ROOKIE745

Haha thank you! Awesome to see this!

1. I hate it because I'm still bitter about the S70 draft. 2. Probably the standard fill it with beer and drink out of it. 3. Likely Yaboi Oven just because he's so far ahead of everyone else. 4. retool would be my guess. 5. Lots of practice and training for his first full season in the M. 6. I'll say a 4, he was solid but didn't provide much scoring,.

The Houston Bulls were taken out early in the VHLM playoffs, loosing to the Ottawa Lynx in five games. The Bulls had one of the most stacked rosters in the M and had plenty of depth but the Lynx just seemed to have their number all season long, even after new additions and players developing further they just couldn't find the answer to beat Ottawa. What makes it sting more is that the Ottawa Lynx lost in five in the next round against the Marlins in five. To put this in perspective the Houston Bulls recorded 106 points in the regular season for second place overall in the standings, the Ottawa Lynx had a mere 63 points. The Marlins had 105 points and had no problems with the Lynx, it's just one of those oddities, like Houston had some kind of mental block against the Lynx and played down to their opponent. Regardless Kadachi has said his farewells to his teammates as he looks forward towards the S90 VHLM dispersal draft. He's hoping he might get to reunite with some players from that Houston team as well as develop his play as he had trouble making a true impact during the season. "It would be fun to play with some of the same guys again, all of them were great, and if Houston was able to bring back in the draft I'd be happy to play there again. I'm putting in a lot of effort this offseason to learn the VHL style of hockey, it's definitely different than the KHL." (word count 260)

I always wanted to play for the Red Wolves purely because of how much I liked their logo, and now I can't DX I joined back a season to late.

1. I was hoping Kadachi would done a bit better but I think it comes down to low ice time (which I was fine with) and kind of spreading out his TPE into a bunch of different stats. We'll see how well he does in his second season in the M. 2. Well I would have guessed around 225, we ended with 238 so not to far off, we are 3rd highest. And ya I think I will keep in touch with some of my teammates, hopefully we play together on some future teams. 3. I really don't know, for whatever reason the other team just had out number. 4. No, because winning the cup is a team trophy. You can have a HOF career but never win the cup because your stuck on a bad team. 5. Assuming your talking about players, me and Slapshot always enjoy playing against each other or on the same team. Each of our players have played together on the same at some point. 6. Hey thanks AJ for bringing me in, it was a great team to play for after being away for some time! Good luck with your future endeavors! And thank you to Triller!!

NOOOOOO DON'T LET ME GO TO DAVOS!!! I'm still bitter about the S70 draft lol.

claiming for July 23rd as long as triples for VHL's 16th birthday

It's that time again, to talk until I hit that magical mark of 500 words!! While I've stated I don't intend to max cap every week with my current player, something I already failed anyway since I forgot to do an article last week, I was at least intending to max cap for the first few weeks to get Kadachi off to a strong start. Anyway enough about that, it's the VHL's 16th birthday!! And there's no way I can miss out on that sweet sweet TPE! Trying to remember wasn't there a theme week for like talking about what we were doing back in 2007? or something like that? I remember making a media spot on something like that. Could have been something else entirely, it all starts to mix together when you've talked about so many different subjects. Regardless it's always hard to believe this league was created the same year games like Halo 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Assassin's Creed were released. A time when I wasn't even ten years old yet. A time where the Wii was our main gaming console for me and my brother. I've been here for four of VHL's 16 birthdays at this point, joining very late the 2010's, another way to look at it is I joined right as the VHL entering it's teenager years lol. It makes me wonder, when compared to other sim leagues, and I don't just mean hockey, how does the VHL stack up? It might be the oldest hockey sim league but what about compared to basket ball, base ball, football, and soccer? I don't have much knowledge of sim leagues in general, the VHL is the only one I partake in, and even out of the ones I named I'm unsure if all of them actually have sim leagues, I just assume they do as three of the four mentioned are part of the big four (the other being hockey of course) and soccer is quickly growing and I imagine everyone knows of it. There's other more obscure or less popular sports that have sim leagues I imagine as well. Do any of them cross the 20 year mark? Do any of them predate the turn of the millennium? Which at that point are any of them older than I? Some of the oldest sites I'm familiar with are Ebay which has been around since 1995 and Deviantart, a site less than a month away from it's 23rd birthday. 16 years is nothing to scuff at regardless, it's to the point where there are users here that are younger than it, so carry on VHL, here's to another 16!! I need to drag this on a bit longer so I guess I'll talk about playoffs? I joined the Houston Bulls, as did a few others after me, the team is full if familiar faces, Slapshotdragon (I know it's bear now but I prefer the old name) Bana, rory, Moon just to name a few. When I joined the Reapers where ahead by 15 points if I recall, but we've taken that down to 9 and finished 1 point ahead of the Marlins. Considering the huge separation in points between teams, Kings are 21 points behind the Marlins, it feels very much like there are three super teams this season. So imagine most will be taking one of those three to win it all, with most of course taking the Reapers, here's hoping we can stop them!! (word count 584)

