mattyIceman

Player Information
Username: Greg_Di
Player Name: Roger Eagles
Recruited From: Returning
Age: 21
Position: G
Height: 76 in.
Weight: 190 lbs.
Birthplace: Poland

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@VHLM GM

This is an awesome idea!  I'll  second this suggestion.  Maybe forward this to the suggestion thread?

Since joining the SBA I just noticed under their draft picks tab (click it after this link, history tab is cool too) it lists picks and then the history of players drafted to that organization. This would be really cool to see on the portal for each team instead of going through each draft manually.
 
 

Also in the VHLM the GM stats button is blank, I made this spreadsheet a while ago and it’s updated to about S82 from all the portal’s indexes: 
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_pcBLz1bCL920cChiyIBeLGJkTTLAT2oQiXh-zTCClI/edit
 
I can update it fully to date if that’s something y’all want to add in and keep track of.

Definitely using this one. Thanks!

@Will3
 

@Will3
 

Overview:
 
To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of New York bringing home a Continental Cup, the VHL has released this rebrand for the team. While the shield and stripes stay the same, there is a team name change and a few minor tweaks to the logo itself. We have changed the "NY" part of the logo to the full city name. We have also added the new team name onto the shield itself. The plan is to change the team name every ten seasons; So in ten seasons we will be the NY 63's, then NY 73's, NY 83s etc. etc. until the end of time.
 
If the NY franchise ever do win another cup, we will be renaming ourselves the New York Cursebreakers and each team member will be given a 10ft gold statue right beside Lady Liberty herself.
 
Secondary Patch:
 

From Vancouver Wolves
 
to
 
Vancouver OJ's
 



Because they also got away with it
 

Their gloves are all a size too small?

the sponsored team car is a white Ford Bronco, I guess

Vancouver Wolves did what I call an "OJsian" - move,  they cheated the system and got away with it.

@Will3
 

I love sim leagues. I have participated in a great variety of leagues of weird things from Rugby to Quidditch. No matter how many leagues I am talked into joining, my favorite leagues are always the hockey sim leagues. The Victory Hockey League is where I first started this ongoing adventure and remains the most important league to me. The Simulation Hockey League is another fun league that I have had much success in. Seeing what has happened to spring football lead to an interesting thought experiment, "What would happen if I were to merge the two best sim hockey leagues into one super leagues?" So I did. Over many pages of paper and much work with the old thinking cap, I merged the VHL and SHL into a ginormous league which I called  called the WSH or World Simulation Hockey. These write-ups are a part of a three part series detailing my opinions and logic that helped me develop the technically possible but practically impossible sim league of my dreams.
 
Rules

A thought experiment this complex needs rules to simplify things. The rules I followed to reasonable combine two different league are as follows.
 
Rule #1. Only one team per city. No sim league has two teams in one city so my merged league can't either.
 
Rule #2 Major clubs erase minor clubs in the same city with the option for the major club to take on the minor club's branding. This rule result in an issue that will be explored later.
 
Rule #3 Best branding remains for cities that have a franchise of equivalent levels of play. I will explain my feelings the informed the identities I choose.
 
Rule #4 Brands not chosen can be considered for use with different cities and leagues.The purpose of this rule is to reduce the amount of new brands I have to create. No good ideas should ever go to waste.

Introduction to Minor Leage Teams

With the rules firmly established, I set to the task of fusing both leagues minor/junior leagues into a unified league. A quick explanation of each leagues and it's teams will serve as perfect a point of reference to compare against the end results. The VHLM is a ten franchise league split into two divisions, East and West. The clubs composing this league is listed below.
 
