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Beketov

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  1. Welcome to the VHL, G.Unabia! 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!
  2. Or just offer your time to the league tbh. There’s always interesting spreadsheets and stuff to make or jobs to get done. Back when we had to manually do everything it was rare for members to get paid for anything. If you enjoy the league then work to make it better. You shouldn’t need TPE compensation for that.
  3. Also this. Donations help us run the site and are super important but the league is ultimately free to play and will remain that way. If we start adding huge bonuses to donating then we are telling members that if they can’t pay they shouldn’t bother being here which isn’t true. As it stands you gain a bonus but nothing more. I haven’t donated in 3 or 4 players and I’ve been quite fine.
  4. People don’t have to donate $20, you can donate whatever you want. The incentives exist in $5 increments up to $20 but by no means are they saying you have to do anything. The only reason most do $20 is because it offers an extra incentive over the lower increments but it’s not a requirement by any means. And no, we have no intention of bringing back PP2, at least I don’t and I know @Will and others agree with me. It did nothing but artificially inflate our player numbers (which we don’t need with plenty of players to fill rosters) and burn out our members.
  5. C | 6' 3" | 190 lb. | Age: 18 | It's not uncommon for young men growing up in Finland to play hockey. It's not uncommon either that many of them want to play at a professional level. Mikko Lahtinen is no exception. At the age of 5 he picked up his first hockey stick and was off the the races from there. A natural talent on skates Mikko quickly learned that he was capable of greatness, blowing through the competition in his minor hockey days and leaving opposing goalies scratching their heads, or worse, crying in the younger years, and wondering how he managed to get the puck past them. Going pro was the only career path Mikko ever had, the decision was simply where to go? The NHL and the KHL were the obvious choices of course. The two largest leagues in the world house the best of the best and he had no doubts he could make an NHL, or at the very least a KHL, team. To most young men this would have been a dream come true but not so for Mikko Lahtinen. When he was 15, well on his way to a pro career and ready to start being scouted to the NHL, the Helsinki Titans of the VHL signed a future legend: Matt Thompson. The Titans were, of course, well known to Mikko, he grew up only an hour outside of Helsinki and watched them growing up. However the VHL had never peaked his interest as a destination until he saw Thompson don the uniform. The future VHL Hall of Famer immediately brought a cup to Helsinki and with it the hearts of many. On the day of the Season 66 Continental Cup parade Mikko made his decision, he was going to the VHL. It took 3 years of watching and waiting before he became eligible but no one was going to stop him. The first step in following in Thomson's footsteps was to get a legendary VHL agent and Mikko did exactly that; signing with the same agency as a matter of fact: the Beketov agency. One of the oldest agencies in the league, Beketov was thrilled to sign Lahtinen on and began immediately spreading his name around the minor league while their star, Thompson, finished up his farewell tour in Malmo. Mikko would choose the Mississauga Hounds to begin his VHL career. The flight out took nearly 12 hours but he was on his way to the VHL, that's all that mattered. Landing in Mississauga Mikko was immediately put to work and put up respectable numbers in his 27 regular season games: 8 goals and 8 assists for 16 points. Sadly the playoffs were a different story with the Hounds being ultimately eliminated in 5 games which Mikko only scoring 2 points. It was never going to be a long tenure with the Hounds though. With the VHLM draft upcoming and scouts swooping around Mikko fully expected to get drafted in one of the top three spots, all owned by the Saskatoon Wild whom everyone expected to dominate in Season 69. Ultimately it was not to be. Mikko watched the first three picks come and go without his name being called. Las Vegas greedily snatched their shot at the young man of course, picking him up 4th overall. Mikko could not blame Vegas of course but they were ultimately a very rundown team going into season 69 with low expectations. He had 1 poor playoff showing already, and did not care for the idea of missing them completely. Low and behold, however, fate intervened. As Mikko was boarding the plane that would take him to Vegas he received a very quick email from the Wild's General Manager. "If you want to come to Saskatoon we'd love to have you and I think I can make a deal." That deal wound up being made shortly after and the rest could go down in VHLM history. Since joining the Wild they have not lost. As of writing this Mikko sits with 42 points in 26 games and the Wild have won 24 straight and have only lost a single game on the season. Will that streak come to an end? Almost certainly but the Wild are making a case for potentially being the best VHLM team in history and a young man from Finland who wants to be the next Matt Thompson is right in the middle of it.
  6. This guy has it right. While TPE numbers aren’t the be all end all that people treat them as if you absolutely want the most bang for your buck retiring and re-creating right at the deadline is the best strategy. You lose out on a few weeks at the end of your career for carryover but even if you aren’t capped out on that (requires 1250 TPE for the max carryover if I recall) the amount you’ll make between then and pre-season more than makes up for it. A deadline re-create gives you a couple of weeks worth of earning in the VHLM and an extra off-season (a small one mind you) before you even start your actual draft season. If your goal is absolute max TPE (again, not always the most important thing) then there’s no other strategy. With that said, if you don’t go all 8 you need to consider what you are potentially doing to your team with a deadline retirement. Retiring in pre-season means your player stays in the roster for the season and they can use him as an asset. Retiring at the deadline precious to that off-season he’s retired at the end of the season and they can’t use him. Obviously an 8th season retirement doesn’t need to factor this in.
  7. There’s no V3 engine so you are correct; if something says V3.x it’s talking about the program itself not the engine.
  8. Didn’t you see the last VHL playoffs? I’ll make the finals AND THEN get swept, geesh, give me some credit.
  9. Weren’t the Kings supposed to be a challenge?
  10. Welcome to the VHL, Johnaleaf! 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!
  11. We max EN for all players regardless so that one doesn’t matter however I do believe PS has an effect, however low, in our version.
  12. We are testing other engine versions but most of our testing has been focussed on 2 and 2.1 and trying to make them viable. 1.5 is something we never considered tbh, probably because we never looked into what it actually brought to the table. It is worth some testing to see if it doesn’t skew things for us just to make sure we get as well rounded an experience as we can. Do you have a source from STHS regarding the 1.1 vs. 1.5 claims?
  13. To be fair nothing in the announcement states it needed to be their own first. He can trade for any first round pick and grab himself. Just needs to be a first. If you want to be I. A super strong class. This is still a way off though. Re-creating now would put you in S70 (though a bit behind some of us) and waiting a couple of weeks for the trade deadline would put you ahead of these guys in S71.
  14. Welcome to the VHL, Tristin! 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!
  15. Welcome to the VHL, Michael rassmussen! 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!
  16. Welcome to the VHL, predsfan59! 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!
  17. Welcome to the VHL, Goatman! 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!
  18. Welcome to the VHL, Jon elm! 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!
  19. New purchase hasn’t been approved and applied yet based on your update log. Once that’s done it will be updated.
  20. If you have EXP you are VHL I assume. This is the VHLM index. Also, what’s your player name? If you claimed the experience and it’s on your player on the portal it should be present in the sim.
  21. Welcome to the VHL, Molly gunnerson! 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!
  22. Welcome to the VHL, shrek! 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!
  23. Welcome to the VHL, shrek! 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!
  24. Welcome to the VHL, jbolts94! 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!
  25. Welcome to the VHL, daddyklingberg! 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!
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