Smarch

1. I was hoping to hit the 100 point mark again this season and thanks to a re-sim and not my poor start I won't. However, I would be a fool to be too disappointed with a 40 plus goal season. 2. A third straight 40 goal season, especially for my history of poor performing and low TPE players. 3. Not lead our team to a better place in the standings. 4. Seattle. Cause fuck em. Give them the curse. 5. Doesn't matter who we face, we have underperformed all season and it's time to start playing to our potential in the playoffs. 6. Bring on the wildcard, lets use the wildcard to start our playoff run.

1. Old members have come back? That's cool, i'll have to go look in the create a player thread. 2. Trades are nice if they help win a cup. 3. I believe we will finish 4th. 4. Once your in the playoffs, its a different game, so we have just as good of a chance as anyone else in the playoffs. 5. Over, I think we will have 3 players with 100 pts or more. 6. Yes, Soju bad, Van G2 good.

@Thunder we got to keep Soju honest and humble, it’s the key to playoffs success

Claim week 2/2

Toughest Guys in the VHL This week the league asked the VHL members to doing point tasks for this year’s theme week on “Tough Guys”. Unfortunately, there is a lot of data we cannot access anymore with the non-portal era, so some of the toughest VHL players will never be mentioned this week. Due to this we will examine the current VHL “Tough Guys” and not so “Tough Guys” and try to highlight some of the toughest and not so tough VHL players from the past few years in the portal era for the VHL VHL “Tough Guys”: Tommy Sleeves (S98 3-1-1) Tommy Sleeves has been a consistent face in the penalty box since beginning his VHL career in season ninety-one. In his eight-year career with the Helsinki Titans, Sleeves has won seventeen fights, which is an outstanding number in the VHL. This season Sleeves again has the most wins with 3 wins, 1 loss and one tie. With thirty more games left this season, one must believe Sleeves will find himself in more tussles before the end of season ninety-eight. Guntis Gavilrovs (S97 4-0-3) Gavilrovs had a career season in season ninety-seven, putting up thirty-one goals and sixty-nine assists. While it was a career year offensively for Guntis, it was also a career year for his fists. Gavilrovs fought seven times in season ninety-seven, where he won four of those seven fights and also didn’t lose any of the seven fights. The 6’8 defenseman isn’t fighting as much this season with only two fights under his belt, both of which are ties. Spanish Moon Moth (S96 3-0-6) Spanish Moon Moth is out pick for the tough guy status in season ninety-six with nine overall fights, where Moth won three of those nine fights. The year prior in season ninety-five Moth also had three fight wins, but other than those two seasons, Moth hadn’t won a fight in his VHL career, including not even participating in a fight many of the other season Moth was in the VHL. Harry Callahan (S95 3-0-4) Harry Callahan is the next member of the tough guy list with his 3 fight wins in season ninety-five. Season ninety-five was an anomaly in terms of Callahan mixing it up as Callahan only had eight fight wins in his career, with thirty-seven percent of those wins coming in season ninety-five. Callahan who retired from the league at the end of last season, won’t need to drop the gloves any longer and if he does, might find himself in legal trouble. Rex Wolffe Gregor (S94 3-0-2) The season ninety-four tough guy moniker goes to Rex Wolffe Gregor, who put up his dukes in fight fights that season, winning three of those five fights. Gregor was a consistent performer in fights in his VHL career, winning thirteen fights since he joined the VHL back in season eight-seven. Season ninety-four was the final VHL season for Gregor, so Gregor went down swinging in his final VHL season. Alfred Champagne (S93 5-0-2) Champagne is next on the list, awarded the season ninety-three tough guy award with five wins in seven fights on the season. Season ninety-three saw a lot of fights throughout the season and Champagne won the second most fights on the season, behind John Jamesons six wins, but with Champagne not losing a fight in the season, we had to award the tough guy moniker to him. Over the course of his eight-year career, Champagne was in many fights, which also included fourteen fight wins over those eight seasons. Sax Justice (S92 4-0-1) Sax Justice is the tough guy in the VHL from season ninety-two, which saw Justice take part in five fights that season, winning four of those five fights. Justice, who played parts of eight seasons in the VHL with Calgary, Seattle and Riga, only won five fights in his entire career, making the four wins in season ninety-two quite an anomaly, especially considering that Justice also only took part in eleven total fights in his entire eight-year career. Larry Abass Jr (S91 2-0-4) Abass Jr. is the last VHL player we will look at for the VHL tough guys, giving the moniker to Abass Jr in season ninety-one. Abass Jr, joined the Calgary Wranglers for his rookie season in season eight-seven, where he took part in two fights that year losing one and tying the other. Abass Jr. wasn’t one to shy away from the rough stuff as the Canadian born winger took part in thirty-one fights in his VHL career, including nine fights in his final VHL season with Vancouver in season ninety-three. VHL not so “Tough Guys” Obuz Schneider Canet du Bocage (S98 0-2-0) Obuz Schnider Canet du Bocage is the unfortunate soul that finds themselves as the first person on our not so tough guy list as he has yet to win a fight this year or in fact yet to win a fight in his VHL career with a career fight record of 0-3-1. Obuz is in his last season in the VHL as he is currently in his eight season, so he has less than 30 games remaining to win his first VHL fight. Stefan Nikolaev (S97 0-4-6) Nikolaev is the next VHLer on our not so tough guy list for the VHLs ninety-seventh season. Nikolaev took part in ten fights in season ninety-seven and lost four of those ten fights, while fighting to a draw in the six other fights. With ten fights in a season, one would have thought a fluke win would have happened, but unfortunately for Nikolaev that didn’t happen. Nikolaev has taken part in twenty-nine fights since joining the VHL back in season ninety-four and surprisingly hasn’t one a single one of those twenty-nine fights. Toby Kadachi (S96 0-3-4) Next on the list is Toby Kadachi from season ninety-six. Kadachi took part in seven fights in season ninety-six, losing three of those seven fights during the season. The year prior to season ninety-six Kadachi appeared in fifteen fights while playing for the New York Americans, where he won four of those fifteen fights. Unfortunately, in season ninety-six Kadachi was unable to enter the win column but also showed admirably in most of his fights.

