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Mid-Tier? You son of a..... Oh right, making 2 sigs in 3 years probably has something to do with that...

Welcome to the VHL, ola! 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!

Congrats @ROOKIE745! With me retiring tomorrow you officially take the S70 TPE crown. Not a meaningful achievement but still a fun one, was nice battling with you.

I think @Devise said he wanted today off so he doubled last night.

Second straight time stomping Warsaw and we take over third place even with Prague having 3 games more than us (even in a double sim we only had 2 games, fuck this schedule haha). You love to see it.

Apparently the conferences were also dissolved? With both teams being EU there would be no way for them to meet in the finals. Although I suppose this is alternate so maybe we have crossover in this universe. Also I miss Stockholm and Cologne

Mainly just one big one: risk of contraction. You, like many of the current members, didn’t have to deal with contraction or really any low point in the VHL’s history. You’ve only known the ups, the good parts, the parts where teams are full and recruitment is rocking and everyone and their grandmother wants a GM spot. Imagine for a moment that slows down. Imagine draft classes with only a handful of active players because recruitment has dried up. Imagine morale being so low that people have to be begged to take on GM spots and generally have to hold them long pst when they’d like to quit because the league is no options. This is not all hypothetical, it was the very real reality of the league in 2017, at the end of which we had to make the horrible decision to remove teams from the league. Contraction is messy, the PR of it is worse. You’re not only removing teams that may be beloved but admitting that the league is in such a bad state that it can’t support itself anymore. That is the risk we have to weigh every time we discussion expansion: is it sustainable. Each franchise is, on average, 11+ roster spots which not only means more people but also means bigger drafts which means more people needing to be brought in constantly to keep up. Sustainability at the levels we have been at for the past few years is a legitimate fear. I had to be part of the contraction discussion once and I do not wish to do it again. This is why it’s easy for members to shout for expansion every time the league gets moderately full but it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s always the best option. Consider that to have a single round of draft picks now is the same amount of people as 2 rounds 3 years ago. Twice the amount of members required to keep the league functional purely from adding teams. Eventually that is not sustainable, recruitment can’t keep up the pace. So yeah, that’s my long rant about the matter and the basics behind why it’s not something we ever take lightly. The BOG isn’t trying to just ruin everyone’s fun, we’re trying to make sure we don’t have to blow up all that fun within a year. There is also the far more minor issue of too many teams being just generally overwhelming and impossible to keep track of. Personally I can’t keep track of all the SBA teams for example, there are too many. That’s far less of a concern than sustainability kind you but it’s not nothing.

It's getting really hard to think of stuff to say at this point every day so...

Welcome to the VHL, Lockdown Defence! 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!

Day 26!

2 good wins, 4 points for Lahtinen, and only 1 point back of third in the conference (with a game in hand); nice sim.

In the intervening 3 years we have mostly learned that passing should stay a good bit behind scoring in most cases and, more importantly, Defense is SUPER important, even for a forward.

Welcome to the VHL, AmarethWinston! 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!

Been a long day for me, let's get day 25 of sims going.

Welcome to the VHL, CharaZardd7! 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, Nik! 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!

Everyone ready for day 24? Let's do this thing.

Agreed, Dood Sucks, Lahtinen for the Boulet!

5 points and 2 big wins, it’s a good day.

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Welcome to the VHL, hockeygod69! 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, Piranhas! 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!

Day 23, let's do this

Wins against Chicago and Warsaw, hard to complain about that.

This man gets it. I feel like you'll appreciate my new player next week.