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1. The roster now looks much smaller than the previous seasons. Is there player from the FA list that we should try to bring in?
Well I guess now that hindsight is 20/20 I can say that we didn't necessarily need any particular big-name player. But we did need to fill some holes just to improve our depth for this last season.
 
2. Look into the future and how would we do next season?
For S81, I'm imagining Chicago won't be doing too hot. Three of us are retiring after this season, and six more are UFAs in the offseason. That leaves three players left on the roster who are under contract next season. Even if we were to include some prospects coming up, I don't think that's enough to keep performing the way we have been in the past few seasons.
 
3. Should Chicago consider a rebuild this season or next season?
I already went over it a little bit, but I think a rebuild has to be in order. We have our own S82 first, so even if we can't get a top prospect going into next season we should be able to comfortably tank without worrying about benefiting someone else. Mingle and Xin will have some value in the trade market for a contender, even if it'll be their last season. So that could bring in some picks or prospects to jump-start the rebuild. It'd be nice to have a little bit more in terms of moveable assets, I'm sure, but it's better to do it now than put things off I think. 
 
4. Who should plan the farewell party for Camus and Socks at the end of the season?
Well it obviously couldn't be me or fishy. And I don't know if I trust many other people here to plan a party. I'll go with Quik since maybe it'd make him active again. The worst thing that could happen is he falls asleep while the TV is on.
 
5. How has the Chicago journey been so far?
Awesome. I was hoping to end up on an expansion team with this player and things ended up being timed perfectly. It was really fun to be here from the beginning and it's going to be weird to think that there's gonna be a Chicago team without me on it soon.
 
6. Is it finally time for us to draft another goalie?
Yes. Draft two of them, in fact. In all seriousness though I look forward to welcoming another goalie to the Chicago lineage.
 
(hope you enjoyed me bumping this thread from the grave lol)

Don’t look now, but Jean-Pierre Camus is playing his final season in the VHL. Originally drafted by the team in Season 73, Camus has been the team’s starter in between the pipes ever since the beginning of the franchise. He’ll be the first ever player to play his entire career in Chicago. He’ll also be one of the first two players to play eight full seasons for a Season 73 expansion franchise alongside London’s The Terrible Trivium (assuming neither player gets traded before next week’s deadline). On top of that, he’s also on track to become Chicago’s first ever player to play 500 games.
 
So what happens when he retires?
 
The VHL’s eight-season (now nine-season) career limit has created a certain balance to the league, an expectation that you can’t get too used to a player or a roster. But for the players themselves, retirement tends to creep up on you. It’s all fine and good seeing other people end their careers, but then your final season comes out of nowhere and you have no idea how to deal with the idea. That’s been exactly the case for Camus, who says he’s tried to just focus on hockey this season but has had a hard time getting retirement out of his head.
 
“It’s hard to imagine the fact that I won’t be playing for Chicago next season,” he explains. “Ever since I got drafted here, I’ve been focused on the team and how I can become a better player. Now it’s weird, because my playing days are about to end and I’m going to have to watch Phoenix games on TV. I can’t be on the ice anymore. That’s going to be hard to deal with.”
 
While Camus’ performances thus far suggest that he’s all in on this season, there are rumors that he has plans for life after the VHL. Since the recent offseason, reports have been swirling that he has a standing offer to work for the Phoenix in a non-playing capacity once his playing days are over. The most likely destination seems to be as a goaltending coach, as Camus has run seminars for young goaltenders in past offseasons. The organization has declined to comment on the matter, stating “Jean-Pierre Camus is a very important part of our team. It would be unfair to both him, his teammates, and all current Chicago Phoenix employees to publicly speculate about his future.”
 
Sources within the team, however, suggest that it’s not quite a done deal. “JP is very interested in maintaining his involvement with the franchise,” says one source with connections to both Camus and Chicago management. “But he doesn’t quite know what he wants to do yet. Thinking about what to do after his career has been difficult for him, and a lot of this season has been about trying to end things on the right note. There’s a good chance that he takes some time off and out of the public eye once this season is over.”
 
“I just want to focus on doing the best I can this season,” Camus says. “The future is too complicated.”

Isn't 52 passing too high for Vancouver?

Don’t look now, but Jean-Pierre Camus is playing his final season in the VHL. Originally drafted by the team in Season 73, Camus has been the team’s starter in between the pipes ever since the beginning of the franchise. He’ll be the first ever player to play his entire career in Chicago. He’ll also be one of the first two players to play eight full seasons for a Season 73 expansion franchise alongside London’s The Terrible Trivium (assuming neither player gets traded before next week’s deadline). On top of that, he’s also on track to become Chicago’s first ever player to play 500 games.
 
So what happens when he retires?
 
The VHL’s eight-season (now nine-season) career limit has created a certain balance to the league, an expectation that you can’t get too used to a player or a roster. But for the players themselves, retirement tends to creep up on you. It’s all fine and good seeing other people end their careers, but then your final season comes out of nowhere and you have no idea how to deal with the idea. That’s been exactly the case for Camus, who says he’s tried to just focus on hockey this season but has had a hard time getting retirement out of his head.
 
