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Shit, if we had 12.5 mil in extra cap space back then too, I'd have let you stick around as well!

If a team Voss wants to play for makes a good offer, we'd consider it. Otherwise we're happy to let him play out his career here.

TRADE BAIT??? Malmo better keep their grubby paws away from you!

Name: Olober Syko Position: Goalie Height: 6'2" Weight: 190 lb Hometown: Princeton, New Jersey Hailing from Princeton, New Jersey, goaltender Olober Syko was a late entrant to both the S90 VHLM Draft Class and the S91 VHL Draft Class. A thinly framed type with little game tape, Syko will be an intriguing prospect for teams looking for help between the net in the VHL. From what our scouts could identify, Syko played mainly for local beer league teams as well as spending time coaching the local NJ Stars goalie programs. Tape is extremely limited to a few beer league games for the 36 year old. Pros: Rebound control, Positioning From the tape, Syko displays strong awareness of rebound control, ensuring pucks that aren't covered up or frozen end up in a corner or played away from opposing forwards. Age seems to have benefited the goaltender here, as his years of experience playing and coaching have given the adult a strong sense of awareness and expertise in controlling rebounds. Syko also leverages that experience and knowledge into maintaining excellent positioning, making up for some physical shortcomings with a strong knowledge of the game and the position. Oftentimes Syko will play more aggressively in the net to make up for the size disadvantage and take away angles when possible. Positioning on odd man rushes is also strong, with a quick trigger to slide over to cover the cross ice one-timer. Cons: Age, Build, Reflexes At the end of the day, Syko is not young like most of the prospects that come through the VHL system. As a 36 year old with size but a scrawny frame, there are durability concerns as well as size concerns within the net to stop the maximum amount of pucks. Syko will need to bulk up and go through rigorous conditioning programs to be able to last a full season as a starting goaltender. Most concerning, Syko's reflexes aren't as strong as you'd hope from a typical prospect or youngster. Age claims all as victims, and Syko is no exception. His camp claims that he rigorously trains reflexes to stay sharp and perform at a high level, but the pure hand speed and mental sharpness, especially as someone who didn't often follow a strict diet or nutritional regiment for most of his life, leaves room for concern. Overall, Olober Syko may see himself drafted to the VHL, but likely to a team with some room for forgiveness and perhaps one with a strong defense core to prevent breakouts and odd man rushes to reduce the strain on Syko. He was a 2nd round pick in the S90 VHLM Draft, and so far has won both of his two VHLM games with a combined 1.5 GAA, the lowest in the league so far. 465 words

*Jeff Lewis fan club

Def would have cracked 2210 if I was better with these Nuts that you went through all that manually though, jeez. Thanks for breaking it down!

There's an attached spreadsheet linked in the form that gives you all the costs on the tabs.

Just gonna say these questions will be approved as well as responses, but giving out prompts that are to be answered in one word will usually be denied, as well as subsequent answers to those prompts. We require about a sentence per question, just so we can ensure there's adequate effort being put in.

@rory skipped, @qripll is up

Well damn, this season's team looks a lot different than last season's. I've mentioned it here and there, but making the decision to pull the trigger on a rebuild was pretty difficult - especially knowing that we could have kept all of our veterans and made one last push before we lost most of the team to retirement and FA. However, the organization has the opportunity to level set after 9 straight seasons of extremely strong performances - and 35 awards coming to the team and our players. As we enter the S90's, like we did entering the S80's, it's time to feature a new generation of players who will lead us into the future. We've got a couple familiar faces left on the team, so we've got a nice mix of new and old players making up our leadership team. First Alternate - Nils Andersson - @Viper Typically, I assign captaincy and alternates based on tenure with the team or overall experience in their careers. Viper and Andersson buck that trend, but for very good reason. For those unfamiliar with Viper, he's had a pretty lengthy history of inconsistency with players and a reputation of fizzling out early in his players' careers. When we drafted Andersson back in S88, Viper and I had some chats about how we'd approach this player and how we could keep him going, regardless of any obstacles in his way. Now entering his third VHL season, Viper is poised to have his highest TPE player ever, and has become a great voice to have in the LR and with our advisors. He's learned from mistakes in the past and has showed a lot of maturity since I first met him three years ago, and I'm very confident in giving him an 'A' here in Moscow. Second Alternate - Babay Shrimp - @Blazzer A new face to the team, but a player and user who have already settled into the locker room quite comfortably. There was no shortage of suitors for Babay Shrimp this offseason, and despite Moscow's status as a rebuilding team, Blazzer was more than happy to join us for at least a season and be part of our organization and contribute to our culture. A veteran player who will be able to guide the young forwards on our team, we expect big things from Shrimp on and off the ice this season! Captain - Hammar Voss - @BOOM A long time alternate captain for four seasons now, Hammar Voss takes a step beyond simply being the best defenseman in the VHL, to becoming the Moscow captain. I suppose we're buying into the meme here that Moscow captains always end up off the team the following season since Voss is retiring after this season, but it might have been the easiest captain decision I've made as a GM. Boom is involved in our LR in all aspects, whether it's providing our players with gorgeous sigs, helping to guide our team plans, posting boobs or just chatting with folks, he's been one of my favorite acquisitions to the team outside the draft. I hope we can send a future HOFer off with a great final season! Congrats to all named to the leadership team! MOSCOW MOSCOW MOSCOW

It was much, much worse to not have them in a dropdown. You'd scroll on the page even more imo. If it's not liked, I can go back to not having a dropdown next time. I just won't have people typing in names for spelling/formatting issues with the scoring sheet.

