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What an incredible team! Lets do some damage before draft szn!

JST - Game 93 - Team Clue vs Royals (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 94 - Warriors vs Steel (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 95 - Team Clue vs Royals (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 96 - Brigade vs Delhi Pickles (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 97 - Warriors vs Steel (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 98 - Royals vs Brigade (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 99 - Brigade vs Warriors (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 100 - Steel vs Delhi Pickles (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 101 - Royals vs Team Clue (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 102 - Brigade vs Warriors (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 103 - Team Clue vs Royals (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 104 - Steel vs Delhi Pickles (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 105 - Warriors vs Brigade (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 106 - Steel vs Team Clue (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 107 - Steel vs Royals (vhlportal.com) JST - Game 108 - Warriors vs Delhi Pickles (vhlportal.com) Index: Junior Showcase Tournament S85 - Index (vhlportal.com)

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Alright I got pretty far into it, and I am genuinely glad I listened because as people have said before it was genuinely well spoken and I can at least see where you would be coming from. I don't want to get all political in here because oh boy that would blow this relatively simple issue way out of proportion, but I do have a few thoughts about where I disagree with you. First off, I think we both stand in a place that is very pro-education. When it comes to the real world I think that education is such a huge part of making a mistake and moving forward from it. And as such, I am also incredibly pro-deplatforming. This is what many would call "cancel culture" although there are many people who take that idea way too far. I don't think one should have the platform to preach, before being educated on their failures. What does this mean for the VHL? Honestly many of the non-permanent or non-long term bans/mutes or whatever honestly just feel like a service to the person receiving them. A sort of a "Take a break, relax, cool off and come back later". Why I say this is a service is we know that people can get wound up and say things progressively worse and worse. By cutting that off at an early sign, the hope is that we avoid more bans, hurt and general discomfort amongst the community. Of course the mods will jump too early sometimes, and of course we should be critical when that happens, but if we're talking about overall good, I'd rather see this than an under-moderated community. I also think it is unfair to expect mods to be educators rather than enforcers. It doesn't take an expert to enforce the rules, and we don't hire mods to be the experts. They're quite literally volunteers. It isn't their responsibility to change people or save them or anything. This is where I think the internet breaks away from real life. We as a community have a responsibility to each other to hold each other accountable, and the mods are there to deal with any of the more serious cases. So the question then becomes how can we operate online as people who are pro-education without qualified educators? The answer isn't exactly clear and this is why there appears to be so much turmoil when it comes to moderation and censorship on the internet. I think the mods are excellent at enforcing the rules. I think they're great individuals to interact with. I haven't necessarily agreed with them on everything, but I can always see where they came from and respect that. Context means a lot and sometimes punishments have to be preemptive to avoid worse conflicts. And also at the end of the day, the mods hold so little power, and their punishments truly mean so little. We treat these punishments as if they're fines or jail sentences. A 2-week TPE ban in the grand scheme of life is so laughably small. Heck a permanent ban from a simulation hockey league is so irrelevant. I've read the entire ban thread multiple times, because it is so entertaining. I don't remember who has gotten dinky little temporary bans for saying something bad. If I do remember those people it is because they continue to bait people and push the limits and everyone's buttons to this day. I remember the mean things people have said, and the hurt people have caused, regardless of their punishment. I don't hold a punishment against people, and neither does the league. But if those behaviors don't change then I obviously hold that against them. Anyways, I've once again pulled a Gustav and written a media spot in response to a thread way too late. Appreciate your ideas and I do think hearing them come out of your mouth does make them sound a lot better than reading them, and I applaud you for pushing people to listen and understand the tone. I think you speak far more cautiously and effectively than you type at least when it comes to conflict, and I'll try to keep that in my mind as I read your work moving forwards and give your text the benefit of the doubt.

Art Vandelay

maybe I will give this a listen after all

Thank god for Uncapped TPE packages, am I right? A lot has happened this week in Landon Wolanin’s world, so let’s talk about it. On the player side, he is hurtling towards 1000TPA, a milestone I thought was impossible before I realized just how well I earn. The Wranglers made some big moves since the trading period opened, grabbing some important short-term depth and stockpiling some key prospects and picks in exchange for some unfortunately expensive and aging out vets. It’s hard to move forward from some franchise defining players, but we appreciate their time and honestly the willingness to get us some assets in return. Saku did us a real favour opting for a sign-and-trade over free agency, and has helped us bring in a new era of Wranglers. The Marlins have now dropped all of the draft eligibles and their free agent, and are beginning to plot about the draft. There is a fair bit of certainty however the 1st overall pick hanging in the air is a source for concern. I’m excited to get down to business and start interviewing the prospects this week, and plot with my AGM and returning players as to who we want to target for our run next season. Perfectly timed, this week is my reading week, so I have a week off of all school responsibilities. Time to go chase that cup!

