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259 New York Americans @ Calgary Wranglers 260 HC Davos Dynamo @ Vancouver Wolves 261 Malmo Nighthawks @ Riga Reign 262 Toronto Legion @ D.C. Dragons

1. Acydburn has stepped down, and I have big shoes to fill. What is one thing that you'd like me to do that Acyd wouldn't? (Can be anything crazy, too!) Win the cup! 2. We're still at the top of the standings, but some teams are heating up. What do you think we have to do to stay on top? We need to tighten up our d, and get a better goalie. 3. What team do you eventually hope to be drafted by in the VHL draft? Drafed by Davos already. 4. What team would you LEAST like to be drafted by? See question 3. 5. What do you feel are the team's biggest needs to secure the Founders Cup? We need to be able to completely dominate the other top teams in the league. 6. What NHL player do you most see your player as Current day Patrick Roy. A little fatter. A lo little slower, but good glove hand

1. How do you feel about Acyd stepping down? A bit sad. He plucked me out of the recently created bin and I've been with Ottawa ever since. I'm hoping whoever takes over can push us over the finish line this season and win it for him. 2. Do you think we will stay under 10 losses this season? Yes. I think we can keep it below. 3. Our top player has almost 3ppg, what's his secret? I have it on good authority that he wears satin panties on gameday 4. If you could own any jersey what would it be? Bobby Orr 5. What's your favourite part about the VHL? The low requirement scale for effort 6. How do you think you would react to winning the cup? Party time

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1. We got a pretty decent record of 10-1-1, how does that feel? Nervous. We had a decent record last season as well, but didn't get us over the hump 2. What's the latest you've stayed up? 2 days? 3. Earliest you've gone to bed? 3pm? 4. What's your favourite genre of music? Meetalll 5. How do you think professional sports will continue in the future? I think back to normal, but things like licking someone would carry a hefty fine. 6. Would you ever change positions in the future? No, I'm already in the best position. Also I don't skate very fast.

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109 Malmo Nighthawks @ Vancouver Wolves 110 Toronto Legion @ Prague Phantoms 112 Helsinki Titans @ HC Davos Dynamo 113 Riga Reign @ Moscow Menace

1. What's your favourite game show? Jeopardy. It makes me feel confidently stupid. 2. What's the worst show or movie you've seen? The gambler with Mark Wahlberg. Still the only movie I've walked out from. 3. What's your favourite kind of weather? Thunderstorms. I find them calming and relaxing. 4. Do you think another team can be added to the league? I mean one could. I'm not sure if one should, we aren't flush with active guys. 5. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you choice? I would go to the galápagos Islands and learn how to scuba 6. How has your quarantine been? Not much has changed for me. It's been alright.

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1. Are you hyped to be in the finals? I was, it didn't turn out so well for us 2. Who do you think gets the GM job in Houston? The Hulkster. Only if he wants it though 3. Are you interested in applying there? No 4. Do you prefer sour or sweet? Sour and sweaty 5. What's the best kind of gatorade? Green 6. If you could live anywhere, where would you choose? probably Hawaii. The weather is nice there

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Part I - Pick em' (Pick the correct winners of all three games for 2 TPE) Game 3 - Moscow Menace @ Calgary Wranglers Game 4 - Moscow Menace @ Calgary Wranglers Game 5 - Calgary Wranglers @ Moscow Menace Part II - Predict the Score (Predict the correct score and winner of this game for 3 TPE) Game 5 - Calgary Wranglers 4 @ Moscow Menace 3 Part III - Player Predictions (Predict the correct player for each category, 1 TPE for each correct answer) Series leader in points: Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen Series leader in goals: Tyler Barabash Jr Series leader in assists: Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen Who has the series PIM lead: Charlie Paddywagon Who scores the series winning goal: Nate Telker

