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March 21 Update SirRupertBarnes +2 TPE gorlab +20 TPE RunnerBert11 +10 TPE FacebookFighter +8 TPE FrostBeard +3 TPE Kylrad +2 TPE xDParK +2 TPE SparrowLTD +4 TPE leafssteen +6 TPE johnnyhockey42 +14 TPE Jtv123 +12 TPE SaltyTalty +8 TPE Birdman +4 TPE Oost +10 TPE flan +10 TPE Rent A McZ +6 TPE Renomitsu +8 TPE okocha5 +8 TPE Yusuf Abdul-Latif +8 TPE @Jacob Kundrat +44 TPE - NEW ENTRY! @littleboi +37 TPE - NEW ENTRY!

For me, I think we'd have to see what a 99 att goalie would be capable of in this era (I know Stopko was there last season, but the skating talent has gotten significantly better even since then) before we could begin to say that this would get goalie stats back in line. My concern is that if players on 93's and 94's are getting save percentages like .914% near the top of the goalie standings, is a goalie with 99 going to have a significant improvement on top of that? Honestly if this were to become a concern (which I'm personally not really sure it will, different eras should mean different evaluations of stats), I would think it's more likely upping the update scale for skaters would be closer to having the effect you'd be after than lowering the update scale for goalies.

March 19th Beaviss +14 TPE Spade18 +14 TPE Kirby +2 TPE GRZ +14 TPE SirRupertBarnes +14 TPE rjfryman +17 TPE bluesfan55 +12 TPE Plate +8 TPE solas +8 TPE TheLastOlympian07 +2 TPE RunnerBert11 +4 TPE DMaximus +14 TPE FacebookFighter +6 TPE Dangles13 +6 TPE uphillmoss +6 TPE nethi99 +10 TPE GustavMattias +18 TPE FrostBeard +4 TPE aleks +4 TPE Kylrad +11 TPE xDParK +9 TPE TheFlash +12 TPE SparrowLTD +6 TPE leafssteen +8 TPE Inf1d3l +18 TPE K1NG LINUS +18 TPE Patpou22 +6 TPE Matmenzinger +14 TPE Jake Levine +6 TPE SaltyTalty +9 TPE Birdman +4 TPE Jus +4 TPE Radcow +10 TPE PapaGage +10 TPE TsarPeter +10 TPE Tophdaddy +10 TPE Award97 +6 TPE Grape +8 TPE Gregreg +12 TPE jab3 +6 TPE cpetrella +6 TPE efiug +11 TPE cody73 +4 TPE Kyle +7 TPE Renomitsu +10 TPE StaticShocked +6 TPE @okocha5 +42 TPE - First Entry! @Yusuf Abdul-Latif +36 TPE - First Entry!

His story is that he’s actually a Season 49 draftee who retired after Season 56 (hence his regular season stats on his player page). The reason he’s listed as Season 63 is because this was in the early days of creating players through the portal and there were some different systems which let the user CB204 claim AK47 as his new player for the S63 Draft. This was quickly rectified and he went on to create Mike Lavalee but long story short, AK47 isn’t eligible @ShawnGlade

Thanks to the players who have already submitted for this (currently sitting at 12), definitely got enough for this draft at least to do this as a thing. Just a few extra notes about my plans for these: - I'll likely start doing these next Monday/Tuesday (3/25 or 3/26), so one or two days after the Mock Draft is posted. Main reason is just so I have a projected draft position in mind for players who've submitted a profile. - As of right now, I'll probably be posting a Rookie Profile every other day, but if more people submit for profiles, there may be multiple days in a row with a profile. I won't be doing profiles on Sundays though, since that's when I'll be doing my write-ups. - Everyone who submits for a profile using the form will receive a Rookie Profile prior to the draft, however I will predominantly be focusing first on newer members who are lower down the rankings as I'll be offering advice on how they can improve their TPE earning. Better covering those prospects first so they've got more time to improve after their profile as opposed to players who already hit TPE caps pretty consistently.

