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So it's that time in Wolf Stansson, Jr.'s career where he is nearly over the hill. Like 1.5 seasons left. Time sure flies by fast since I first created him just because of the Affiliate thing so I could transfer SBA PTs to this place and also claim that sweet Affiliate Check point for both leagues. Then I got worried about that when both leagues decided to cut ties.... only to make up once that Reddit recruitment thing went dead in the water. So I suppose I should start thinking about that recreate thing. I've been good with where I am here in the VHL - just doing the bare minimum necessary to get along and having low expectations since I prioritize the SBA more than any other league. Okay so enough ramblings aside - let's talk shop about my potential recreates. Faceoffs Maestro - I could create a center who specializes in face-offs. I don't know what the value would be in that or if any team would really need such a thing. Probably on penalty kill shifts, yeah. That center would also have decent skating and passing skills. Thoughts? Fighting Thug - I could go the route of Luc-Pierre Lespineau-Lebrunette and just go all out thug. Fight, get sent to the box, go back on the ice, repeat the process. But that'd constantly put our teams one-man down. That'd probably not go very far. Speedy Scorer - Again with the one-dimensional approach. As I said, I'm not going to go all out in this league so might as well try to keep my player simple as much as possible instead of an all-around approach. This guy would just fly up and down the ice and pulverize the shit out of the puck en route to the nets. Put some holes in goaltenders' gloves or a burn mark on their palm. Hmm. Or I could just create another defenseman who hits and blocks shots like crazy. Interesting thoughts, aren't they? Wonder which one would be most in-demand amongst the VHL teams a few seasons down the road.

Prague Phantoms seventh-year defenseman Wolf Stansson Jr. is back in familiar territory - on the first line manning the blue line alongside sixth-year veteran Cinnamon Block. The two have been on and off the pairing on the defensive front for the last six years, alternating alongside former Phantom Seabass Perrin (currently with Helsinki Titans). With an inactive defenseman and a young defenseman being the only others on the active roster, it was essentially a no-brainer for the Phantoms coaches to put the two veterans back together. "I was actually surprised when the coach put my name up there on the first line. I mean, I wasn't really paying much attention to the roster and how the offseason shook out because I was back in Iceland spending time with my family, probably for the first time in two or three years. That was how dedicated I was to helping the team out by building chemistry through bonding activities and whatnot. But now that my time in the VHL is approaching the end of the junction - I had to balance things out a little more. But yeah, I'm perfectly okay with playing on the first line. That'll only mean more challenges for me as I'll once again be going up against the best of the best forwards/centers. Our goaltender is getting better, but he still needs our help from time to time. I didn't really put in too much work fighting regression because I'm saving up for one more hurrah next year, when regression will eat away at me some more, so I'll need my strength to really play hard next year. I just hope that my end-of-season stat line isn't too ugly." Through the first 10 games, Prague has gone 4-6 with a -4 net goal differential so it isn't completely terrible. Let's see what things look like at the end of this season.

It has been a bittersweet offseason for Wolf Stansson, Jr. and his Prague Phantoms organization. “The departure of long-time blue line partner Seabass Perrin was tough to swallow, but it was completely understandable. Seabass has stuck with this team through thick and thin. From Day 1 onwards too. I’ve enjoyed playing with him and his presence in the locker room was a welcome sight to see. I’ve never thought we would stick together for this long but yeah, I guess all good things must come to an end. I hope he does come back next season like he said, for one final swan song.” In addition to the aforementioned departure, another longtime Phantom teammate will be hanging up his skates. It is none other than forward Alex Pearson, a member of the team since Day 1 via the expansion draft. “Time truly does fly by fast. It still feels like yesterday that we were all starting out together and debuting the new Prague uniforms in that inaugural media day session. Now look at us, we’re the old farts. Pearson does hold some records and I think I hold some other records, largely on the basis of being here since Day 1 and our strong level of play day in, day out. I wish him nothing but the best going forward in his post-hockey endeavors.” When asked if WSJ wanted to go play for another team with a chance for a Cup, WSJ graciously declined. With this in mind, it basically leaves Wolf Stansson, Jr. as the last Og Phantom that will continue to play into S74 as well as 75, which will be his final season. Sad face.