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Seeing this post made think about a few things actually. I know in the SBA there's a career task called a scouting profile, although that is rather player build focused. Even here we have the Prospect Scouting Report, which is mostly fiction and maybe a bit on the build end, but a career task structured with questions agreed upon by VHLE and VHL GMs much like this one here could get rid of all of that gross small talk stuff that players and GMs alike hate. Draft Interviews then don't have to be repetitive mush, because obviously this information is useful, but realistically doesn't need to be repeated over and over again to all what 24 VHLE and VHL GMs. GMs can then have far more personal and insightful conversations with prospects, on career plans and timelines and such and have skipped the first base. Just a thought. Great Article and best of luck going forward with Wann Kerr!

will I survive night 1? we'll see!

Awesome! I'll get our GM to add you to the lineup and I'll send you a link to the tournament's Discord shortly!

Hello @Bigb33! I am the AGM of the Pickles, a team in the Junior Showcase, a rookie/prospect tournament taking place right now. Looking for a place to get back into the groove and have some fun right away? This tournament is a great opportunity to get settled and show us what you can do while you wait for the VHLM draft! I can offer 3rd pairing minutes with possibly some special teams minutes as well. If you're interested in joining our team, reply to this message with #SlicedToWin We'd love to have you!

S86 Donation Transaction ID: 0WU14944F4886771S 1M Player Store 5 Uncapped TPE Doubles Week, claiming week of Oct 30

Welcome back!

Absolutely insane performance!

Things I've found that I think have made me a better GM: - Paying attention to my players earnings. If they have a random up week, talk about how great they've been doing that week! If they have a random down week, shoot them a message (in private of course) asking how they're doing. Often times life things just came up, and it gives you something to talk about later. Congratulate success, and take the moment to care for your real-life people on your team. - Condensing channels in the Discord down, and encouraging most conversations to happen in a public space. Having 85 channels seems great until nobody uses any of them and mute your entire server because of the ungodly amount of notifications they'll get. And secondly, take advantage of the dylan's and the lemorse's of the VHL, who will come by and join conversations as they happen. - Send a pretty generic "Hey everyone, how are we all doing today?" message every day, maybe even upwards of a couple times a day. Someone is bound to have something going on at that moment, and if not, I bet you do. Anything to get people in the chat, engaging with their teammates. - Following all of my players on the forum, and engaging with their content. I try to at least drop a like on everyone's stuff, and maybe even try to give them a nice comment too. It becomes easier and easier to post content if people are engaging with it.

You are a brave soul my friend. I think every single person who gave that a shot when the hybrid attributes came out has rerolled out of passing.

Awesome read! Very curious how this holds up now with hybrid making it so everyone essentially has to take on passing.

Yeah there's no real function where x attribute gives you y result. By my own personal and very not intense research MOST 30 goal players in the VHL have 86+ scoring, and their scoring stat 15+ higher than their passing stat. 83 scoring seems to be what I see as a baseline for 20 goals? The most important thing to realize is that stats aren't necessarily indicative of talent. STHS does have semi-locked in values of goals it expects to hand out, so if you play a ton of time on a terrible team, you may score stats at a rate higher than one would expect, but that is purely circumstantial. Obviously higher stats, particularly DF, SC, SK and PH get you a higher chance of meeting your potential. So yes you can absolutely overperform, but usually due to the fact that your team sucks and "someone has to score right?"

I mean I do want to say that ferk was out there pitching to every new player, but honestly who wants to join a team where you're the only player and you have no shot of winning? And so every player says that same thing, joins a contender in a bottom 6 role, and gets a fun environment and some wins. As the GM who had no players LAST season I was completely bailed out by an incredible and frankly quite lucky recruitment drive. Changes have been announced and for the most part they seem to fix some of your concerns. I personally think that ferk acted quite fairly, and the commissioner team was involved in the process of the selling of the few assets the Hounds had. As a GM I'd rather see my players get the chance to play on a good team than keep them to grind out like 3 wins. I don't want to pile onto recruitment any more than people already do, but this season was much worse for waivers than the past couple seasons. Obviously you can't always find a gold-mine recruitment opportunity every season, so pairing the Hounds with 2 picks and a very small waiver class and the problem looks way worse than it was. I would say this is the most competitive the VHLM has been for a long time. 9 teams were legitimately competitive. Take a couple pieces from each team and add them to the Hounds and that number drops to maybe 2-3. I'd rather 9 competitive teams than 2 contenders and 6 meh teams and 2 bad teams. Also, I suppose we should be glad that MIS going 0-72 affects exactly 0 players. It is definitely more of an indicator of the draft class than anything else.

yeah yeah yeah I get it I should start scouting soon (I won't for AT LEAST another week)

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