Rank Change Player Name TPE Team Nat. Member 1 C - Hunter Hearst Helmsley 270 YUK USA Beaviss 2 LW - Shane Mars 247 MIN USA Spade18 3 LW - Kari Jurri 209 HOU NED hockeyis66 4 C - Maximilian Kirbsson 193 HOU SWE Kirby 5 Up 1 RW - Mikko Aaltonen 178 PHI FIN GRZ 6 Down 1 LW - Dimitri Volosenkov 175 HFX RUS SirRupertBarnes 7 Up 1 LW - Julius Freeman 162 HFX USA rjfryman 8 Up 2 RW - Arnor Sigurdsson 155 YUK ISL bluesfan55 8 Up 1 RW - Shawnomir Jagr 155 SSK CZE TheLastOlympian07 10 Up 4 C - Jet Jaguar 154 HOU UKR gorlab 11 Down 4 D - Rhye Tyr 151 HFX CAN Plate 11 Up 1 LW - Bert Meyers 151 MIN USA RunnerBert11 13 Down 2 D - Aron Nielsen 150 MIN FAR solas 14 Up 5 G - Wendy Kandee Cain 140 PHI USA SlashACM 15 Up 1 G - Owen May 139 HOU SWI FacebookFighter 16 Down 3 LW - Valeri Morozov 139 YUK RUS Dangles13 17 Up 9 LW - Kyle Sabertooth 138 LVA USA uphillmoss 18 RW - Nethila Dissanayake 134 SSK SRI nethi99 18 Up 1 D - Charlie Paddywagon 134 PHI USA DMaximus 20 Up 1 RW - John Frostbeard 133 PHI LAT FrostBeard 21 Up 1 C - Ludvig Sederstrom 132 HOU SWE aleks 22 Down 7 C - Raphael Nazarians 128 SSK ARM LIL V O D AK 23 Up 1 D - Jerry Garcia 126 HOU USA GustavMattias 24 Down 8 D - Richard Hejtsel 123 YUK LAT hejta 25 Up 3 LW - Chico Smeb 117 MIN SKR xDParK 26 Up 1 D - Codrick Past 116 OTT UK Kylrad 27 Down 4 C - Nacho 115 HFX USA Nacci25 27 Up 4 RW - Emil Passerelli 115 SSK USA SparrowLTD 28 Up 2 D - Andreas Sundell 114 MIN SWE VisualDarkness 29 Up 3 LW - Hans Gruber 113 PHI GER TheFlash 30 Down 6 G - Luke Derion 112 LVA USA Barracuda 32 Up 3 G - Clayton Park 111 YUK AUS leafssteen 33 Up 2 LW - Jordan Joshua Tonn 110 LVA CAN MexicanCow123 34 Down 5 LW - John Perdue 107 SSK USA johnnyhockey42 35 Down 3 LW - Hunter Wagner 99 GER GER Inf1d3l 36 Up 9 D - Edward Vigneault 93 PHI CAN Patpou22 36 Up 3 D - Rusty Shackleford 93 SSK USA K1NG LINUS 38 Down 4 D - Titus Stone 90 YUK USA MD9 39 Down 2 C - Rhys Chism 89 HOU USA Jake Levine 40 Down 1 RW - Aleksander Rodriguez 88 OTT USA Jtv123 41 Down 4 D - Samuel Sparrow 85 HOU USA Birdman 41 G - Juan Jaundice 85 SSK USA Jus 43 Up 25 RW - Mat Tocco 84 PHI CZE Matmenzinger 44 Up 4 D - Cody Parkey 82 PHI PRK SaltyTalty 45 Up 2 D - Beau Buefordsson 79 HOU SKN Radcow 45 Down 3 C - Eeli Harju 79 OTT FIN Teztify 47 Down 3 LW - Blake Gaudette 77 HFX CAN Gaudette 47 Down 1 D - Papa Gage 77 HFX USA PapaGage 49 Down 7 RW - Sami Van Den Dreissche 72 YUK BEL TsarPeter 49 Down 1 D - Dwin Championship 72 PHI SWE Award97 51 Up 7 D - Duncan Jeffers 70 LVA USA Tophdaddy 52 D - Anthony Amberback 69 SSK USA Oost 52 LW - Blake Laughton 69 HOU CAN Grape 54 Down 6 D - Srraxxarrakex II 68 OTT JAP flan 55 Down 1 G - Kolur Bjoernsson 67 MIN ISL jab3 56 Up 1 LW - Edgar Tannahill 65 SSK CAN Gregreg 56 C - BALLS McZehrl 65 OSL GER Rent A McZ 58 Down 4 G - Sunny Burst 64 LVA USA Sunburst 59 Up 1 C - Walter Clements 63 PHI SIE cpetrella 60 LW - Cody Smith 61 HFX CAN cody73 61 Down 10 D - Dave John OQuinn 60 YUK CAN JohnOQuinn 62 Up 2 C - Pascal Batz 57 OTT SWI efiug 63 Down 5 D - Hiromu Takahashi 54 MIN JAP O4L 64 Down 4 D - Fabius Adomaitis 51 HFX LTU Claire 64 Up 7 D - Dean Clarke 51 PHI USA Kyle 66 Down 3 LW - Joakim Sederstrom 50 HOU SWE Samee 66 C - Adama Traore 50 LVA USA Adama Traore 68 Down 2 LW - Micheal Rasmussen 49 LVA CAN Connor mcdavid 69 Down 4 LW - Thomas Vancheck 48 LVA AUT Thomas Vancheck 70 Down 2 C - Markus Lulic Descheneaux 46 LVA CAN mxld17 71 Down 1 RW - Karlis Liede 43 MIN LAT DoubleCarl 72 Down 1 RW - Alexis Lafreniere 42 SSK CAN Yehboi 72 NEW D - Finn Theismann 42 HOU GER StaticShocked 74 Down 1 D - Londortharl 41 LVA CAM MattyG 74 NEW D - Apollo Hackett 41 SSK USA Renomitsu 76 Down 2 D - Yuri Kalerov 40 SSK SWI Camel 76 NEW D - MORPHEUS DESTRUCTIOUS 40 PHI IM Abaddon 78 Down 3 D - Jack Logan 39 YUK USA WeaponX 78 Down 3 D - Quinton Collins 39 OTT CAN Jepox 80 NEW D - Jakobe Puffalump 37 LVA CAN Puffalump 81 Down 4 C - Charles Alderson 36 HFX USA Kithoo 81 Down 4 RW - Fudge Popsicle 36 HFX CAN LaprasRuler 83 Down 4 LW - Waluigi De Rossi 34 OTT ITA Kitras 84 Down 4 C - Matthew Tolsma 33 SSK CAN matthewtols 85 Down 4 D - Anthony Griffis 32 USA Tygrzz 85 Down 4 G - Marchello Mirabella 32 MIN ITA Wandering_Buffalo 85 Down 4 LW - Tim W 32 USA Spadesy 88 Down 4 C - Gervais Bulhoes 31 CAN HOCKEYBEAST9000 Edit: Up's and Downs relate in comparison to previous week. So typically for my weekly reports I would just do an extended write-up on a particular topic, but while those will continue to happen at the end of every week (next week will be my first Mock Draft of the season), I want to try implementing a new idea into the draft rankings that will put more focus on the players in this draft. My plan is to write up a Rookie Profile on a daily/bi-daily (depending on number of interested parties) basis for active candidates that will cover their current VHLM career, their current player build, their activity to date and (if applicable) previous history in the VHL. So if you're a rookie and you'd like to see a write-up on your player, submit for the form below and I will have a rookie profile done for you sometime prior to the VHL Draft! https://goo.gl/forms/XDZcGsZxnS4v27vJ3

