Spartan

Question for Brozik: Will you still be playing hockey after a season in the minors?

"I feel like Stevie Wonder "

much better

1. Uh, thanks for the support, really means a lot. Not sure what the future holds but I hope to be part of a revitalized D.C. effort next season. 2. Yeah I always like to follow along here and there, it's good to still watch some hockey even when we're not playing, you can learn a lot. 3. I'll probably root for London since I'm friends with their GM and have some friends on the team as well, old teammates from Moscow. 4. Oh I answered the wrong question ig, but I'll still stick with London. 5. Playing is playing, at least we can try to prove that we're not the worst of the bunch as our record indicates. 6. Don't be surprised if you suck lol. Not every rookie can be a PPG, don't think any rookie in S77 went for a PPG. Just set realistic expectations and you'll be fine.

we've got new lines coming in for today, giving a couple folks who wanted experience with sths the chance to send in lines

i'll apply, I heard NY AGM's become GM's

smh my head, I wouldn't have challenged you to do it if I didn't think you were capable of doing it

bite me

New PC Q's (Week ending 5/2) 1. So the season's officially over, and we're not in the playoffs for the first time in a long time. What was your favorite memory about this season? 2. Reflect on your performance this season. How did it go for you personally? Did you meet your expectations, blow them away, play like ass, etc. 3. Which team will you be rooting for in the playoffs and why? 4. We've got the lottery tournament coming up, and currently the 2nd best odds to win the lottery. How are you going to prepare for the tournament? 5. We're in an exciting scenario where the DC 1st that we traded for a couple weeks ago is now projected to be the number 1 pick in this season's draft, which means we own two top 3 selections guaranteed in this draft. Who should we select? 6. I did a little dabbling with VHFL stats today to try to identify problem areas in the current scoring system. If you were running VHFL, how would you assign points to each statistical category? This doesn't have to be every stat, just pick 2 or 3.

1. Ok so season's over but honestly, I'm mad Davos didn't make it. Really hoped this would be the year that'd break the curse. Oh well, will just have to do whatever it takes to get Letang's corpse to Davos after next season. 2. I suppose we saw a few eh? I think some GM's were antsier this season and were willing to make moves before the deadline to have the most amount of time to commit to their goals. DC and Prague both bought from Moscow in the week or two before the TDL, Prague's being the weekend before the TDL. 3. Would be pretty funny if Malmo won it eh? Or is that a bit of a sore subject....maybe the worst team in NA then I suppose. STHS is fucked anyways. 4. I just want to be able to talk to people without a mask on. I do plenty of that with my close circle, but it's different to be able to just walk somewhere public without feeling constricted. 5. Lol, EFL, SBA, SHL, SFC, few other GM leagues. I'd like to be back in a baseball sim league since the SBL folded, it was nice while it lasted. Don't want to join another money league/forum updating league like PBE though. 6. I probably wouldn't change my posting habits. I think once you go viral, there's some expectation to be actively posting on twitter, but I just post once in a while if something truly clever pops into my mind that I decide is worth craving validation on social media.

Everything starts with the intent to be a vhl.com, how much pops into my head determines what I end up claiming it as lol

