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@Gustav is a stinky poo poo head, also sounds fun I apply

In Australia you pay like a small fee to cover the transaction costs so your full $10 goes to the charity usually

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The penultimate day

The life story of the one and only Gustav Mattias Gustav Mattias was born in the year 2000 after the scare of Y2K, he was born to Mother Sarah and Father Robert, he is the youngest of three as he has two older sisters Veronica and Jasmine. Gustav grew up quite alone as his father Robert was in the Air Force and was never really at home. He always spent his time hiding from his sisters who would constantly bully the boy. He would spend his time inside on his laptop and he wanted to be a doctor so he could help people and make them fit and healthy. Due to his constant studying he never really had time for any other activities and the child was called a nerd most of his time in school. When Gustav entered High school, he was on his way to becoming a doctor, he was three grades above in both science and mathematics and his handwriting was 3 years below his age. This is exactly what all the top universities are looking for their new Doctors. Gustav was a special sort of little boy, when he gets his mind on an idea, he will go through whatever he can to make sure that this will become a reality. This is why he is succeeding so well at becoming a doctor. The issue is one fateful night when he was in high school, he had finished his exams, and his father was back home and they went to go watch the local team play, during the second period there was a horrible accident. One of the pucks flew out and hit poor Gustav in the head and caused some serious damage including knocking him out. The team doctor took the young boy onto the ice to try and ice the massive egg on his head and Gustav returned to consciousness, the first thing he saw when he woke up was all these people in hockey uniforms surrounding him, he again lost consciousness and was rushed off to the hospital. When he finally woke up in the hospital, he was told that he had severe brain damage and that he may have some memory loss. It turns out that his IQ had dropped quite a lot and his dreams of being a doctor were well and truly shattered. Luckily for him though he cannot remember that he wanted to be a doctor he believes that his dream was to become the next big star in the Victory Hockey League. From the day that he got the all clear from the Hospital Gustav would spend every spare moment he had on the ice honing his skills. He was extremely bad at first and no one would play with him so he would practice skating around with the puck and shooting goals. This is where his love for goal scoring first came in. It took Gustav one whole year of learning before any of the local teams would even let him try out and to their surprise when they gave him the chance he excelled. Well he excelled at the drills when there was an actual game to be played he was extremely lost, he had never been on the ice with anyone else and wasn’t sure what to do when he didn’t have the puck. So now Gustav focused on how to work as a team mate and made friends with his line mates and they would all train each day, Gustav went from being useless to becoming a great team player he knew how to pass well and would almost instinctively know where his teammates were going to be. Unfortunately, the injury that happened on that fateful night has seeped deep into Gustav’s subconscious and he really struggles with defending he gets scared when the puck is heading towards him and he just wants to be skating up the ice trying to score goals. Luckily due to all his practice he was an incredible goal scorer and this got him a position at the prestigious college he attended on a full scholarship for hockey. Gustav thrived through college and ended up being the top goal scorer for the season and breaking multiple school records, this led him to landing an agent with the North Eastern Australian Talent House. Becoming only the second player outside of Australia to be picked up by the agency. Gustav then unfortunately in his last game found out that his father had passed away when on a routine mission with the military as his Dad loved the game of hockey so much this gave extra drive to Gustav knowing that he needed to make it to the Victory Hockey League just like he had talked about with his father many times. It was that night that he registered for the VHLM draft, and the rest you can say will be history.