March 17 Update solas +4 TPE Dangles13 +3 TPE VisualDarkness +2 TPE Jtv123 +2 TPE Jus +4 TPE flan +6 TPE Rent A McZ +2 TPE @Renomitsu +41 TPE - New Entry!

Recorded these on Friday, so leaving a couple of corrections with them. Note: Mention this at the start of the next podcast, but the New York winger's name that couldn't come to my head was Dan Wilinsky, sorry Dan! Note: Mentioned that Dylan Nguyen was inactive, but in fact came back on the site that very night!

March 15th Update Kirby +10 TPE SlashACM +10 TPE FacebookFighter +8 TPE xDParK +4 TPE Kylrad +2 TPE SparrowLTD +14 TPE leafssteen +13 TPE K1NG LINUS +6 TPE Matmenzinger +16 TPE Grape +8 TPE jab3 +6 TPE cpetrella +6 TPE cody73 +6 TPE Kyle +9 TPE Connor mcdavid +2 TPE @Abaddon +40 TPE - New Addition!

If this position change isn’t allowed, I’m gonna make my own soccer league in protest

So as I break down at the start of this podcast, when I did the S63 Draft Rankings, I had 8 weeks of topics prior to the draft to bring up in my weekly rankings. However, since I've joined the S66 Draft Rankings a week later in the process, I'll likely only have 7 weeks to do stuff, which would've meant I would have had to have dropped a topic. So instead, I've decided to take the topic that is easiest to talk about while driving and do podcasts for that subject, which is team needs, which will hopefully help younger players see how their player would fit into each of the VHL's respected franchises. The rest of the editions will be up likely by Monday-Tuesday

Mar 13. Update SirRupertBarnes +4 TPE rjfryman +2 TPE bluesfan55 +4 TPE TheLastOlympian07 +7 TPE gorlab +25 TPE RunnerBert11 +4 TPE uphillmoss +2 TPE nethi99 +6 TPE DMaximus +8 TPE aleks +12 TPE Nacci25 +2 TPE Kylrad +7 TPE VisualDarkness +16 TPE MexicanCow123 +14 TPE SparrowLTD +4 TPE Inf1d3l +6 TPE Patpou22 +20 TPE K1NG LINUS +2 TPE Jtv123 +6 TPE Birdman +4 TPE SaltyTalty +8 TPE Jus +4 TPE Radcow +2 TPE Teztify +6 TPE PapaGage +2 TPE Tophdaddy +2 TPE Oost +8 TPE Matmenzinger +18 TPE Gregreg +2 TPE jab3 +2 TPE efiug +6 TPE Adama Traore +2 TPE @Puffalump +37 TPE - New entry on the draft rankings

@Beketov Is the wrong De Rossi on Lynx roster? It looks like it's Kitras' old player from S53 Luigi De Rossi rather than Waluigi.