VHLM East
 
Halifax 21st
Mississauga Hounds
Ottawa Lynx
Philadelphia Reapers
Miami Marauders
 
VHLM West
 
Houston Bulls
Las Vegas Aces 
Mexico City Kings
San Diego Marlins
Saskatoon Wild
 
 
The SMJHL on the other hand is a sixteen team league divided into Northern and Southern divisions of eight teams each. Those team are listed below.   SMJHL South   Carolina Kraken  Colorado Raptors Detroit Falcons Main Timber Nevada Battleborn Ottawa Highlanders St Louis Scarecrows   SMJHL North   Anchorage Armada Great Falls Grizzlies Kelowna Knights Newfoundland Berserkers Quebec City Citadlles Regina Elk Vancouver Whalers Yukon Malamutes  
Results and Explanation
 
With all of the pieces on the board, I set out to my task of finding my reasonable mearger. The end product of my labor was a league I called the WSHJ or World Simulation Hockey Juniors. The WSHJ is a twenty-two franchise league split into Eastern and Western divisions of eleven teams each. A massive list of all teams is below.
 
WSHJ East
 
Carolina Kraken
Detroit Falcons
Halifax 21st
Maine Timber
Miami Marauders 
Mississauga Hounds
Newfoundland Berserkers
Ottawa Lynx
Pittsburgh Forge
Quebec City Citadlles
St Louis Scarecrows
 
WSHJ West
 
Anchorage Armada
Colorado Raptors
Great Falls Grizzlies
Houston Bulls
Kelowna Knights
Mexico City Kings
Nevada Battleborn
Regina Elk
San Diego Marlins
Saskatoon Wild
Yukon Rush
 
The creation of the Pittsburgh Forge was an answer to the biggest problems I had to face. As per Rule 2, two minor clubs had to dissappear. The Vancouver Whalers  (because of the VHL's Vancouver Wolves) and the Philadelphia Reapers. (because of the SHL's Philadelphia Forge) The loss of the Whalers created no problems but the loss of the Reapers did. When I boiled down the teams to available cities in compliance with Rule 1,  I discovered two problems. The first problem was the fact I had twenty-one cities. The second problem was that western cities outnumbered eastern twelve to nine. To help fix both problems, I had these two different Philadelphia brands swap leagues so that the Reapers were the major club and the Forge were the minor club, then moved the Forge across the state, inadvertently doing the inverse of ancient hockey history history. A long time ago the was a NHL franchise in Pittsburgh that relocated to Philadelphia for a season before disbanding thirty-six years before both cities would receive the iconic clubs we know today. Relocating a Philadelphia team to Pittsburgh is strangely poetic, to me at least. Of corse several other location in the Eastern part of North America would have worked but I feel my reasons for doing so are sound, After having an even number of teams, I still needed  even divisions so I had to misplace St Louis in the Eastern Conference. The was a snap judgment call on my end that does work.
 
Now to explain the reason for the branding I chose. Ottawa was a toss up between the different brands.The Lynx are the slightly stronger brand and thus won out. Also I do have other plans for the Highlanders branding. In the Vegas area, Aces may be the high card, but the victory belongs to the Battleborn. For San Diego, Tidal branding would have won out if the proper name for the ocean wave and not a name born of an incorrect notion was used. That bothered me more that it should have. Something I will have to rethink in the end. Yukon was the only team I rebranded completely from the original brand because name and logo given seemed.  to be a legally distinct brand from a certain basketball college. Also the Rush were a successful VHLM team that was moved to the VHLE and later contracted that many have wished to return.
 
Conclusion
 
I feel like I have achieved what I hoped to accomplish with this experiment so far. I discoved challenging problems and found ingenious solutions towards building a technically sound but far too massive fusion of my two favorite simulation sports leagues. As my conclusions will not be the same as others, open discussion on what can be changed is always welcomed below. That or rant about my choices, either one will work. Next week, I will start the mearger of the major teams to create something massive.
 

That's actually hot af

A collection of every image I made during my time here in the VHL. I will try to update this over time as I release more graphics.. also witnessing the evolution like this just inspires me. Enjoy!
 
S68 (off-season)

 
S69

 

 

 

 

 

 









 
 
S70

 

 

 



 

 

 


S71

 

 

 


S72

 



 



 
S73

 

 
S74

 



 
S75

 
(I went IA for a time, I also excluded my Overall Ranking images I made over the course of S71-S75 since they are the virtually the same.)
 
S85
(memes)



 

 
(this one was made by ShawnGlade, but I thought I’d include it because why not 😂)


(more memes by yours truly)

 

 
(player card for the first time in years)

 
S86
(personal mask for Ash Sparks)


(brotherhood mask for Joel Castle, animal74’s goalie)


 

 
 
to be continued

S87 Graphics so far from my time in Geneva as well as my time as an AGM with the Houston Bulls!