....is Simon T. Now that I have your attention with some clickbait, join me in offering my condolences to the S77 Riga Reign for getting the most ridiculous sim shaft I have seen in my time in the VHL. It isn't much (just S71), but I do feel for Hedge and the folks on the team. I joked before the season started to Hedge that we'd be seeing them in the lottery tournament which was funny at the time, now I feel pretty bad for potentially cursing their team this season. Sorry lads Anyways, the point of this was basically to be a casual season recap as Moscow's season looks to draw to a close tomorrow with the final regular season sim of S77. It's been a very different season than most, particularly because of the obvious change in my sim league life of becoming a pro league GM for the first time. It's required a significantly different mindset than I've had in my managerial career which has solely been at the minors/collegiate levels, with different intents and purposes. But changing my perspective to focus more on team building wasn't as difficult as I thought it'd be, perhaps because of my penchant of making aggressive moves with Vegas to try to contend every single season to mixed results. This season was basically the opposite though, trading for picks and younger players while trading away friends and VHL stars instead of trying to force a team into being something it just isn't ready for. Learning from experience, you love to see it. Luckily, I haven't made a move that I've disliked or regretted, all the way back to last offseason. Moving Davis, Lahtinen and Tonn while also requesting the Letang trade truly helped Moscow escape from the perilous middle ground of mediocrity and retreat to the safety of the basement of the VHL, albeit with a clear vision of what the future looks like. Atreides and Idaho were easy picks in the draft, and franchise cornerstones that I expected to feature quite a bit over the span of the season. The biggest and most pleasant surprise however was the development and performance of Phillip Stein, a rookie we traded for from London in the Lahtinen/Tonn trade. At the time of writing this, all 3 rookies are in the top 3 of rookie scoring. In a perfect world, I would love to see all three jointly win RotY, as they've truly been a very strong line despite just being rookies. I've really enjoyed the other active acquisitions in both trades and draft selections, as all of our draft selections have remained active and project to come up to the VHL within a season or two, which is awesome to see. We re-signed Malone to be our goalie of the future, or well, for the next season, but eagles is a lovely lad who has great history with Moscow, so it's just been very nice to have another familiar face on the squad from when I first got into the LR. At the risk of writing too much for a VHL.com, I'll wrap it up with our midseason trade, specifically our trade with DC. As of right now, DC has the 2nd worst record in the league, losing the tiebreaker for last against Riga, which at a glance appears wrong since DC has more wins, but there's still 3/4 games left for each team to determine their final standings. We gave up Schwarz, Jones and DC's S77 2nd for Magnum, Foles and DC's S77 1st. Schwarz will be hitting FA, Jones is a S72 player so depreciation is going to be a bitch, but it was to try to boost DC a bit more up the standings to contend for the cup, or at least make the playoffs. Magnum and Foles were just cap casualties, and won't be on Moscow's roster next season anyways. But as a user with a player on DC, this shit just backfired at a level I couldn't imagine. Not only did DC not make the playoff, but that first is looking like a top 3 pick. As a player, it sucks to miss out on the playoffs with decently high hopes for this season, but as a GM.....man am I thrilled. Our own 1st and DC's 1st this upcoming draft could both be top 3???? Sim gods gotta be looking over me to make trades to supposed contenders work out like this 2 seasons in a row. I expect some horrible luck is incoming in a few seasons, as balance must be restored. But I'm pretty psyched to have some really good looking picks in this draft to potentially finish out our roster, or at the least complete our core for the next few seasons. There are some really strong players in this next draft and it's really exciting to not only have a shot at one of them, but two of them. Doing a quick word count at this point, I've written way too much so might as well just find something else to blab about until I hit 1k words. Maybe I should actually explore the topic that I pretended to breach with the title? Put a bet on how many people will angry react this after getting clickbaited? I'll set the line at 3.5, which is rather generous since I feel like 2.5 people read these things, the half going to Cow who probably just opens it to approve and then doesn't bother reading it. Speaking of Cow, maybe he's a candidate for the horniest person in the VHL. He's come dangerously close to rivaling Fong recently, with pure, unbridled horniness in both gen chat and Moscow's LR. I'm honestly a bit scared for him, who knows what happens if he gets desperate while on his cow farm. Perhaps the horny police will need to go conduct a wellness check on him out in buttfuck, nowhere. I have now hit 1,001 words, goodbye. Tags to make people panic:

Good showing, I'll take it! @N0HBDY with a goal tho

Welcome

welcome back my man

New PC Q's (Week ending 4/25) 1. We've seen a decent amount of trades in the past week or so, including sending out Ryan Schwarz, Jay Jones and Fat Palloon. Anything you'd like to say about these players? 2. Given the moves in question, how do you (honestly) feel about the direction of our team? 3. Moscow has had some rough games in the past week, albeit playing against most of the top teams in the league. What do we need to do to stop the slide and get back to winning games? 4. @WentzKneeFan036 re-signed with us this past week, how excited are you to have Malone as our starting goalie for the next season! 5. There's been some chatter of folks wanting a gaming channel in the Moscow LR. What games would you talk about if it was added? 6. You guys roasted me last time, say something nice this time

Hi creed, quick review for you here. I really like the depth of your rambles which holistically cover most of your activity in the VHL over the past week or so. Well done on applying for more league jobs, excited to see you trying to be more involved in the league. Now for some feedback, my number one thing here is going to be formatting. Large blocks of text, or one massive paragraph is difficult to read, and also difficult for you to go back and proofread to fix any grammatical errors or spelling mistakes. I highly recommend that if you're ever changing the subject and moving on to a new topic, create a new paragraph! A perfect spot for it would have been after you finished talking about applying for the Houston AGM job and then started talking to the Philly GM job. Splitting it into a new paragraph would be amazing. In addition, remember to capitalize the first letter in each sentence, it also helps a lot in making these posts easier to read! Overall, nicely written with a lot of depth, but make sure to fix some of the formatting and spelling errors, 7/10!

Maybe it is indeed time to delete the M smh

Claim 4/4

Thank you to our captain this season, @UnkemptCL4PTP for being a positive force in the locker room and remaining committed to the team despite the change in team situation. You were my favorite defense partner with Letang, and I'll always cherish our hockey chats. Pens are still better tho . But I hope you're able to win a cup with Prague before you retire, you definitely deserve it . @diamond_ace thanks for the easy chats, I'm mildly concerned that you know me that well. Looking forward to our future chats!