Not gonna lie, when I saw you posted in here I was panicked that you'd retired Ryuu and made a new guy ?

Hey @HockeyHomer, we're currently just over a quarter of the way through the S65 Regular Season, S66 Draft will come in the off-season that follows. To give an estimate on time till draft, I would say about 5-6 weeks away depending on length of playoffs

March 11th Update Beaviss +14 TPE Spade18 +14 TPE hockeyis66 +27 TPE Kirby +2 TPE GRZ +14 TPE rjfryman +12 TPE bluesfan55 +13 TPE TheLastOlympian07 +7 TPE RunnerBert11 +16 TPE solas +12 TPE Dangles13 +6 TPE uphillmoss +25 TPE FrostBeard +14 TPE FacebookFighter +8 TPE SlashACM +10 TPE nethi99 +6 TPE DMaximus +6 TPE GustavMattias +14 TPE aleks +2 TPE xDParK +9 TPE TheFlash +22 TPE Kylrad +2 TPE johnnyhockey42 +10 TPE leafssteen +9 TPE SparrowLTD +4 TPE VisualDarkness +2 TPE MexicanCow123 +7 TPE Inf1d3l +2 TPE Jake Levine +10 TPE K1NG LINUS +7 TPE Birdman +2 TPE Jtv123 +2 TPE Gaudette +6 TPE Radcow +14 TPE PapaGage +8 TPE SaltyTalty +12 TPE Patpou22 +4 TPE Award97 +10 TPE Tophdaddy +14 TPE Sunburst +6 TPE Rent A McZ +6 TPE Gregreg +8 TPE Oost +2 TPE Grape +2 TPE jab3 +1 TPE cpetrella +6 TPE cody73 +4 TPE efiug +2 TPE Matmenzinger +4 TPE Adama Traore +1 TPE @StaticShocked +42 TPE - First Appearance on the Draft Rankings!

