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Meant to add that. It’s open until midnight pacific tough so still several hours.

We like to make you marginally work for it sometimes

The clues don't really involve needing much knowledge of the league, it's pretty straightforward. Also teammates can usually point you in the right direction

Who's ready for Game 5?!? Let's find out who goes on to face Vancouver and Moscow and who goes home.

@Victor, though elected might be a strong word. Who is most likely to get a facial tattoo?

Welcome to the VHL, Baldwin! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

I’m not sure if it’s public knowledge or not but @hylands has expressed that he will be stepping down as GM of Malmo. We would like to thank him for his time as GM and wish him all the best in future endeavours. Additionally with @Josh coming on as a commish he has decided to step aside as GM of LA to focus on his other commitments and give someone else a shot at the team. So, as seems to be the case a lot with so many teams, we have yet another off season incoming where we need to hire new GM’s, two in this case. If you are interested in the openings, please post in this thread stating so. Please do not contact the Commissioners outside of this thread, we will reach out to all who apply, privately. ***Please refrain from making comments regarding any candidates and their "worthiness" of being hired for this job, positive or negative. Any comment that is not an application will be removed to maintain a clean list of actual candidates, and (I hate that this actually needs to be said, but...) any member bashing will not be tolerated.***

Welcome to the VHL, DLBStorm! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

My work is done for the week, I've got some bourbon; seems like a good time for some sims.

Welcome to the VHL, Albin Berglund! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Welcome to the VHL, Apking! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

We ready for some wildcard action? I certainly think so.

Welcome to the VHL, mmaarrkk! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Welcome to the VHL, Jeff Beukeboom! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Probably because I’m an idiot and forgot to change it. It’s fixed now, thanks.

INDEX @VHL GM You guys know the drill, lines on the portal please. We will start the wildcard round tomorrow so you've got ~24 hours for lines. Same as always as well, live sims can be found at the below link. I cannot promise you a specific time for these and, likelywise, I can't promise you they will be very entertaining; in fact I can almost guarantee that they won't be. However in an effort to be more transparent with our simming you will all be able to watch me click buttons in all it's glory. I will do my best to put a message in here and on discord whenever I go live but may forget some days. Good luck to everyone!

There were a few reasons but the main one was that it made transitioning between GM's incredibly convoluted which, because of having so many teams now, happens pretty frequently. Every time a GM changes we'd need to be getting their player off whatever team they were on and onto the team that they now GM which wasn't generally the cleanest process. There's nothing stopping them from drafting or trading for their own players.

These new rules had nothing to do with this season, they are moving forward.

@Spartan ran the numbers quite a bit to end up with the formula decided on, he also retroactively applied it back several seasons to see what would happen. What we found is that defensemen are definitely still strong, and often the same defensemen are still strong, but the "good player on a bad team" mentality is mitigated a bit, especially thanks to +/-. Goalies are also a lot less based on just facing a million shots regardless of how well they actually do and forwards can actually hold their own a bit in the top spots. It's possible we'll gather more data and tweak the values more after a few seasons but I think on the whole this should balance out at least a bit better than it did before. And yes, most people didn't notice, probably because it was in the rules post and they already figured they knew the rules. A few other things were added in there as well, though nothing overly substantial.

Welcome to the VHL, Grim_Onion! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Yup, that checks out.

If I recall correctly our speedrun WR from last night was 2:17, is that beatable? Probably not but hey, it's worth a shot right?

Welcome to the VHL, IISaltyTaltyII! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

We're back once again trying to beat our simming speedrun WR. Can we do it?

Welcome to the VHL, Alex B! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!