You know what's funny? I meant to max cap my first week back but I totally, totally forgot about doing an article. Been so long that I forgot you do there of the smaller point tasks and then something big like a media spot, so that's a whoops on my part. Anyway the season is over and Toby Kadachi was around to play 22 games, I thought I'd delve into some stats since I'm still getting back into the flow of things. Kadachi only put up 4 points in those 22 games which I can't say is to surprising, Ori struggled a lot in the first half of his season in the M, and I'm I'm pretty sure that was with higher TPE since it was before the rework. I am aiming for Kadachi to be more of a goal scorer than a passer so I have to say the only one goal is disappointing. Thanking despite the low point totals it doesn't feel Kadachi was hurting the team at all, he ended with a +5 and averaged 13 minutes a game, he was also used on the penalty kill a fair bit. My goal with Kadachi is make him a power forward/sniper, a little bit of both if that's a thing. Throws lots of hits and scores plenty of goals, he'll likely get in some fights too. He had 10 major penalty minutes and threw 25 hits. Houston Bulls are a great team and I look forward to see how far we can go!! (word count 255)

This is a great milestone review, I think you covered each goal well in good detail, I think you have it sorted very well, not to drawn out but not to short. I like the picture you got along with the text and the player quotes at the end. While it's not the flashiest post I don't think it needs to be, the plain text is fine and the use of italics for the player quotes is smart. Overall 10/10

1. 10-1-1 2. 236? 3. For the E I haven't played a proper season in it yet so it'll be my first time, I'd like to play for the red wolves. For the VHL, Nighthawks, Dragons, Phantoms, Legion, Phoenix..... just wanna play on a team with one of my favorite logos. 4. I'd love it if he did but.... likely not, I'll say he finishes top 5 though. 5. Play some Monster Hunter before every game. 6. Courtesy Call by Thousand foot krutch

Happy birthday VHL!!

Oh? You just came back from a break I take it?

Hey hey, good to be back!!

1. Forgive me as I have recently come back from a long break but I think it's a good trade, got four great Defensemen and Moon is a great guy! 2. Ya.... about that.... have you seen me? 3. It's good, funny enough I think I typed up a MS some time ago that would have worked perfectly for theme week. 4. Well..... considering I'm even newer to it, he should be telling me what to beware of XD 5. Relaxed coach, I'm hard enough on myself, I don't need a coach digging me into the ground when I mess up. 6. Probably need to stay in touch better with people, I'm really bad at that.

claiming for week ending July 16th also claiming doubles from donation

1 million$ player store 5 Uncapped TPE doubles week transaction ID 95T91063K8987994R

Hello hello!! After two and a half seasons off I am back for a third go around in the VHL. For anyone not familiar with my username my previous players where goalie Jaxx Hextall who played for Halifax and Minnesota in the M, winning a cup with the latter, and spent his entire career with the Toronto Legion during his time in the top league. Jonathan Ori was my second player, he play for Minnesota in the M in which they had a run to the finals before moving up, he'd spend most of his career with Helsinki but would make stops in Seattle and D.C. Now I look to create a new story, a new career once again. I've mentioned in previous posts how named my last players, so what about my newest player, Toby Kadachi? Well it's simple for anyone who's played the more recent Monster Hunter games, he's one of the "monsters" you can fight. I always found the name really fun to say, probably annoyed some friends with how often I said it. The only detail to note here is I did change the spelling of Toby, in Monster Hunter the actual spelling of it is Tobi but I decided to change it, because why not? People will still get the reference. For this third go around a goal of mine is to definitely take things easier, I spent most of Hextall's career and all of Ori's career max capping and it definitely wore me out. definitely a part of the reason I took as much time off as I did, I didn't feel like one season would suffice. Not to mention with longer careers now it's even harder to keep that up. My goal in terms of TPE is to at least hit 1000 but I don't know if I'll be hitting 1500 or 2000 as there are now three players who have. I'd love to join that 2K club but I just don't think I have it in me. Happy to see Ori is still in top 15, he's fallen down to 11th now but should still be up there for a long time to come, Hextall has been off that list for some time now of course, 1500 TPE players are completely wiped off of there now. Another reason why I waited as long as I did to re-join was to come back right around the time I first joined 20 seasons ago, yes I first played in season 69, coming in a little over halfway through the season. Now that I know the VHL better though I made the choice to wait till after to trade deadline so I'd be a S91 draftee and dodge the stacked S90 draft. (though I may have been told that the S91 draft is pretty stacked to, we'll see with time). Well I think that's enough for this MS right? I plan to be using the welfare button a lot more for Kadachi's career and just make I'm getting the other stuff done, like pressers, trivia, articles that kind of stuff. I will be working on some VSN stuff for sure as they have kept the door open for me, thank you so much!! I'll see you guys on the ice!! (word count 545)

