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Ah, yeah that's a portal bug.

I thought when a player surpassed 250 TPE they couldn't go back down to the VHLM?

Great article, just wanted to say thanks as well for your work throughout the season covering the draft, it's been a fun series to follow!

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Yeah personally I thought we got rid of the auto-retirement element of the two player rule quite a bit ago (I think we changed it to the old GM player became an FA upon the new GM player being drafted in the VHL (even if traded, like The Charm was), although whether that would apply with every GM players required to be drafted idk)

1. We won! The sweep would’ve been super awesome, but I guess we’ll have to settle with just awesome! 2. Toronto’s a tough situation to jump into, seems like a long-term retooling is in order. I wish him the best with it though 3. I’m not staying down but I think you’ve shown you’d be more than good enough for the role! 4. Just covering VHL, whether she’s still interested I don’t know, but I think BladeMaiden has done more than enough to earn a role. 5. Not sure, but if success is still being pursued, a new goalie is a must. 6. I think I did! Thank you VHL community!

It’s been over six years since I joined the VHL and, despite having several players make their way out of the VHLM comfortably enough, they never found themselves drafted into the pros on the back of a Founders Cup victory. Whether that be from finding myself on bad teams (My stint on the Wild in S34 had myself and Smarch as the only actives on the roster and with Oslo in S51, I was the only active), bad/lazy management (The first GM of the S43 Bratislava Watchmen got sacked and his replacement never tried to get any of the deadline recreates) or actually GMing myself out of a chance of winning with a player (I was GM of the S55 Aces team that knocked out the heavily-favoured Storm team that featured Aackckqz Ky), a Founders Cup opportunity just never really came to pass. So luckily I found my way onto the Wild for Season 69 and, well based on our roster, if we didn’t win this time then I think it’s be fair to say that the higher powers were just conspiring to fuck me over for that time I theorised about removing the VHLM back in S49. I certainly played my part as well, leading the VHLM in playoff points, so thanks to @Peace for setting this opportunity up! Also, this is the first time writing a PT on my phone and it sucks!

Part I - Pick em' (Pick the correct winners of all three games for 2 TPE) Game 3 - Seattle Bears @ Riga Reign Game 4 - Seattle Bears @ Riga Reign Game 5 - Riga Reign @ Seattle Bears Part II - Predict the Score (Predict the correct score and winner of this game for 3 TPE) Game 5 - Riga Reign @ Seattle Bears - 3-1 Riga Part III - Player Predictions (Predict the correct player for each category, 1 TPE for each correct answer) Series leader in points: Kastelic Series leader in goals: Kastelic Series leader in assists: Hackett Who has the series PIM lead: Sunqvist Who scores the series winning goal: Stiopic

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I think @Victor may be better here, I've heard he has a height advantage.

I don't think it can be understated how important the VHL Portal has been to the VHL's growth over the last ten season or so. We went from a league that pretty much had to contract to eight teams based on player count (even with a number of members having two players at the time) to a league that has 12 teams of full rosters and a big reason for that was how much easier the Portal made it to create and maintain your player in comparison to the old purely forum based ways of the VHL that were used in its first 60 seasons. But, as a league, I feel like we could always do more to make the league more accessible to new members who come in and find themselves overwhelmed by how the league works. I've got a couple of ideas in mind as to how we could improve the league in that regard; one idea I've had involves making short 1 min or less videos for each PT that covers how to do them and then subsequently claim them in the portal, but I'll have to wait for the right time to record all of them. Another idea I had was maybe come up with another way of demonstrating what point tasks you can/cannot do in each given week. This isn't exactly as aesthetically-pleasing an example as I'd like due to my limited google sheets skill, but I think you can see the idea that I was going with here, just trying to set up a different way that people can see what's available for them to do each week in the VHL. VHL Weekly Activities for Capped TPE Main Point Task (For Up To 6 TPE/Week) Mini Point Tasks (For Up To 6 TPE/Week) Jobs You can do one of the following each week: A 150 Word VHL.com Article (2 TPE) * You can also earn Capped TPE by performing jobs that help the VHL A 500 Word Media Article (6 TPE) A VHL Related Player Card/Graphic (2 TPE) * Vacant Roles can be found in the Job Interviews forum. A VHL Related Graphic (6 TPE) A 5 Minute VHL Radio Podcast (3 TPE) * Examples of VHL Jobs include: A 15 Minute Podcast (6 TPE) Ask/Answer Press Conference Questions (Up to 2 TPE) Updater (3 TPE) If you've done any of the three above in the SBA or EFL, you can claim them as Affiliate Welfare (6 TPE) Answer VHL Trivia Questions (Up to 2 TPE) VHL/VHLM GM (2 TPE) Review Other Members Main Point Tasks (Up to 2 TPE) Recruitment Team (Up to 12 TPE) If you don't have the time to submit a Main Point Task, you can claim for Welfare (4 TPE) Note: You can do up to two of the three PT's marked with a *, but you can't do two of the same in one week (E.g. two Player Cards) VSN Writer/Editor (Up to 10 TPE) You Can Earn A Maximum Of 12 TPE/Week Through These Activities Combined

