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As we enter the final few days prior to the posting of the Victory Hockey League Indexes for the Pros and Minors, the VHL rosters are finally starting to finalize as teams around the league are starting to slow down the normal off-season roster movement. After a return to the playoffs in Season Seventy-Seven for the Toronto Legion, the club is looking to take the nest step as we head into Season Seventy-Eight. In this weeks’ article, we would like to introduce the rest of the VHL to the players that will be donning the blue and white in the VHL to start Season Seventy-Eight. SS Hornet (S72 – Center) After spending the first twenty-two games with the Vancouver Wolves in Season Seventy-Six, Legion General Manger Rylan Peace wasn’t happy with the clubs start and pulled the trigger and acquired Hornet as part of a trade with the Wolves. Once Hornet joined the Legion last year, his points per game climbed from 0.95 points per game to 1.20 points per game, which happens to be the pest point per game numbers Hornet has put up in his seven VHL season with three different VHL clubs. Hornet also helped bring another scoring punch to the Legion roster when he was acquired, putting up twenty-four goals in forty-nine games with the Legion. Now Hornet will enter his first full season with the Legion, looking to hold down the top line center spot for the team with his 957 TPA to date. With his time winding down in the league, Hornet and the Legion brass are hoping for another gear from Hornet this season as both the franchise and player are looking for a long lost Continental Cup in Season Seventy-Eight. Oh Sens (S73 – Right Winger) As we were preparing to write the article to introduce the VHL world to the Season Seventy-Eight Toronto Legion roster, Oh Sens walked up to the podium in the Legion Locker-room in the Air Canada Center, to announce Season Seventy-Eight would be his last season in the VHL. Oh Sens was originally drafted Eighteenth Overall by the Helsinki Titans in the Season Seventy-Three VHL Entry Draft. After spending Season Seventy-Three in the VHLM with the Miami Marauders, Oh Sens was ready for his VHL debut in Season Seventy-Four with the Titans, but it was a short lived tenure in Finland. Thirty-Six games into his rookie season, Oh Sens was dealt to the Legion for two Season Seventy-Five and one Season Seventy-Six draft choices. Now as we await the start of the Seventy-Eighth VHL season, Oh Sens is coming off his best season in Toronto which saw his put up thirty-four goals and forty-nine assists in seventy-two regular season games, which both Oh Sens and the Legion hope he can duplicate in his swan song season in the VHL. Nicholas Sunderbrunch (S74 – Left Winger) A Second Round draft choice of the Legion back in Season Seventy-Four, Sunderbrunch is looking to improve in his fourth VHL season, after consecutive seasons of fifty points. Although fifty points in seventy-two games is a great stepping stone, Legion fans and management saw the potential that Sunderbrunch has during the Legions six game playoff appearance in Season Seventy-Seven, as Sunderbrunch put up 2 goals and four assist in those six games. Now as the Legion and Sunderbrunch prepare for the upcoming season, more will be expected out of the thirty-fifth overall draft pick from the Season Seventy-Four VHL Entry Draft. Jon Webber (S75 – Right Winger) Webber is coming off his rookie season in the VHL having put up thirteen goals and eighteen assists in seventy-two games with the Legion. Webbers VHL career got off to a different start than most players experience. Webber was drafted in the Fourth Round, Sixty-Third Overall, by the Helsinki Titans, a draft position that doesn’t often see VHL players come from those draft choices. Webber used his time in the VHL with Houston to his advantage after his draft season, putting himself in a position for a roster spot as the Season Seventy-Seven season was about to get underway. Unfortunately for Webber and the Titans, who were looking to make a championship run again, there wasn’t a spot for Webber each and every night, which led to Webber being traded to the Legion. After a few hours of the announcement of the trade between Helsinki and Toronto, Webber was on a flight to Toronto, only to be told once at the Pearson International Airport, he may be getting right back on the flight and returning to Helsinki. After some weird and tense moments, Webber was advised he was staying put in Toronto for the final year of his rookie contract. Webber was again about to leave Toronto in free agency this offseason, but once again as the clock was about to strike midnight on his departure, the Legion and Webber came to an agreement on a one-year contract for Season Seventy-Eight. Hopefully now with the dust settled, Webber will be able to see more ice-time and produce above his rookie points total in Season Seventy-Eight. Phoenix Dawson (S76 – Center) Dawson is another roster player that continues the trade trend for the Legion in constructing their current roster. Dawson was originally drafted by the Seattle Bears, Ninth Overall, in the Season Seventy-Six VHL Entry Draft. Dawson spent Season Seventy-Six in the VHLM with the Miami Marauders, putting up an eye popping thirty-nine goals and fifty-eights assists in his final VHLM season. Dawson and the Bears believed he was ready for his shot in the big league come Season Seventy-Seven and Dawson made the opening day roster for the Bears last season. As the trade deadline closed in rumors began to swirl out of Seattle that Dawson and the Bears organization were looking for a fresh start for the young Canadian Centerman. That fresh start came in the form of a player for player swap with the Legion, that say the Legion move Frank Funk Jr to the Bears for Dawson. At the conclusion of his rookie season Dawson ended the season between the two clubs with fourteen goals and twenty-one assists in seventy-two games, something Dawson is working hard to improve as he enters his sophomore season. Gunnar Odinsson (S76 – Right Winger) As