Rayzor_7

I don’t think so, lol. We like to trash talk like everyone else does to us. Some on the team apparently more than others, lol… It’s okay and no one bats an eye when they do it to Seattle but oh boy when Seattle comes out to play. 
 
Every series etc I’ve wished the GM privately/publicly and all the teams well. CGY responded and acted classy  

When the act of trash talking and hating on a team becomes a meme, you know that it has achieved the golden standard of VHL salt. 

Also, if anyone actually wonders - Bears have a great roster and a team that has proved they can win games in clutch situations. We have cup winners, trophy winners, players who have been on top of the league score boards and players who have dedicated themselves to be strong backbone on any team. You might not like it, but Bears are current Continental cup champions - how is that a surprise that defending champions are good at winning games? 

How many brooms did @Banackock buy at dollarama all those years ago? 
Guy likes to sweep 

Good series Bears. The better team won in a best of seven. As for Ricer and Wranglers still got time here and Ricer did a hell of a job re tooling this team. Great season Calgary and best of luck to the Bears on the rest of the way.
 
 
But seriously can this drama stop it’s actually stupid. I lost brain cells just reading that stupid shit. The series was best of 7. Meaning the better team wins.

Ask that to the Habs in there 3 first rounds...

The best team on paper always winning is quite boring and that is not even the case every single time in real life.

Tampa is another case of it's own since they are like 15mil over the cap, but they pull those strings very well

Seattle is the very definition of "chip and a chair" - until they're completely out, they're still likely to win, regardless of the deficit. It's just what STHS does with this particular team in this particular span of seasons.

Nah no conspiracy from me, I'm just at the point where I know STHS will do some pretty dumb stuff for reasons really only known to Simon himself.

Two series in a row in this round Seattle comes back from 0-2. :thinking:
 
Well done, CGY, you pushed Seattle further than a stronger Toronto team could last season.

Why can't we just enjoy a win here? lol. No rigging bs, no sim luck bs, etc. 
 
Had it gone the other way would all these people calling it luck call it differently? 
 
C'mon now... Seattle won. GGez and end it LMAO. 

who do you think is being helped out by the league here?
 
Bana, a guy who lost his BOG and VHLM Commish positions for being at odds with the blues?
Rayz, a guy who lost a BOG spot and VHL expansion GM position for the same reason?
Blade, who literally hates everyone in power?
Greg, who's a troll
Maybe me, who hasn't been in any official role until this season?
 
Or maybe the person who trades Elmebeck nominations with their own GM judges everyone by their own standards?

Trash talking is the best part of VHL Game threads. @gregregyou are a legend. Don't ever change!
 
Also, @Ricer13you and your Calgary squad did truly amazing job and I am honestly scared of what Wranglers can achieve under your leadership...

Props to @Ricer13 for doing exactly what I knew he could and get Calgary competitive quick. I love the roster you guys made over there and hope nobody was too upset over the comments before this because I was only having fun. See you at the top of the standings soon
 
*handshakes whole team*
 
DaaaaBeArzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZzzzZ

I saw the original
 

Congratulations Seattle! 
 
I am extremely proud of this Wranglers squad. They deserved a better fate but STHS has a mind of its own. GG everyone we will be back stronger next season.

I could claim job pay this week. I could get through the week without needing to write this, because I happen to be a GM and I do get paid for doing GM stuff. But…I haven’t checked in until now this week—because, as many of you are aware, I’m busy doing not-at-home things. So, it would be very hard to make the case that I deserve job pay for this week, as I haven’t done any GM stuff. Little people earning it is. 
 
I’d like to take the time to go off on an entirely unqualified Gustav lecture and emphasize the importance of being honest with oneself (because, let’s be honest, I am all out of other ideas). A common “house rule” in golf is to allow everyone one mulligan (do-over) every 9 holes, and it’s something I’ll follow on occasion and be completely fine with. I’m very close with someone who allows himself one mulligan every tee shot. I don’t care because there’s nothing on the line for me and I think everyone should enjoy the game however they want to enjoy it…but one day he’ll go out and play with someone who takes exception to that quite severely. 
 