Joakim Bruden 6'8" 250lbs Drafted VHLM: 1st round (10 OA) Ottawa Sweden Summary Joakim is a physical monster. Standing at over 2 meters tall and weighing in at 250lbs without any equipment he naturally takes up a lot of the net. Joakim is the starting goaltender for the Ottawa Lynx and backstopped them to a 3rd place regular season finish this season. Hailing from a small town in Sweden Joakim has a long history with high end competition playing in their top Jr. league as an underage player for a few seasons before making the transition to the VHLM. Pros Un-humanly Size - easily his top pro, Joakim's sheer bulk blocks a lot of shot attempts just by being so large. He is able to gain exceptions for equipment size as well due to his size, making his reliance on lateral agility less important than smaller stature netminders Reaction Time - Among the best out of goalies scouted in the last decade, Joakim possesses a very quick glove hand. Combine that with a larger than standard trapper due to his goliath sized hands he is very solid on pucks snot around his frame Cons Speed - His lateral speed is his greatest weakness. Teams in the VHLM have this scouting page on him and know that to beat him you need to make him move laterally. Zone Celaring Passes - He does not have a good strong pass, but regardless he tries to set up breakout passes quite a bit. This feature could flip to a great pro eventually and with work, but for now this is a glaring issue because it leads to turnovers and good scoring chances against Miscelanious He is very quiet in the Locker Room, and does not talk to the reporters very much. This isn't too odd for goalies, but it may come off as cold personality. Don't worry, once he is comfortable in a place he warms up quite a bit and is even a bit of a practical joker. Final Thoughts Bruden has the raw talent and skill capacity to be an elite grade A prospect. He has talent to be a 1st round VHL draft pick, but central scouting consensus places him as the 2nd overall goaltender out of this draft class. Due to this and depending on when Wolski is drafted, Bruden may very well turn out to be a steal in the 3rd or 4th round. He is an excellent pick, and whichever team drafts him will be very happy with their investment. The only question is when he goes.

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The Beast from Swedish East . Growing up on the East coast of Sweden, Joakim loved hockey since before he could walk and was always wanting to play with his older brothers Being the youngest of the boys, he was constantly volunteered to be the goalie, but he didn't mind this one bit and grew to adore the position. Slowly, over time he was able to hone his skills against older, faster, stronger competition until he was ready to strap on skates and bulkier equipment and retrain his reflexes to adapt to this new reality. It took some time to get going, but Joakim was able to work his way up the community league. Starting on the bottom team where ice time sharing was the focus he was able to learn and excel, shortly making the jump to a competitive team, and kept improving and developing into a stellar goaltender, and soon the local junior team was sniffing around him. Over the time span of 4 years, Joakim went from being unable to skate at 8, to being on the radar of every Swedish Elite Jr. team at 12. Normally exceptional players were recruited at 13 or 14 to start playing at 15 because the competition's age was anything under 20, there was a massive advantage to being older and a bit more physically developed. With the need for a strong future goalie a few teams reached out to the Bruden family and after lots of discussion and debate, the result was everyone agreed on Joakim joining a near by (relatively) team in Gothenberg where his youngest (aside from him) brother was also in the system. Joakim was going to be joining the team in a split backup capacity where he was set to learn from the 19 year old starting goalie for a season before competing for the starter role the following season with the other backup who was going to be 17 going into the season. Gothenberg also allowed Joakim a temporary release to hone his skills with one of the more local teams in an on week-off week split, so in addition to splitting backup time he was also going to be able to get an additional game per week worth of ice time, which was going to be very crucial as a younger developing goalie. The first season at Gothenberg was definitely tough on Joakim. He was playing and practicing with great opposition and some of these guys were even going to be able to make it to the VHL some day! He was also away from home which was difficult to deal with as a 13 year old. He ended up getting shelled in the Jr. league games, usually allowing 4-6 goals against, but the higher level of competition was paying dividends on his loan games, where he was turning into an impenetrable fortress. At 14 Joakim was starting to be known as "The Fortress". He hit his growth spurt and was improving at a great pace. He did have to deal with constantly relearning his positioning due to his rapid size increase, and part due to that, and part due to his age he was not able to steal away the starting goalie position, and was relegated to playing roughly 1 out of every 3 games. At the end of the season with Gothenberg, Joakim had posted a winning record and was regarded as the best backup in the league and he was still younger than most of the prospect goalies across the league. Gothenberg rewarded Joakim and put their faith in him during the off season by trading away their at the time starter (who still had another full season of eligibility for for another teams older backup, and a prospect forward. This was the full green light for Joakim, by making this trade Gothenberg were declaring him the starter for the next season and past. The Gamble paid off for Gothenberg and with Joakim's first full season as a starter they clinched 2nd place in the league standings after the regular season, and they now had a monster 6 foot 4 inch 15 year old goalie. They went on to lose in the semi finals of the playoffs that year and were looking to build off their success the following year. Gothenberg was on top of the league. They physically dominated most opponents and had a very strong roster. They were given an ultimatum at the trade deadline for the season, where they were offered a massive haul for Joakim in return. They pulled the trigger and traded away the league's top goaltender who was almost 16 (a full 3 more seasons of eligibility) for a 19 year old line 1 center, 2 18 year old top 6 wingers, a 14 year old goalie prospect, a 18 year old starting goalie (numbers put him at #4 in the league for save percentage), and 2 16 year old defense-men that had very strong potentials, but would slot on the 4th pairing at the time of the trade. Gothenberg was stacked for serious championships for the next 2 years for sure, and Joakim was off to see a lot more shots against. In a bit of a story book moment, Joakim was able to propel his new team into the 8th and final playoff seed where they would match up against a familiar opponent in Gothenberg in a round 1 series of 5 games. Gothenberg won the first 2 games in very tight 3-2 and 4-3 games, but heading up north for the next 2 games they were unable to penetrate the fortress at all, losing 3-0 and 2-0. The series was tied 2-2 and going back to Gothenberg for the final match. Gothenberg came shot out of a cannon. After the first the shots were 24-3 in their favor, but the score was 0-0. The second saw a crawl back a little bit, with the period shots a more reasonable 18-10. 8 seconds into the third Joakim's team got the bounce they needed there a dump in sprung out front of the net and they were able to pop a quick goal. 0-1 Gothenberg was down. It took most of the rest of that period, the northern team would only manage 1 more shot in that period and on the midst of a 2 man power-play Gothenberg got the goal they needed to even the score with just over 3 minutes left. Overtime came and not much changed. Joakim's team was out-shot 17-3, but they were holding the shots outside and they were fairly easy to handle. Still the pure quantity was starting to take a toll. The dagger came at 13:10 of the second overtime the 11th shot that Joakim faced slipped past his blocker, past his stick and off the inside corner of the post. The 85th shot he faced that night would end up being the last shot he faced in the Swedish Jr. league. The Crowd erupted, the teams lined up, shook hands and wished each other well. Gothenberg would go on to sweep the other 2 series en route to the cup. The idea of moving to the VHLM cropped up in Joakim's mind the off-season prior, but he pushed aside those thoughts after Gothenberg made the move to make him the #1. Now he was facing a multi year rebuild with his new team, and even though they paid a high price for him they weren't able to offer much reason to stay. It wasn't an easy decision to make, but about a week after being eliminated from the playoffs, Joakim declared for the VHLM (their trade deadline had just passed, so he was going to be drafted the following season) and immediately received a phone call in the early hours of the morning with an offer...

