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Hi. New same ol recap. STOP OVERACHIEVING! Honestly I would had a fun of watching LA having a good season out of nowhere and trying to oust Chicago from the playoff spot. However, one thing that prevents me from enjoying this scenario: I have their first. So now all of the heroics from Vandelay is slowly starting to piss me off. After all there is a reason why I mentioned about them having a good season out of nowhere. I'm ready to die on this hill and say that they are not the playoff material no matter how more bangers Gus goalie can produce. So dear @InstantRockstar, it's time to rack up L's and move out from the playoff zone. And dear @JeffD, stop being so mid at offense and I hope Lazeski can help you with that. Make up yall mind, thank you very much. What stage grief it is? I don't think much comments needed. Hands down the worst offense in the league with openly tanking Riga existing. Barely being above us in standings as well. Pretty sure there are gonna be some sellings this offseason. Feels like it's time to move on from S80/81 core which couldn't take this team to major heights even during their heydays. And now most of them are doing even less. Matty and Lindbergh can stay, but others gotta be traded and give chances to a newer generation. Bloodbath. Now onto more positive moments. The title of this section doesn't sound that happy, but these teams are indeed doing well. No one wants to start from the wildcard so they are doing everything to secure the top 3 spot. All of the ups and downs they experienced this season was well worth it. 50+ games in and the 4th place team Calgary is 6 points from conference leading Vancouver with 2 games in hand. DC has even more, 3 games in hand. Honestly, I was a bit surprised to see Seattle in this mix. I feel like this is the maximum their roster can produce, but I guess we can give a credit to Bana for actually making this happening. Not sure if this 5 forward roster is gonna be enough in the playoffs, but I imagine they will be fine with any result at this point. After all, it could've been way worse. Like Tor.....khe khem. Nothing else much to say. EU doesn't feel that entertaining. Though we may witness some minor choke should Malmo continue to produce mids after mids. Seriosly, Prague is only 3 points away and they are not even trying. Just HOW? Other than that, still Warsaw vs Moscow. And Alex trying to do everything to squeak Davos into the EU race by acquiring Boobery. Shall see how it goes. London is kinda jumping around with not much ambition from their side. And then there's Helsinki with Riga trying to out tank each other. I guess @OrbitingDeath will have to accept the fact The Frenchman is about to be yet another first overall for Green....OrbitingDeath. Ye, I'm still living in past. That's it and I'm out.

1. Will Papa Emeritus ( @Beketov) break the Moscow Menace all time wins record? Idk didnt pay an attention. depends on if Acyd wants to be a backup next season also the cap. 2. Who is your favorite player @Beketovhas ever created? none of them played for Riga under my tenure so no one 3. If @Beketovstepped down from being Commish, what VHL member do you think would make a good replacement? uhhh idk. I'm not that active to figure it out 4. Describe @Beketov by using only ice cream flavors. strawberry maybe. idk why just the first thing popped in my mind 5. Do you think @Beketov has ever processed sims in his underwear? Some of those late night sims, ya know… I guess so. who cares anyways as long as he sims 6. Considering this is the last season I’ll be doing Press Conferences, do you think @Beketovshould take over for me? mhm go ahead and ask him I guess