So where’s the stupid preachy lesson here? Maybe you know someone here who likes to put themselves on an unwarranted moral high ground. Maybe you know someone who thinks they deserve greater recognition then they get. Maybe you know someone who goes beyond just being proud of accomplishments and crosses the line into never shutting up about those accomplishments (no, none of this is directed at anyone in particular. These are just examples). Maybe you’re reading this now and you’re honest enough with yourself that you see some of this in you. I know I’ve been guilty of all of this in my life, and noticing that in myself has (I think) helped me improve as a person. 
 
Enough with that; I’ve hit the quota. Have a great day/night/morning/evening/whatever. 

that rule sucks, all my homies hate that rule

I appreciate the kind words. I am a little bummed I put @Rayzor_7 in a awkward position with the incorrect 4th rounder and @McWolf asking if he wanted Killinger, forgetting the trade back rule. Overall I still got my five files for work reviewed and got the new employee finished on two of her files, so win win for VHL and my workplace 

Helsinki Receives:
Erik Killinger
79 TOR 4th 
 
Toronto Receives:
Kate Upton
S79 HSK 2nd
S80 HSK 3rd
 

Helsinki Receives:
Erik Killinger
79 TOR 4th 
 
Toronto Receives:
Kate Upton
S79 HSK 2nd
S80 HSK 3rd
 

Toronto accepts. 
 
Portal issues prevented this going through on the portal. @Beketov was made aware 

Helsinki Receives:
Erik Killinger
79 TOR 4th 
 
Toronto Receives:
Kate Upton
S79 HSK 2nd
S80 HSK 3rd
 

I still remember being Hounds GM and seeing one of my players getting ejected in the middle of a play for abuse of officials. I even looked through the play by play and that's all that happened, no stoppage of play beforehand or anything. Simon is weird.

1) Who do you view as our biggest rival right now?
Seattle because of the finals loss as well as losing Thightrap and Rose to them in the off season.
2) Predict the next time we will win a cup.
I'm going to predict Season 81. I don't get the sense @Rayzor_7 is impatient I suspect he'll build the team he wants with a slow burn method.
3) Favorite kind of soup?
Cream of _____. Ramen is truly the best.
4) If you had to get rid of the whole team except one person, who would you choose to keep?
I would keep @Vat since we're the same draft season and we'll have similar career peaks.
5) What is better, regular season MVP and no cup, or a cup?
Cup is all that matters. As many as possible preferably.
6) Give me your favorite LR moment as a Titan so I can get to know the squad!
Everyday in the Titans discord is a fucking blast. Can't pick one moment.

Hopefully this will also integrate a relegation/promotion system with franchises

FrostBeard's Chronicles "Calgary and Bushito"
 
Well then, we haven't seen this in a few weeks, and now that my previous FrostBeard's Chronicles article is buried deep down in Thunderdome I can come here and speak openly about my first experience as a member of Calgary Wranglers back in S67. It was truly a wild time and I am not gonna sit here and sugarcoat it but there was a lot of bad blood between members and teams, we had no real rules and some GMs were just generally lazy and didn't want to do anything.
 
When I moved from S66 Founder's Cup-winning Philadelphia Reapers to Calgary Wranglers, I have to say, I was extremely excited. I was hyped up by my VHLM GM Blade who's player Brick Wahl was a goaltender for the Wranglers and by other members who were active in the Philly locker room and said that Calgary is going to be an amazing place. When I first joined the team and I was greeted by all these amazing people I felt lucky and honored to be among so many league-wide known community members.  It however didn't take long before my GM Bushito or Bush as I will refer to him from now on was quite distant from me. We never had a conversation, he always was cold and really only communicated with BladeMaiden and Dil at the time. It was fine but I was used to actually having chats and discussions with GMs rather than them being someone who you see rarely on. I don't think anyone really thought that Calgary had the greatest chances at the cup that season, we had a lot of younger players and older players that were not really that great anymore. Surely, we had rising stars like Wahl and Starload but it felt like we needed to get ourselves ready and spend time developing our players. 
 
