnier  HOU  | D Cody Parkey  OTT 
Gagnier vs Parkey is incredibly lop-sided, with Gagnier remaining active since joining the league, and Parkey being a fairly consistent TPE-earner up until just recently when he seems to have missed a week. Even if Parkey remains inactive forever, he is an infinitely better draft choice than Gagnier. If he returns, which is certainly quite possible given he has only missed a week, he will only further cement what a good choice he was with this pick.  
 

 
47 D Charlie Paddywagon  PHI  | D MORPHEUS DESTRUCTIOUS  LVA 
What may be the best matchup of the middle of the draft, we have two great defenders that have both spent time in Philadelphia and Las Vegas during their VHLM careers. Paddywagon put up phenomenal numbers offensively last season despite being on a tanking Philadelphia for part of the season, and continued to excel after being traded to Vegas. DESTRUCTIOUS has focused more on the defensive aspects of his game so far in Season 66, and while he is unlikely to match Paddywagon’s offensive production, he is still good for other reasons. Paddywagon ended up being one of the best defensemen of his draft class, remaining one of the best two-way defensemen in the league. It will be difficult for DESTRUCTIOUS to match Paddywagon offensively this season, so at the moment the comparison will have to lean towards Paddywagon being the better pick for now. However, if DESTRUCTIOUS is able to pick up the pace offensively and maintain his defensive side consistently, he definitely has a shot of matching Paddywagon.  
46 LW Michael Rasmussen  LVA  | RW Doug Forsyth  OTT 
In this comparison we have another interesting match up. Michael Rasmussen started off active in the week leading up to the draft, making him not a very bad choice at the time, and the same was true of Forsyth, although he was gaining slightly less TPE. However, Rasmussen went inactive within a few weeks, stopping at only 51 TPE. Forsyth was making small updates consistently, up until off-ice events that we will not get into here led to his permanent removal from the league. Rasmussen has been rumored to have become active again, and because he has not done anything to warrant a permanent ban, the match up will have to go his way, even more so if he does return and become active again.  
45 C Nacho  HFX  | LW David Clarkson  SDM 
The one-named Nacho has been a very consistent updater, getting quite a bit of TPE each week since he joined. David Clarkson has also been just as consistent of an updater, but has exclusively focused on welfare and practice facility. Nacho contributed to Halifax with 45 points and 96 hits in his draft season and, after staying down an extra season with the 21st, is set to eclipse those numbers this season. Surprisingly, and despite being at about half the TPE, Clarkson actually has more points and hits this season at the time of writing. This could be a fluke, and also impacted by team lineups, but still an interesting facet of this comparison. Nacho is still the narrow winner in this match up, but Clarkson could definitely change this if he continues to produce on the ice and improves his TPE gathering.  

I’d like to apply as well. PM me with any questions, and I’ll also give you my references. I’m a newer agm, but I’m extremely interested in a gm role for this league. I also have experience as a gm in other sim leagues.