TheFlash

ahh that’s true, good point.

So retiring and recreating at the deadline is kind of pointless now, yeah?

winnerzzzzz

Calgary 3-2

331 Malmo Nighthawks 332 Calgary Wranglers 333 Vancouver Wolves 334 Moscow Menace

Absolutely ROBBED of my 1 uncapped TPE from Vhl.com article.

Get sommmmme

Afterthought: 5th place seeds (aka wildcard teams) “crossover” and play the respective 1 seeds of the other conference.

Okay, quick rant here. This league needs a new playoff format. Currently as it stands, it’s the top four from each conference that get in. 1v4, 2v3. Very simple. Makes sense. Except for one glaring issue! The potential for a team in one conference to outperform teams in the other, and still miss! Let me break it down, if that doesn’t make sense. My NYA currently sit in 8th place. Not amazing by any stretch of the word, but having a decent season. Eight teams make the playoffs. You might think that 8th place would put you in or right on the door step of a playoff spot. HOW WRONG YOU’D BE! In our current playoff situation, there is a very good chance that we could end up as the FIFTH best team in the league and still miss out! DC (currently the fifth placed team in the league, they hold that final spot) are just one point behind Prague for fourth. There’s a dimension somewhere (mind you there could be infinite amounts) and in that one, we end up passing Moscow, Riga and Prague and STILL miss out! this is how it should be, especially because we have more teams. Top THREE from each division get in. Seeds 4 and 5 play each other in a best of three or five series. The winner of that series then becomes the fourth and final team and the seeding is 1v4 and 2v3. May seem minor but adding the extra chance for a team to make the playoffs would keep people on bubble teams more interested and give them a shot at being the underdogs! Thx

Get em tiger

1. What are your thoughts on the new AGM hire? Sparta is a good guy! Glad to have him on board. Press Conference up on Monday doesn’t hurt either! 2. Do you think we can make a push to sneak into the playoffs this year? No, because the playoff format is TERRIBLE. 3. If you had to be stuck with one player on this team during quarantine, who would it be and why? Someone who wouldn’t mind going splits on some pizza and garlic fingers! 4. Which player/GM would you absolutely not want to be stuck with during quarantine and why? Probably Esso. I feel like this long of a time, with one person can only end badly. We’d argue and he’d bench me. Or send me off to...Toronto *shudder* 5. With the upcoming All-Star skills competition, who would you nominate to go from our team? Foreskin has been our guy from day one. I’d like to see him get some recognition. 6. Lastly, if you could prank one player on the team, who would it be and why? Probably MGS. He’s a pretty fired up kind of guy, I think his reaction would go viral on the Tik Tok!

