Mongoose87

I was ahead of the curve, my first ever player was Ukrainian! Also, this is the retry at your G's would be successor in the GOMHL.

Player Information Username: Mongoose87 Player Name: Giorgiy Costanzov Recruited From: Returning Age: 31 Position: G Height: 65 in. Weight: 185 lbs. Birthplace: Ukraine Player Page @VHLM GM

1. I was hoping to score more goals. Wanted to go out with a scoring trophy. 2. The pt where you'd get 1 tpe for reviewing a PT? Is that gone? 5. I ran some tests. Basically, if one team has leadership and the other does not, but they're others identical, it will produce a small advantage that doesn't justify the investment. TBH, I'd make it something like experience where players accumulate out over time for things like fights, GWGs and shot blocks. 6. Man, I have a three year old and a one year old. Never say never, but never. 7. One horse- sized duck. I don't think the duck design would scale well to larger size. 8. Well, I'm not completely amoral and obsessed with power or revenge, so Jedi. Old man moment: before the prequels, the Jedi made a little more sense. They could get married and Yoda wasn't a kindergarten teacher.

1. Skor McFleury. Leading a team this deep in scoring as a defenseman is no mean feat. 3. I don't use one NHL player because I swap their head to be Shatner. 5. I'd change the amount of time I have to do graphics (increase it). 6. No. I usually pick the best one from the past few years up and coast with that for a few years. 7. I'm actually more of a football fan, I just find hockey is better for sim leagues, due to the large number of games played and the small number of positions. 8. I've been to the US, UK, France and Spain. Technically I've been to Portugal, but it was just a connection.

1. He's fighting to stay in the top 10 for goals. I want to climb that list. 2. Defense. Smarter people than I theorize that it's the sim's stat for hockey smarts. 4. Another step towards correcting that mistake. 5. I wonder if he's even ever seen a real wood stick. 6. You don't let 60 goal scorers walk. The real problem is old man Tavares' contract. 7. I can make a sound like a horse's hoofbeats by clapping my hand on my chest.

2. A glass of Romulan ale and a long trip to Risa. 3. I want to lead the league in goals and sail off into the sunset with another cup. 4. There is no true rival that can match the might of David. 5. Super Coach. I'm too busy for vhlf. I just hold things up. 6. Geno Malkin, always and forever. 7. I was an early bird as a kid, and my kids keep me from sleeping in, but my natural tendency is to be a night owl.

Hard to believe this will be Jimmy T's last season in purple. In going to make it count.

1. We could be even better than last year's HISTORIC team. Repeat time. 2. See my above remarks about it being repeat time. James T gonna lead the league in goals, this time, too. 3. It doesn't hurt as bad as in other leagues, where you can't bank to fight regression. 4. I always have a soft spot for the Marauders, not in the least because of my rebrand. 6. Always recruit - users, volunteers, head office members, you name it. When your user base shrinks, your volunteer pool shrinks and when that shrinks you start to burn people out. 8. Next question.

1. They have not yet invented the word to describe it. Our top men are on it. 2. I wanted more shots and therefore goals in the regular. Tying for the playoff goal lead in a season like this was glorious, though. 5. I have a few: stepping, mustard, plastic, widely. Oh, and also: smothering, take, coursed and glue. I think my meaning is pretty clear. 6. Recovering from a really bad cold. 7. One of the local radio hosts in Pittsburgh said that if a caller had suggested this trade, he would've hung up on him. I think that encapsulates it. 8. Easy, the egg. Whatever evolved into the chicken laid the first egg that would hatch a chicken.

James Teekirque - SS

1. You know, I'm not really worried about the match up with Riga. 3. I don't believe in no-win scenarios. 4. Vancouver is just so dominant. I can't see anyone else taking it. 6. I've been in the same fantasy hockey league since my third year of university. Many new faces, but many old ones, too. 7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail was financed by six members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. 8. If you don't count compound eyes, then legs. Everything has at least as many legs as eyes, and many have more, like my cat.

Where's the money Lebowski!?

1. I'd make it cheaper for players to boost their faceoffs and fighting ability. 2. I'd go meta and do a theme week retrospective, asking people to talk about their favorite past weeks theme. 3. You don't mess with perfection. 5. I've had the pleasure of attending a few. My first ever was when I was a kid. I saw Jaromir Jagr's career best game, 3G 4A against the Islanders. I didn't even know what a hat trick was. 6. Not bad. We added some forward and G depth, which was crucial. Still need to do something about Jeff Carter. 8. I'd like to say I'm excited for Baldur's Gate III, but frankly I don't know when I'd even play it.