VHL players only to be selected, there's a dropdown in the form, those are the only eligible players. Scoring follows VHFL, but you're competing against everyone, not in groups. Your team of 3 forwards, 2 defensemen, 1 goalie will play against everyone else's teams.

Which part lol

I'm single-handedly saying no to inflation, maybe our world leaders should learn from me.

It's me again! No, I did not forget about Super Coach, have just been a bit busy. But the timeframe for this season will match last season's of about 4/5 days total. This timeframe helps me avoid position changes now that the index has been made, and aligns with the predictions deadline. For a refresher on the rules, please refer to this thread: Submission Deadline: After first VHL Sims on Friday, August 25th Link to Team Builder (Instructions on the first tab): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19p0YqGgN2-g51b2PMfhcSGxGBhGlofUUbSAocVYxr8w/edit?usp=sharing Fill out the form below to enter:

@Enorama skipped, @Gustav for 2

Best sig I've gotten yet tbh

ME

Big Eric White Jr fan

Thought it'd be good to make it a formal post for transparency. The following players are being released due to not receiving an ELC from the VHL team that drafted them. LDN Marty Wilson NYA Tyrece the beast RIG Jussi Jokinenegg Kenneth Heymann @VHL GM

I would want to clarify that there's a difference between people halting their earning to stay under a threshold, vs choosing not to go up if they're between the 300-400 bracket to be called up. No player in our most recent draft class was over 400 TPE (Doom is 413 TPE after 3 weeks) so no one is stopping their earning to play in the E after their draft season. When we had people "accidentally" going over 200/250 TPE and asking to get TPE revoked, it was a massive annoyance since the M culture also encouraged it. Personally, I don't think choosing to follow a natural progression of 1 full M season, getting VHL drafted and then 1 full E season means that we need to change depreciation to encourage more people leave the E sooner. And I say that as someone who has skipped the E for 9 seasons and dealt with the depreciation, and now as a recreate who plans to take it easy and just get 8 VHL seasons instead of 9 (though I am a goalie). I think the benefit of the current system is the choice to flex within the range, and no one sacrifices TPE for a decision. If it's too easy to get over 400 TPE before a threshold, then we need to revisit how much uncapped we hand out imo.

I mean wasn't the whole point of adding a 9th season to compensate for the E's addition as a new natural stage through a player's career? Before the E, you could reasonably be expected to hit 250 TPE by the time of your VHL draft as long as you created around the TDL, and you'd get 8 VHL seasons. If you created any later though (like 4/5 weeks after the deadline in my case with Letang), you wouldn't cross that hard cap and would get only 7 VHL seasons. With the inclusion of the E, obviously we had some changes around call-ups and eligibility over the seasons, but it just wouldn't be realistic that you get drafted and immediately play in the VHL for 8 seasons. The E was expected to be a stepping stone after the M, hence the extension to player careers from 8 seasons to 9. 9 seasons isn't just some guaranteed thing everyone should be able to accomplish, and if people do opt into 9 seasons, it should understandably be more difficult since they're effectively getting a bonus season over the majority of their draft class. So if people feel that preparing for 12% depreciation (with a Jagr) in their final season isn't worth it, then sure, stick with the typical career path of 1 E season after being VHL drafted and have the same 8 VHL seasons you'd have under the old system without the E. At the end of the day, even if someone stays down for 1 season in the VHLE to avoid that 12%, they're still getting a full 8 season VHL career - which is still a more forgiving system than the old 250 cap that was harsher for first gens and anyone not creating at the optimal time. So he comes up at 410 TPE, earns 20 more TPE that season (since he's a very casual earner) and then gets slapped with 12% depreciation? Why? Who does this help? The 1000+ TPA players are worried about 400 TPA, 2 season VHL players?

Damn, truth finally gets out

A lot has happened since my last VHL.com just a week ago. I'd been going back and forth for a couple weeks, debating if I wanted to recreate and if so - when? I had a lot of people encouraging me to do so, as well as providing input as to when that occurrence should be. I also had to figure out what position I'd create, as well as a name. Both were things I had prepared well in advance back when Alex Letang was retiring in S79. I knew that I was going to create a winger and had some names rooted in Greek ethnicity brainstormed, with the names that didn't make the final cut going over to Laine and N0H. This go around, I simplified it a bit and just went with a nickname/meme for Oliver Sykes, the frontman for Bring Me the Horizon. And for a position, I went with the one position group I've never experienced before, goalie. I timed my creation to be shortly before the VHLM Draft eligibility cutoff, just so that I didn't have to deal with selecting a team afterwards. I was happy to be selected in the second round by Arce and the San Diego Marlins, where the team has quickly begun to come together with the draftees and some older faces from the S70's. While initially I was expecting for the Marlins to not be a very strong team, I'm not realizing that expectations will be quite high for a team like this entering the season full at nearly all positions, and sporting some strong talent. I'm just asking to hate this career as a goalie, so my expectations are pretty low. If I can have some half decent stats and not be a total liability, I'll be happy. But with my luck, I know it'll be a struggle. The goal will be to get max carryover and then decide if it's time to pull the plug on a failed experiment.