1. Its something different, so that's nice. 2. Never a bad idea to ask your members for ideas, creates engagement. 3. Ninefingers. Imagine punching a guy with a digit missing. 4. According to the Index, Tommy Sleeves 5. Well not around anymore but my Grandpa, he played hockey when there was no glass and once got his nose broken by a lady with a brick in her purse in the stands. 6. The picture I assume gives it away, she shoots him with a camera and holds the picture underwater and hangs it to develop

1. I don't think I read VSN articles. I read articles written by my teammates and that's it. 2. No i don't listen to any VHL podcasts on the regular. I listened to a few a while back but its been many months and were not VSN podcasts. 3. I don't listen to VHL podcasts on the regular as I don't have time for that. 4. I read my teammates media spots 5. Make us score more? 6. You guys went drinking?

Claim week 3/3

Transaction ID: 2G4663697U022680R 5 Uncapped TPE Doubles Week 1mil Player Store

1. I'm glad the season is finally here for the Wolves to kick some ass together. 2. I wasn't super happy to start the same 0-4-1, but had faith we could turn it around eventually. 3. Glad we were able to bring in some human players so we didn't have to sell off the team early. 4. The fact we started with 1 point in the first 5 games and now sit two points out of second in the NA 5. A bunch of teams starting off strong. to likely fall from grace before the end of the season. 6. I don't have a lot of time for TV when I get home each night, so I have been watching a lot of Disney Jr and Treehouse lately. 7. A husband after marriage?