Rank Change Player Name TPE Team Nat. Member 1 C - Hunter Hearst Helmsley 256 YUK USA Beaviss 2 LW - Shane Mars 233 MIN USA Spade18 3 LW - Kari Jurri 182 HOU NED hockeyis66 4 C - Maximilian Kirbsson 181 HOU SWE Kirby 5 LW - Dimitri Volosenkov 175 HFX RUS SirRupertBarnes 6 RW - Mikko Aaltonen 164 PHI FIN GRZ 7 D - Rhye Tyr 151 HFX CAN Plate 8 LW - Julius Freeman 148 HFX USA rjfryman 9 RW - Shawnomir Jagr 141 SSK CZE TheLastOlympian07 10 RW - Arnor Sigurdsson 138 YUK ISL bluesfan55 11 D - Aron Nielsen 134 MIN FAR solas 12 LW - Bert Meyers 131 MIN USA RunnerBert11 13 LW - Valeri Morozov 130 YUK RUS Dangles13 14 C - Jet Jaguar 129 HOU UKR gorlab 15 C - Raphael Nazarians 128 SSK ARM LIL V O D AK 16 D - Richard Hejtsel 123 YUK LAT hejta 16 G - Owen May 123 HOU SWI FacebookFighter 18 RW - Nethila Dissanayake 122 SSK SRI nethi99 19 G - Wendy Kandee Cain 120 PHI USA SlashACM 19 D - Charlie Paddywagon 120 PHI USA DMaximus 21 RW - John Frostbeard 119 PHI LAT FrostBeard 22 C - Ludvig Sederstrom 118 HOU SWE aleks 23 C - Nacho 113 HFX USA Nacci25 24 G - Luke Derion 112 LVA USA Barracuda 24 D - Jerry Garcia 112 HOU USA GustavMattias 26 LW - Kyle Sabertooth 111 LVA USA uphillmoss 27 D - Codrick Past 105 OTT UK Kylrad 28 LW - Chico Smeb 104 MIN SKR xDParK 29 LW - John Perdue 97 SSK USA johnnyhockey42 30 D - Andreas Sundell 94 MIN SWE VisualDarkness 31 RW - Emil Passerelli 93 SSK USA SparrowLTD 32 LW - Hans Gruber 91 PHI GER TheFlash 32 LW - Hunter Wagner 91 GER GER Inf1d3l 34 D - Titus Stone 90 YUK USA MD9 35 LW - Jordan Joshua Tonn 89 LVA CAN MexicanCow123 35 G - Clayton Park 89 YUK AUS leafssteen 37 C - Rhys Chism 79 HOU USA Jake Levine 37 D - Samuel Sparrow 79 HOU USA Birdman 39 RW - Aleksander Rodriguez 78 OTT USA Jtv123 39 D - Rusty Shackleford 78 SSK USA K1NG LINUS 41 G - Juan Jaundice 77 SSK USA Jus 42 C - Eeli Harju 73 OTT FIN Teztify 43 RW - Sami Van Den Dreissche 72 YUK BEL TsarPeter 44 LW - Blake Gaudette 71 HFX CAN Gaudette 45 D - Edward Vigneault 69 PHI CAN Patpou22 46 D - Papa Gage 67 HFX USA PapaGage 47 D - Beau Buefordsson 63 HOU SKN Radcow 48 D - Cody Parkey 62 PHI PRK SaltyTalty 48 D - Srraxxarrakex II 62 OTT JAP flan 48 D - Dwin Championship 62 PHI SWE Award97 51 D - Dave John OQuinn 60 YUK CAN JohnOQuinn 52 D - Anthony Amberback 59 SSK USA Oost 52 LW - Blake Laughton 59 HOU CAN Grape 54 G - Sunny Burst 58 LVA USA Sunburst 54 G - Kolur Bjoernsson 58 MIN ISL jab3 56 C - BALLS McZehrl 57 OSL GER Rent A McZ 57 LW - Edgar Tannahill 55 SSK CAN Gregreg 58 D - Hiromu Takahashi 54 MIN JAP O4L 58 D - Duncan Jeffers 54 LVA USA Tophdaddy 60 C - Walter Clements 51 PHI SIE cpetrella 60 D - Fabius Adomaitis 51 HFX LTU Claire 60 LW - Cody Smith 51 HFX CAN cody73 63 LW - Joakim Sederstrom 50 HOU SWE Samee 64 C - Pascal Batz 49 OTT SWI efiug 65 LW - Thomas Vancheck 48 LVA AUT Thomas Vancheck 66 LW - Micheal Rasmussen 47 LVA CAN Connor mcdavid 66 C - Adama Traore 47 LVA USA Adama Traore 68 C - Markus Lulic Descheneaux 46 LVA CAN mxld17 68 RW - Mat Tocco 46 PHI CZE Matmenzinger 70 RW - Karlis Liede 43 MIN LAT DoubleCarl 71 D - Dean Clarke 42 PHI USA Kyle 71 RW - Alexis Lafreniere 42 SSK CAN Yehboi 73 D - Londortharl 41 LVA CAM MattyG 74 D - Yuri Kalerov 40 SSK SWI Camel 75 D - Jack Logan 39 YUK USA WeaponX 75 D - Quinton Collins 39 OTT CAN Jepox 77 C - Charles Alderson 36 HFX USA Kithoo 77 RW - Fudge Popsicle 36 HFX CAN LaprasRuler 79 LW - Waluigi De Rossi 34 OTT ITA Kitras 80 C - Matthew Tolsma 33 SSK CAN matthewtols 81 D - Anthony Griffis 32 USA Tygrzz 81 G - Marchello Mirabella 32 MIN ITA Wandering_Buffalo 81 LW - Tim W 32 USA Spadesy 84 C - Gervais Bulhoes 31 CAN HOCKEYBEAST9000 Note: For future weekly editions, up/downs will reflect gains/drops from over the entire week. So for the first set of weekly rankings for the Season 66 Draft, I'm going to focus on the top 10 first generation players (members who are on their first VHL player) of this Draft Class in TPE, looking at how well they've been doing and what else they can potentially be doing to move up even further in the rankings. #1 - Karl Jurri @hockeyis66 Having previously been in the SHL and GOMHL, Jurri is no stranger to hockey leagues and is currently just about seeing off his nearest first-gen challenger for the mark of top first-gen in this draft class. Creating at the trade deadline, Jurri has had as much time as possible to earn TPE prior to the draft and, had it not been for Shane Mars recreate TPE, would be pushing him hard for second place overall in these draft rankings. In regards to Jurri's TPE earning, he's been capping almost every week (the only exceptions being weeks without Trivia and his first week in the league), and has donated twice already in his short career to date. The only thing I believe he may have missed out on given that he came from the SBA was the Affiliate Creation Bonus, that would net him an extra 5 TPE. If he keeps this up, Jurri might wind up pushing Ryan Kastelic for most TPE for a first-gen player pre-draft. #2 - Maximillian Kirbsson @Kirby Despite joining a week later than Jurri, Maximillian Kirbsson has done a very good job to find himself only a single TPE behind Jurri. The main reason why it's so close is that along with Kirbsson claiming the Affiliate Creation Bonus for 5 TPE, he's also spent some of his player store money on the first generation doubles week. Like Jurri, Kirbsson is pretty much capping every single week outside of the weeks where there is no Trivia, so it could well come down to whichever of the two finds a way to cap in weeks without trivia (either through reviewing or taking advantage of the new rule that allows players to submit both VHL.com articles and player cards in the same week) that will decide who enters this draft with the most TPE. #3 - Dimitri Volosenkov @SirRupertBarnes Techincally Volosenkov is not a first generation player given that he has actually had a player before Volosenkov (Nick Ward), but I've decided to let it slide because he didn't actually earn any TPE with Ward. Unlike the two players that came before, Volosenkov is currently our highest ranking first-gen to have found us through reddit. While he is set to lose some TPE in the near future (a misunderstanding on how the Free Week works currently has him with an additional 12 TPE to his name), he still is very much one of the top young prospects heading into this draft, and will gain lots more TPE in the future thanks to his recruitment of fellow S66 draftee Rhye Tyr. However, there is definitely still room for improvement in regards to earning capped TPE as, unlike Jurri and Kirbsson, Volosenkov has never made the 12 TPE weekly cap. Writing 150 words for a VHL.com article for 2 TPE or doing 5 minute podcasts for VHL Radio for 3 TPE are the small tasks that could get Volosenkov on a level playing field with the other top first gens. #4 - Mikko Aaltonen @GRZ The top first-gen to find his way to the league through recommendation of another player (fellow S66 draftee Richard Hejstel), Mikko Aaltonen looks set to reward his recruitee with big TPE gains as he looks set to easily surpass the 200 TPE milestone required for Hejstel to claim 10 TPE. While there was an adaptation period at the start of his career, Aaltonen has recovered to go on to hit the TPE cap in the last three weeks, which shows good versatility in earning given that there has not been Trivia awards the last couple of weeks. Keeping up that pace will ensure Aaltonen's place as a top five prospect in this draft. #5 - Rhye Tyr @Plate As mentioned earlier in the draft, Rhye Tyr found his way into the league through Dimitri Volosenkov and the pair have done quite a few podcasts together. In comparison to Volosenkov, Tyr has a better record of hitting the TPE cap, having done so in three of his six weeks where he has earned TPE, plus Tyr also holds an assistant GM role of the Saskatoon Wild. However, of slight concern is that he's yet to register any TPE output this week and, going off his change of colour in username, may no longer be a part of the VSN crew, which was a big reason for his TPE record to date. If he can find ways to get back to the TPE cap without the job, he remains a very good prospect for this draft. #6 - Julius Freeman @rjfryman While he is only sixth out of the first-generation players in TPE, Julius Freeman may actually be the most exciting member of this draft class. While he's 34 TPE off being the top first-gen in this draft, that's only because Freeman has been in the league for just three weeks. If you compare that to the seven weeks that Karl Jurri has been in the league, it would be more than fair to speculate that, had Freeman joined at the deadline, he would have without doubt been the number one first-gen in this draft class. One of the activities that has helped him nearly eclipse 150 in just three weeks is his participation in the lottery, which can grant players very attractive prizes, such as the 10 TPE prize Freeman earned at the end of February. #7 - Arnor Sigurdsson @bluesfan55 Another trade deadline creation, Sigurdsson has been a solid and consistent earner while developing in the VHLM for the Yukon Rush. While he was originally a player who consistently submitted for welfare, the last three weeks he has submitted Media spots instead, netting him more TPE for his player. He has yet to hit the 12 TPE cap yet during his career (his best week to date was a 9 capped TPE week three weeks ago), but he's not really that far off hitting that mark. If he adds 150 word VHL.com articles and some slightly better scores in the trivia to his current weekly tasks (Media and press conferences), he'll be at the top of his game. #8 - Bert Meyers @RunnerBert11 The story of Bert Meyers to this point is very similar to that of the previously mentioned Julius Freeman as he's another player who, despite only joining three weeks ago, ranks very highly among the eligible draftees. Like Freeman, Meyers hit the TPE cap in his first two weeks in the league and, while he's only at 10 for this week thus far, I presume he may be waiting for Trivia results to get him to the 12 TPE for the week. Another player who can't do any wrong at the minute and looks set to climb very high in these rankings should his form continue. #9 - Raphael Nazarians @LIL V O D AK Nazarians created a week after the deadline, so didn't have quite as much time to earn TPE as some of his fellow prospects, but he hasn't stopped that from getting into the top ten in First-gen TPE. Nazarians got off to an extremely promising start, hitting the TPE cap in his first week in the league, which is a good sign as it proves that he is a player who can hit the cap. However since then, he's had a bit of inconsistency with earning TPE, as while he had one more week where he hit the 12 TPE cap, he's also had three weeks where he only submitted affiliate welfare. While affiliate welfare alone can help you become a solid role player in the league, he's already shown he's got the potential to be much more than that so it will be interesting to see how his earnings maintain in the lead-up to the draft. #10 - Owen May @FacebookFighter The top goalie talent in this draft, Owen May is another draftee who has done a lot in a short amount of time, having created his player four weeks ago. He's pretty much done as much as one player can do to get as much TPE as he can, hitting the cap in three of his four weeks in the league. In fact, the only reason that he's behind other players who created late on in the process like Meyers and Freeman is the awards they received through donating and it doesn't look like May claimed the six TPE he was eligible for during the Special Event last week. Outside of that though, May has proven he has the earning potential to be a very good goalie talent in the future.

