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been a long time coming, well deserved!

@leandrofg to accept the edit.

Condition: If Merome Dilson extends with London for the S95 season, Calgary receives LDN 95 1st. @leandrofg to accept (again).

Why Euron Leonidas for GMOTY?

Feels like Idaho retired like 2 seasons ago, this is wild.

quick someone do mine next i guess i did win things though

shoutout @Triller!!! There are not many opportunities left in the league to walk into a franchise and walk out the undisputed best there had ever been. David Davis had a great season, Cole Pearce (notably appreciated) was the only goaltender to hit 100 wins for the club for a while. Jacob Tonn had a great couple of seasons. Tater Tot held off opponents the best they could for the time. But Jesse Teno blew each and every one of them out of the water. When I took over London in S88, I was presented a mostly competitive young core, and a whole pile of trade offers. Some GMs would have taken the opportunity to shed these valuable assets and define their own vision, and boy were some of the trade offers tempting. But I knew that wasn’t an option. I knew Jesse Teno, and the accompanying aimkin were special since the season 84 JST. I took over the San Diego Marlins the following season, and knew that aimkin would be the perfect AGM. Teno had a difficult season on a sparse Saskatoon roster, but earned at a rate that caught the attention of Dil who could not pass up the promise of a homegrown starting goaltender. Teno stood out from day 1, securing 7 wins in their rookie season, and never let go. Somehow the .923% in their rookie season would be their worst, ending their career at a mind-boggling .928% in the regular season. Teno always gave us the chance to win, even when I was learning all of the things that I did wrong long after I could have fixed them. We never missed the playoffs during my tenure with Teno (my Tenoure?). And in the playoffs, Teno was a different beast. .928% is a ridiculous figure, but that was brought down by some random outliers over 72 game seasons. In the quick timeline of the playoffs, Teno was able to conjure a .936%. Teno allowed me the ability to push the absolute limits of STHS and the salary cap, slashing our defensive spending every season, and Teno never caved in. Teno was our undeniable MVP in our Cup run, and was the reason we could even build the teams we did in the first place. At the end of every season I knew that we would be able to compete again because we had Jesse Teno. One must be legendary if every opponent curses your name before and after every game. Jesse Teno, despite being the player of one of the nicest people I’ve ever shared a sim league space with, became a villain that everyone feared. Teno ended dominant regular season runs. Teno made Victory Cups seem useless. Teno stared you in the face while robbing you blind. Teno was the best of us, and will be remembered as the face of London. Teno set franchise records that may never be broken. Teno sits amongst the greatest goaltenders to have ever done it throughout league history. And Teno will watch over us for the rest of time, protecting us like they always did. Thank you Jesse Teno, thank you aimkin for always believing in me, always allowing me a place to spew thoughts, and for being the nicest villain this league has seen in as long as I’ve been around! @aimkin

The summer is looking mighty interesting here in London, and there’s a lot to unpack. This team, in it’s pretty well identical iterations lost the Continental Cup Finals in 7 games. Back to back seasons of late series heartbreak. Obviously something is going right, as the team has made the finals and won 3 of the 4 necessary games in back to back seasons. No other team can say the same right now. But something is obviously not right, as we were unable to win the crucial fourth game in either series. Change will be coming, as several core members of the lineup have retired. Jesse Teno being the household name, but player like Halvar Torbjorn, Isamu Knievel and Lloyd Braun provided much needed top-end depth for the past few seasons and with some in-depth build creation managed to out-attribute many players with higher cap hits. There are also some movements coming in the bottom units. Brad Marchand seems to have fallen to inactivity, marking a failure on the first homegrown prospect of my VHL GMing career. John Richards helped secure the penalty kill for us while Ben Dover was growing, and is now an expendable asset. What this does mean is that, at least in the short term, is that London is in a great place for some super short term identity shifting before the walls come caving in. Getting some players in that can mold our model a hair could be the difference between Game 7 heartbreak and another Cup in our cabinet. All of this hinges though on the acquisition of a Continental Cup calibre goaltender. There are many names floating around, household names with proven pedigree. MVPs, Top Goaltenders, Continental Cup winners, that could see London as the perfect opportunity to hop on what has historically been a finals bound train. London has also been a place where veterans have very successfully been able to enjoy a last hurrah, a celebration of all of the great work they’ve done and the achievements they’ve had. Depreciation can leave a lot of opportunity to retool a player and play to their strengths, while ironing out some of their weaknesses. It’s a strategy that lots of successful teams have used. That or constantly having a supply of great young talent, who can have their inefficiencies, at a lower cap hit. Lots of ways to put together a team, and there’s lots of movement around the league as teams try to establish their rout to the EU Finals, or maybe even the Continental Cup finals for those NA teams. The team is eager to get started, they’re all excited to see what kind of team we can put together this season, and I think the league should be excited to see if we can win that Final game. Stay tuned, and enjoy the show everyone, S94 is going to be a huge one, and even if the walls come tumbling down, the United are committed to making it an interesting one! Summers are always exciting in London, but this one should be extra special.

