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Could you like, not though?

I'll be posting in here any time I can manage to do a live sim during the playoffs. Link will always be the same: Going live for sim 3 in a minute.

I honestly just didn’t realize that it wasn’t the norm. Didn’t want Shawn saying he thought he submitted when really he was just dumb Nope.

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Look look I did things and we still won. Can I come out my my cage now @GustavMattias

I know, I’ve been meaning to try and find time to finish this up. FWIW he only sent me questions for week 4 so I couldn’t put up another one anyway and you can back claim it.

Do you dominate on paper? The shots are kinda surprising but I’d hardly say you dominate on paper when we all know STHS prefers offence and our offence is far stronger.

Welcome to the VHL, Justin Frisk! 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!

Never underestimate a @Devise goalie in the playoffs.

Probably tbh

This is the kind of tight game I expected from these two teams. Nice to get the game tying goal with only a minute left and a huge triple OT thriller. GG @ShawnGlade

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...

Welcome to the VHL, Felix Sandburg! 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!

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.