you likely would have guessed it, Odinsson comes from a long list of Legion players that were drafted by other VHL franchises and flipped to the Legion in various trades. Odinsson follows the trend of being drafted by the Helsinki Titans to be flipped to the Legion during his rookie season. Oddinsson was selected by the Titans, Eleventh Overall, in the Season Seventy-Six VHL Entry Draft, and jumped into the VHL right away that season. After thirty-seven games in the light blue and white, Titans management decided that Odinsson looked better in the Royal blue and white. On February 6th, 2021 the Legion send Seattle’s Season Seventy-Seven First to Helsinki in exchange for Odinsson. During his split season with Helsinki and Toronto, Odinsson put up seventeen goals and twenty-four assists, numbers that didn’t sit well with Odinsson. Odinsson took his rookie season personal and made sure he put in the off-season work heading in to Season Seventy-Seven to improve in his sophomore season. Odinsson did just that last season, as he increased his point total to seventy, putting up thirty-four goals and thirty-six assists in his first full season in Toronto. Now as the number one winger on the Legions anticipated lines for Season Seventy-Eight, we can only imagine that the point total will climb in Odinsson final year of his rookie contract. Asher Reinhart (S77 – Center) Our final forward to introduce to the VHL world is a trend breaker in the Legion books. Reinhart is only the second Legion forward that was drafted by the team that is still on the VHL roster heading into Season Seventy-Eight, alongside Season Seventy-Four draftee Nicholas Sunderbrunch. Reinhart was drafted Sixth Overall by the Legion in the Season Seventy-Seven VHL Entry Draft, and was a part of the weird sequence of events that saw Webber come over from the Titans, in a trade that was supposed to include Reinhart. After the dust settled Reinhart would stay in Toronto for his rookie season, posting a respectable twelve goals and twenty assists, while seeing limited minutes on a veteran Legion roster. Now as his sophomore season comes around, Reinhart is closing in on 550 TPA, which should allow him to have more of an impact role for the Legion this season. Erik Killinger (S71 – Defense) It’s not often in the VHL will you have the ability to bring in the reigning Jake Wylde and Sterling Labatte winner from the previous season, but that’s what happened to the Legion this off-season. While Killinger will be retiring after the conclusion of Season Seventy-Eight, he still is an elite defender in the VHJL as evident in his season with London in Season Seventy-Six. With a relatively young defensive crop still maturing in Toronto, Killinger will be leaned upon many times in his final season, but he appears to be up to the task. After spending his first four seasons in Toronto, Killinger and the Legion brass hope the second time for Killinger and the Legion end in a championship raising. Jolly Greene Giant (S75 – Defense) Jolly Green Giant was the beginning of the elite defenseman the Legion would bring into the fold in the Season Seventy-Five and Season Seventy-Six VHL Entry Drafts. Giant was selected by the Legion with the Second Overall draft choice in the Season Seventy-Five VHL Entry Draft. Giant has been a fixture on the Legion blue-line since being selected Second Overall, putting up thirty-four goals and eighty-siz assists in his 144 games played since joining the Legion in Season Seventy-Six. Now Green enters his final year of his rookie season, with 732 TPA, which makes him a very dangerous defenseman for the Legion. With a younger defensive core for the Legion suiting up again in Season Seventy-Eight, Giant could be a key for the Legion improving over last season’s one and done playoff series. Scotty Kaberle (S75 – Defense) Kaberle was the second defenseman selected by the Legion in the Season Seventy-Five VHL Entry Draft, selected by the club Eleventh Overall in the draft. Kaberle like Giant finished his second full season with the Legion and is coming off an improved sophomore season that say his put up twenty-two goals and forty-seven assists for the Legion. Kaberle much like Giant has been working hard on improving each and every week, and now he will enter the season with over 700 TPA, which will allow him to keep improving on his point total each season. In his final season of his rookie contact in the VHL and with the Legion, Kaberle will be auditing not only for the Legion, but the rest for the VHL this season. Kristof Welch (S76 – Defense) Welch was the final piece to the puzzle for the Legion on defense when they selected him Fifth Overall in the Season Seventy-Six VHL Entry Draft. Welch joined the Legion right out of the draft, which saw him put up thirty-four points in his rookie season. While the thirty-four points for a defenseman on a team that missed the playoffs is nothing to laugh about, Welch wasn’t exactly thrilled with his performance and vowed to improve in the team’s off-season meetings. Welch took those words to heart and improved his point total from thirty-four points to sixty-five points last season. Now like his defensive counterparts that joined the roster full-time in Season Seventy-Six, Welch is looking to make the Legion and the league take notice in Season Seventy-Eight. Sirkants Klamasteris (S75 – Goalie) After being selected by the Riga Reign, Fourteen Overall in Season Seventy-Five, it’s final time for Klamasteris to be a full-time starter. Over the past three seasons Klamasteris has played in only fifty-eights games, a number he is likely to surpass alone this season. Although he hasn’t been the starter in Riga or Toronto, Klamasteris has been reliable when called upon. Klamasteris has posted a 11-17-3 record alongside a .923 save percentage and 3.03 goals against average. Now with no incumbent starter in front of him, Klamasteris is ready for a full workload with the Legion, hoping to prove the trade of a First Round draft pick was worth it for the Legion. For the weeks of: May 17-23 May 24-30 May 31-June 5 June 6-12