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Dear Mr. Zetterberg I trust that this message has reached you, I am Mr. Berocka the head of North Eastern Australian Talent House or NEATH for short. My player a Mr. Gustav Mattias is having his rookie season in the Victory Hockey League Europe with your establishment this season. As I am sure you are aware he has recently finished up with the San Diego Marlins and has made the playoffs with them. My player is an avid ice hockey fan and wants to be one of the greats in the VHL someday. I trust that your leadership can assist him on his path to greatness. Some of the things he would like to achieve this season include: Scoring more and more goals, Mr. Mattias sees himself as a Sniper and only a sniper he wants to feature on your powerplay unit and strong ice time but has no interest in playing on the penalty kill or playing defensively. He is here to break scoring records and he believes that the defenders and goalie should be the one saving the goals. Winning the Championship or at least making it to the final round of playoffs. Mr. Mattias sees himself as a star player and wants to make sure he is on the biggest stage to showcase his talents to the world. He believes that the more time he spends in the big matches the more chance he has at making it big in the VHL. Enough training and resources to be ready to play in the VHL next season, this is purely a stepping stone team to Mr. Mattias, and he will not be here next season. I suggest that you use his strengths and star power wisely and create a championship calibre team around him. I can see that you have already put together quite a good team and I am trusting you to do the right things to make sure this team succeeds. I have my faith that you will do the right thing for Mr. Mattias. I have had a close look at your roster, and I can see that you do not have anyone with the same strengths in scoring as Mr. Mattias especially in the penalty shot department so I can hope that he will feature in the following: Top 6 minutes for forwards I understand if you need to play him on the second line for chemistry sake Top line Powerplay unit, you don’t have anyone else who can score as well as him so please use him wisely Top 3 penalty shot takers for the shootout, he is your greatest asset please make sure he is getting a chance every shootout. In saying all of that though I do not want to see him playing on the penalty kill if you do that you might have a trade request coming through the next day. Yours sincerely, Mr. Berocka

Dear Mr. Campbell Here is my Scouting report for Gustav Mattias Name: Gustav Mattias Age: 21 Position: RW Height: 5’ 5” Weight: 140lbs Current Team: San Diego Marlins & Vasteras Iron Eagles. Country of Origin: United States of America Gustav is a young player that seems to focus mainly on his offensive side of his game, he can definitely put up points but the lack of defensive capabilities may leave him as a liability to a team such as ours. Please see below further investigation into his strengths and weaknesses based on the games I have watched him play. Strengths: Wrist Shot: Gustav can put the puck wherever he wants it in the net and it will go there, it might not have the most speed on it but just know that it will end up in the right spot. I see this as the shining light in this player with a little bit more practice and some time with our offensive coach I think if you give him the puck within the hash marks there will be a goal more often than not. Slap Shot: Whilst it isn’t as good as his wrist shot it is the other way around, he is less accurate with this, but it is blazing fast. When it is on target it takes a hell of a lot of stopping to make sure it doesn’t hit the net and go through it. If he ever goes into a skills competition, I would bet all my money on Gustav. Penalty Shots: This kid has some good dekes on him but isn’t the best with them in open play but when he is one on one with the Goalie he will score most of the time. I know it is a bit of a niche skill that we shouldn’t really look out for but if we ever get to a shoot out I would definitely have him in your top 3. Weaknesses: Size: He is only quite a small kid and whilst you can see he has been working on his strength he will still get bodied on the ice. Add this to the fact he keeps his head down when skating he could be potentially injury prone, whilst I think that we can train the keeping the head up I honestly don’t think he really has the build for a pro level VHLer. Discipline: This man is a hot head not only does he cause shit if he disagrees with anyone including teammates, but his on ice discipline is worse pair that with his defensive skills and he makes a lot of sloppy errors. Defence: Speaking of Defence oh my this kid doesn’t back check and when in the defensive zone is honestly just looking for someone to make a stretch pass to him so he can go and score. This kid has no interest in wanting to defend he just wants to see the puck in the back of the net. In summary Mr. Campbell I would not reach for this player he is a third rounder at best.

