hedgehog337

meh

Dil pushed buttons so hard Chiang isnt even listed in London roster DO IT!

Wanted to do something more meaningful, but I'm not in a condition to do so. Here's a low effort thing. First and fifth overall. That's what the draft lotto did to us. The first two picks would've been something more special and it may have happened. But LA decided to collapse at the end of the draft lotto tourney so their odds never grew. I guess you don't ask for too much. Prague managed to jump to the second overall from their initial 5th spot. They didn't hold onto it for long cause rebuilds suck. Acyd handed it to Seattle for two players, his own ex AGM included. Now the Phamily included themselves into the EU playoff race and turned this conference into more respectable thing. Cool cool. Then we have Helsinki at 3 and I feel like there might be a reach for reasons some members already know. Toronto has 4 and I have no idea what is Doom thinking right now. Or he is not thinking at all. This team has been really quiet since their sad ending of S85 and all this team has are fuck ton of unanswered questions so far. Also, Seattle is having two lotto picks too as the NY pick never made it further than 6th overall. NYA is so cursed even Bana's luck is hopeless. The draft is set to Monday. Kinda far away, I gotta say. Though my ideal time which is Sunday wasn't hella closer option too. My main wish was no Friday or Saturday. So it's fine. May try to not be sleepy during that time. I don't have to go to the work anyways due to something that's starting to annoy me a lot. There's some trades too. Riga participated in some, but the biggest one was the three way between New York, Davos and us. The OG idea was Thad getting his own player and sending Weaver to Davos. For some reasons Alex decided to rather have picks and shopped him to me and took Bridgers in return. I also took the NYA S87 2nd in the process. Well, for Davos and NYA this trade is straight forward. For Riga, it's more interesting. Pretty much setting for the S85/86 core and sprinkles of S87. Time will tell if this is going to work. But for now let's enjoy some good looking big trades. By the way, Davos has two three ways this offseason already. I guess it will make sense if Alex can complete a trifecta of three way trades. Nothing much else so far. FA is starting on Saturday though I'm likely not gonna be invested in it. Looks like it may be worse class than the last one. I think forward FA's are going to be very popular. I believe LA, Malmo and NY will gun hard for em. In Amurricans case, they'll go after about everyone outside of goaltending if they really wanna have competing chances. I think I will stop here. I hope I will find a spark for something better next week. But I can't guarantee anything. That's it and I'm out.

1. The draft is set at the next Monday. Do you wish it could happen sooner? 2. how happy are you for DC winning their first cup ever? 3. your reaction on the three way trade which brought us Daniel Weaver 4. who do you think we should choose at first and fifth overall this draft? 5. how long do you think I'll have a flu? 6. how's our fav sports team is doing so far? cause mines doing....ehhh...don't wanna to talk about it

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Yeah I'm truly sorry @KaleebtheMighty, but I'll have to retire as well to test this stuff ...wait, Kaleeb isn't my GM

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kelvi on work = Riga wins

seems about right

1. Are you ready for the season to be over and start the next Riga Ribuild? always been ready, and the next season too 2. What has been the biggest surprise for you this season? Baard having a good chemistry with Bridgers. didn't even need a center for that 3. Do you use the VHL trivia for PTs? How do you find the difficulty? ye. mixed bag on difficulty, some stuff been easy to find 4. Do you have cold weather yet now that we are in fall? somewhere around +10/+13 or some. might be even warmer. decent for late October 5. What's the biggest thing you learned since joining the VHL? that I'm still salty after each loss 6. Who's your early favorite for the Stanley Cup? didnt pay much attention to that...lets bet on Tampa again?

w2

So nothing changes here?

it's colorful

meh we'd rather see you posting boobs again wondering about your first move as mod