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1. We're going to the second round!!! How many games do you think we'll play? I think the second round will go the distance, all 7. 2. How often do you brush your teeth? (Answer better be twice daily or you're getting benched brother) 0,i chew tree bark instead. I like the taste. 3. Whats the best flavor in the world? Depends on what you're consuming, but vanilla? 4. If you could change one thing in your players build what would it be? Better shooter. I haven't scored even one time yet. 5. How do the Lynx celebrate after a win? Get creative. We rip up the town, you know the street with the bars? The big parties we go to Montreal to throw down. 6. Would you rather play with a Gretzky style aluminum stick or a wooden stick? Wood. I like the feel, and it has the bonus possibility of giving people splinters if I hit them hard enough.

1. Picture this, GM Acyd Burn has been arrested! What did he do? Attempted murder on his players 2. Are you a cat or a dog person? Dog 3. Would you rather be a cat or a dog? Dog 4. Is it easy to tell I've been running out of questions the past 3 seasons? Dog. 5. Ninjas, cowboys or pirates, who would win in a fight? Ninjas if they had the advantage. Cowboys with a big mini gun otherwise 6. If you could rename your player what would you change? More umlouts (spelling?)

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Sorry coach, little hungover. Partied a bit with ferda last night

1. Who's your take for the VHLM cup? Ottawa, clearly. 2. Same thing for the VHL Cup? Hmmm.. Seattle? 3. Who's gonna win the stanley cup? Columbus is going to shock the world. 4. Which NHL team is your least favourite. Edmomton 5. If you could change one thing about the site, what would it be? Add in direct links or less buried links for important information 6. Would you rather win the lottery of find true love True love

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