Just to make sure, is this a “free” doubles week (as in a standard 6 TPE uncapped upon completion of a PT) or a “Free doubles week”, which has been used in the past to describe when we give users a free week and a doubles week all in one week (so 6 TPE capped for the free week then doubled with 6 uncapped)

Talking about my Season 38, my first Super Cup and some off-season stuff after that season (I think that's what I talk about at least, this was recorded back in September) VHL Weekly Activities for Capped TPE Main Point Task (For Up To 6 TPE/Week) Mini Point Tasks (For Up To 6 TPE/Week) Jobs You can do one of the following each week: A 150 Word VHL.com Article (2 TPE) * You can also earn Capped TPE by performing jobs that help the VHL A 500 Word Media Article (6 TPE) A VHL Related Player Card/Graphic (2 TPE) * Vacant Roles can be found in the Job Interviews forum. A VHL Related Graphic (6 TPE) A 5 Minute VHL Radio Podcast (3 TPE) * Examples of VHL Jobs include: A 15 Minute Podcast (6 TPE) Ask/Answer Press Conference Questions (Up to 2 TPE) Updater (3 TPE) If you've done any of the three above in the SBA or EFL, you can claim them as Affiliate Welfare (6 TPE) Answer VHL Trivia Questions (Up to 2 TPE) VHL/VHLM GM (2 TPE) Review Other Members Main Point Tasks (Up to 2 TPE) Recruitment Team (Up to 12 TPE) If you don't have the time to submit a Main Point Task, you can claim for Welfare (4 TPE) Note: You can do up to two of the three PT's marked with a *, but you can't do two of the same in one week (E.g. two Player Cards) VSN Writer/Editor (Up to 10 TPE) You Can Earn A Maximum Of 12 TPE/Week Through These Activities Combined

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Not to do exactly what you mentioned I shouldn't and talk about Eller ? He was my second guy I had in mind (considered Shawinganen as well but he had some decent seasons at least), he was partly saved for same reason Underyew was in that all the first round forwards in that draft fell off pretty quickly.