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Your Season Ninety-Eight Vancouver Wolves As you might have heard the Vancouver Wolves are in “cap hell”. As such the Wolves had to make a few unpopular moves this off-season to ensure the team would be under the current VHL cap of 44,000,000. With the cap announced to decrease by two million a season the next two seasons, even more moves are expected next off-season as well. Currently the Wolves only have eight roster players, four forwards, three defensemen and one goalie. In this week’s media spot, we would like to introduce and re-introduce the Wolves currently on the roster. Logan Ninefingers (S92- RW) Back for his sixth season with the Wolves, and fourth as the captain of the club, Ninefingers will be looking to top his career high forty-seven goal, 107-point performance he put up in season ninety-seven. After such an amazing season last year, it was clear to the Wolves management that Ninefingers must be kept around at all costs, and General Manager Frank Chadwick did just that singing Ninefingers to a contract extension that will hopefully keep him in Vancouver until his forced retirement season. After being drafted first overall back in season ninety-two VHL Entry Draft, Ninefingers had been a consistent performer for the Wolves, putting up 181 goals and 243 assists in 360 games played. With 424 points in his five-year career with the Wolves, Ninefingers currently eleventh in the portal era for most points in Vancouver history. With another 100-point season this year, Ninefingers can make a big jump up the list and sit in the top five in Wolves points in the portal era. Another impressive stat that Ninefingers will likely break this season and be the franchise leader in the Wolves portal era is game winning goals. Currently Ninefingers has forty game winning goals in his career, which ties him with Julius Freeman for the most game winning goals. Ninefingers is setting himself up to be called one the greatest Vancouver Wolves player to ever put on the Wolves sweater. Wayne Gretzky (S92 – C) The first new member of the Wolves roster that will be suiting up in season ninety-eight, Wayne Gretzky comes to Vancouver after spending the last four seasons playing for the New York Americans. Gretzky was drafted eleventh overall by the Americans back in the season ninety-two VHL Entry Draft, spending a season each in the VHLM and VHLE prior to joining the Americans prior to season ninety-four. Gretzky has two decent seasons to begin his career, putting up thirty-seven points in his rookie season and sixty-six in his second season but really started to turn some heads beginning in season ninety-six. In season ninety-six Gretzky put up thirty-seven goals and fifty-seven assists for ninety-four points, which is a career high for Gretzky. Last season Gretzky put up forty goals, a career high, and fifty-two assists. With the past two seasons, Gretzky has put his points above a point per game with 125 goals, 164 assists in 288 games. Gretzky has also seen action in fourteen playoff games in three seasons that New York made the playoffs. In those fourteen games Gretzky has put up six goals and nine assists. Gretzky came to the Wolves his offseason in a trade for the reigning Alexander Valiq and Sterline Labatte winner Guntis Gavilrovs on February 19, 2025. Now with the Wolves, the team is hoping that Gretzky can continue improving offensively to help the bare cupboards on the forward core. Pierre Marc Bouchard (S94 – C) Coming off his last season on his rookie season, Pierre March Bouchard or PMB as he is referred to amongst the locker room, PMB is looking to build upon his first 100-point season in season ninety-seven. While PMB wasn’t originally drafted by the Wolves, as he was drafted third overall by the Riga Reign, PMB has only played in the VHL with the Wolves. In three seasons with the Wolves PMB is well above a point per game with 108 goals and 132 assists in only 216 games played. Last season in season ninety-seven PMB put up career highs in almost every stat including goals (48), assists (53), points (101), plus/minus with a plus 28, shots (465), penalty minutes (85), hits (116), shots blocked (32) power play goals (12) and short-handed goals (1). Off the ice PMB might be one of the best locker room presences that I have come across in my lengthy time in the VHL. PMB is a constant face in the locker room, talking everything from VHL related topics to country related topics. I very much enjoy being on a roster with PMB and hope he can continue to kill it on the ice as well. Lionel Collberg (S91 - D) The other member of the club that will be making his debut with defenseman Lionel Collberg comes to the team after a trade with the Chicago Phoenix on February 19th, 2025, that saw a second round pick heading to Chicago for Collberg. Collberg is a veteran VHL defender playing in six VHL season with the Phoenix prior to being traded to the Wolves. Collberg has been a pretty consistent offensive defenseman in his six seasons with Chicago, including last season where he put up twelve goals and fifty-eight assists in seventy-two games played. So far in six VHL seasons Collberg has put up 63 goals and 321 assists, which puts Collberg at just under a point per game at 0.88 points per game. Collberg will be playing in the final VHL season this season and the hope is the Wolves can help Collberg bring home his first VHL championship in his final season. Bollos de Trueno (S94 – D) The breakout star from the Wolves last season, Bollos de Trueno will hope to build upon his 105-point season in season ninety-seven. Bollos was drafted fourth overall by the Wolves in the season ninety-four VHL Entry Draft. Bollos really took off last season putting up nineteen goals and eighty-six assists in seventy-two regular season games which is almost as many points as Bollos put up the previous two seasons combined. With a strong season in season ninety-seven the management team took notice and named Bollos, one of the assistant captain heading into season ninety-eight, an honor Bolls deserves from his work on and off the ice. After signing an extension with the club to stay in Vancouver until season 101, Bollos will hopefully be rewarding Wolves management with many more 100 point seasons the next few years, but if you ask the Mexican born defender, he will trade all the points in the world for more hits and fights. Hopefully Bollos will get the best of both worlds this season as the top defender on the Wolves roster as we start season ninety-eight. Einar Mathiesen (S95 – D) Mathiesen is coming off his first season in the VHL, which was his first season in the Wolves organization after an off-season trade last off-season with the D.C. Dragons. Mathiesen was drafted ninth overall by the Dragons in season ninety-five VHL Entry draft, after an impressive season with the Miami Marauders of the VHLM back in season ninety-four, where Mathiesen put up fifteen goals and fifty-one assists. Mathiesen would head to the now defunct VHLE with the Vasteras Iron Eagles after he was drafted by the Dragons, where he had another impressive offensive season with twenty goals and forty-five assists in seventy-two regular season games back in season ninety-five. After the VHLE was closed Mathiesen headed back to the VHLM in season ninety-six, where he played seventy-two games with the Philadelphia Reapers. In those seventy-two games Mathiesen showed he was ready to jump to the VHL as he scored twenty-seven goals and sixty assists. Mathiesen also appeared in eleven playoff games with the Reapers, where he put up one goal and seven assists. After three seasons in the minors, Mathiesen finally made his VHL debut. Mathiesen played in all seventy-two games, where he put up eight goals and thirty-one assists, playing in a depth role for the Wolves. Now with only three defensemen on the roster, Mathiesen and the Wolves hope that the U.K. born defender can take another step forward in season ninety-eight. Soju (S94 – G) The last member of the Wolves roster we will talk about today is Japanese born goaltender Soju. Soju is another member of the season ninety-four draft class for the Wolves, where the team selected him fifth overall in the draft that season. Sojus first season with the Wolves back in season ninety-five was in a backup role playing behind Dalkr Vidarsson as such Soju only saw action in nine games in his rookie season. After the season Vidarsson was traded making way for Soju to take over the starting role for the first time in Season ninety-six. Soju played in fifty-three games that season for the Wolves, as the Wolves would trade for Olober Skyo to help the Wolves down the stretch and into the playoffs. Soju would again be headed to the bench for the remainder of the season and playoffs as the Wolves would go on to win the Continental Cup in season ninety-six. Last season Soju finally was the main man in net all season long for the Wolves. In his first full season as the undisputed starter, Soju put up a record of 45-14-4 with a .928 save percentage and 2.24 goals against average. Soju also played in all seven playoff games for the Wolves, putting up a record of 3-4 with a save percentage of .907 and goals against average of 2.90. Now with s full VHL season under his belt, the Wolves and Soju are hoping for even more in season ninety-eight. For Weeks of; March 10-16 Mar 17-23 Mar 24-30