I definitely watch more total time of VHL sims than NHL games in their entirety at this point, and a couple years ago I watched at least 2 NHL games a night on the busier nights and whatever was on the off days. Now I can't really be bothered, tune in for a couple playoff games and peace back out again

mentioned: @Alex @kirbithan @sadie @GioSivo @Victor @CowboyinAmerica @Scurvy @Dil @rory

Sometimes travelling can be funny. Jillian Woods has spent some of the last few days planning and packing for a trip through Europe, touring all of the great EU team facilities. The trip started in Warsaw (cheapest airport for her to fly to from Ottawa at the time) and also happened to be home of the Warsaw Predators. Warsaw had been known in somewhat recent years for their respect for the defensive position, even leveraging excessive defensive talent to secure their last Continental Cup win. Brian Payne, Hari Singh Nalwa and Tavish DeGroot all brought something special to Warsaw and Jillian Woods was honoured to be lead through their facilities. It was actually her first look at what a VHL hockey complex looked like, and boy was it a step up from anything she was familiar with. Bratislava, Prague, Cologne, Malmo, Oslo, Vasteras, Stocholm, Helsinki, Riga, and Moscow all came together in rather quick succession. All stunning, all incredibly gracious and hospitable. So many teams, so much history and so much drive to compete day in and day out. This really isn’t the VHLM anymore, and even that was a level of professionalism that Woods had never seen before. There’s some serious cash flowing through these teams and it shows on the ice and in all of the amenities available to the players. Jillian may never have to cook for herself ever again, and honestly, good riddance! Rome was special for Jillian, because well, it’s Rome! She had never made her way out here, and just seeing the ancient architecture and the food and the summer air is just incredible. An experience she’ll never forget honestly. Funnily enough, she ran into a pretty incredible trio in Antonio Bucatini, Gianfranco Del Rocco, and their mentor Francesco Mancini, who was recently traded to Chicago, and was a real trailblazer for the Italian national program at the VHL stage. The 2 youngsters are set to start tearing up the big leagues this season and it was nice to sit in on some advice, even if she didn’t understand their fluent Italian. She wrote down as much as she could so maybe she can pick up some Italian later to translate it all. Davos was a strange one that just didn’t fit in the roadmap as she shot up north from Cologne rather than climbing through the Alps mid-trip. After a nice relaxing stay in Rome though, it was time to meet Alex and the management group in Davos. Kirby was the first to meet Woods, a real trailblazer for women in the VHL, and a real inspiration for Woods taking up hockey in the first place. Obviously they talked a lot of shop, but it was nice to sit down one on one for the first time. Sadie St-Louis joined after a while and the trio toured Davos and the facilities. St-Louis had jsut won the Continental Cup in Seattle before coming to Davos via trade. A real focus of conversation was just how important team defending and dominant goaltending is to winning a championship. Sadie had always been a strong offensive player but being able to tune into that defensive system and strong goaltending helped to secure more of those crucial wins. Davos has been used to dominant goaltending, having employed the services of Hall of Famer Xavier Booberry, and pending Free Agent and probable Hall of Famer Lachlan Summers for most of recent memory. Kirby and Lachlan went way back, having been a lot of the reason for their individual involvement with Davos at the same time. The trip then had to make its way to London, the team that Woods was most familiar with, and the last stop before hopping across the pond again. There’s not a lot of outbound traffic from Davos, and one of the only flights to even head to the UK actually ended up going to Inverness, deep in the heart of Scotland. There’s plenty of rumours floating around that the existing UK team may end up moving north at some point, and Woods would absolutely attest to how beautiful a place Scotland would be to stay. After a wrong turn, Woods ended up on a ferry, taking her across Lach Linnhe, before she found a place to stay in Lochaline at the mouth of Loch Aline. Along the way was the beautiful Kinlochaline Castle. In the morning she wood get on track and head to London, where GM Jacob Carson was happy to meet Woods, and was very excited to hear all about the adventures she had over the past few weeks, and was happy to put her up for as long as needed. Obviously London is always in need of defenders, and as of right now, a goaltender to replace the great Jesse Teno. He did ask if any of the goaltenders she had met along the way seemed to be miserable and might want a change of scenery, but unfortunately Woods did not quite have an answer. Everything seemed good going from Warsaw to London, and she could not be of much help.

farewell first! welcome @betta57!