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Happy birthday @Phil

1. Are you a Star Wars fan and did you do any binging on May 4th? I am not a Star Wars fan, so I didn’t even realize it was the day until my fiancé said something. 2. Are you looking forward to anything this off season? I am looking forward to it being over 3. Have you followed the playoffs at all since the Legion were eliminated? I was watching the remainder of the VHL playoffs, good for the Bears. 4. Any plans for the weekend? Camping trip, maybe some fishing? Nothing to do yet, hopefully have a nice few weeks in the summer here. 5. Coke or Pepsi? Coke products, but Braqs rootbeeet for me. 6. Knowing Hextall's retirement is pending... how do you feel? \ (For ROOKIE: Do you feel satisfied with Hextall's career?) im sad we couldn’t close his career off with a little more hockey

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@McWolf @Peace @osens@BOOM@NickSunderbruch @Toast @rjfryman@Webberj @Poptart @fromtheinside @DoktorFunk@Juice @ROOKIE745 @hedgehog337 1. Toronto currently sits In 1st in the NA conference. Did you honestly expect us to be here at this point in the season. 2. What was your thoughts on the deadline move the Legion made? 3. If you could bring over one player from any roster, who and why? 4. What are you getting Hextall as a retirement present? 5. Oh Sens currently leads the team with 76 points. Do you think he breaks his first 100 point season this year? 6. End of season predictions for the NA conference?

Good listen. The Sandro talk brought back lots of great older memories

Review: Never thought as a redraft for theme week, but this was a good ideas. Good write up about the first round, with a few extra selections in the second round. Neat to see where player would end up and a good refresher for people like myself who don’t pay attention to drafts. Good media spot all around, bit messy but good read 7/10

Review: Good write up on an alternative timeline for Rose based off a year later draft class. Seems like a bit more work went into this for role playing as a lot didn’t happen for you, like being drafted. it was an interesting take on where you would have signed and been drafted to in the VHLM/VHL. Possibly a title, colour and pictures to draw the eye. 7.5/10