I have to admit I hit a rock bottom at doing point tasks now and instead of making a decent thread about GM's I'll have to go a cheap route. And make trade deadlines trades recap (outside of potential deals tomorrow since the theme week is over today). Cause this thing will qualify for an extra 6 TPE. I'm very sure about that heh. After all, these were done by GM's, right? And commentary being done by other half active GM since S74 which is me. I'll even tag managers in here to make sure I get my extra points. Thank you very much. Trade #1: receives: S86 WAR 1st receives: S87 CGY 1st Looks self explanatory. * For @dlamb: basically he isn't interested much in this draft and instead is focusing on potential retool after S86. * Same for @Ricer13, just for retooling following this season. Though I have little questions about this from their side. With the way EU conference is going I don't think Warsaw's pick will land higher than 13th overall. And who even knows what happens with Calgary next season. Also, isn't this even a plan how to get his bro Tina back into Calgary? Pretty sure he isn't going to be availabe at 13 or lower so in this case Ricer has to make maneuvers for making this happen. Or the reality is more simple: just grab more picks for this draft for a successful retool. Trade #2: receives: Xavier Booberry S86 LDN 3rd receives: David Davis Juan Sano III S86 DCD 2nd S86 HSK 4th Fresh put of the baking owen! Helsinki finally blows it up and will try to out tank Riga for the initial better lotto odds. * Looking at the timing of both Helsinki trades I can say it wasn't @Rayzor_7 who sent these trades lol. Anyways, the fully loaded rebuild trigger has been pulled. Though I do have a question, was Boobery that cheap? That's tough. One of the league's best goalies wasn't even worth a first. I guess... that's the max Ray could get in this market. In fairness, pending FA status will do that to a price, even if a player is a world class. Mid to late second with a S83 prospect. To his credit, Denns came back once he took a commish job in SBA. However, I'm not sure if he really fits into the Helsinki timeline outside of being a transitional player. And then Davis who will most likely head to FA after this season so he doesn't even matter for Helsinki. Honesly, I was surprised the other Ray's todays trade partner wasn't trying to get Boob. Really weird moment. * Not much comments from @Alex perspective. Davis was not being consistent enough hence the goalies swap. Boobery may elevate Davos to a more comfortable third place as for now thier record is rather middling and I don't think fighting for not being in wildcard was in Alex plans for this season. Neither Sano III was very essential to their future. Trade #3: receives: Doug Britton Reid Johnson Tater Tottingham S87 MAL 2nd receives: Cobalt Burns Hammar Voss S87 HSK 4th Honestly when I saw the title first, Boobery to Malmo was my first guess. So I was kinda surprised to see this result. * They could hope @Rayzor_7 can also sell Nesbitt and Florida Man, but for now, this is the end result of his firesale. Now this return makes more sense. Tater and Johnson are S85 prospects and Britton is S84. So they could make an impact for this franchise later on. Plus a S87 second which may as well as be at the mid region. By the way, another case of a pending FA status tanking the price of a player. This time, it was Hammar Voss. There were more questions about Burns, but looking at the update page I do see Ledge has fallen off a bit from earning lots of TPE. So I guess, Ray is fine with the assets he managed to grab this time. * Now to @KaleebtheMighty and Malmo. Honestly, I'm not sure about the trade. Not really the price he gave. More like, were these positions most important for his team? Sure, they are being kinda mid so far so adding a good offensive option from the blue line is a cool moment. But I'm still really not sure why didn't he fight for Boobery. I don't think Tsezar is the man who can take this team far. Maybe Kaleeb's plan is to sign Davis later on so he kept the first round pick for the offseason trading. Also, questions about the longterm impact that Burns could make for Malmo. With his current TPE earning pace his role is never gonna be higher than depth two way option. Perhaps Malmo management is hoping Ledge finds his spark again and becomes something more than depth. Alright, I guess that's it for today. No more trades so far. That's it and I'm out.

1. How is your player doing this season, any room for improvement? kinda mid? I guess I'm impatient already and I want stats 2. Is Riga's performance surprising you so far? not really? we're still somewhere at the bottom 3. We're at the halfway mark already, who do you think has the best chance at winning the cup? no idea? prolly Moscow get more luck in playoffs and finally wins it 4. Who has been the most vocal player in the locker room? Spaz 5. Do you have any plans for this Fall or are you in school lol? no school for me, I'm a working man. gonna go vacation soon I suppose 6. Are you excited for the NHL season? maybe? not overly too hyped

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1. After a really tough start to the season, Moscow is back to being two points from leading the EU Conference once again. Where do you think we will finish in the standing? The first in EU. 2. Who do you think is the biggest influencer for our success so far this season? honestly havent paid attention to stats cause AK has been mid so far so idk bout this answer 3. What team other than Moscow has impressed you this season? Jerome found back his mojo and dragging whole London to a non wildcard place 4. I’ve been rockin a pretty weird sleep schedule recently staying up till like 4am.. how many hours of sleep do you get a day? was doing 3-4, now 6+ some progress right here 5. We’ve been talking a lot in our Discord Gaming channel about new games to play. Any recommendations? tbh no not playing much anything 6. NHL season is almost starting back up. How does your favorite team look for the upcoming season? Interesting, to say the least. hope johnny hockey can mesh up well with the rest of teammates