Player Information Username: ROOKIE745 Player Name: Toby Kadachi Recruited From: Returning Age: 24 Position: LW Height: 79 in. Weight: 236 lbs. Birthplace: Russia Player Page @VHLM GM

I am honored to be mentioned here too, crazy that both my players have been brought up for this theme week, tells me I'm doing something right. I'll be back in the game soon enough.

I am honored to be mentioned on your list, Ori never quite reached the heights I hoped for him but still very happy with his career. Could dish out the apples while still netting about 20-25 goals. I look forward to returning soon with a new player.

My best wishes to you and your family.

Greeting readers and welcome to the final part of VHLM S70'S power rankings, we're down to the final three, each team here has a cup win as you might expect but each franchise also achieved 400 wins during the regular season, impressive considering the beast that the VHLM is. Each of these teams had at least six 40 win seasons, without any further delay, let's wrap up this series! Philadelphia Reapers Record: 400-274-46 Rank: 3rd with 976 points Goals for: x2 Conference finals: x1 Goals against: x4 Cup finals: x0 Goal differential: x3 Founders Cup: x1 Top Team: x0 Points: 846+130 Our third place team claiming bronze is the Philadelphia Reapers, a team that just barely hit the 400 win mark in the regular season. They began the decade on a winning note, going 49-20-3 and placing top three in goals against but their efforts in the playoffs proved fruitless. Next season the team took a small step up, going 50-17-5 and finishing top three in goals against and goal differential but again couldn't get anywhere in the postseason. Well third times the charm right? They'd post their best record of the decade going 53-14-5, this time finishing top three in goals for and differential, in the postseason they managed to get out of the first round, beating the Hounds in five before falling to the Wild in seven. After three great years of regular season success the team understandably needed to head into a rebuild. A record of 26-45-1 and 28-37-7 in seasons 73 and 74 respectively, as far as rebuilding seasons go they stayed respectable. Those two years of rebuilding would prove successful as the team in S75 went on to get a record 51-17-4, place top three in all goal categories and go all the way in the playoffs, sweeping the Rush, beating the Marlins in five and getting the win over the Kings in seven. For the Reapers this was their "magical" season as even with other good regular seasons they never found the same success in the playoffs. Season 76 saw the team drop to a record of 31-35-6 and that would be followed up with an even rougher performance in S77, the worst for the franchise during the S70's, 19-45-8. S78 they bounced back to a record of 44-24-4 and were top three in goals against, in the finale of the decade the team almost got back to 50 wins, going 49-20-3 yet despite the better record they were not the best in any goal category. The Reapers and the next team ahead of them are both interesting as they each only got out of the first round twice, neither finished top overall in the regular season, and each had exactly 130 bonus points, It's just bizarre to me. Saskatoon Wild Record: 405-269-46 Rank: 2nd with 986 points Goals for: x4 Conference finals: x1 Goals against: x2 Cup finals: x0 Goal differential: x3 Founders Cup: x1 Top Team: x0 Points: 856+130 Claiming second is the Saskatoon Wild, a team that has a lot in common with the Reapers, there's the three similarities I mentioned before but they each had 46 overtime or shootout losses and were top three in goal differential three times. The main differences here are that the Wild seemed to be a more offensively focused team being one of the top goals for teams four times where the Reapers did the same for the defensive aspect. That more offensive style captured them five more regular season wins to give them ten extra points and just eek out ahead of the Reapers. In contrast to the Reapers, the team started off the decade in a rebuild, 13-54-5 would be the bottom of the barrel for the team. In S71 they improved by 20 wins to go 33-32-7, they'd top that the next season jumping up by 21 wins to go 54-12-6, they placed top three in all goal categories and went all the way in the playoffs, beating Lynx in five, barely beating the Reapers in seven and topping the Kings in six. This was the high point for the franchise during the decade as they would have a hard time finding playoff success, much like the Reapers. S73 the team took a decent fall back going 42-24-6 but they still finished as one of the best goals scored teams. S74 the team gained a record of 45-23-4 and they liked it so much they repeated it the following season. After four seasons of 42 or more wins the team had to fall back and in S76 that happened, 29-39-4 was their record. They would bounce back to achieve 50 wins for a second time in the decade, 50-19-3 and top three in all goal categories, no postseason progress though. S78 they fell back a little going 43-25-4 before in the final season getting back over 50 wins for a third time, 51-18-3, they finished top three in goals for and differential and finally, after seven seasons managed to get out of the first round by beating 21st in five..... before the