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Toronto Legion Press Conference (2 TPE for answering all six questions) 1. What aspect of our hot start to the season have you been most impressed with? 2. If you could pick one X-Men character's powers to have, who would it be? 3. What do we need to sacrifice to Simon to finally beat DC? 4. What is your favourite comedy movie to watch when you need a pick me up? 5. Should the VHL be adding more ways to be able to earn cash for your player? At the moment, you can only earn with contracts (including bonuses) and donations. 6. What's your favourite flavour of gum?

Can we retroactively do this for a season ago? Asking for a friend.

Toronto Legion Press Conference (2 TPE for answering all six questions) 1. How are you feeling about the start to the season, both for your player individually and the team overall? 2. The weather has finally started to turn for the better in my neck of the woods, and it has me thinking about outdoor cooking. Do you like to BBQ, and if you do, what's your go-to food to do on the Q? 3. Any big surprises around the league on the standings board for you, or has it been what you expected so far? 4. If you get all comfy cozy on the couch with a blanket, how long does it take for you to doze off, regardless of whether you're doing something or not. 5. Would you shuffle the deck with lines and strategies as was initially planned at the start of the season, or let it ride right now until the hot start slows? 6. As promised to some folks, I said that I would have a question about @LucyXpher on here, so here goes! Have you come across Lucy in your travels on here yet? In roles such as Malmo Nighthawks GM, the Halifax 21st GM, head of the VSN, player Lucy Leitner, the Marbles enthusiast, or others, Lucy has been involved in many different areas of the VHL the last few seasons. If you have, feel free to say something nice about Lucy here! If you haven't yet, reach out and say hi, Lucy is an awesome person!

If you're not watching Severance, get on board!

Hahaha, Harry Callahan ftw!!

That damn #8/8) thing always used to drive me nuts because I'd forget about it until I posted the article. Nice prediction, happy to get the season going today!

Go Legion!

When he sang the words "The waiting is the hardest part", Tom Petty spoke the truth. After the final season for Harry Callahan wrapped up, the focus shifted to the next player to come along (a still unnamed player). As we get set to begin the start of S98, we're just 35 days away from the S100 creation date. Hopefully the time flies by as the date te re-create approaches, in the meantime it'll just be General Manager duties for me. It feels weird to not have a player to pull up on Monday mornings and fire up the early TPE claims. I'm looking forward to this season for the Legion. We've got some players that are about to come into their own, and the additions this off-season leave me optimistic that it's going to be an entertaining season. The mix of veterans looking to win a Cup late in their career with players entering the middle of their career taking the next step, and a rookie who is ready to come in and follow up a strong VHLM career gives us a lot of different perspectives on the roster. Here's hoping that it ends up being a fun ride!

Toronto Legion Press Conference (2 TPE for answering all six questions) 1. The regular season is finally here! Puck drops on Wednesday for the season opener. What are you most excited about at the start of the season? 2. What is your go-to game to play when you're bored? 3. The highest ranking player in active TPE that we have is 31st in the league. Will our lack of top 30 players hurt us this season, or is the balanced approach (7 players between 31st and 60th) going to make up for that? 4. You're locked in a room with Jason Bourne, James Bond, John Wick, and Ethan Hunt. Which one are you partnering with to take down the rest? 5. Set one statistical goal for your player this season (I'll attempt to check on these after the season). 6. Who is your pick for the Calder Trophy this year, Lane Hutson or Macklin Celebrini (or other I suppose)?

The Awards show is done as an event on here. It's a hell of a lot more fun and interactive to have it award by award than just posting a list of results. Prediction results get posted and prediction points get allocated automatically, so there's really no reason to complain about how the awards are done in the name of predictions. Scrolling through less than 2 pages of posts to see the results is hardly difficult either.

Hi Tet!

As much as I enjoy winning the vote for the Scotty Campbell Trophy this season, I am far more touched to win the Elmebeck Memorial Trophy. It's an amazing honour to win the award, and I'm very appreciative for the amazing write up! Thank you very much!! Congratulations to all the other winners and nominees on your great season!

Looking forward to your season up front, gonna be a career season! On the job front, sorry to hear that, I can't imagine how frustrating it is to put in the work and then have nothing come of it, especially when they can't even be decent enough to just let you know.

Awesome article! I can tell you that it was definitely luck from the perspective of Kadachi and Tuominen ending up in the same place. Both of you were easy choices to target in free agency, but it wasn't intentional to reunite you. I'm happy that it works out well that way though! It's going to be a fun season coming up, here's hoping that we're celebrating a Cup in a few months! Go Legion!

Coach Jimmy McGinty ftw!!

Toronto Legion Press Conference (2 TPE for answering all six questions) 1. The start of season roster is set with training camp opening up today. How are we looking? 2. What number do you wear for the Legion (or your VHLM team if you're a prospect) and why? 3. In honour of his recent passing, what is your favourite Gene Hackman movie? If you haven't seen one (or don't know who he is), then just name the most recent movie that you watched (but know that we'll likely have to sit down and discuss why you haven't seen one lol). 4. What's your opinion on the coming salary cap decreases in the next two seasons in the VHL? 5. What song should we be playing when we come onto the ice for our home opener this season? 6. You're making a pasta dish with one noodle shape, one sauce, and one protein. What's your combo?

Wooo! Go Legion!

Go Legion!!

Thank you to @v.2 for the trade talks, and to @Kenamatic for your time in Toronto!

Who says that Toronto has a GM? For us it was definitely about giving the veterans from the S91 Cup another chance at winning before retirement in Toronto, while also allowing the next group of players to come into their own. I can't tell you how it'll turn out, but I'll put my faith in my group every day.

A fantastic choice, it's very well deserved!! Looking forward to seeing what SMYLS can do in Houston!

Then bring in a cap floor instead of reducing the ceiling. For teams who sold off like crazy the last 2 seasons (the teams who directly dragged that league average cap spending way down) and gained a truckload of draft picks, they're now rewarded by having teams who have spent to the cap suddenly need to offload players because they can't fit them in the cap. We're not addressing the actual issue here, we just have teams who now have large prospect pools and additional draft picks over the next 2 drafts, and will now get cap dumps that will accelerate their tank/rebuild. It just feels like a backwards way of making teams stop from fully tanking and trading all of the players off their roster by rewarding the teams who just did that.

The issue isn't whether it's manageable or not, the issue is why are we doing this? Like I said in my post, if it's for competitiveness reasons, we've had 10 different teams win the last 11 Cups. Nobody has been stacking teams that are constantly keeping others out of Championships. If we had the same 2 teams win the last 5 Cups, I'd agree that we have an issue that needs to be addressed. In the last 10 seasons, 75% of the league has been to the Cup Finals. That certainly doesn't seem like a reason to be lowering the Cap for parity reasons.

Teams will be forced to stay specifically at the salary bracket price for players rather than be able to go above, plus they won't be able to give out bonuses that could have before with a lowered cap. I know that it's uncommon for players to receive contracts above minimum now, but it does still happen. The decreases ensure that no teams will likely be able to afford that possibility.

Congratulations to v.2!! The Reign are definitely in great hands!