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For the first time since S76, the last season Moscow was run by Victor, the Menace are in pole position for the Victory Cup - awarded to the team with the most regular season points. During my time on the Menace as a player, the team won two Victory Cups, which was a slight consolation prize to not winning the Continental Cup at the time. It'd be the first Victory Cup win for Moscow under my tenure if this performance continues, but credit has to go to a bunch of underrated folks who deserve some shoutouts: 1. Jan Hlozek - @Bojovnik 17G | 44A | 61P | +33 | 76 Hits | 89 SB | 4 GWG Hollywood Hlozek as he used to be called during his run-up to the S77 VHL Draft has really turned on the jets this season, already on track for a career season at a 1.3 PPG pace. Hlozek came to Moscow in a FA rights trade from LA before FA opened, as Moscow wanted to take a flier on a veteran defender who had just come off three seasons in a row of 72 points or higher. With the changes to the meta and attributes, I didn't expect Hlozek to explode as he has this season, but he's 2nd on Moscow in points and 5th in the entire league in defenseman scoring. 2. Sergey Preobrazhensky - @Bulduray_1 24G | 36A | 60P | +40 | 15 Hits | 15 SB | 8 GWG Sergey has taken a massive step forward as a sophomore, completely avoiding the expected sophomore slump that many players experience. Instead in more than 25 fewer games, Sergey has already exceeded his point total from his rookie season, and has career highs in both goals and assists. Moving from wing to center hasn't impeded him at all, and he's really embraced his role as a second line center. I've always liked to run two solid centers, and Sergey has really stepped up as a leader on the second unit alongside Henri le Massif and Kyosti Karjalainen, a fellow sophomore. An anchor on the second line, it clearly won't be long until he makes the jump to first line center, or even better - anchor for the entire team! 3. Leroy Johnson - @Vkobe-v 7 starts | 7 wins | 0 losses | 0.925 SV% | 1.91 GAA Many times when teams play their backup goalies, they figure they'll drop a couple games simply because most backup goalies are bots. Leroy is the reason why teams should really carry a human backup goalie, as he already has 7 wins this season and has a career record of 22-4-0 thus far with a 0.920 SV% and a 2.65 GAA. It is difficult to maintain an active user backup goalie, as you'd expect them to become too expensive to carry, or that they'd need to become a starter. Kobe has been the most selfless player on Moscow since I became the GM, as he's declined opportunities to start for other teams and cut off his earning at 400 TPE to ensure that he'd fall under the $2 million backup goalie cap hit removal rule. Thank you for everything Kobe, and we're very fortunate to have you .

source: just trust me bro

1. It's been a bit underwhelming for sure, but there have been flashes of improvement throughout. Just need to get more consistent. 2. It was mother's day on Sunday, so just spent time with my mom and went out for lunch. Just a nice quiet weekend. 3. I would probably like to go to London tbh, I last went when I was really young, but I'd like to go again and remember it this time. 4. I'm appreciative of the Europe players for sure, and rooted for Booberry of course. We root against those players and teams for the rest of the season, I think we can spare some appreciation and support for them for one day in a season that's for fun. 5. I think it's down to Moscow and Riga, I think both teams have handled the top NA teams as well as the others in their conferences. Moscow is down in the series split to Riga, but if Moscow can play disciplined, I think they take a series against Riga for sure. 6. I will just be happy to be the grill master for summer barbecues again!

Do centers or left wings next!

I feel you here man, there have been times where I feel like we've gone in circles or points are just tossed into the void. I've had plenty of days where I've wondered if my time and effort was worth it, especially when considering responses to things I said or how topics were engaged with. I feel like rolling out the meta fix was a big reason for this though, plus add on that most existing BoG members (not me) also had to implement the E. It's some large changes that def contributed to burnout or generally exhaustion with the BoG, especially if someone's ideas weren't given the time or thought they deserved. I don't know how we recover from that, but maybe baby steps are what we need to take. Maybe some lower priority issue that doesn't need massive portal changes, or maybe even something tasked to us by commissioners. It'd be nice to feel like we're being leveraged for our experience and viewpoints instead of just being a think tank with no guarantees of being listened to. I think @Beketov is pretty aware of that and I think we'll see some steps in the right direction this week and next.

Feel like Moscow is a p nice defense location with an IA and a couple retirees coming over the next couple seasons, would line up with AK decently. We have a couple prospects, but will still need a real 1D and still unsure if one will prove themselves to the level of Markinson or Moreau. But yeah the picks will be low so let's see.

P sure you can still wrangle up an old MS for last week if you have one pending, just lmk and we can work it out. If not, all good!

claim 2

Glad you're hanging in there, we should game together sometime. New season of Apex on Tuesday, think it's be a great time to get some VHL Apex parties going!

Mom look, I made a Ben verse

Moose was Kevin King, that's who we had on the podcast a couple times. Original podcasts are on Soundcloud, but then we ran out of upload space so we switched to spotify. MOOSE_ was wrong tag, player is Matti Takala, IA Moscow prospect. Eynhallow was Isau Damoose, so also someone completely different. Cowboy was actually Prout, whose player was Cowboy Prout. Viper/Hatter are pretty clear, Matt Sovick was a former LVA goalie and hopped on a podcast to get some TPE and do a task.

bruh this was really just listing off random members and tagging them....i'm taking my react back

well this wasn't right lol

give me the timestamps, and also Moose/Moose's - both played for me

Good job @UnkemptCL4PTP and @OrbitingDeath

I'd love it if you didn't go by the same name as Jack "two left feet, no skills, but BFF's with Sidney Crosby so we should give him a 5x5" Johnson, but do as you please. We've had people in the league who've done much worse than you, just don't get tpe banned again and no one will care again outside the occasional multi joke.

I'm hearing that we're having another Zoo Tycoon stream, and that is all I care about.

Shout-out @OrbitingDeath and @Garsh!

you think I'm clever?

Fuck no. Worst move GMJR made.

Not gonna lie, I don't even know what those are. Can't hate what you don't know!

I've never met a nice kangaroo, what can I say?

Be more controversial smh