Marauders beat them in six. The Reapers and the Wild share much of the same story in so many regards, I won't repeat it here but I had to check the stats multiple times for each time because they really were walking down the same road. And I have to mention it, if the S69 season was in S70 instead, that'd be a lot of extra points for the franchise. Minnesota Storm Record: 423-260-37 Rank: 1st with 1,193 points Goals for: x5 Conference finals: x2 Goals against: x4 Cup finals: x1 Goal differential: x6 Founders Cup: x2 Top Team: x2 Points: 883+310 And our team claiming gold is none other than the Minnesota Storm, a team no longer in Minnesota which breaks my heart. I had the privilege of playing for the team twice, both in pretty good seasons. The Storm managed to rack up 423 regular season wins despite having three seasons under 20 wins, so when they were good, they were good. Unlike the Reapers and Wild though the Storm managed to find postseason success more regularly. The Storm started off the decade with their best regular season record that rewrote many franchise records, 61-8-3 is the third best record of the S70's, I think it goes without saying that they were the best of that season, the team was top three in all goal categories, and went on to win it all, they swept the Aces and Bulls in the first two rounds and in the finals beat the Lynx in six. I would like to note both losses came in overtime, so the Storm had no losses in regulation, that was a great team and a great season for my first player, Jaxx Hextall. The following season the team stayed above 50 wins, going 53-17-2 and placing top three in goal differential. You would think after two seasons above 50 wins the team would need to enter a rebuild but no, they'd improve. A second 60 win season, the only team to do so in the S70'S, 60-10-2 for the fifth best record of the decade, top team, top three in all goal categories but the playoffs would not be a repeat of two seasons prior. They beat the Marauders in seven before falling to the Kings in six. For a fourth season in a row the Storm stayed above 50 wins, they fell by eight from the previous season to go 52-18-2 but still finished top three in all goal categories, more importantly though they learned from last season, they beat Aces in six and the Bulls in five, the same two opponents as in S70, but in the finals it would be the Marauders, Storm won in five for their second cup in four seasons. Finally after four great seasons the Storm would need to enter a rebuild for two seasons, S74 they had a record of 15-52-5 and in S75 19-51-2. After these two years the Storm jumped back up for their fifth 50 win season, 50-14-8, top three in goals for and differential and in the playoffs they swept the Lynx before the Kings again denied them, sweeping the sweepers. In the next season they went 41-27-4 with no postseason luck, S78 would be an important one, not just for the team but for me, my second player Jonathan Ori who just recently retired would be drafted by the Storm. The team would go on to have their third best season of the decade and their sixth 50 win season, 53-14-5. Top three in all goal categories and a trip to the finals, much like S70 they would sweep the first two rounds over the Wild and Bulls but it would not be the story book ending players were hoping for, the Rush would beat them in six. I can’t help but note that each time the Storm went to the finals they beat the Bulls in round two. For the final season of the decade it would be a rough one to go out on, 19-49-4. The Storm are 207 points ahead of second place just to put in perspective of how much better they are, for as good as the Marauders were in the S70's they were still 121 wins behind them, so those two seasons would have had to be fantastic to catch up to the Storm. I can't finish this without a shout out to @Rayzor_7 and @Mr_Hatter who were the GM and AGM of the Storm for virtually all of the S70's, they clearly understood how to get the most out of a team and stayed hyper competitive for seven seasons. Congrats to both of you and thanks for some of my best memories I've had during my time in the VHL. I want to say thank you to everyone who read this series and to Alex for checking over my work, this will be my final post for some time in the VHL as Jonathan Ori is retired and I will be taking a step away from the VHL for a few seasons, I look forward to returning one day and maybe, just maybe doing this sort of power rankings for the S80's, ciao for now. (word count 1732, no reason for me to do this but it's outta habit)

I guess it isn't quite the end for Ori just yet haha

I joined the same year you did, just about 6 months later, I've only had two players with Ori's career just finishing this season and have been max capping for 2 plus years at least. The last two or three seasons I have been struggling to keep up motivation for it all and it is a relief to finally be done. I can say doing a third player already would not be good for my interest in the league and I'd probably just go IA so kudos to you for managing to get through three. That said I've been looking forward to having a break from the VHL, I'm doing 2 seasons minimum and I'd definitely recommend it for you too, take a break and who knows, something might reignite your interest in the league at some point.