Wow, a chance to write a letter to potential VHL newbies! There’s a lot to cover, no doubt. Not exactly the easiest thing to explain, but let me try and break it down for you! Oh, what am I doing on my phone, you say? Just the coolest thing on the web. Well, maybe not, but it’s pretty damn close! It’s what’s called a “sim league”. You’ve played 2k MyPlayer right? NHL Be A Pro? Well, it’s a lot like that. You create a player, you choose the position, name, height, etc. and then join a team! You start out with 30 TPE (Total Points Earned, we’ll get to that soon) and add those on to better your player. Then, each week, you get a chance to earn more TPE by writing articles, graphics, podcasts, that kind of thing, and watch as your player grows from a nobody to a star! You spend eight “seasons” (they last about 2 months each) playing for a team, growing your player and working to become one of the best! Each season has a playoffs, a world juniors, and there’s even a World Cup! Quite a bit goes on.. Let me tell you a few things I like, get a bit more specific. Watching your player grow; As I mentioned, you start out with a measly 30 tpe. It’s very intimidating at first, seeing players who have a ton of points (over 1000!) but you close the gap quick. At first your player is barely doing anything, then after a few weeks of earning some Tpe (which takes about 10 minutes a week to earn near the maximum, very easy!) you start to contribute to your team. Before you know it, you’re over 100 and you’re one of the top players on your team. Of course, you start in the minors which makes the competition around you a bit more on par with your low numbers, but by your second season, you’re nearly capped and ready for one the most exciting times in your VHL career! One of the cooler things about the league is that it’s ran on what’s known as STHS, or Simon T for short. Way back in the day, it was all ran on actual video game consoles, but when that become too hard to get people to commit to hours upon hours of inputting players one by one and simulating each week, they switched over to this computer program. With a click of a button, the simulator sims games and puts up detailed box scores. It may seem boring to not be able to see your player physically, but it becomes really gratifying to scroll down that scoresheet and see your players name on it. THE DRAFT!! For me, I’ve been drafted twice into the VHL, and each time it’s just as cool. Every player gets a “draft season” (for my current player, I’m S72). That’s the entry draft that your player will be put into. Normally, this will be after your second season in the minors but it all depends on when you join. You know the draft is coming, so you work extra hard to earn and make sure you go as high as possible. If you’re lucky, you’ll get the chance to be a top pick. It’s a cool feeling to see your player come up in mock drafts and draft rankings that you see around the league. You put a lot of time and effort into your player, and it’s nice to see it paying off. Finally, draft night! The draft is streamed on Twitch, and through the power of Excel (I think?) a pretty cool draft board is put up, and you can follow along with your fellow VHLers to see where you get chosen. The Community One of the other things that I love about the VHL, is the community that’s involved with the league. I’ve been a member of the league for a long time (my first time here was over ten years ago!) and I’ve left a few times. Though even though I’ve left, something has always brought me back. One of the major factors is the people involved with the league. People that are complete strangers who live all over the world. But those people become friends to you, they become people that you chat with on discord late at night, about all manner of things! I’ve been apart of a few locker rooms that have been like that. You get to know each other and you have these conversations that transcend sim hockey and become more. And you probably don’t even know the persons name! But you enjoy chatting all the same. You Get Really Invested! So, you’re probably thinking, “well, why would I care about a fake player on a simulator?”. To that I would say, just give it a chance! I may have said the same thing once upon a time. Now, there are times when logging in and checking the scores of the day is something I really look forward to. When your team gets involved in that playoff race (like my team currently is) you can’t wait to see the sims posted and check the scores. You’re checking not only your team, but the teams around you and you’re calculating the games left and how much of a chance your team stands. It’s something that truly becomes almost a real sport to you, a real obsession. So, in closing, those are just a few reasons why the VHL is a great place and why I’d recommend it. If you’re a sports person, and you want that bit of extra sports on the side then it is indeed the spot for you. If you enjoy joining a welcoming community and think what I said above applies to you, than you should give the VHL a shot! Especially in these quarantine times, it’s a great reprieve from the real world to be able to log in, even just a few times a day, and check up on your team and teammates! 1014 words. Claiming for week of 4/26 and 5/3

Applying. I use my PC questions when I stepped in for Cole this week as my application.

Calgary Vancouver Malmo TOronto

Toronto 3-1

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Yay first star L though

New Q’s cause our AGM has a life (how dare he btw) 1) We’re at the half way mark of the season, what’re your thoughts on the season so far? 2) Did you have any personal goals for the season? If so, are you on track? 3) How is your player dealing with the quarantine? 4) What does this team need to do if we want to make a push for the playoffs? 5) Who is your mid season MVP for our team and why? 6) Give a prediction for our final half of the season. Overall team record and your personal statistics! (34 games left at the time of writing these)

Wtf

It’s odd for sure. We’re definitely better than this on paper, but I guess that’s Simon T for you.

yeah we know, we suck

If you use it in a derogatory sense, as in a substitute for the word stupid, it’s not okay to say. Bottom line.

At this point, how valuable is a partnership like this to a site such as the VHL? Honest question, just thinking about how we’ve been around for 10-15 years now and have constant growth. Is it from this kind of partnership?

SBA sucks anyway