Three cheers to one of the best and most chill teammate I’ve had here in Prague. Hope our run continues with our next gen players

Prague Phantoms have had their tales of shortcomings and disappointments throughout their (and Wolf Stansson, Jr.’s) six years of existence in the VHL. It kind of suck, but at the same time you cannot ever give up and you’ve just really got to keep on pounding. Anyways, let’s check out WSJ and/or the Prague Phantoms and how they are doing through the Long offseAson. “another long offseason in the books. It doesn’t ever get any easier and I’m just riding it out until the wheels come off. No idea what’s going on in the VHL and I could care less really. I’ve sort of gotten used to this unfortunately. Riding down that horse into the sunset at the horizon, that’s what it feels like.” WSJ is slated to go through another round of regression this upcoming offseason which kind of sucks, but it’s the nature of the game and aging. It remains unknown whether or not WSJ plans on trying to offset some of these effects or just ride it out for one final hurrah in S75, his eighth and final season. It all depends on how the team and the final roster looks for S74 really. with only one player retiring after S73 and everybody else gaining another year of experience - and the entire defensive group hitting regression... it will be interesting to see how Prague manages this transition of their forwards/goalie getting better as their signature crop of defensemen gets older and slower. only time will tell, so stay tuned folks!

Prague Phantoms veteran defenseman Wolf Stansson, Jr. Was noticeably disappointed following the final regular season game for the team when it was confirmed that the team would miss the postseason yet once again, by a single point, and missing out on the 4th seed by another point. WSJ and his teammates knew that this season would be weird in some ways because of the bridging of the gap between their goaltenders in veteran Virgil Ligriv to youngster Woody McPine. But in an expansion year, WSJ and his teammates at least fully expected to make it into the playoffs on the basis of their trio of veteran defenseman and a solid group of peaking and prime forwards such as Wade Landry II among others. Alas, it was not to be. “It sucks. We’ve come up on the short end of the stick, feels like our entire franchise history. When we were good enough to get into the postseason which was only twice, we got bounced out early. Even when we had a MVP between the postseason. So it’s a huge bummer really. Kinda burns the sails out of our boat and I feel bad, especially for our fans who have stuck with us from Day 1 onwards. im not sure what is our teams plans for next seasons but I hope it’ll be full of moves and plans that will help us avoid this similar kind of disappointments once again. I feel like we really can do a whole lot better than this.”

Wolf Stansson Jr. has been around the block for a bit now. Only two more regression filled years until he’s out of the league for good. It’s been an interesting sixth year for the Prague Phantoms veteran defenseman - he came out of the gate strong, averaging a point per game for the first 25-30 or so. Then his production apparently has dropped off. “it’s the grind and the nature of those things - you have your hot streaks and your cold streaks. As a team, we’re playing fairly well even as we go through some sort of a goaltender bridge from the veteran Virgil Ligriv to Woody McPine. McPine has a bright future ahead of him, so we’re looking forward to seeing him grow. Gotta help ease those growing pains on him, not just for him but for the whole team as well.” Prague has been somewhat solid this year although there are the occasional facepalm games where they lose against an expansion team, more so Warsaw than others for some odd reason. The Phantoms find themselves just a game outside the postseason picture and will need to hustle if they’re to overtake Malmo for the fifth and final European conference playoff berth.

Sixth year Wolf Stansson Jr and the Prague Phantoms have gotten off to strong starts in S73, an expansion year for the VHL. For WSJ, he’s picked up 29 points in 25 games - a torrid pace for the defenseman whose career high of 67 points came last season and the previous high was 58, set in his rookie season on an expansion Phantom team. so why the sudden explosion in offense for both WSJ and the Phantoms? Well, it may be because they’re raking in points against other teams. It may also probably be the change in the philosophy of the Prague coaches after riding a defensive approach for their first four years only to result in a long offseason/early first round exits. It’s been a welcome change of scenery for WSJ who may be playing the best hockey of his life even though he regressed a bit over the offseason. in other news - id also just like to say that it has been a welcome sight to see the VHL and the SBA partner once again as full fledged affiliates. While I see the reasons behind the split in the first place, the grudge lasted way too long and it was not ideal for the sim community which is really small enough to start with. I look forward to bigger things for both league... and unfortunately now, I will have to recreate here in order to get that extra affiliate TPE.