“It’s hard to imagine the fact that I won’t be playing for Chicago next season,” he explains. “Ever since I got drafted here, I’ve been focused on the team and how I can become a better player. Now it’s weird, because my playing days are about to end and I’m going to have to watch Phoenix games on TV. I can’t be on the ice anymore. That’s going to be hard to deal with.”
 
While Camus’ performances thus far suggest that he’s all in on this season, there are rumors that he has plans for life after the VHL. Since the recent offseason, reports have been swirling that he has a standing offer to work for the Phoenix in a non-playing capacity once his playing days are over. The most likely destination seems to be as a goaltending coach, as Camus has run seminars for young goaltenders in past offseasons. The organization has declined to comment on the matter, stating “Jean-Pierre Camus is a very important part of our team. It would be unfair to both him, his teammates, and all current Chicago Phoenix employees to publicly speculate about his future.”
 
Sources within the team, however, suggest that it’s not quite a done deal. “JP is very interested in maintaining his involvement with the franchise,” says one source with connections to both Camus and Chicago management. “But he doesn’t quite know what he wants to do yet. Thinking about what to do after his career has been difficult for him, and a lot of this season has been about trying to end things on the right note. There’s a good chance that he takes some time off and out of the public eye once this season is over.”
 
“I just want to focus on doing the best I can this season,” Camus says. “The future is too complicated.”

Don’t look now, but Jean-Pierre Camus is playing his final season in the VHL. Originally drafted by the team in Season 73, Camus has been the team’s starter in between the pipes ever since the beginning of the franchise. He’ll be the first ever player to play his entire career in Chicago. He’ll also be one of the first two players to play eight full seasons for a Season 73 expansion franchise alongside London’s The Terrible Trivium (assuming neither player gets traded before next week’s deadline). On top of that, he’s also on track to become Chicago’s first ever player to play 500 games.
 
So what happens when he retires?
 
The VHL’s eight-season (now nine-season) career limit has created a certain balance to the league, an expectation that you can’t get too used to a player or a roster. But for the players themselves, retirement tends to creep up on you. It’s all fine and good seeing other people end their careers, but then your final season comes out of nowhere and you have no idea how to deal with the idea. That’s been exactly the case for Camus, who says he’s tried to just focus on hockey this season but has had a hard time getting retirement out of his head.
 
“It’s hard to imagine the fact that I won’t be playing for Chicago next season,” he explains. “Ever since I got drafted here, I’ve been focused on the team and how I can become a better player. Now it’s weird, because my playing days are about to end and I’m going to have to watch Phoenix games on TV. I can’t be on the ice anymore. That’s going to be hard to deal with.”
 
While Camus’ performances thus far suggest that he’s all in on this season, there are rumors that he has plans for life after the VHL. Since the recent offseason, reports have been swirling that he has a standing offer to work for the Phoenix in a non-playing capacity once his playing days are over. The most likely destination seems to be as a goaltending coach, as Camus has run seminars for young goaltenders in past offseasons. The organization has declined to comment on the matter, stating “Jean-Pierre Camus is a very important part of our team. It would be unfair to both him, his teammates, and all current Chicago Phoenix employees to publicly speculate about his future.”
 
Sources within the team, however, suggest that it’s not quite a done deal. “JP is very interested in maintaining his involvement with the franchise,” says one source with connections to both Camus and Chicago management. “But he doesn’t quite know what he wants to do yet. Thinking about what to do after his career has been difficult for him, and a lot of this season has been about trying to end things on the right note. There’s a good chance that he takes some time off and out of the public eye once this season is over.”
 
“I just want to focus on doing the best I can this season,” Camus says. “The future is too complicated.”

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absolute studs!

Don’t look now, but Jean-Pierre Camus is playing his final season in the VHL. Originally drafted by the team in Season 73, Camus has been the team’s starter in between the pipes ever since the beginning of the franchise. He’ll be the first ever player to play his entire career in Chicago. He’ll also be one of the first two players to play eight full seasons for a Season 73 expansion franchise alongside London’s The Terrible Trivium (assuming neither player gets traded before next week’s deadline). On top of that, he’s also on track to become Chicago’s first ever player to play 500 games.
 
So what happens when he retires?
 
The VHL’s eight-season (now nine-season) career limit has created a certain balance to the league, an expectation that you can’t get too used to a player or a roster. But for the players themselves, retirement tends to creep up on you. It’s all fine and good seeing other people end their careers, but then your final season comes out of nowhere and you have no idea how to deal with the idea. That’s been exactly the case for Camus, who says he’s tried to just focus on hockey this season but has had a hard time getting retirement out of his head.
 
“It’s hard to imagine the fact that I won’t be playing for Chicago next season,” he explains. “Ever since I got drafted here, I’ve been focused on the team and how I can become a better player. Now it’s weird, because my playing days are about to end and I’m going to have to watch Phoenix games on TV. I can’t be on the ice anymore. That’s going to be hard to deal with.”
 