1. Toronto has scored 198 goals so far this season. This is good for third in the entire league... how do you feel about that? We have done a lot is scoring by committee, which is nice and hopefully we can continue. 2. Toronto currently sits sixth in goals against. How does this reflect our defensive efforts? We have a good defensive core, but as forwards we need to help out some more. 3. Hextall is one win away from 200 career victories with the Toronto Legion (and his career). What team do you think we defeat for win #200? I cannot remember off the top off my head who he got it against, but it’s nice to see his hard work not go to waste stat wise. 4. How many more fights do you think Lester Green will participate in before the end of the season? Hopefully not many more. 5 fights a year for the majority of my PIMS is fine. 5. Who is the next player to get a game misconduct? Hextall, put the league in notice, 6. If you were stuck on an remote Island and could choose a member of the Legion to be stranded with you.. who would it be? Juice, he seems decent enough to let me be the cannibal.

Moving on Up After a seven game losing streak looked to derail the Legions plans for Season Seventy-Seven, the Legion currently sits just one point out first place in the North American Conference. Heading into Season Seventy-Seven the expectations in the Legion locker-room alongside the entire GTA, were at a point we had not seen in many seasons. Coming off another season where they missed the playoffs and found themselves in another Draft Lottery, the Legion and their fans were dying for some meaningful hockey come VHL post-season time and this might be just the year with the cure. The Legion currently hold a 30-19-7 record in their fifty-six games play this season, and even though they currently sit in second place right now, any slips ups in their last sixteen games will have a huge impact on a very close playoff race. With four players on the roster currently over a point per game right now and another very close, the Legion will continue to use their scoring by committee to keep themselves near the top in Season Seventy-Seven.

What if Jaxx Hextall didn’t get traded With the annual trade deadline and subsequent theme week has hit the Victory Hockey League once again. This year the league has asked media around the league to took at “what if” situation. In this weeks media spot our focus will be on “What if Jaxx Hextall didn’t get traded to the Legion?” Back in Season Seventy, Jaxx Hextall was drafted Ninth Overall by the HC Davos Dynamo. Hextall signed a standard three-year entry deal with the club. Then on January 15th, 2020, Hextall along with three others were shipped to the Legion for one player and six draft picks. Now if we rewind the tapes and keep this trade from happening, what exactly would be the spin-off? Well first thing that comes to mind, is Hall of Fame goalie Alex Gegeny would still be in fourth place all-time in wins in Legion history. Yes, you heard us correctly, just recently Hextall pulled ahead of Gegeny in wins by a Legion netminder, where he currently sits in fourth with 202 wins. Now during the time that Hextall won 200 games with the Legion, the Dynamo as a franchise have only won 209 games, so its really a toss up if the trade to the Legion increase or decrease the number of wins Hextall has. Another eventual spin-off from Jaxx Hextall not being traded to the Dynamo in Season Seventy, would be the possibility that Joakim Bruden isn’t taken by the Dynamo, Fifteen Overall in the Season Seventy-One VHL Entry Draft. One season after selecting their franchise goalie in Hextall, the Dynamo wouldn’t have to go out and get another top notch goalie in Bruden. In turn for Bruden, he doesn’t have to then sit as as the backup goalie in Davos for three of his five seasons with the club. With Hextall still on the club in Season Seventy-One the Dynamo would go a different route with their selection, selecting Xavier leFlamnt, who was selected in that draft just five selections later. A third spin-off from a hypothetical situation from Hextall not being dealt in Season Seventy-One, would be Sirkanta Klamasteris would likely be the starting goalie for Toronto this past few seasons, instead of being a back-up for the Legion at close to 650 TPA. After being dealt to the Legion in the Season Seventy-Six off-season, Klamasteris has played a combined thirty-six games for the Legion in just under two seasons. With Hextall not in the mix in Toronto, there would be nothing standing in the way or Sirkanta starting and being more vocal in the locker-room about his poor play when it happened on the ice. Thankfully for the Legions players in the locker-room and the Legion fans, the Hextall trade saved them from hearing from Klamasteris each day. As you can see from the information above, the hypothetical situation of Hextall not being dealt in Season Seventy would have quite the trick down effect for both the Legion and Dynamo, but one thing for sure is Hexall now sits alongside some of the best in Legion goalie history.

