Beketov

It was honestly a ridiculously tight game until @Poptart forgot to show up for the third period.

If they are claiming in free agency they would be doing so for free which is not fair and also not the point. Like I said, it’s a caveat, not the immediate assumption. If they can’t make it happen they can try their luck about getting in the draft anyway, trade for a first round pick, or trade for the player later. We aren’t limiting the ability to get the player, we just aren’t making a pile of contingencies to make it doable in all cases either.

We’re discussing exactly that but my feeling is kinda “too bad”. It’s unfortunate for them sure but the point of this is to have GM’s not ALWAYS get their own player. We added the caveat as an aid but not a guarantee. If they have no picks and they want to guarantee their own player they can trade for a pick.

More Mikko x-nen’s, excellent!

Nope, has to be a first round pick. The whole point of the GM option is that they can still get their player but it’s not designed to be cheap. GM players more often than not are first round quality so we don’t want to open the option for them to pick themselves up for basically free with like a 7th round pick.

On the other hand how do we lose while only allowing 9 shots...

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You actually had yesterday and Saturday so my pity level is low

Better but honestly that shot line still doesn't look great for us, we just overcame it. This series is gonna be a tough one.

Can't say starting a series with 6 GA on 24 shots is exactly what you want to see...

I’ve always said the VHL is about the community, the sim just just a small part of it; numbers on a screen that maybe 10% of the league is happy with at any given time. The sim isn’t enough to keep people around, and it certainly wasn’t back in the day when it received 3 updates at best per season. Maybe that’s how Scotty was so good, maybe he updated himself every week. Anyway, I digress. Its actually kinda tough to reminisce about the early early VHL years purely because of how long ago they were. 12 years is unheard of in sim league terms. Like I was 15 when the VHL started. I was partway through high school. Meanwhile I graduated university 6 years ago, Got a job, got married, movies cities for work, bought a house, and have a kid on the way. Meanwhile the VHL is still here, chugging away. What’s kinda funny is how accurate is “ole boys” are when we say new people couldn’t have survived back in the day even though no one wants to hear it. It’s not to say people couldn’t have adapted but it is true. Waiting around 3-5 days for your grades, then up to a week for the updater, then what could be months before it went into the sim. Hitting 100 TPE a season, so about 800 total, was something only for the most adamant TPE whores; now it’s not even a landmark and can easily be doubled. If we had these systems now the league would be dead in a month, it’s just too strict. And that’s just the league, let alone the members. We were fucking animals, ripping each other apart. Was quite brutal to be honest. There’s no rose tinted glasses here, the league was a rough place way back when.

I don’t think any of them are first decade (maybe Squinty) but yes.

I believe in the WC we did early on but never as a VHL team.

I’ve got him on Facebook, same with McNeil. That’s usually how I contact them. Popping in to say hi is pretty much all I usually ask but he’s a busy guy.

I had to demand a trade off of Stockholm in S3 because Julien was intentionally benching me behind a CPU Goalie to prove a point. I don’t remember what that point was but I wasn’t pleased about it.

Sigh Why must I always make theme week a thing, it means I actually have to write stuff. This season especially is annoying since I need to actually remember the league’s first 10 seasons: difficult since it was 12 years ago. So, what’s a commish to do? The simple thing of course, talk community instead. Specifically steal an idea I read earlier but go a bit further back and mention the 3 people I’d like to see back in the league from its first decade. Scotty: Ah our original leader. The man responsible for most of the articles this week given how completely dominant his player was in everything but being drafted first. Scotty’s got a kid and a wife and is generally a busy guy these days which means he hasn’t come back around in quite some time, even though I ask him to on most of the league’s anniversaries. Anyway, none of us would be here without him and after such a huge member surge the past few years I think it would be interesting to have the new members meet the man who helped create the place. McNeil: Most people likely don’t remember McNeil as well, or at least as fondly, as I do. He was a staple member around the board when I was active with Beketov and an amazing teammate in the S12 Bears locker room which, to this day, remains one of the best LR’s I’ve ever been in. McNeil and I would shoot the shot over CoD a bunch and were generally closer than I have been with most members. I brought him back a few seasons ago but he couldn’t keep his activity level anywhere near the standard it used to be. Still, would be great to have him back. Julien: This is actually someone I wouldn’t have thought of until about a week ago when he commented on something in the VHL Facebook group and reminded me of his existence. Julien was one of the league’s earliest GM’s and one of the more targeted members back in the day. The league as a whole was pretty trolly and, as @JeffD can confirm, Julien and I were common targets. I don’t have insanely fond memories of him like I do with McNeil or anything but I just think it would be interesting to have an early member around who might enjoy seeing how far the league has truly come compared to where we started.

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Sorry @GustavMattias, I scored haha

Did you trade for Eagles? I was going off his 66 starts plus QUE G having 4 which means 2 games are left for starts which accounts for Pouta. Edit: Eagles started game 1 for you so no, you didn’t trade for him. So yeah, math doesn’t add up. There’s no way Eagles has 66 starts with 8 backup games.

More or less the idea of many haha

It was indeed the Wild West. The league’s worst trolls of today wouldn’t even have been average in the first 10 seasons. Shit was brutal; most likely because we were all between the ages of 13 and 18 basically and most people in that age group, especially back then, were little shits. Honestly as immature as our leadership group was (not that they were worse than the rest of us) they were also what got us past those first 10 seasons and Into the longevity periods of sim leagues. Nowadays most last much longer than they did back then; usually because the league leaders were just people who wanted their own players to succeed and didn’t care about the league as a whole. Finding STHS was the other thing. Ultimately we can complain about it all we want but before the VHL every league I ever saw, regardless of sport, was simmed on an EA game. You wanna talk pain in the ass simming? STHS being so easy revolutionized everything.

Tisk Tisk Tisk, even with my warning at the deadline here we are with not 1 but two teams having broken the Louth rule. Calgary started their backup 7 times, missing the requirement by 1 AND Vancouver (fittingly with the name of the rule) started their backup 6 times, missing the requirement by 2. Since they are both playoff teams the precedent is clear. Backup goalies will be in net for game 1 for both teams and for game 2 for Vancouver. @Beaviss @Bushito

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Man, I was so much kinder in my goodbye post haha. I’ll see you in the HoF buddy.