Spartan

Claim it for 6 +2 for VSN, it'd be approved

How have I seen this same complaint from you across your last 2 or 3 players now, spanning completely different sets of voters during that time period, and simply resorting to a cope excuse of "they saw DarkSpyro as the user and voted NO." I do not understand who would care that much to deny someone and shape voting to make your involvement the main criteria for denying you an award. It's not a personal bias, I've never seen your name come up in voting discussions about your player. I always see this same complaint from you each time though. Your claim is that every BOG member, commissioner and VHLM GM have issues with you?

Just weren't spots open for me to play while enjoying being competitive, so peaced out.

I knew it'd all work out man, loved seeing Gunner's career both in Moscow and with Riga. Congrats on all the success, you've earned it!

Sure but that's what happened so I'm just commenting on what happened lol

I do not and didn't claim to know I did, I just don't think (that's my opinion) Rave being an S90 instead of an S91 would have changed the players' outspoken desire to compete last season

i'll just make the cap 90 mil gg man

Sure but you didn't draft those players and you're fortunate that they're spaced out like that. Even if they were retiring in S90, I don't think that'd have changed your "all in" last season, so yes, I'll say it's luckily. And no I didn't click on their update log because I clicked on the roster page and draft pick page for each team and didn't put in any additional effort for a shitpost.

I aim to please

Portal's dead so I'm going to stir the pot on forums, woohoo! My uneducated and unresearched takes on each VHL team's future: CGY - Looking like a rebuilder with a 4-4-2, dunno if they forgot that we run 6 forwards in the VHL but that's not a great sign. Oven retiring this season, Reingaard in S99, Dassler in S100. Prospects don't seem exciting. Tall order for them to be competitive with VHLer, Sakic and Panda, fully expect a sell coming down in the next couple seasons. CHI - Straight ass, no defense, Victor von Doom in hell for the majority of his career it seems. Interesting choice to build a team from the goalie out, and CHI has no prospects to work with. Better hit on their S100 picks and pray they don't run into cap hell in S103 when those ELCs expire. DCD - Thinking like a contender by adding short term vets, while not quite yet being a rebuilder. Prospects should be able to pitch in from S99 onwards, but the team as of now looks largely uninspiring and most likely to be the best of the lotto teams this season. Maybe should have embraced the suck for another season and focused on prospect development. DAV - Prob the best positioned EU team to compete consistently for the next 2-3 seasons before everyone gets old as hell. 5/6F and 3/4D are pretty uninspiring right now, top guys will need to carry consistently. But they play in the EU so they're fine, Sheppard and Gingy will help justify moving out older forwards before they get too old. HSK - LDN - 3oa trade was questionable, the team hasn't quite developed as you'd hope by this point but the S96-S98's will have to really grind to get this team somewhere respectable. With the EU being as bad as it is, maybe the top guys of Carti/Bolivar/Groenvold can get them United into a consistent playoff bid, but their prospect pool just doesn't look like it'll offer much reinforcement. Don't even have a pick stockpile to work with. LAS - I've been outspoken about my thoughts on a 2 goalie tandem while you have other pressing needs, and I stand by it. I'm glad 2 people are having fun but there are 0 promising forwards on this team and 0 promising forward prospects either. Defense will be fine between LaFleur and Tuomala and welfare prospects, but man this forward unit just belongs in the M. MAL - Luckily had players that weren't retiring in S98 that could be traded for picks. Feels like they made a million trades, but only 3 1sts in the next 2 seasons and Bek as a prospect to show for it. Tottingham will be a fine 3rd winger, no one else on the roster really shows immense promise beyond maybe Middletoe or Shaw if they decide to step it up and not just be welfare earners on a tanking team. MOS - lol goodbye forward unit, probably selling after this season depending on the market, but no prospects ready to come up for S99. The players that remain after the S90's are talented but dunno if you can make up for an entire forward line just disappearing. NYA - Probably mid as usual, Richmond and WWWW can't compete with PIM machines on defense. Mantzz and Hughes were good picks, maybe STZ can get the decent looking prospect pool to develop into something useful down the line. They hold picks worth something so can try to restock a bit. PRG - Idk why they thought they needed Leitner, another team overfocusing on the back end while their forward unit needs help. Still, the team isn't all that old but some are on the cusp of depreciation. Where did all their picks go lol. Tough times ahead for PRG if they don't decide to sell off after S99 or S100 to recoup assets. RIG - Malmo pt 2, V.2 full sending it to give Gunner and Targaryen a chance before retirement and Blues taking too long to hire a GM when everyone else finished trading. No S99 picks, some S100's, 0 prospects whatsoever. Probably going to need to get good value for Raikkonen after this season, along with Shotzky and Robinson. Just a tough look, defense is really bad too. SEA - No picks no prospects Seattle wins the cup in S100 with 3 forwards and 4 defensemen TOR - I don't think they're wrong to full send it, but they seem like a lighter version of Moscow with half their forwards due to retire in the next 2 seasons and no replacements waiting. At least the timing of their sale won't line up with ours. Defense isn't bad, Dalkr is falling off a cliff. Need a new goalie badly. VAN - 4-3-1 LOL. Frank went MIA this offseason after clearing some cap. 3 mil to play with for 3 roster slots, might actually be GG for VAN unless they move some of their high earning folks. Don't know how no one saw what was going on here, but this is a team of 5 6mil players and only 7 total skaters. Guess we'll see if 5 max earners can beat other teams with full rosters? WAR -