Mar 10 Update: SirRupertBarnes +4 TPE rjfryman +2 TPE FacebookFighter +8 TPE FrostBeard +2 TPE uphillmoss +10 TPE leafssteen +2 TPE Jake Levine +2 TPE Birdman +4 TPE Jus +14 TPE Radcow +2 TPE Top First Gens Coming Later Tonight

March 9th Update GRZ +6 TPE gorlab +7 TPE Kylrad +1 TPE xDParK +2 TPE uphillmoss +6 TPE VisualDarkness +2 TPE SparrowLTD +2 TPE K1NG LINUS +6 TPE TsarPeter +10 TPE Jus +2 TPE flan +8 TPE Award97 +12 TPE Grape +8 TPE Rent A McZ +6 TPE Tophdaddy +4 TPE Matmenzinger +10 TPE Tomorrow: Breakdown of Top Ten First Gens

While there have been considerably deeper draft classes since, the Season 62 Draft will be remembered as the draft that signalled the revitalization of the VHL to it’s best form. The last ten seasons of drafts had only 11 first generation players (members creating a player in the VHL for the first time) that would go on to make the VHL professional level by right (exceeding 200 TPE) and the league was pretty much surviving based off of veteran members continuing to recreate, even after a decision to cut the league down from ten teams to eight. However, the Season 62 Draft would wind up producing 11 first generation players alone and while that figure pales in comparison to the drafts that would follow, it was certainly the turning point that got the VHL heading in the direction that it currently is today. Despite the increase in new members, the top end of the draft was still primarily focused on the recreating players and the top two picks in this draft were pretty much set in stone heading into it. Set to go number one to the Riga Reign (the winners of the draft lottery despite only finishing with the third worst record in Season 61) was Leph Twinger, a player whose associated member DollarAndADream had made several very good players in the past 25 seasons, most notably Hall of Fame winger and first overall selection from the Season 46 Draft Zach Parechkin. Not only was history on Twinger’s side, he entered the draft with a pretty convincing lead in TPE as he was 43 ahead of his nearest challenger Rauno Palo. The league’s worst team from Season 61, the Seattle Bears, held the second pick of the draft and while there was quite a TPE difference between himself and some of the other players available, Maxim Kovalchuk was pencilled in as the team’s second overall selection. The Russian defenseman was 70 TPE off of fellow recreates Vesto Slipher and Rauno Palo, but Kovalchuk’s associated member is also the GM of the Seattle Bears, meaning that they’d pretty much guaranteed either eight seasons of Kovalchuk or however long he was required at the Bears as an asset to their Championship goals. The biggest surprise of the draft was Toronto Legion picking goalie Johnny Havenk Carison third overall. While this did fill a need for Toronto as they were without a goalie at the time and there were no guarantees yet about the young goalies in the Season 63 Draft, the high pick was surprising given that Carison was over 100 TPE behind Palo and Slipher (two players who he joined the league in the same week as) at the time of the draft. But how would the draft go if we gave them another shot at it, here’s how I think it would’ve looked: 1-Vesto Slipher Was: Leph Twinger This was between Slipher and a repick of Twinger as history shows that Riga needed a winger of these two player’s calibre for the Championship run in Season 63. Even though Slipher has put up fairly mediocre stats to this point of his career (which I’d mainly put down to rough team compositions with the defense-heavy Meute and the three line Titans), I’m going to slot him in at first overall due to his lead in TPE, although it would have been interesting to see if Slipher would have faced a similar fate to Twinger this off-season just gone where the winger was traded to New York to free up cap space. 2- Maxim Kovalchuk Was: Maxim Kovalchuk TPE wise, Kovalchuk is still as far behind the top prospects in this draft as he was before it took place. However, he’s still the highest TPE defenseman taken in this draft (and the Bears didn’t have a single defenseman leading into this draft so the pick filled a need) and the added bonus of the Seattle GM being able to draft his own player makes this a no brainer. 3-Leph Twinger Was: Johnny Havenk Carison One of the notable points of the Legion’s last few seasons is their complete lack of luck in the lottery, as they’ve either found themselves move down a pick or traded their own pick that wound up becoming first overall. In this timeline though, DollarAndADream gets a bit more luck and is able to take his own player for the Legion. 4-Rauno Palo Was: Rauno Palo While his early career build choice (he didn’t add to passing or scoring until the end of his second season) was part of the reason why he fell both in the actual draft and this re-draft, his current build is much more in line with the norm, allowing him to make the most of being second from this draft class in TPE. 5-Jake Davis Was: Vesto Slipher Quebec would go on to compete in the Continental Cup final after this season, so with Slipher gone already, they need another player who made the VHL in his first season of eligibility to take his place. That will be Jake Davis, who has earned the most TPE out of all the first-gens in this draft. and has been over a point per game in his last two seasons. 