Intro Notes: - This is the first of four parts. I will also be doing the worst picks of the S60’s for the EU Conference and the best picks for both the NA and EU conference. I've got a WIP spreadsheet here where I shortlisted some of the other potential options for this article and also potential options for best NA picks. - These are not necessarily bad picks on the part of the General Manager, in fact most of these players were selected in the rounds that pretty much everyone expected them to be picked in. - Some of the criteria that go into my selections are as follows o Pick the player was taken with o How well the player did for the team o If the player was relatively quickly moved to another team, what value they got for them o Strength of the Draft Class o Any miscellaneous issues I feel are relevant to the selection - As mentioned in the D.C bit, it's obviously a bit early to be analyzing the prospects of Season 68 and Season 69 players. However, I feel I have good candidates (at least for now) for all teams and, if there are any significant changes, I will probably do a follow-up article to address those. Calgary Donat Szita Season 65 – 20th Overall (3rd Round) When I was writing this article, I did not think that I was going to writing that a third rounder was going to be a team’s worst draft pick of the S60’s, but here we are. Donat Szita (who had the username Famished Blanket) had a very promising start to his career, earning ten capped TPE in each of his first three weeks in the league and passing the 100 TPE plateau in his fourth week. However, that fourth week would also be his final week as an active member of the VHL as he was permanently banned for inappropriate language and behaviour in the league’s discord channel. Despite the fact that the Season 65 Draft took place over two months after this ban was put into effect, the Wranglers decided to select him in the third round of the Season 65 Draft even though there were still active members on the board (in fact six of the eight picks immediately following Calgary’s selection of Szita would go on to make the VHL). While I think some in the Calgary organization felt that his ban should be overturned, that was never going to be the case and Calgary essentially wasted their pick on someone who would never play a single minute for them. The bit that makes this Calgary’s worst pick of the S60’s though is because of what they did with Brian Strong, a player who was selected two picks later than Szita by the Vancouver Wolves. Just a couple of weeks after the draft, the Wranglers acquired Strong in a trade. However, the piece they had to send was a Season 66 2nd round selection, despite the Season 66 draft being widely regarded as a much more promising draft class than the Season 65 one and Strong having only been selected a round later a few weeks previous in a supposed weaker draft class. If Calgary valued Strong that much, why did they not just draft him instead of Szita and save the Season 66 2nd rounder to strengthen their roster elsewhere? D.C. Kaspars Claude Season 68 – 14th Overall (2nd Round) It’s obviously very early to be talking about the success (or I guess in this case, lack of) of the players selected by the D.C. Dragons and the Prague Phantoms given that they’ve only been in two VHL Drafts and there’s a chance I will come back at a later date should things change, but I think both teams already have solid candidates for best and worst selections so I’ll at least share them for now and maybe make some amendments if things change. I remember back in mid-October when I talked with Enorama on our podcast that we did together that every player who he had taken in the Season 68 Draft had updated within the last week and how that was an impressive feat for a team, especially an expansion team in its first season that will obviously not be set to compete with the other VHL teams for a few seasons. Unfortunately however, some of those players have now fallen off and probably the highest profile of these players is Kaspars Claude. Claude’s earning started off real strong and he was frequently earning 10-12 capped TPE per week and his first season on the Dragons was a fairly productive one, finishing fourth on the Dragons in points. However, real life issues have prevented Claude from progressing his player further since the start of Season 69 and he now only sees minutes on the fourth line of the Dragons offense. On the positive side however, if he is able to come back, he’s still got a potential six seasons to go, which is more than enough time to make up any deficit. New York Carles Puigdemont Season 65 – 1st Overall When Ryan Kastelic was taken first overall in the Season 63 Draft, it had ended an over-thirty season wait for a first gen to be taken with the first pick in the VHL Draft. However, we didn’t have to wait nearly as long for the next instance as, just two seasons later, the New York Americans followed suit and selected the Spanish center Carles Puigdemont with the first overall pick in the Season 65 Draft. The pick was not considered to be a surprise as Puigdemont was the highest TPE player entering the draft and had a considerable 100 TPE lead over his nearest forward rival Gritty, who went fourth overall. While Puigdemont certainly didn’t have a terrible first season on the ice (putting up 28 goals and 28 assists), the work rate that saw him get selected first overall was no longer there. Prior to the draft, Puigdemont had recorded 13 weeks where he had earned the maximum possible 12 capped TPE, but after being drafted to the Americans, his first week on the team would be the only week he would record 12 capped TPE as a player on a VHL roster. After a couple of months of weekly earnings that varied between 2 and 8 TPE per week, he looked like he was finally getting back on track with a 10 TPE week at the start of May entering Season 66, but those were actually some of the last posts we would see from Eudaldkp, as he has not posted on the site at all since then. After another season of similar production, New York elected to cut their losses and traded Puigdemont to the Seattle Bears for Chace Trepanier, who was a third-round selection in Season 63. The Bears would move Puigdemont to defenseman and he even wound up playing a part in their S68 Continental Cup winning season, albeit a very limited part (he played 5 mins per game over the course of the playoffs). Now in his fifth season, he’s currently playing as a second-line defenseman for the Toronto Legion although with free agency and regression both on the horizon, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was his last season in the VHL. Quebec City/Vancouver Samuel Gate Season 61 - 2nd Overall In terms of actual production based on the pick they were taken with, this definitely isn’t Quebec City/Vancouver’s worst pick. Back in Season 63, they selected Jose Gonzalez with the eighth overall pick (the last pick of the first round), but he clearly didn’t want to play for Quebec City and only gave them seven points in his rookie season before being sent off to Davos. At least they got some VHL