Beketov

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Basically. All the 6 were close, the top 4 were ridiculously close.

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You have no idea how close Malmo actually was.

Proportional is important to a point but it will always favour players with lower overall totals. Someone who has 20 points could score 40 and they got 100% better but that’s not as big of an improvement as someone going from 50 to 100 which is also a 100% improvement. Take your argument on hits for example. Svoboda’s jump is insane proportionally, over a 700% improvement. But that’s only because he was so low with 7 hits. His total, 51, isn’t actually that impressive. Both need to be considered, we can’t just look at proportional improvement and say “yup, this guy is better. He still did worse but he was shittier before.” There’s also an argument to be made for the fact that breaking the 100 point barrier, for example, is harder than breaking the 1 PPG barrier. Svoboda has a case, I don’t deny it. However Dahlberg’s jumps are kinda more impressive; at least in the opinion of the award committee. Ultimately it’s “most improved” but it’s still one of the subjective awards because people still need good seasons. We can’t just say “this guy went from 1 point to 10 so that’s 1000% better, he wins.” You still need to have a good season and ultimately Svoboda’s season was more average. He went from terrible to average, his competition went from bad to great.

Knowing my playoff luck of late: probably

A correction on the All-VHL teams. Both First and Second teams were lumped together when they should be separated. All-VHL First Team, which may claim 2 TPE, consists of: F - Oyorra Arroyo F - Veran Dragomir F - Beau Louth D - Maxim Kovalchuk D - Robert Malenko G - Kallis Kriketers All-VHL Second Team, which may claim 1 TPE, consists of: F - Sebastian Ironside F - Elias Dahlberg F - Matt Thompson D - Shawn Glade D - Tzuyu G - Roger Sterling

Don’t worry, I broke the draft board and had to erase every single pick haha

Was ultimately a ridiculously tough decision. I had 6 offers, all of them equally valid which really speaks to the level of parity in the league right now. Even Malmo was honestly in it after an amazing pitch from @Advantage had me wondering if individual glory was worth it. Calgary obviously traded for my rights and did push hard but I just don’t know if I trust the top players being basically the same as the players I lost with last season, it’s nothing personal @Bushito. Vancouver surprised me with how deep they are looking, same with NY, so @Beaviss and @Spade18 both had good arguments. Then there’s Toronto. Obviously @Devise really wanted to pick me up and damn it was tempting to chase that 3-peat; I’m sure he’ll do his best to make me regret this decision. Ultimately though I had to go with my gut and say that last time I followed Devise to try and get the threepeat it didn’t work out so ultimately, on what was basically a coin flip by the end, I had to go with my boy @Quik.

Sorry I broke everything in the middle and had to redo the first 45 picks but it’s all setup properly now and officially done so congrats to everyone that got drafted!

Riga receives: S67 TOR 2nd Calgary receives: S66 RIG 3rd This trade has been accepted by both parties. *For some reason the portal isn’t posting this trade so I’ll add it.

Good fight Louth but glad to take home back to back Boulet’s. It’s not that you had a bad year @Beaviss, in many ways you had a better year than me. However the Boulet has always used hits as an important number and you didn’t have enough of them. Pick some up for next season and give me a challenge eh

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Welcome to the VHL, Zeno! 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 mean I’m not, I have lists from a bunch of them haha

I mean we’ll see won’t we. That’s really the event of the evening.

@Devise really didn’t want to show up tonight.

For the 2nd straight off-season the free agency period has been abuzz wondering where former Seattle Bears star Matt Thompson will land. Last season he decided to go back to Seattle, the team he has known his whole career, however with Seattle moving into a rebuild and trading his rights that door has seemingly closed for good which begs the question: where will Thompson go? And, for that matter, when will he announce it. Thanks to reports from his Agent, VHL Hall of Famer Alexander Beketov, we know at least the answer to one of those questions. “Matt [Thompson] is planning to announce his decision during or immediately following the draft tonight. An odd time I would say personally but he’s got a flair for the dramatic I guess and that’s what he wants so far be it for me to stand in the way.” Thompson is entering his 6th VHL season meaning he only has 3 chances remaining to capture the continental cup that has been eluding the Beketov Agency since S46 when Jackson Miller captured his 2nd. He is, however, nominated for his third Boulet trophy (which would put him 1 shy of the trophy’s namesake) after capturing back to back victory cups with the Seattle Bears. It is widely believe that Thompson will be signing with the goal of a cup on his mind, as it was the case last season, but Beketov makes it clear that the decision is not as cut and dry as it appears. “League parity is higher now than it has been in a long time, that much there’s a lot of teams competing and a lot of potential destinations for him. 6/10 teams in the league have an offer in right now and honestly he could go to any of them. It’s going to be an interesting night to say the least”

Would be the least deserving award win ever is all I’m saying.

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Welcome to the VHL, Tate! 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, Hunter Koopmans! 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, Devisee! 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!

Clearly we're giving away way too much TPE.

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