I wanted to be a member of Calgary because I knew people there and they knew me and it felt natural but after joining the team didn't feel like home. It felt like I was thrown into a situation where I was the third wheel, discussion in Discord LR general chat made me realize that there were different opinions surfacing and that one of the strongest opinions was that Calgary had to improve and become a true contender instantly. And so it began. There were two sides of the story - I would call it Dil side and the Blade side. Dil side was the one who really wanted to compete right now and felt like we didn't have the time to wait for my player John Frostbeard and some other prospects to grow. Blade's side was a lot more favorable - she wanted to make Calgary home to players and she really strived to make Calgary a place where everyone is accepted and people are not traded just because we need to win right now.
 
Discussions about this topic ranged from talking about the fact that Calgary won't play John Frostbeard and other prospects in playoffs because the format 6-4-1 didn't permit other, younger and weaker players to have a role to blowing up the team and selling off some of the really older players and just building the new Wranglers around Wahl, Fish, and Starload. These discussions never really led to anything and to me, a newcomer to the team it felt weird, I felt left out and I thought that Bush wasn't even interested in anything that was discussed. 
 
The trade

 
It was quite a shock to receive a message, without a real warning just a fact that I am getting traded. It is interesting that I didn't even take it as bad as I thought I would. I understood that I am just an asset, nothing else and if an asset is not going to be ready to perform when the team needs it to, the asset is getting moved. What did however make no sense was that I actually didn't even get any warning that it would happen, GM Bush told me that I am going to be a part of the future for Calgary and yet I am getting moved? 
 
After a lot of thinking, my first idea was that maybe they want to get a truly huge, superstar player on their team like Matt Thompson. I thought that Calgary might have another deal locking in and that I was just gonna be traded to free some cap space. Boom! The trade is announced and to me, it honestly didn't make any sense for Calgary. Calgary decided to part ways with John Frostbeard, a young and perspective player, Maxim Kovalchuk, a future Hall-of-Famer and an important piece in their defensive core and a third-round pick to get their hands on Joel Ylonen, a player that was well known around the league for underperforming with high potential. At first, I looked at it as a desperate move by incompetent GM, and yet the more I looked I understood that it didn't make any sense to me at all. Why would you trade away a significant part of your future (Consider that my player, John Frostbeard was picked as 12th Overall in S66 VHL Draft) and a star player that was still able to help your team dominate? It made and still makes no sense. 
 
This situation also created tension between players and GMs. There was a great rift that formed between Bush and some part of his team as this trade was seen as a pander to Dil's wishes. It also created a huge rift between GM Bush and GM Bana. GM Bana was looked at as a traitor and a terrible GM and even my role in Calgary LR was cur short and I got kicked out due to the fact that I was labeled a Bana spy. It made no sense to me and still doesn't due to the fact that I was willing to be a member of Calgary Wranglers for all my career, I wanted to be there and contribute to the team. GM saw it differently. The fact that there was no real communication between me and my GM made it even worse an it felt like my huge anticipation for VHL was just beaten into the ground by someone who didn't care about anyone else except himself.
 
To me, this just shows that Bushito was a weak GM and a GM that wouldn't hold his job right now for longer than a week. It was an experience that opened my eyes to different GMs, their approaches. It allowed me to understand that Calgary wasn't really GMed, it was run as a rivalry between Dil and Blade where Bush was trying to make peace with both.
And that is going to be it, thanks to anyone who actually read it, and cheers! I will catch with my next FrostBeard's Chronicles in 2 weeks!