6-Ryuu Crimson Was: Dan Montgomery While Jake Davis has the most TPE out of this drafts first-gens, Crimson leads all players in this draft (first-gen or not) in TPE earned since the draft. While part of that will be down to his extra season in the VHLM (taking advantage of the extra TPE bonuses there), he wouldn’t have gotten to that point without a lot of hard work and Helsinki get the star forward of the future they thought they were getting with Dan Montgomery. 7-Shawn Glade Was: Dylan Nguyen Glade goes back to the Reign team that he was also taken by in the actual draft, just four picks earlier this time. Over 600 TPE, Glade has kept consistent with Kovalchuk in terms of TPE earning and, now with a VSN editor job, may eventually catch up to the second overall pick. 8-Oleksiy Revchenko Was: Konstantin Mulligan The pre-draft concern for Revchenko was that the Ukrainian forward was only earning TPE through affiliate welfare and not doing many VHL activities. However, over the last few months, he’s started engaging in considerably more VHL activities and looks set to become a very solid center prospect (although his activity might not have been enough to save him from the same fate Konstantin Mulligan met when he was selected by Davos, an early season trade to acquire defenseman Ay Ay Ron). 9- Roctrion King Was: Ryuu Crimson From last pick of the second round in the original draft to first pick of the second round in the re-draft, King doesn’t earn a ton of capped TPE per week (regularly relying on welfare and Brand executive job pay), but he does engage in quite a few of the uncapped activities, which has helped him move up the draft. 10-Johnny Havenk Carison Was: Jake Davis The reason why the former third overall pick falls down nearly an entire round worth of picks is that I think, even with their need at the position, if you told Helsinki and Toronto that Carison would be 457 TPE at the start of his fourth VHL season, they would rather shore up their skating talent with players with much higher TPE than use their first on the goalie. Therefore, instead of addressing the need right away, Toronto grabbed their 700+ TPE winger before grabbing Carison in the second. 11-Paolo Nano Was: Shawn Glade I was considering Mulligan and Montgomery here, but given that the team already has five active forwards in accordance with this draft (Cast, Preencarnacion, Slipher, King, Pajari), they would rather make Nano their second active talent on defense alongside Glade. 12-Konstantin Mulligan Was: Oleksiy Revchenko The same concerns that centered around Revchenko pre-draft were also true about Mulligan, although Mulligan also had a peculiar build through the first three seasons of his career and that build led to him being a third line player on Helsinki in Season 64, before being traded to Quebec mid-season. 13-Dan Montgomery Was: Karl Von Moltke Montgomery was the leading first generation player in TPE heading into this draft, but he’s now fallen down to being the sixth-best first generation player in TPE, in part because his only source of capped TPE is welfare. Along with Mulligan, this pair of seconds would give them two VHL talents for their push at a Continental Cup in Season 62 (although if they’d have the cap is another thing, something I can’t check back on because the forum for old finances has been moved). This is also the only instance where the player originally selected doesn't feature at all on the re-draft. Karl Von Moltke went inactive not long after the draft, despite his player doing extremely well in the VHLM with the Halifax 21st. He's currently on Moscow Menace's books, but he'll likely be one of the first to give way for newer members to take his place given he has only 4 points in 18 games this season. 14-Lando Baxter Was: Lando Baxter One of the few players to be re-drafted in exactly the same spot, I had considered Baxter for number 11, but the rate in which Nano has gained on Baxter in TPE since the draft (turning a 92 TPE gap to just 11) convinced me otherwise. 15-Cayden Saint Was: Cayden Saint The first player taken here who has had spells of inactivity, Saint was recently traded to Davos for a second and a third round selection in Season 67, but I think that’s more reflective on Davos wanting depth at defenseman and having several 1sts anyway rather than the actual value of Saint, who is a solid but unspectacular player. 16-Dylan Nguyen Was: Roctrion King The biggest faller in this Re-draft, Nguyen fell off of full activity not long after making it to the VHL as personal stuff kept him off the site. Hasn’t posted on the site this calendar year and looks set to be a filler player for the remainder of his career.

@ShawnGlade mentioned that I didn't mention him in my Season 62 ReDraft podcast, so in return, I've dedicated the entirety of my drive back home from work to talking about him.

Don't even have to do these anymore but figure someone's gotta keep the VHL Radio forum booming!

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