Beketov

PK nearly kills us.

Way closer than it had any right to be. @hedgehog337 gave Riga the single point for sure. We had more shots in the first period than they had total.

Sorry about the ridiculously early sim guys, only time I had today.

Opening this back up to hopefully pick up a few more updaters to hopefully help with the heavy workload we have seen.

Welcome to the VHL, Kevin! 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 guess it’s just kinda a different mindset. Now people seem to look at it that way that a conversation happens only in the now. However a lot of us remember a time before Discord where conversations could only happen on the board, exactly as we’re doing now. So sometimes responses would hours or days. Same as how you responded to @flyersfan1453 from 4 hours ago. If this was a discord conversation it just would have gone nowhere because people can’t be on 24/7. There’s obviously benefits and drawbacks to both but I definitely like being able to join in even if I’m a few hours late to the party.

You’re welcome ?

Not by season anymore.

Isn't a VSN person in charge of the features articles on the portal? I'm not sure who does those anymore but it seems like an easy fix haha

ST. LOUIS BLUES vs. BOSTON BRUINS Winner: Boston Bruins # of games: 6

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Welcome to the VHL, oIntrinsic! 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, Scott S.! 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 don’t think his claim is really that discord is all bad but he does have a point that it’s not retained. Back in the day if something entertaining was going down but you missed it the topic was still there next time you came around and you could still enjoy it. If all that stuff happens on discord it immediately gets buried and lost. Even if you do go back and find it then try to join in on the conversation it’s long dead and people have moved on. Discord has its uses but I do personally agree that I think it has done a lot of what I was afraid it would do: killed board activity. It’s a great resource for quickly asking questions and stuff but destroys the concept of long-standing discussion.

@Devise Just did 5 days for you so that should cover yesterday, today, and 1 extra just to try and catch the leagues up a bit.

I can try to run through a quick one for you in the morning. Just gotta figure out where in the lines and roster changes you were.

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Indeed. There’s something @Matt_O should do a rewind on. I can’t remember when that came in haha

I believed you mean snubbed. Edit; hey cool, I can actually say that and it underlines it for me. I wonder if the auto-filters don’t apply to admins, I’ve never tried.

Needing OT against Moscow is a bit odd but I’ll take an OT Game Winner. Nice to see Bailey pick up a couple as well.

This has been suggested in BoG discussion but my concern with it is that the lotto manager would need to know what team every single member is on to know whether their comments count or not. That doesn’t exactly sound like reasonable knowledge.

Honestly I wouldn’t mind going back to this, even if we just tweaked the odds a bit to pay out a bit more often. I get why we switched the system to what it is now because we wanted more activity in the game threads. However there's a point where more activity isn’t good when that activity is just spam. I honestly had no issues with how @rjfryman did it because his comments were a bit general but at least they involved looking at the game. All these spam ones obviously just exist to take advantage of the lottery. Personally I’d prefer to see this version of the lottery scrapped than accept a pile of spam as “entries”. Of course I’d also prefer if people were interested in posting without the possibility of a payoff but for some reason that concept seems to be disappearing. We could do it kinda like the practice facility used to be. Have the lotto post put up every weak and to be entered you must reply with links to 3 game thread comments you made that week. Comments must be relevant to the game and can’t be spam (as deemed by the lotto manager). From that pool of entries the winners are chosen. You’d still have some discussion but without it being spammy discussion and the limit of 3 (or could be 5 or whatever) would stop it being on every topic whether it’s related or not.

To clarify these were: #Bek4Builder and #Bek4BOG. There was also #Bek4Blue though I don’t recall if @Phil was around to support that one or not.

Yeah, that one was especially tricky. I honestly forgot about the original Stockholm despite having played for them.

It was tricky wording for sure. I looked at it specifically as counting moves because Quebec moving to Vancouver did get Vancouver a team for example. It never specifically stated expansions, just cities.