Beketov

It’s okay, I haven’t gotten a single point since I joined the team. I’m just along for the cup run.

Definitely the strangest cup finals STHS has ever delivered. It usually does weird things in the playoffs but usually at least 1 top team makes it.

That seems ridiculously high, I'm not going to lie. The cap per week is 12 so x4 weeks in a month that's 48. So basically you'd be earning double every month; that's far too much. Especially when you consider that a lot of the players would be repeating so you'd just have to update their stats every once in awhile. That's my main objection to doing it once a month. I think once per season makes more sense from the stand point of it being an all-star game and it limits the extra work. However I do think it would be nice to bring back the top prospects VHLM game.

For the record, I’m hiding your posts because they are nothing but (very) thinly veiled attacks. If you were directing them at anyone else they would be hidden as well. You wanna try and do something constructively without diving into BS theories with no proof than I’ll gladly leave the posts, though this hardly seems the topic for them. However if you want to just sit there and insult me I see no reason why anyone else should have to read it. There’s no point to the posts aside from trying to antagonize me.

I see more than you seem to realize. Thinly veiled insults thrown my way won't change that. Nor will hiding behind the constant "it was a joke / sarcasm."

And we will look into those options. However we have been without chat for so long that I really don't see how it would make any sense to keep using something people have proven not to like while we get things sorted out. If Discord works better for us then we'll use that. However as of right now we needed a solution and this is a familiar one that works well. Discord, in the state we were using it (and the state other sites use it) I don't find works well. I have never used the discord for either the SBA or the EFL because using a separate site to chat seems ridiculous.

For what it’s worth as well @Beaviss, @Will and I were talking about this yesterday. We thought we had the upgraded one with mobile but we might be mistaken or it might just be disabled for some reason. We’re looking into it.

Goalies can be the most rewarding position to play but also the most frustrating. The randomness of STHS always seems like it hits them the hardest.

To be fair your insult didn’t make any sense...

Thing is, overall and potential can only really be measured in the playoffs based off regular season performance. That’s the point I’m trying to make. Logically speaking Helsinki should have done worse in the season since they have like 4 players. But since they didn’t it’s easy to assume their playoffs would go well to because that’s the predictor we have.

Only my last two. I was averaging just under a cup per player before that.

I don’t need convincing and I’m not making excuses. I recognize that STHS can do weird things in the playoffs. All I’m saying is that based on the stats we had seen in the regular season this should have been a blowout in the other direction. Maybe things were fucked up, maybe STHS is just random, I don’t know. But the fact is that based off what we knew going into this series the Toronto offense, defenseman, and goalie should have been stronger. That’s just based on what we saw in the regular season. You won and I congratulate you for that but I’m hardly trying to make excuses. I’m just trying to say that based off the regular season there’s no reason this should have happened.

@tfong I have explained this to you before. Discord is a better chat, there’s no denying that. But from everything I have read they broke embedding years ago and people don’t want to or don’t think to go off-site for chat. The whole point of chat is for it to be easier, quicker, and more convenient than PMing. Having to go to another site, register for it, and remember to have it open every time you want to be on the VHL isn’t easier, quicker, or more convenient. We tried Discord and proved that people don’t use it. Investing extra time into it doesn’t make sense. I’m not saying it isn’t superior, I’m saying that our members dont prefer it. A corvette is a better car than a Yaris but if you live in a city with constant traffic and no room to move the Yaris makes more sense. If it’s possible to embed it then maybe we can try to make that an option but the lack of single login is still a pain. What extra features would we realistically gain from it?

And the career of Sokolov officially comes to an end. A fitting end really with a pile of disappointment that matches the career he had. I slumped randomly every season and underperformed for no reason; basically how these playoffs went. You’re having a hell of a run Seattle, aim not trying to take that away from you, but your playoff performance simply doesn’t add up with how you performed in the regular season.

Really hoping this becomes like last season. Goes back and forth the entire time except games 6 and 7 going the same way. Seems like Seattle was hiding their offence all season.

Week of: Mar 26-Apr 1 Questions Asked: Mats Johnsson (x2), Samuel Gate (x3) Answers

Fun fact, I never noticed how similar to your name I made mine: so that’s fun haha. Anyway, onto the questions. 1. How has your season with Seattle been compared to your seasons with Calgary? 2. Seattle’s scorers appear to have heated up in the playoffs. Why do you think that is? What was the issue during the regular season?

1. While it’s very unlikely, how much would you enjoy if the same team in either the VHLM or VHL could draft us? It’s been awhile since we’ve been together I believe. 2. With Victor re-creating, do you still believe you and I to be the top 2 in the S61 draft? 3. As a defensive defenseman, do you appreciate the chance to receive the Wylde award now that the Labatte has been split or do you believe your chances were fine regardless?

Honest answer: I wanted the cup. It sounds selfish but I’m being honest, Yukon looked to have the best chance so I was going to take it. I only expect to have maybe to shots at the Founder’s Cup with only one being my choice of destination so I’m going to make sure I jump on it. I would never say any team is a shoe-in. Anything can happen in the playoffs. While our regular season was pretty dominant there’s no denying that the playoffs are a different beast so we’re just taking things one day at a time. It’s good to think you’re going to win; it’s dangerous to think you can’t lose. So I’m going in thinking that everyone has a chance. I intend on being a sniper, that’s what I have always been growing up. However sometimes plans don’t work out that way in the VHL. My agent Mr. Beketov was always a sniper and now has the assist award named after him so you never know what can happen in the VHL.

Last season the Seattle Bears best the Toronto Legion in 7 games to move onto the Continental Cup Final. This season they needed a wildcard round to get there but the matchup is just as heated as it has been in the past with the two high scoring teams tied at 2 games a piece after 4. After Seattle’s slumping regular season the rivalry between the two teams had cooled off slightly but it looks to be heavily re-ignited in the playoffs, especially with Seattle’s forward core having finally woken up. With this being his last shot at the cup, Toronto forward Roman Sokolov has this to say, “Obviously we weren’t expecting to breeze past them, Seattle is a tough team. We were definitely hoping that their scoring wouldn’t wake up like this though. Their forward code can be scary when they are on and they are definitely on right now. We’re just focusing on the next 2 games and pushing to get this done in 6. With these two teams game 7 really could go either way and we don’t want to see that happen.”

You’ ve used his one before. Check the claimed sigs PM I sent you and @DollarAndADream awhile ago. You may replace it if you wish.

There’s a difference between shit talking and targeted attacks and you know it. Has nothing to do with the target. What @der meister is doing is perfectly acceptable.

For his role in an altercation (which has since been hidden) @boubabi has been put on post moderation for 24 hours. In addition, for abusing mod powers given to him for the HoF move he has been given a 1 week PT ban. This means that he may earn no TPE for the week of April 2nd to 8th. This was delayed because the server move caused an error with the forum that prevented us from editing members.