let the world burn

fax

Fucking flu. At least a medical leave from it. TWO LOTTO PICKS WOOHOO To my delight, Chicago did manage to avoid the choke and jumped over LA with their extra games. Which means I will get two lotto picks instead of one. I think this was a fair result. It was obvious LA was never ready for the playoff action and also Chicago did beat Seattle in wildcard series. With more offensive firepower the Stars can make it to the post season in the future. And according to my mind, up to 2 NA teams may go to the rebuild so making the big dance may even be easier than they've thought. Dead end? Speaking of which, Seattle is the first one. This lineup could do so much, but the late season form showed everything. They peaked early in the season and there was nowhere to go anymore. The 5 forward setup never helped the cause either. And now when 2 out of five forwards already announcing their retirement plus Ori/Godlander being potential free agents. Unless Bana manages to activate his ''fleece other GM's'' card, it makes more sense to blow it up. 5 firsts in the next two drafts plus bunch of second and thirds. The rebuild shouldn't be painfuly long in this case. Now onto another one. Rather sad ending for Toronto who is about to face lots of problems this offseason. Having a frustrating season is one thing. The other one is not having a future at all. Most of their lineup consists of S81 or older player and pretty much everyone are either inactive or clickers. It is apparent that Matty and Doom alone aren't going to solve this problem. But it was Busser's abrupt retirement that put the final nail in their coffin. Now their offense have absolutely 0 future. Just oldies who are about to regress as well. Moreso, the defense which is...not so young anymore. You know what's even worse. NO ONE is a shooter, just whole lotta passing. I mean, maybe someone had to realize going with heavy pass first or 40/40 setup isn't going to help their cause at all? It's STHS for fucks sake, it has a hard boner on scoring builds. Been known since forever. Back to their future though. I don't think they have anything left. They do have their own first (so TOP 6 obviously) and it does make sense to try to get more assets for their older players. They can keep Sakamoto, he is fairly young and I sense he can survive the rebuild. Other ones can go imo. Anyways, only Doom will answer the question about the future. The only thing we can do is sit and watch their next moves. 15 minutes of fame is over? Malmo lost their wildcard series to Davos. Honestly, this team is another interesting one to talk about. All of them trades and FA signings and all they got is wildcard series loss. But honestly, it's their future at forward position that makes me worry. Just look at their current lineup: Bogdan Trunov - retiring Donny Carter - retiring following next season Jakub Brozik and Bob Chicoine - low TPE inactives Noodles Marconi - young, but inactive Cobalt Burns - young, not inactive, but not really being impressive at TPE earning. Both of them are second liners at best for now. Side note: they managed to draft couple of members who were part of S74-75 Riga draft class. Matt Thunder, Ledge and Eynhallow. But wait, that's not over. Donny Carter was Riga draftee in S79 and was directly suggested to me by Ledge. You thought this was it? Their AGM Spaz just finished his goalie Tobias Reinhart, the lifer Riga goalie since S81. Anyways, back to their forward core. This whole list leaves us to Igor Molotov, the only player with the good TPE earning rate. I think you get where I'm going with this. Only Molotov? NOT ENOUGH! Yes, they do have Adolfsen coming up next season. However, he is not exactly superstar level player and who knows if he will manage to reach that status in his career. So what's next? Molotov clearly needs a worthy help to make a good one two punch. And I think there might be some solutiuon to this.... No way out for Perry? ....because I really have no idea if Prague really need to hold on Perry Laperriere. Their rebuilding timeline clearly started later than Perry got drafted. In S84 to be exact. And while Kaleeb's player being a good player, but does it really makes sense for him to wait for Prague finally finishing rebuild right before he regresses? I think Acyd may be better off from getting more future or younger assets instead of holding onto a player who is already on prime contract. So yeah, I'm not going to be really surprised if we're about to see the offseason deal between Prague and Malmo. The latter clearly need more offensive firepower which is not old as well. Seems a good fit to me. I guess that'd really it. As of now, there is no other team that raises lots of questions. Though I do wonder how is defensive lineup of Moscow going to look like next season Markinson and Nylen gone and Remy is inactive plus on regression. AK is actually the only bright spot in their blue line lineup. Is he going to be ready to take the #1 D role or Spartan will have to find a way to bring an older Markinson type of a def? Stay tuned this offseason, what more can I say. I need to reach that 1000 word count so let me make a quick prediction for the playoffs. CGY vs CHI - Calgary in 6 VAN vs DC - Vancouver in 6 WAR vs DAV - Warsaw in 5 MOS vs LON - Moscow in 7 CGY vs VAN - Vancouver in 6 WAR vs MOS - Warsaw in 7 WAR vs VAN - Warsaw in 7 I'm out there being high on the defending champs. But hey having only 3 defs is better than only 5 forwards. Smart moment. That's it and I'm out.

