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NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE FOR TPE

What a cool idea, good one VSN! Also, check that very Groovy Boulet hat trick 👁 👁

Change Log (2021.09.19) - Edited section 4.3 regarding inactive UFA claims. Top priority teams no longer automatically get a player they claim. Players have 24 hours from a claim being submitted on them to make a TPE Update and become an active free agent.

It's true, L plays for Toronto. Here's the rulebook: Sure, London made an offer, but Toronto has the highest priority and therefore they can instantly swipe any IA UFA they want. They 'earned' that right. Yes, this is meant to protect teams with higher priority from losing out on players because of timing, and hasn't ever had to be applied to a player trying to exercise their right to free agency. But, as we can see, L is still inactive: Screenshot from 4:30pm CEST Sept 19 L is inactive because there hasn't been a TPE Update from 30 days before Free Agency opened. Even if he came back today and pressed the Practice Facility button, he'd still be eligible to be signed as a IA UFA because Free Agency is already opened. We'll change the rulebook to reflect a situation where a player updates after Free Agency opened and provide a 24 hour window for players to 'activate', resulting in getting their actual UFA rights back. But, those aren't the rules this season, and he didn't do a TPE update anyways. We're going to revise them to clarify the change from inactive to active, and include a 24 hour window after the claim is submitted where IA players can activate, but for today them's the rules. L is now the only best D for the Toronto Legion.

Ok let’s do it

The thing that gets me is that this is happening. Like, next week. Hypotheticals are almost over, we’re so close to having evidence and concrete examples to analyze. Can we chill on the theoretical, non-constructive criticism for a bit? I get that it’ll take 6-9 seasons to get a full scope of what we’ve done here, and so we won’t get fully validated for a while, but can we at least try it first? We’ve identified full rosters as a problem close to a calendar year ago. We’ve discussed possible solutions in the BoG for months. There are dozens of pages of discussions, many of which you were involved in. We’ve fine-tuned, tinkered, and identified and solved hypothetical issues for a long time. We announced it, and opened up a “VHLE Questions” thread that further explained the league and gave the community opportunity to raise important questions. I know you’ve been gone, I’m not shaming you for that, but a lot of people have put a lot of thought and a lot of effort over a lot of time before, during, and after your leave. We’re trying something new, and that’s scary. I know it wasn’t your idea. I know you weren’t convinced behind closed doors. I know you don’t think it’ll work. I feel like there’s nothing we could do that would make you believe it’s a good idea. But don’t you want us to succeed? Because persuading people that it’s stupid and it’s going to suck and you should hate it, one week before go time, is not setting anyone up for success. Just, chill. The structure is built, let’s just see what happens when we press play. Give us the benefit of the doubt that we actually thought about this and want it to succeed. Trust that we’re not purposefully trying to tank the league. Believe we can identify and solve unexpected problems as they come up. Things take time, but no one wants to wait. Just, chill. We’ll find out what happens so, so soon.

Declined by who???

Groovy Dood - SC

Toronto somehow loses the lotto…. Twice?! That’s impressive, even by Toronto standards. Oof.

My counsel has provided the following advice:

That’s what you do for a living? How much is his mom paying you?

Last claim

I take kids who don’t make words good and make them make words gooder.

I'm kind of always reading YA by virtue of my job, but I am loving Dread Nation by Justina Ireland. It's a dystopian historical fiction where, after the Battle of Gettysburg, the dead came back. The zombies overrun the States. Since it's still the 1800s, the white people start training black people to become zombie fighters. The story follows one deadly Black teenage girl who discovers a big conspiracy of powerful white people abusing the crisis to further their own interests and tries to bring them down. It's intense, and always fun to read stories from the perspective of people whose experiences are different than mine. Solid, easy, fun read.

Yessssss nicely done @Matt thunder! Well deserved. Persistence pays off, and a strong showing at the WJC is a nice feather in the cap. You’ve earned it, now go have fun with it!

JEFFREY PINES GAME 7 OVERTIME WINNER, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!

Oh hell yeah, it was just a matter of time for this crowd. I’ve seen all six of you guys work your asses off to get ahead on the league, and here you are! And because you’ve jumped fully into VHL life, you know exactly what a new members need to do to be successful here. You’ll all be excellent VHLM GMs!

That huge S75 draft is finally coming into their prime, Riga is going to be a force again next season

Wait what? DC won in the OT game of the series? Wiiiiiild. GG Calgary, with our luck I was totally expecting the reverse sweep. I think I might’ve even picked you to win in fantasy

It sounds like everyone involved has shit the bed on this one. The fact that he had to fire his agents and get a new one is wild. I get it, no one wants to be the first to do anything, and especially some new high risk back surgery, but at some point you have to let the player decide for himself. They’re humans, not always assets. And I mean, cmon, Eichel runs the team anyways. Dude can get coaches and GMs fired, players traded at will. You’ve given him so much already, might as well just keep bending over backwards for him.

You won’t I am amazed that DC, King of the OTL actually won Game 1 in 2OT, one unlucky bounce there and it’s a whole different series

KRISTOPH WELCH WITH THE GAME WINNER IN DOUBLE OVERTIME, LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

So close, you're one click away. Right click on the image in imgur and hit OPEN IMAGE IN NEW TAB. Then copy that URL. It should end in .jpeg.