+4 cause I don’t got no time for a PT this week

Wolf Stansson, Jr. is embarking on his sixth season in the league, with the very same team that made him their first overall draft selection in team history, the Prague Phantoms. That was back in S68 which feels like a decade ago right now lol. WSJ has put together a somewhat solid career, posting career highs in a lot of areas last season in his final prime season. WSJ opted to start banking his TPE in order to be better prepared for his 7th and possibly 8th season in the league before he is sent away packing. So realistically, my expectations were tempered heading into this season. through 14 games, Prague has a .500 record. Not bad. WSJ is averaging a point per game, which is actually better than I thought/gave him credit for. Playing on the second line may have more to do with this as WSJ doesn’t have to fight against the premier first-liners of the other team as much. Is there a chance for WSJ to have a good year, matching/coming close to his Year 5 numbers? Only one way to find out.

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Wolf Stansson, Jr. has completed his fifth VHL season, all coming with the Prague Phantoms as their first ever draft pick in the S68 Entry Draft. Six seasons later, the VHL is expanding once again. Growth and recruitment has been tremendous for the league and they're finally starting to breathe once again. It's a nice sight to see and to be a part of. WSJ completed S72 by putting up career numbers all across the board, namely in goals, assists, points, shots, penalty minutes, hits, game-winning goals, and power-play goals. It's been a remarkable prime year for WSJ, who is scheduled to hit regression this offseason. Oof. A lot of this personal improvements has to do with Prague opening up their general scheme this year as they shifted from a defensive umbrella to a free-playing unit. Sure, it helped them score a lot of goals... but it also allowed them to be exposed to being scored upon. As a result, the team missed the playoffs this year after a two-season streak. So... I'm not quite sure if this is much to cheer about. Not to mention that WSJ finally posted a negative +/- rating, which was exactly what I was dreading. Can't win them all, I suppose. Anyways, expansion sounds really cool and all that. Four new teams coming into the league, damn! That's a huge jump from S67 when it was only 8 teams and we had just expanded to 10 in S68 with D.C. Dragons and Prague. Now we're up to 14, which is pretty cool. I'm not sure what is WSJ's status - is he staying on Prague or not. The management hasn't contacted WSJ yet in regards to the possibility of WSJ changing teams this offseason due to the Expansion Draft... so I'm assuming that is good news, as I'm hoping to become a career Phantom with WSJ. Try to set some career franchise records that'll become untouchable. And uhh... well, the VHL all-time records are probably out of the window. Three more seasons left for old WSJ. Let's get it done.

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I hate those times of the year. Unless you’re one of the few teams remaining in the postseason, There’s a lot of idle time and not much going on, which has been the case for most of wolf Stansson, Jr.’s career. Through his five seasons with Prague, WSJ has only made it to the postseason twice and both resulted in an early exit. Not to mention the two early exits from the VHLM playoffs, so there’s been a lot of idle time for me. So I had to get a little creative for my piece this week. Looking at the Phantoms roster, only three players have played in every single one of Prague’s 260 games in existence, and four have played in 259 (not sure what made that guy miss one game?). They Are none other than WSJ, Seabass Perrin, Alex Pearson and the 4th player being Blake Laughton. I thought that was pretty interesting and also a little surreal thinking that we’ve been together for this long, remaining loyal to Prague. On top of that Perrin and WSJ have been Paired up on the same defensive unit more often than not. So that’s even more intimate. Sure, they’ve had their disagreements from time to time but it’s always been good in the end. One can only hope that this foursome/trio/duo can help lead Prague to some more success before their career dies out.

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Prague Phantoms have been perennially on the postseason bubble all season long, antagonizing their fans with the constant inching closer, then taking a step backwards and so on. There are reports that the number of Prague individuals taking trips to the hospital for undue stress or heart-related complications are up this year. ”It wouldn’t be Phantoms hockey if we weren’t constantly maddening our fans and toying with their emotions/feelings and whatnot. I’m not sure why we just cannot seem to decide upon an appropriate fate for our S72 team. I truly do feel for our fans. It isn’t any easier here in the locker room. We decided to open up our offense this year compared to our approach the last four years... in a way, it has worked wonders for our guys. Myself included, a bunch of us as posting career high numbers which is cool and all. Ultimately it came at the expense of our defense and goaltender- leaving them a little more exposed than we’d like. anyways, we’ve got just four games left and we are only a single point out of the playoffs. There’s a chance we could also climb up to the third seed in the European although Moscow has two extra games in hand, so that’s a little more unlikely. I’d certainly hope we end up making it and send Davos packing. But it depends on which Phantoms team shows up for those last four games.”