Quick Little Berocka Wrap up of S91 Firstly, Gustav Mattias had a very quiet season, getting a handful of minutes every game but not putting up really any points. Was surprised I didn’t get much PP time especially as I am focused on scoring, I thought just maybe I would be a good power play star. Let us see what next season brings with Mattias being able to play up in the VHL on the star team with the Bears. Maybe I need to start bottom hunting and chasing FA to score more goals I am unsure what I need to do but I have three seasons with the Bears to play out first so I will focus on them. Secondly, and definitely most importantly the Saskatoon Wild are the S91 champions! It was the first championship for the team since S82. It took the team just 17 games to get through the 3 rounds. They had a 4-1 series win against the San Diego Marlins in the opening round, followed by a 7 game nailbiter against the Houston Bulls to finish it off with a 4-1 Series victory against the Philadelphia Reapers. The Reapers were not an easy beat with I believe all 5 games being decided by one goal. Everyone on the team contributed to the victory and I couldn’t have done it without every single person. From our star goalie @ToddlyBobbly who managed to finish with a .928 Save percentage and 3 shut outs in the playoffs. To @vladbatton who was traded into the team just before the trade deadline to help bolster up the defence for the team. To my S91 Draftees @BOOM who was shooting goals all season long @dlamb who held the blue line single handedly most of the season until we acquired Vladimir @silentnyrf31 the returning member from S90 who put up almost a PPG in the playoffs. Then there were the waiver signings @DustyMclaren who hit the ground running with helping out the team, @a_Ferk who really helped fix our blue line removing more and more minutes from the bots, @Possum Queen who only laced up the skates for the playoffs but made strong contributions in removing ice time from bots. Last but certainly not least, we have the Wild players from last season that learnt from our early knock out of playoffs last season and wanted the taste of glory this season. @Joseph Jec, @jacobaa19, @Is_thatok, @Crazytomato108 for all your updating and making sure you were a team that was going to go all the way I cannot thank you enough. I would also like to thank @sliceruser for always coming into the locker room with stats and observations from the game I think you will make an incredible GM one day if you would like to do that. Also, to @Dadam30 appreciate you so much and really enjoy having you as an AGM I think that you will also do a great job as a GM if the time comes when you get your own team. Thank you all for reading and another thanks to my players with the Saskatoon Wild you deserve this championship, and I am glad I could make it work for all of you as you put in the work every week.

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Thanks mate, this series was a lot closer than what the 4-1 series suggests each game was a nail biter

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The Elmebeck Stories I am sure all of you are aware of the top member award that is handed out each season/every 2nd season now is called the Elmebeck award. Elmebeck was a member of the community who passed away, he was quite active and was always very helpful. He was one of the members in my Cricket sim when I started that I use to sim the games and occasionally commentate over them, without fault he would always be in the chat asking questions. Even when I wouldn’t commentate he would have a list of questions for me about the game. There were countless I remember chatting to him, whether it be through text or voice. So many times I would put on a stream of a test match that would go for about 8 hours and I would wake up in the morning to timestamped questions. I remember going back through the stream and finding out everything he asked and trying to give the best answer I could whilst trying to get ready for work. It was a shock to me when it got announced what happened, someone I only sort of knew had passed and as much as I didn’t know him, there was a connection there, when you spend hours with someone connecting through a mutual love there is definitely an attachment. Then there were the people who said that he faked his own death to get some attention in the VHL and that cut deep as he didn’t seem like that sort of person. Although without knowing anything there is no way of knowing one way or the other. So now when the season awards come around every season and the nominations come in and we decide on who gets this award. It always makes me think back on the times we spent chatting about cricket early in the morning to late in the night, it was always a crazy hour of the day for one of us. It is honestly one of my best memories from the VHL and will remember it fondly. I don’t know what made me think of writing this media spot but I thought why not, it is league related. I just wanted to add on that the Elmebeck award is for the top member but I think we can all chip in to being a top member especially over the holiday period. Let us all be nicer to each other and to listen to and respect our fellow members, as without members we won’t have a sim. Just remember that the person at the other end of the keyboard or simulation is also a person. Let us all be friendly and cheerful, sure we can still have fun and be competitive but let us make sure that we all leave this holiday period happy and healthy. If anyone is struggling please reach out and I would love to have a chat and if you are really struggling please reach out to the professionals they are there to help! Have a great holiday season everyone! @Elmebeck for Elmebeck!