Happy to be representing this club again

1. I have focused on banking my TPE to be as the same TPA next season. 2. I think we will have 3 players over 100 points this season. Ninefingers, PMB and Bollos 3. I hope to win a 2nd continental cup with the Wolves. Would love to hit 400 pts with the club this season as well. 4. I have a feeling we will finish 2nd or 3rd in the NA, which is great as we won't have to deal with any Victory Cup or 1st place curses in the playoffs. 5. I would have picked who i picked 2nd overall - Logan Ninefingers. 6. My advice is to do what I do, not do predictions, don't have to worry about them

Player Spotlight - Agustin Martinez @SleepyPlayz Season Ninety-Eight draftee and first-generation player Agustin Martinez is coming off her first ever VHL draft, where the sixteen-year-old winger was drafted fifth overall by the D.C. Dragons. Prior to the VHL Entry Draft this past week, Martinez was coming off her first full VHL season with the Mexico City Kings. Martinez had a decent first full season in the VHL with the Kings, putting up twenty-five goals and thirty-one assists in those seventy-two regular season games. Martinez also played in all four playoff games for Mexico City where he put up three assists in those four games. Off the ice Martinez has been putting in work to improve day in and day out. Since joining the league back on November 11, 2024, Martinez has put up 299 TPE as of today. Since her first week claiming TEP, Martinex has been pumping out Media Spots, VHL.com articles, Press Conferences and Game Recaps, which is impressive for a first generation VHL player. While Martinez has likely one more season left in the VHLM, we look forward to watching her develop into an everyday VHLer in the not so distant future.

You just have to ride the coattails of much better members than yourself to get cups, that's what I do.

1. I was surprised you felt obligated to give me pity awards lol 2. He was hiding as he was likely afraid the commissioners will likely put a new rule in place banning the use of bots and penalizing people that use them, much like playing your back up a game or two more than allowed. 3. I've never been to a hot springs however my hometown has the Temple Garden Mineral Spa, which has a Geothermal Pool. 4. Do you go nude in the Japan hot springs? 5. We should ban that AGM from all future locker-room conversations. Oh yes I mean the unnamed person. 6. People in my office love to say stupid riddles, so I know this is silence.

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1. Vacation what is that? 2. My dream vacation is retirement. 3. None of the options? 4. Not going into work each day at 6am 5. I paid attention to the Wolves trades to make sure I wasn't apart of them 6. We like to party, we like, we like to party?

No, thank you @Girts

Claim week 3/4

1. I signed up for the Pro-Am for the first time ever. We'll see how this goes and If i ever do it again. 2. I don't see myself winning any awards this season. I had a decent year, but others on the step stepped up and had career seasons, so the awards should go to them. 3. Please don't ask me to vote on anything team related, you continue doing you. 4. I was expecting a lot of changes at least for our team with the pitiful salary cap the league rolls out year to year. Not sure about league wise as I couldn't tell you who plays on what team or who even GMs 90% of the teams. I'm on the back-end of my VHL career and don't pay attention to that stuff. 5. Yes, lots of changes, hoping I can avoid those changes myself. 6. Wolves big, fox small?

Claim week 2/4

1. Everyone needs to take some blame, we got down early 2-0 and although we won 3 straight after, digging a hole never helps. 2. Take some time away from the league and game, hopefully be able to get back to Vancouver early next season. 3. Would have liked to see Toronto to win, but we now know that didn’t happen. 4. Moscow so we could mess with Riga GM. 5. According to the media spots written we don’t have a wildcard issue. 6. No, GMs are free to make all the trades they want. Good or bad.