Lol Moose Jaw, we can hardly supper a junior hockey team on a nightly basis. good read tho!

Doesn't work, but best of luck. I made a "fighter" that fought less than most people that put nothing into fighting. I had 70 in fighting and only beat up Da'brickashaw O'Neal once.

I have more fights this season than the last 76 seasons in the VHL. Thank you for turning up the fight sliders

Review: You haven’t hit regression and spent all your money so far, ballin. If was a good read to get to know what a person of thinking in terms of VHL thoughts. As a person who uses welfare/pension, it’s nice to have in all honesty in case shit hits the fan. Don’t feel bad about not donating and missing out on 100 TPE, you can still have a good decent player, especially year 4,5,6 without those TPE. They really only come in handy to fight regression. Overall as it was your “thoughts”, I won’t knock you for the way the article flowed, but it was hard to read and I had to reread somethings. Good luck with your player. 7/10

Review: This was a neat article and spin on a VHL related article. Goalies are their own breed of crazy, so one going into MMA wouldn’t be that crazy. The hockey media seems very interested in how Eagles will be in the ring, so maybe some updates on the future. Good article, has a picture so I’ll give it 9/10.

1. A win... finally! What can we learn from the 8L streak we endured? Well that’s hockey and sports in general. We need to understand tough times will happen, but overall it was likely the best time to happen instead of beginning/end of season. 2. The lines were shaken up, promised to players regarding lines and ice time were broken, so was the W worth it? I mean, I wish we didn’t have to make promises to players. I understand both sides from players and management, but I want to win more than anything. 3. The EU Conference has been destroying Toronto. What do you think we can do to improve ourselves? The EU has been getting the better of many NA teams, they have two of the best teams in the league, nothing much you can do other than come to play each game. 4. One of our dominating wins was a 8-3 W. Did you enjoy that game... was it fun to participate in? Sure, I mean you still also feel bad for the other guys as professionals, cause we all know what the next practice for them will be like. 5. On a scale of 1-10 where was your panic level during the 8L streak? 1. again it’s hockey and they way she goes bud. 6. Do you think we can climb back up the NA Conference? I don’t think we can move much other than third now after that mini slump, but anything can happen.

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1. Toronto just completed a huge trade that brought in Hornet and Adrienne... thoughts? (For McWolf/Poptart: What do you think about the value sent that brought you here?) You personally know my thoughts and I don’t want to give much away with behind the scenes stuff, but as I told you while you were working this deal, makes us a top three team on my opinion. 2. What has been your favorite game of the season so far? Every loss has been my favourite. It’s showing us where we need to improve to be a top tier team in the league. 3. The Toronto Social Club said goodbye to two members of our LR yesterday... how do you feel? I mean it’s sucked to have some quality members leave the roster, but the main core is still around in the LR to ease the pain. 4. SS Hornet somehow had a -20 this season with Vancouver. Care to guess why? Sometimes it just the way the shit winds blow Ricky. 5. Giant and Welch are tied with ten goals a piece. Who do you think reaches 15 first? Welch has the slight lead after the most recent games, but I got to do with my old blue line mate in Jolly. 6. Green and Sens are tied with seventeen assists each. Who do you think gets the next for 18? We both hit is in the same day, so win!

If only it was this easy...

this is what I assume my flight in the Seattle game looked like

Jolly Rancher It’s been quite a start to the Sophomore season for Toronto Legion defenseman Jolly Green Giant. The Second Overall pick from the Season Seventy-Five VHL Entry Draft has been leading the way for the Legion through their first nineteen games this season, putting up eight goals alongside his team leading nineteen assists. With a team leading twenty-seven points under this belt during those seventeen games, Giant is currently on pace for over 100 points this season. While of course there is a lot of time remaining for the Legion in the season, the early progression from his rookie season has been great for a team that struggle to find the net last season. Greene Giant has not only impressed his teammates and the fans of the Legion with his early season output, but across the VHL other players and fans are starting to take notice of the youngster. Greene Giant currently sits in tenth place in the entire VHL with his twenty-seven points, alongside the eight place spot currently in the league for assists with his nineteen helpers in nineteen games Now closing in on 600 practice hours in just his second season in the VHL, Greene Giant is poised to keep this upward trend going, barring of course any unforeseen injuries or retirements.

Claiming 2/3