1. Round One begins with a matchup against London United. How well do you think we match up against this team? Moscow in 7. they can drag this far with the Jerome stimulus, but not further than that imo 2. Which players do you think will be the x-factors in this first series? the first line/pair 3. How did your VHFL Team do this year? Was your player a good fantasy player in VHFL? won a group and a top 5 overall I guess. AK was a rookie....no 4. How did you feel your TPE earning went this season? Do you think you will be more, less, or the same in productivity next season? I'm fine so far. depends on if I burn out quickly or nah 5. What is your favorite way to earn TPE? by clicking 6. What was the favorite Halloween costume you ever had? (Can be any costume doesn't need to be for Halloween if you don't celebrate) I don't remember tbh. didn't celebrate that for a long time

Title. Europe is boring as ever I mean, title. Pretty much every team has solidified their position outside of two. Honestly, I was expecting Davos to run away in post Boobery trade. But London found back their scoring mojo and right now are on 7 win streak. Only 2 points away with 3 games in hand, it might be a tense fight for a non wildcard position. We can see that Jerome is indeed a big factor in this fight. Turned this team from hopless mid to something more respectable, gotta give him credit for that. Other than that, nothing. Malmo managed to run away from Prague and will wait for the conclusion of Davos/London fight. Warsaw apparently already took the Victory Cup. Moscow just chugging along at this point as well as the rest 3 bottom teams. Likely Riga takes the best initial draft lotto odds. NA goes hard still TITLE. Though even here we can see two teams separating from others...wait, there's another one?? - these two looks favorable so far. Barring any STHS playoff shenanigans they could face each other in NA finals. I also have to say - finally Calgary looks like a legit contender, not a leftover. All of them playoff appearances since last cup in S62 and only one finals to brag about after. They probably could take the title for the most wildcard/first round exits among all VHL teams. But maybe it indeed changes this season as Janser popped off and elevated their offense to the new level. Something they didnt have for a very long time. - there is indeed another one. Only one point from Vancouver too. Outside of LA this is the most head scratching team in the league. For the most part they've been middling, but somehow find themselves very close from the second place. Bana dark magic on work once again I see. Everything that could go in their way, happened so far. Chicago with their unattractive offensive output, a team below collapsing right before the season ending and LA/NY/Toronto never being better than Seattle in the first place. I'm not sure about their chances in this playoffs, but I feel it doesn't matter much to them anymore. The projected last hoorah for this core is not gonna end up in whimper, that's for sure. - huh? And here I was thinking they're about to get rid of that DC MID stamp, but this ain't it. If they were hoping for Bubbles to cover up their recent offensive shortcomings, this is not how it's done. Now DC finds themselves at the wildcard place and by looks of and this was not necessary imo. *Insert DC offensive vision went RC joke* - now this is the real nitty gritty of the playoff fight. I'm not really sure how did NY catch up their California counterparts, but here we are. Chicago is 2 points away from LA, but also three games in hand. Honestly, I'm not sure how did Stars manage to survive so far considering their performance being the definiton of mid, but Simon continues to bullshitting. And as an owner of LA's first I will hate on this. I was also about to hate on the fact their GM Rockstar forgot to put a backup last sim...before realizing both of these games were lost. Though I'm not sure anymore. I was hearing IR had his own pet and a relative passing away in one week so...maybe it was more on Fonzi? Anyways, extra two games for Vandelay did gave a whole 0 points to them so no harm done so far. However, I tend to be very petty if things don't go my way so they better fix this mistake before next sim. Also, Chicago has to stop to show us boring offense. I know their biggest offseason acqusition Nano is another pass first guy, but damn. And NY...well they are fighting, that's cool to see. I'm still waiting for Chiang to pop off someday. Cause his current performance is the classic STHS shafting at it's best imo. - credit to them making their season more respectable. Matter of fact, they are not even out from the playoff fight yet. They managed to cut the deficit from LA to 6 points which is way better than almost 20 they had at early season. Also, they are playing the Stars twice...this should be spicy. Still, there is a feeling their late season push came in too late. And the retirement of Busser makes me think the rebuild isn't far away. For now, they can enjoy the better days and hope for a miracle. That's it for today. In the middle of my writings my keyboard decided to be a bitch for some reason so the rest was pain in the ass for me. I feel like something will be smashed today. That's it and I'm out.

1. With less than 10 games left in the season, and our playoff seed basically set - what is the focus for the rest of the season? give all points to AK cause he's mid 2. We are set to meet either Davos or London in the first round, what team do you think we match up better against? Davos might be too iffy with Boobery, London looks an easier option 3. What player needs to turn it in in the playoffs for us to be successful? most of second liners/pair 4. Reflecting on the previous season; what do you think the highlight was for you? - Can either in the sim or in the community.. Istanbul cup 5. Thoughts on NHL opening up the season in EU? Establishing their place in EU since Russia is out of commission 6. What is your favorite Thanksgiving dish? I dont celebrate that

sucks

fuck LA