     
 
Flaming Bull Award given to the player of the day!  Created for every player!

 
 

 
     
 

 

This is where I will post my 2D stuff!

     

Here we go!  S86 is about to begin for Leonard Triller!  All S86 graphics will drop here.


 
     
 

 

 

 

 
 
S86 Gifs Will Update Here


Larger version here: https://i.imgur.com/K4juIZi.gifv
 

50fps: https://i.imgur.com/BqFB8QL.gifv
 

 
     
 

 

 
     

     


 

World Junior Championships in the Off-season!


 
 
 
 

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From Leonard Triller's S85 with The Saskatoon Wild and the Royals for the JST!

 



 

 

 

 

 

 
KGW Custom Sticks Partnership

 

 

 


      

GIF TIME!
       
 
     

      
Larger Wild Stadium version here:  https://i.imgur.com/YNxydEP.gifv
 

 
Time for the Junior Showcase Tournament!  Let's go Royals!  #AllHail
     

Added it to my signature ❤️ thank you so much my friend

@NickSunderbruch
 

While the VHL/M/E is absolutely a league we all can appreciate and love, there's certainly some changes that I here, your favorite Florida Man back from presumably dead after about a 3 year hiatus, would make. I've been gone from the league for quite some time now for some personal reasons and really just not having been mentally in the place I needed to be in to be a contributing member to this community. With that being said, I'm back for good and you guys have to deal with my antics once again, and first on my list is a proposal that shouldn't make any sense but absolutely does. Moving every single team in the VHL, VHLM, and VHLE to a city in Florida and changing the name from the "Victory Hockey League" to the "Florida Hockey League". It's no secret that no other place in the world has anything significant to offer, and that the peak of human civilization has always been the creation of Florida.
 
     From Miami to Jacksonville, Tampa to West Palm beach, Tallahassee to Orlando, there is no city in the world with as much... culture as the state of Florida. You'd probably ask, well which teams would be moved where? Why move teams to Florida when we have Miami already? Aren't there unsavory people all across the state? And these are all incredibly dumb questions and you're dumb for asking them, take the crayons out of your mouth and listen to me okay? Florida is just inherently a better place for the League to call home, We could have the Winter Haven Crackheads, or the Orlando Snowbirds, or even the Clearwater Riots. There's limitless potential for Florida teams in the Sunshine state, we'd help stimulate the economy and really piss off every single Canadian Hockey fan forever, which in my personal and very humble but yet supreme opinion, is worth every single bit of money we'd lose from other markets.
 
     My plan/proposal isn't a financial decision that will make us any real money, no my plans are much more simple, I wish to simply engage in mass psychological warfare with every Canadian I possibly can on the pettiest level imaginable, taking away the sport that means so much to them. And while my advanced form of psychological warfare is absolutely hilarious, it also helps to establish the new Florida forever movement in which I am campaigning. Every VHL player on contract will be given one of their choice of either an American Alligator, or an American Crocodile, as those two are native to Florida and are a symbol of our unwavering love for the republic of Florida. Hockey also just inherently belongs in a warm environment, think about it you can just go down the beach and get all sandy and sunburned and then enjoy a nice cool hockey game at the "Nicktropolis Megadome" to watch the Orlando Snowbirds take on the 6x defending champion the Seminole Aces. The experience would be absolutely unparalleled, and there would be nothing in the known universe that could even compare to the amazing Florida Hockey League, and with your support we can make this dream a reality with me instated as the supreme leader of Florida.
 
     But anyways, in all seriousness it's nice to be back in the League, like I said before I had a lot going on in my personal life and took some time away, I'm absolutely amazed that so many of  y'all remember me and welcomed me back with open arms. I've missed this community greatly and this time I'm here to stay, thank you all for reading my border line psychosis inducing article, may we all be blessed down in Florida! Anyways I think I hear my dad coming home from the bar, I gotta grab my helmet and jockstrap, stay warm and stay icey, Seacrest out.