The air was cold in the arena, lights dim, the smell of musty sweat wafted out of the change rooms where dozens of unnamed goaltenders awaited their opportunity to prove they could fill the shoes of the great Jesse Teno. One by one they skated onto the ice, their every movement analyzed and documented by the London United’s newest goalie coach. All of it mattered, from the way they tied their laces, the symmetry or lack thereof of their pads, and the smoothness of their skating stride. The youngest, most inexperienced players got their spotlight first. The ice was the smoothest for them, but despite their spry figures and their pristine environment, none could handle the precise and thunderous shots from Molly the Cat, Leonard Triller, Wann Kerr and Sjin. They couldn’t track the movement of the swirling figures, couldn’t square up to the ever-changing angles. There was a cold rage somewhere in the building, a silent blade eager to exact revenge. The established goalies took to the ice, some familiar names got their chance to play god for the day. Each of them wanting so desperately for the all so rare shot at the Continental Cup and the opportunity to secure their legacy. The dozens were quickly narrowed down to a select handful, and they took to the ice a second time to begin the real tryout. Two full units took to the ice, past and present United played their part in securing the future of their franchise. Everyone who comes into this building understands that this was built by those who came before us, and that everything we do is because of them, and for them. It is our calling to pay that forward to the future. The game begins and the intensity rises. Quick shots out of the gate pull our goaltending prospects out of their heads and into the moment. A chip in off the glass, a hard hit in the corner. These players were not messing around, this was playoff hockey. Game 8 was underway, and the United were united in their understanding that they could not lose this one. A slick pass to the slot and a one-timer tearing towards the top of the net. Quick blocker save, deflected into the corner and cleared out of the zone by Jack Jeckler. Every save counts, and the new goaltending coach was quick to note the skill displayed. Just as quick the puck was back in the zone, a cycle ran by Lloyd Braun. Up the half-board to Brad Marchand, behind the net to Ben Dover. Around the boards to Hunor Solyom. Igor Molotov big and brooding in front of the net. Solyom takes the shot, deflected by Molotov out front! Time slows, the goaltending coaches eyes zoom in on the puck. Initial save off the right pad, puck dangling out in front. This is it, this is the moment that matters. Ben Dover swings around the net, batting at the loose puck. Second save off the outstretched pad. Five hole wide open. Molotov gets his stick down and shovels it through. Glove behind them, flipping onto their back the goalie makes an incredible save. Puck frozen, whistle blown. Teammates come over and tap their sticks in appreciation. “That’ll work” says the goalie coach to GM Jacob Carson. Jacob turns, “You would’ve smothered the initial save Jesse,” a faint frown forming on their face. “And we are replacing you after all.” And so he skates out onto the ice, whistle tweeting. The players would go home and get some rest, and the search would continue tomorrow. The list narrowed, but the goal seeming more impossible as time moves on. How can you replace Jesse Teno?

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congrats seattle!

I'm actually 8 TPE, 3 Jobs (VHL GM, Store Updater, Regular Updater) Would gladly do them all for free! I often find myself missing the incentive to create other forum content anyways!

1) It was fun! I am proud to say I'm no longer an Ottawa hater. Very close to winning a championship, and was nice to play with some players I'm sure will make a big impact in the VHL! 2) I claimed a decent amount from the last VHL Draft as a Podcast. I've been doing long PTs for those multi-week claims and then just writing about whatever I feel like, and answering Press Conferences for fun! 3) Train, train, train! The VHLE is a tough league and I want to do great in my short stay! Should be at 400 TPE next week so should be able to bank for the season again! 4) I'll be honest the league is in pretty desperate need for people in AGM roles, WJC GM roles, JST GM roles, and feeding into the VHLM, VHLE and VHL as GMs. So many people that have a job have many, myself included, and not everyone should be balancing that much. The GMing part is surprisingly simple. VHLM GMing and JST GMing are a bit time intensive, and really rewards being online a lot, but a little effort goes a long way in the other leagues, there isn't always something to immediately do. 5) I'll be doing a European tour of the VHLE cities just to get a feel for all of them! 6) 11!

Would love to see you in an AGM position! I think some people way overestimate what it takes to GM a non-VHLM league, and to AGM in general. Sure, the great AGMs are in there pretty well 50/50 with their GM, but even the ones who pick away at press conferences, answer some questions and are generally just Discord active pick up a ton just by being around and experiencing. Get yourself in with a great GM who will pull you out of your comfort zone and suddenly you'll be a GM yourself one day! And if it doesn't work out, you're not out anything, hey Ricer switches AGMs a couple times a season anyways, no big deal!

claim 3/3

@Garsh sorry pal

For some transparency we were actually pretty set on a different candidate, but due to outside circumstances we had to switch late in the process, and wanted to make sure we put someone in we could rely on at short notice.

Hello there to our passionate JST fans and eagerly awaiting applicants to find out if you got the job! This season should be a very exciting one! If you are a GM that is selected please join the discord that will be linked below so that we can get your started with our offseason journey! Your S93 JST GMs are: The draft starts tomorrow! at 12 PM EST! If you would like to join the server, here's a link: https://discord.gg/g8cGy6FG