I'm going to take this as an unlimited power sort of scenario. Contrary to the usual approach, let's start with some things I want to emphasize that I'm keeping the same: -The North America: Europe conference split. These two continents represent the vast majority of interest in hockey and I think it would be misguided to take the VHL outside of them. -The weekly TPE cap: This structure is essential to both allow max earners to earn, but also allow casuals to create players that can contribute. -Stick with Simon T Hockey Simulator: No matter how much it sucks, it still sucks less than the alternatives. Now, on to my sweeping changes to the league: -A bounty of unlimited Free Weeks for life to the user or users who are able to bring Simon T alive to my secret volcano lair. Enough is enough; he must pay for what he has done to us all. A tank of sharks with lasers attached to their heads awaits him. -The VHLE must go: I expect many commissioners for a day will be doing the same. The experiment has gone on for long enough. Now that we've forced the lifers out, who is the E for? It is a speed bump, a purgatory that we burn a season in, toiling towards nothing. It cannot continue the charm of a new player’s creation that we experience in the M. It lacks the prestige of the VHL proper. It chews through promising new GM prospects. Let it die, before it drives another user to be inactive. Instead, we will expand the VHLM and VHL by four teams each, providing good homes for the forlorn players of the VHLE. -Rebalance TPE costs: There are a few attributes that are naught but a tax that players in certain roles must pay. The center must spend his hard- earned TPE to be competent at faceoffs, leaving him with no chance to ever equal his winger cousins. The enforcer must invest her precious TPE in fighting, depriving herself for the privilege of being sent off the ice for five minutes. The grinder spends their TPE on checking, knowing it will send them to the box more often. Never again! Now, centers will receive an automatic 10 point boost to their STHS faceoffs attribute, plus an additional three after each season. Checking and fighting will no longer be attributes that are purchased. Rather, they will be set between 40-99 at the user's discretion at player creation and may be modified at each offseason. -More hybrid attributes to contribute to the STHS Penalty Shot attribute: The status quo implies that the only way to score on a penalty shot is with a well-placed wrist shot. Where is the spinorama? Where is the dirty dangle, the between the legs? Where is the fake shot and then to the backhand? Skating and puck handling will now also contribute to Penalty Shot. -A slush fund to send 10% of all income to the Cayman Islands. There you have it. Embrace the Mongoose of change and you will find that the league will flourish, great and cobra-free.

1. Probably Leduc, though it's hard to say, since we're so deep up front. 2. It's probably the best one, though I give a lot of credence to goal differential. 3. Nothing hits quite like a poisoned vodka supply. 4. My best is checking, because it's very low. My worst is passing, because it's not as low as I'd like. 6. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, of the USS Enterprise 8. Have you ever heard of Washington Pennsylvania?

1. McFleury has kept us cool abs refreshed through the summer heat. 3. Just say his name out loud, or if you really need to, look at my avatar. 4. I think I follow the Twitter account, though I follow a lot of them, so it's hard to remember. 5. I like when my imaginary man's imaginary numbers go up. 6. I was raised to follow the Steelers like it was a religion. I assume you're not limiting that to hockey teams. 8. I kinda hate flying, or more accurately, everything involved in getting me from the front of the terminal to the inside of the plane. So, unless I'm going somewhere great, road trip.

1. I am not exaggerating when I say this might be the greatest team in league history. 2. A snappy velour uniform and a complete and utter disregard for his men's safety. 5. I feel bad, but I rarely have time to listen to the Ahmacast. 6. Not at the beginning of the year, but once they matched up with the Panthers, I expected Bob to turn back into a pumpkin. 7. Ford Focus, 2005. Delivered so many pizzas in it that the smell was permanent. 8. One of those massive Savanah cats that are part serval.

1. I always expect everything to be a trap, that's why I'm still alive. 2. Man, sometimes I wonder that myself. I've taken a few welfare weeks lately. Sometimes you just need a break. Lucky I qualify for 5 TPE. 3. I'll do super coach. I don't pay close enough attention to the forums to keep up with a draft. 4. If you ever travel back in time, don't step on anything. Because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can't imagine. 6. I went to Cordoba on my honeymoon. The mosque there is beautiful and they had this little Sephardic restaurant that was the best we had all trip. 8. I have a 3 year old and a 14 month old, so I don't really go out late much. Last concert was Bruce Springsteen on his The River tour. Not the one in the 70s, though.

James Teekirque - SS

1. I have two kids under 4, I don't need to do anything to keep myself busy. 2. I wasn't shooting as much as I'd like, and therefore wasn't scoring as much as I'd like. 4. I've never been that big on PTs, in general. I understand why they exist, and I know it can be challenging to drive engagement without them. I just find they're largely time sinks. What percentage of users even read other people's media? 6. Vegas. I have a soft spot for people that overcame spinal injuries. 7. Atticus Finch. He is a great example of a positive male role model who eschews aggressive behavior. 8. Chocolate chip cookie dough. Love those little chunks.

1. ... Well, I really should have done this earlier. How about despondent? 2. "Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before!" 4. I like when my imaginary man's little numbers go bigger. 5. They shouldn't have even been eligible. The fact that this despicable franchise has seen such minimal consequences for the behaviour they enabled is disgusting. 7. Always been a creamy guy. I don't generally want my sandwiches crunchy. 8. It's varied over the course of my life. It's been Half-Life 2, the Witcher 3, Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis 3, Victoria 2... The list goes on. The best I've played in years was Disco Elysium.