minutes out of him though, Season 66 second rounder Kyle Sabertooth retired from the VHL before the Wolves even got chance to put his name on a jersey. It’s also not like Gate was a terrible player for them either; while he never broke a point per game for the Meute/Wolves (although he did when he got traded to Seattle in Season 66, his final VHL season), he was hitting just short of that more seasons than he wasn’t. Finally, while Gate’s 610 TPE isn’t exactly what you want out of your second overall pick, it’s certainly serviceable enough to make a decent player. So why is Gate their worst pick of the S60’s? Well, quite simply, he wasn’t Podrick Cast, who was the player selected with the pick immediately after Gate's. A future (potentially first-ballot) HOFer, Cast was a free-scoring center who recorded over the double the points that Gate did in his career and finished his career with over 1000 more TPE. Looking at the Meute consistently ranking around the middle of the standings in goals in the four/five seasons following the draft, you could see how a player like Cast could have really given them a proper shot at the Continental Cup in those earlier seasons, especially while Rauno Palo was developing (Palo, while possessing a high TPE count, had a lot of early struggles given his unique initial build that had him start with very little offensive capabilities). Seattle Shane Mars Season 66 – 3rd Overall This was a close call between two players Seattle picked with the third overall selection, Season 66’s Shane Mars and Season 68’s Thorny Underyew. While both went inactive very early on in their careers, their careers with the Bears went in different ways. Mars had an exceptional rookie season that saw him win the Rookie of the Year Award in a period where Seattle was starting a proper rebuild but saw extremely limited minutes once the Bears were ready to compete and they wound up letting him walk in Free Agency once his rookie deal expired. Underyew on the other hand didn’t even register a full season with the Bears before being sent off to the Wranglers as part of a package that allowed the Bears to bring in Joel Ylonen. The one thing that they do have in common though is that, despite both being on rosters, neither of them feature on any of their current team’s lines. Ultimately I decided to go with Mars as the worst pick for the Bears in the S60’s for a couple of reasons. One is that while they did trade Underyew for value, they didn’t really get any value out of keeping Mars. The second reason was that while Underyew was undoubtedly a disappointing pick for the Bears, if we say that they were definitely after a forward, there weren’t really any other good options taken in the first round (you’d have to go down to Owen Nolan in the second round for the best forward in the class as both Frans Eller and Teemu Lehtinen Jr. have gone inactive) whereas in the Season 66 Draft’s first round, Jet Jaguar and Mikko Aaltonen were also taken in the first round and they both feature prominently in the VHL at this minute (as of writing, both are in the top 10 in goals). Toronto Mikhail Vega Season 61 – 9th Overall (2nd Round) As has been well-memed previously, Devise does not do drafts, so there really isn’t that much to play with when it comes to picking out specific draft picks, as most of them were selected in the three seasons of the S60’s when DollarAndADream was the Legion’s general manager. While you could maybe make an argument that Johnny Havenk Carison’s career as a whole didn’t justify being selected as high as third overall (especially given the next pick wound up being one of the best forwards of the last few seasons), he justified his selection with his Playoff MVP performance in Season 65, one of only two seasons he played as a starter in his four seasons with the team. So instead, I will go with the player who went with the first pick in the second round of the Season 61 VHL Draft Mikhail Vega. Vega very nearly joined some of the other players in this article on the list of players retiring before they made it to the VHL, as he declared his intent to retire prior to the start of Season 62 having spent Season 61 down in the VHLM. His reasons at the time for retiring stood out as bizarre; citing his dislike of the portal update system which he had yet to even try and in fact hadn’t even earned any TPE through PT’s to use it for anyway along with insisting, despite his retirement, that he’d stick around as VHLM GM (which was never going to happen as, obviously with the role, you’re required to have at least some knowledge of the basic league systems). Vega did end up unretiring, but still never used the portal update system in his VHL career, although he has gone on to do much better things with Denver Wolfe (a contender for one of Vancouver’s best picks). Curiously enough, Vega wound up winning the Continental Cup with the Legion in Season 65 despite the fact that Wolfe had already been drafted in the VHL, which technically isn’t allowed, so I will be demanding that the Toronto Legion be stripped of their Continental Cup and it be given to Riga and EdwinCast. Thank you and goodnight. 2000+ Words. 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While Will deservedly gets a lot of credit for his work in creating and maintaining the portal (the league's greatest ever addition in my eyes), I feel like an unsung hero when it comes to the portal would be @Devise as he was the person who first put forward the idea of transitioning the VHL to a more website-based outfit from the then, at the time, completely forum-based (outside of the indexes) VHL. Back in Season 55 (a really dire time for the VHL and roughly a year before we got anything close to the current portal integration), Devise sent out a message to a few high profiling members talking about his idea and while the change that Devise suggested was a bit more radical than the actual outcome (his idea leaned to taking a lot more away from the forums and onto the website), there's definitely some points he made in that PM he sent that were very true and have been realised following the greater portal integration. Quotes from the PM such as: Outside of the amount of it's use, this is essentially what we have today with our practice facility and, maybe there will come a time when Welfare and the like also transition onto the portal. Also: When I did my podcast with Enorama, he mentioned about how the Portal's ability to create a player (as opposed to the old forum system where you had to fill out a forum template) was a huge factor in his decision to create a player in this league, and I'm sure this is the case for several other of our newer high-profile members as well. So Devise's desire to make the league much more user-friendly definitely was justified given those results (Bear in mind, between S44 draft class and S61's draft class, outside of Beaviss and Spade, first-gens who actively wanted to engage in higher-up roles just were not there at all or burnt themselves out way too early, so first-gen development was a huge struggle at this time). So hats off to you Devise!