While Camus’ performances thus far suggest that he’s all in on this season, there are rumors that he has plans for life after the VHL. Since the recent offseason, reports have been swirling that he has a standing offer to work for the Phoenix in a non-playing capacity once his playing days are over. The most likely destination seems to be as a goaltending coach, as Camus has run seminars for young goaltenders in past offseasons. The organization has declined to comment on the matter, stating “Jean-Pierre Camus is a very important part of our team. It would be unfair to both him, his teammates, and all current Chicago Phoenix employees to publicly speculate about his future.”
 
Sources within the team, however, suggest that it’s not quite a done deal. “JP is very interested in maintaining his involvement with the franchise,” says one source with connections to both Camus and Chicago management. “But he doesn’t quite know what he wants to do yet. Thinking about what to do after his career has been difficult for him, and a lot of this season has been about trying to end things on the right note. There’s a good chance that he takes some time off and out of the public eye once this season is over.”
 
“I just want to focus on doing the best I can this season,” Camus says. “The future is too complicated.”

The Vancouver Wolves might just be the best team ever. There, I said it. Vancouver is currently sitting atop the NA conference with an impressive 30-6-2 record, 5 points ahead of the rival Chicago Phoenix, lead by sleepy @JeffD and his ragtag crew of inactives.
 
Vancouver currently leads the league in many stat categories, have 2 of the players involved in the 3-way tie for first in points, Tyler Reinhart sitting 4th in points, Henry Tucker leading the league in goals, R 5th in assists, and R and Robin Galante Nilsson 4th and 6th in points respectively. On the goaltending side of things Markus Emerson Jr is having a career season in his retirement year, leading the league with 30 wins and 2nd in sv% posting an elite 0.929
 
Vancouver's offense has been the driving factor of this success with an insane 187 Goals For just half-way through the season. That's an impressive 4.92 goals per game. It's no surprise why they are on top of the league right now, as it's very hard to win against a team when you need to score 6 goals against them, especially if they are just as good defensively. The Wolves are on pace to score 354 goals, which would smash S79 Malmo's 314 Goals For, a current record going back to at least S20.

that's it, i'm on @solas's side to ban you from our locker room ................ again

My player has been in the VHL for many seasons now and retirement is on the horizon soon. Xin is one of the players that has never been traded and has never experienced playing with another team, being a Chicago player for his entire hockey career. His statistics dating back to second or third season in the VHL, was a little boring and dull. You have to agree except for his fighting history and penalty minutes. Everyone in the Chicago locker room would laugh at the number of fights he has lost. Moreover, he even is a record holder in the unofficial awards for most fights lost in a season! I say that's a pretty good achievement to look back on
 
However, Xin seems to be only getting started with his career. The older he gets, the more into his prime he looks. For every season at the moment, he has only shown improvement in shots, points and even his penalty in minutes. It seems like the depreciation isn't doing much to his performance just like his fellow teammate, Christian Mingle that is still hitting his shots. As GM Jeffrey has mentioned, this is supposedly the last deep playoff run attempt that the team is going for because veterans like Camus and Socks are retiring soon. 
 
This is the last season where the squad will play together on the ice and Xin can be seen to be soaking it all in. 
 
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LEE XIN CHICAGO PHOENIX LEGEND

The Chicago Phoenix, ever since losing the first four games of the season, have decided they have something to prove and have been among the hottest teams in the league. Since starting the season 0-4-0 the Phoenix have managed to go 27-2-3 and are second in the North American conference as well as second in the entirety of the VHL. How are they doing this you ask? Is it a dominant defense? High scoring offense? Stout goaltending?
 
It is actually all of the above. They are currently second in the league in goals for with 155. They are first in goals against with only 91 which is a crazy number because no other team has fewer than 103 on the season. They are currently being led on the score sheet by the duo of Lee Xin and Julian Nousiainen and on the back end by veterans Matty Socks and Kasper Kankkunen. In net Chicago career man Jean Pierre Camus is leading the league’s starters in save percentage, goals against average and shutouts.
 
What has this overall team play led to? The Chicago Phoenix are currently on a 15 game winning streak and are closing the gap on the conference leading Vancouver Wolves.

Chicago on a fucking TEAR, you love to see it

Chicago on a fucking TEAR, you love to see it

🔥  🔥

Similar to STZ, it was virtually free TPE anyway. Make PF worth 2 and vhl. Com submissions worth 3,same as the affiliate leagues. Did anyone really crave learning about the VHL on a weekly basis? Besides, the answer was usually "Scotty Campbell". 

sorry about that @McWolf

Let's gooooo!

Vancouver receives:
Jeffrey Pines

Los Angeles receives:
L
S81 VAN 2nd


This trade has been accepted by all parties and is pending league approval.

S80 Chicago Phoenix Team Captains 
 
I completely forgot to post this last week, I guess that goes hand in hand with the whole I'm inactive thing. I am proud to announce the team captains for the current iteration of the Chicago Phoenix! We are trying to make one last run with the long term core of this team, and I think these captains, as voted on by their teammates, fit the roles perfectly.
 
Team Captain: D - Matty Socks @fishy
Alternate Captain: RW - Lee Xin @Blazzer
Alternate Captain: G - Jean PIerre Camus @solas
 
These are three career players for the Chicago Phoenix and are also among the best players of the current generation and I could not be happier to have them representing us!

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