It’s been a very interesting season to say the very least. Prague Phantoms have been polarizing to say the very least. The last couple of games, the Phantoms have been playing at a very high level - why hasn’t this been the practice all season long?? Then there are other games where they just stink up the joint and everybody is in a rush to head out. ”It’s been an interesting journey. We are on the verge Of the postseason, but every time we come knocking on the door - I kinda feel like we’re pulling a prank and we end up tanking the next few games to put ourselves out of the picture. But we’re never really completely out if you know what I mean? Kinda frustrating. I already talked enough about that - it’s time to check out my stat line. We’ve been more offensive friendly than we have ever before, and everybody’s numbers are up. Myself included, as I could very well be on pace for my first 20-goal season. Maybe 60+ points if I’m lucky enough. You know what’s also interesting? My hits have also been up - I’m not sure why but I guess I’m just playing a little more aggressive on the rink. But the one thing I don’t like is my +/- numbers. Playing on the second line with Cody Smith does that I guess. So mixed feelings on that one too. hopefully we can turn things around next season and try to make a strong run with the S68/69 core of guys that have stuck around All those years.”

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Wolf Stansson, Jr. has been mostly disappointed by Prague's results this year. Through 42 games, Prague has only picked up 39 points -- second-least in the league, and they currently find themselves one point out of the last postseason spot in the European Conference. "Don't get me wrong or anything, I knew that we were going to take a bit of a hit this year with the retirement of Brick Wahl. But to take this much of a regression, damn boy. Never would have seen that one coming. I would have definitely assessed that we'd be able to make it into the postseason this year at the very least. We've been dropping games against other teams that we should have beaten. Especially those kind of games where the other team starts their backup goaltender for goodness' sakes. That speaks volume to our lack of unity or cohesion on both ends of the rink. I don't know what to say really - I cannot blame anybody nor myself for this. Just... hope that we learn from this and hopefully improve for next year. We traded our goaltender and picked up a decent piece in Virgil Ligriv. I'm not sure if he is much better than Solomon Crawford, but it's something that we gotta live with for now. Funny thing, it looks like Crawford seems to be doing much better in Malmo than Prague haha. We kidded him about it on a phone call - maybe it was something about Prague that caused him to underperform... I don't know man. Woody McPine of Minnesota Storm looks like a promising goaltender and may be somebody who we look at closely as we inch closer toward the draft. But there's a lot of solid skaters too, so we probably should add a skater over a goaltender, especially if we have a lottery draft pick. I honestly don't know anymore. I'm just gonna go out there and do my thing, chill around in the LR and count down the days until I'm out of this league. "

For a second there, Prague Phantoms looked like they had hope. Goaltender Solomon Crawford wasn't doing too bad for himself, the defenseman were getting heavily involved on offense while pulling off double duties on the rink to help out Crawford, and the forwards were holding up their weight on offense. Then it all came stumbling down. Prague started losing more games than they won. Their struggles in the "fourth period", or overtime, were evident. Through the first 24 games, Prague dropped five games in overtime, two more than any other team. "I don't know mate. We're struggling right now. Crawford's goaltending numbers are definitely better across the board, like saves percentage and goals allowed on average. If I'm looking at the league leaderboard correctly, Crawford has faced 60 more shots than any other VHL goaltender. So it hasn't been easy on him. Even with me, Seabass Perrin and Cinnamon Block, a stellar group of defenders to help him out. We gotta help the poor guy out a little bit. As for the rest of us. I don't know. It seems that we've cooled off on offense after leading the league for a bit. The shots aren't as lucky for us anymore, and with our porous defense - it has translated over to more losses because we aren't getting the goals to keep up the pressure on the other teams. That's something that we have to assess within ourselves... is what we have working, and if not -- then are there any moves that can be done in order to help bolster our position and stabilize our ship? That's questions that our front office will need to answer, hopefully soon. In the meantime, I'm going to try and enjoy our offense as much as possible 'cause I think I'm gonna put up career numbers this year."