Beketov

Hello VHL! First off, congratulations to the Riga Reign and Saskatoon wild for winning their respective championships! I wanted to hold off on starting this until after the finals but since they are done I see no reason to wait any longer. This off-season happens to fall right smack in the middle (or at least the start of) most people’s Christmas breaks which means it also has room to get some extra TPE! Similar to what we did last year there will be 4 prizes given out for Christmas, you just need to decide which one you want. But of course, as with all gifts, you don’t know what you get until it’s unwrapped so they will be randomized. As members, all you have to do is post in here with your gift selection, so pick a number between 1 and 4. On Christmas Eve I will tally up who gets what and act as the VHL Santa to hand out the gifts. Everything should be relatively even TPE wise (just different methods of getting it) but just to show there’s no funny business I won’t pick a number for myself. Rather I will get the same number as whomever posts 10th in this topic. So pick your gifts and enjoy a Merry VHL Christmas / any other Holiday you want! Sincerely, @Commissioner

So now you guys can quit it with the draft lotto luck and Cast can chill out right? I’d like at least one of my players to not play second fiddle Seriously though, well done. To go from being a lottery team to winning a cup in 2 seasons is no easy task.

Honestly this all got blown out of proportion. I don’t believe @BladeMaiden or @Beaviss had any kind of nefarious intentions here. As Beav has already said, he has a young goalie already so why would he be trying to poach Wahl from the draft? However I don’t think all the hate aimed at @Bushito is fair either. I don’t think it’s necessarily a slight against him in any way and I also don’t think drafting Wahl would be unsafe but I can see where he’s coming from. Bush likes loyalty and he has been burned before so having someone that he was scouting take a high up role on another team could seem a little risky. Ultimately no one has done anything wrong, I just wish @Quik and I could have been informed of the decision so that we could accurately prepare for potential blowback. It is a bit of an odd situation to pick someone before they are even drafted; whether or not the intentions were noble enough. Honestly this has no reason to be as big of a deal as it’s becoming.

You have the same ability to go re-look as I do haha. If I recall @Quik was against a full separation as well among others.

Seattle doesn’t either but that’s still 50%.

There was a lot of discussion around doing just that when we finalized the GM changing rules a little while ago. Personally I agree that it would drastically simplify things but there were points made both ways.

FWIW I never said we’d never allow it, just that we’d like to be able to approve of the member being chosen. No different than when a GM is stepping down and we approve of their replacement. It is being blown out of proportion for sure but it is a bit of a weird situation. I was fine with a VHL AGM when Quik mentioned that it was being asked for but was confused when I say that it was a player who wasn’t drafted yet. It’s not that it’s a huge deal, it just could potentially sway the draft unfairly as I mentioned. No guarantee it would but it COULD.

Not major just an option. Let’s say, for the sake of example, that I took over GMing Calgary right now. One of my options would be to leave Canmore (I think that’s your GM player correct?) as the GM player and not create one for myself or trade for Thompson. It’s not directly removed because the options are still there and likely more popular but it’s an option.

Honestly @Quik and I spoke about it and while we’ll allow it this time if any GM’s are looking at AGM’s in the future we would prefer to be pet of the conversation as to who. I don’t love the idea of hiring someone as an AGM who hasn’t been drafted yet. As @Bushito implies it kinda ties the allegiance to a team in advance of the draft which can sway the draft unnecessarily. While I’m okay with the fact that we’ve somewhat separated GM from team (in that you don’t need a GM sure on your team) I find that’s different from an AGM which really isn’t an essential part of the league.

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I’m guessing wrong forum?

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Relevance? I don’t mind the posts and it is off-topic but why post the NHL logo? Just curious.

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Yeah, I’d agree with the wildcard round. That was much more of a tossup than the standings showed. Definitely no right getting past Yukon though. By all regards they should have stomped you haha.

Honestly I could have simmed that series a hundred times and the Lynx would have lost 99 of them. It was kinda astronomical that they didn’t.

They’ve had enough luck in recent seasons, they could do with a jinxing.

So far as I recall it never has. A team I was on with Holik (probably Seattle) got it to game 7 once but I think that’s the closest to a reverse sweep we’ve ever had.

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Just submit it under other. Since it’s a drive it’s slightly different. A bit confusing but still.

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We like to keep ourselves looking young haha. I think when I joined the VHL the longest running league I had ever seen was a bit over a year and a half so it’s crazy that we’ve been going for a decade more than that.

So I did finally listen to this. Yeah, I really don’t miss the old days in a lot of ways. When I started even hockey sims ran off EA games so sims toook several hours, were a pain to update, and didn’t keep any kind of decent stats. Honestly the VHL has survived for a number of reasons but finding STHS is a main one; or at least it was early on. Back in the day I don’t think any sim leaguer would have believed if someone said there would be a league that would be still going 11 and a half years after its creation.

It’s okay, the signs I make myself are meh. Why do you think I’ve hung onto my top one so long? I rarely make any I like haha

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