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Was caught for diving in game 6 too. He just can’t control himself.

Back to back finals! 4 straight for the actual team but just two for me. Hopefully we can do as well against Vancouver as we did last season! As has been the case for everything but games 2 and 3 I did nothing but that’s alright, I’d rather see a win than points.

Welcome to the VHL, Dmo48! 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!

That too. Ultimately the league functions because the VHLM is a stepping stone. If you incentivize people to stay in it you clog the doorway for new members who are trying to get in but have nowhere to go because the VHLM is filled with people who have no incentive to go up to the VHL. Like you basically said, what’s a couple of weeks of holding off getting TPE if it means you get a whole extra season? People will always do whatever gets them the most TPE so something like this would be incentive to stay down instead of graduating to the VHL level as things are designed.

An average full season (off-season, regular season, and playoffs) takes about 8 weeks. If you’re joining 5 weeks into a season most likely you’ve hit the next trade deadline and therefore aren’t going to be drafted for another full season. Unfortunately it will happen that people will join right before the deadline but like @GustavMattias said there’s nothing we can really do to avoid that. The cut off does need to exist, and does, but no matter where you place that cutoff there will always be advantage to joining the day after instead of the day before. It sucks but it’s inevitable. Now you could say that suggestion #2 solves this and it does, but I’d argue it makes things unfair in the other direction. It balances things out for those that joined later but how do you balance how much to give them? Give them too little and it’s needless complication. Give them too much and it makes it unfair to those that joined earlier but might be less active because now they’ve got guys ahead of them who simply received a handout. As for your bonus point: it’s been discussed a lot whether an extra VHLM season should count towards the 8 or not. I’m of two minds. On the one hand it makes sense but on the other hand, everything we do is based on draft season. The career clock, depreciation, even contracts to a point. Changing all of that to match a different season per player is ludicrously hard to keep track of.

You played with Holik in your team, you know how much it can hate on goalies sometimes. Clearly we praised Pepper too much in the last game, went straight to his head.

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Welcome to the VHL, dstevensonjr! 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 assume the wording of question 2 which includes “player vote” means the Campbell or the Slobo? Even though the Slobo is technically not for most valuable player but rather most outstanding player?

The joy of being the constant in all of these playoff losses....

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Welcome to the VHL, LittleRiDog! 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!

League parity is pretty high right now, things haven’t been as insanely random as people like to make it out to be. Sure, out of 100 games between the 2 Toronto probably wins 75 of them but that doesn’t guarantee they get 4 of 7. Shit would be pretty boring if the top team won every season.

No I didn’t, I have to edit them as well. It’s possible mine don’t show up as edited because I just click and hold on the link at the forum level to change the title instead of going in and editing the actual post.

Obviously this isn’t the outcome Toronto wanted. I’ve been on my share of Victory cup winning teams that can’t make the finals and it’s never fun. Great series from Vancouver though, really well deserved win. I guess @Devise doesn’t need to live sim anymore?

1 more win! @Sonnet is playing like a man possessed and I love it!

And if Toronto comes back to win everyone will say Devise somehow rigged it despite live simming every game. Ultimately people will always find a way to complain. FWIW I agree with you that it’s amount of “random” isn’t really wrong. Like you said, maybe out of 100 games Toronto wins 75 of them but that doesn’t mean they’re guaranteed to take 4 of 7.

*ban hammer twitches*

You underestimate my abilities in the playoffs. I had a shitty regular season but that doesn’t mean I can’t aim for the Kanou.

I mean yes but Vancouver hasn’t won yet either. Let me have faith in my team

I mean I’d be okay with a rematch between Helsinki and Vancouver. Would be nice to beat up on @Beaviss again.

Two points and took back home ice advantage. Definitely our best game yet. One hell of a series.

Well, I tried haha

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If history tells us anything they’ll pick up a few when @Devise steps down and eventually get back to normal. If Devise is good at one thing it’s proving that FA & Trades > Draft.