too many defenders out here smh @Updater

Bold move bro has FO investment

Harrington will definitely have a bigger role this season

I wish @Will wasn't

Take your extra money and go home bozos

@qripll @InstantRockstar edit your offers, you guys offered a team option for S98 which is invalid. Add a value for S99 if you want that to be the option Also @Cartripp14 sign with Moscow, at least we're contending

Hello all! Short and sweet today! Thank you @jacobcarson877 for your time as Houston GM, you've been a great returnee to the VHLM GM role and it was a pleasure to have you back in the M to offer your wisdom and experience to new players. We'll miss you in the M, but wish you the very best in all your future endeavors both in the VHL and outside of it! With that, we're excited to bring in some fresh blood to the M in a person who's been extremely active and engaged in all aspects of the VHL and the VHLM. Please congratulate the new GM of the Houston Bulls - @SMYLS4! His podcasts and VSN work have propelled him to the forefront of our hiring discussions, along with his general involvement and awareness of the going-ons around the league. We're looking forward to working with our newest GM in the M! - @VHLM Commissioner

But anyways, parity wasn't the factor on my mind when I was discussing it and voting on it. We don't want to contract teams over a slight recruitment lull while folks are holding off on recreating for S100. We had no recruitment budget due to the holiday drive. Regardless of parity, we take issue when the cap is unjustifiably high as demonstrated by the amount of available cap around the league. I share concerns about the viability of late stage career players sticking with teams given their cost and TPE inflation over the seasons, but that's always a concern to a GM who wants to keep a competitive window open and a player approaching retirement. Those decisions will always have to be made regardless of the cap.

U right I didn't read that far after seeing the second plane hit S100 and raged internally

I don't know where the parity argument came from, but it wasn't mentioned in the announcement and it's not the primary driver. Simply put, there was too much cap available across the league given the players we have in the league, and we didn't see that immediately changing given the state of draft classes. Dropping the cap is a small change, it's 2 million. Whether the S100 drop happens or not will be re-evaluated next offseason. Depending on how S100, S101, etc go, we could fully see a raise again by S103 if we see stronger draft classes leading to the need for more cap. When the average cap hit for teams is more than 10 million under our cap, we're going to make a small tweak.

Correct

Cap floor will just lead to more inflated bonuses and even less trades bc players on rebuilders are overpaid

Considering the league wanted to eliminate bonuses entirely at some point, this is a significant compromise that still allows for bonuses to be given out. Rebuilders are typically the only ones I've seen hand out bonuses historically, with maybe one or two fringe cases in my 20 seasons as a VHL GM. My first experience with it as a GM has quite literally been this season

Bulls, I'm heading out to work and did this on my phone lol