Hey there, I need TPE and here's some recap stuff for the last week. The Titanic appears to be an icebreaker? For a team that was supposed to be in shambolics a 7-2-2 record is certainly a welcoming surprise for the depleted, but still fighting crew. Their rookies that were signed just because either nobody else could afford them or never were in other team's plans actually decided to put their claim on the rookie award. And Boobery...well, it's Boobery. Enough said. That's why the reality will come crashing down sooner or later. There's not much chances Rain and Cholo can keep this up during the remaining of the season and even Boobs may have enough of carrying this team all the time. For me this team is still 6th in Europe at best. But for now, they can enjoy bringing chaos to the Europe standings. On side note, Prague is also having a pretty good record as of now. Let em enjoy this moment too. AGAIN??? Anyone who were active around during Gustav tenure knows that scoring was the biggest Achilles heel of his Davos. Fast forward to Alex era and what do we see? Same old shit. The team just refuses to score a lot and they just managed to climb from the last EU spot. Their 28 goals scored is the 4th worst in the league and I may sense some of S70's members are having one question in mind: NOT AGAIN??? I fairness, I think Davos will pick it up later and may have more exciting games. They still have lots of room for improvement as almost the half of their roster consists of ELC players. Also, Davis is on due for better statline. Though I have doubts about their cup ambitions cause they do not have lots of elite talent for now. They still should climb comfortably as some overachievers are about to get down to lotto zone so they can still sleep tight. Did I overrate this conference? Last time I was praising this side of VHL for being very stacked and was kinda excited to see how it's gonna pan out. 12-13 games in and I'm starting to feel like I was too quick to predict a bloodbath and standings are kinda pre determined already. Let's see why. - this was expected. Leaving things done half way, especially at offense isn't gonna do much for a team. Miglasķēms indeed isn't going to carry the whole team to anywhere and in fairness, he wasn't supposed to do that anyways; - I had an idea for a quick standings predictions before the season. But I got lazy, how surprising!!! If I did that though, you would see that this team at 7th place in NA conference. And some of yall may be like, what is this reach? But when you dive in to their roster, it's all becoming more clear. Outside of Lindbergh, only Matty Fire could be considered as borderline elite level player. And their defence isn't built for putting the puck to the net at all which for me is a requirement if the team wants to be a legit contender. And like, you don't need all 4 of scoring first defs, but you really could use some elite shooting blue liner. This team has none which does hamper their offensive potential. Lindbergh's early struggles are a bit surprising, but even with his imminent rise they won't impress other more complete teams. More like this is gonna be your hard fighting team that will have lots of 2-1 games. And most of times they will end up as a defeated squad. - This one is a bit interesting. And perhaps it stings a bit too. All of that free agency splash to have 24 goals scored in 13 games. Well, it's still too early to say, but there is a feeling their struggles may never end this season. But then, what can you do when your depth isn't great at all. Matter of fact, only one player with faceoff skill? Basically they have no 2C and I think this says it all. To make things even worse, despite having really good defencemans who can do lots of stuff; the one things they can't do is....you guessed it right. To shoot a lot. What can you do, STHS is so hard on scoring first players and it will stay that way regardless of attributes system. The good news is, they only spent a third round pick for all of that so I'm sure neither Fresco or Thad are gonna lose a sleep over this. Quick thrills Let's talk about this team a bit. And what has quick thrills to do with Malmo. Well, this is the exact description I have for their offseason. For me, they weren't looking anything special even with Molotov and newly acquired Carter so I was expecting them being a extremely mid. Then they managed to land Trunov and this caused for the trade with Seattle. Max Torq was brought to bring the elite oomph for their defence. Looks like these moves helped this team to jump from being a rebuild team to be a fine 8-3-0 contender. You may wonder what's the real ceiling for Tsezar and can they sustain their performance as a whole. One thing is for sure, they will make the playoffs. Doesn't matter if it's from wildcard or straight to the round 1. So far so fine, you know. The problem, however, their ambitions in the future. This is the farewell tour for Trunov and Carter is going to have the same next season. After that, only Molotov and Marconi to run the show plus a decent depth from Adolfsen. Not exactly enough to make a legit competitor in my books. Doesn't looks like Tsezar is the goalie for the distant future either. Decent D prospects who are going to be a fine depth players in their ELC period. But the most important question is, Max Torq? After all, this is the last season of his contract. I think Steve is the member who needs to be convinced to sign with a team. You can't just sit and do little and expect him to happily extend. They don't have lots of draft picks left either, but these may be enough to make some useful trades. Honestly, I'm wondering if Helsinki is going to try to sell before this trade deadline. I feel like Malmo could use some of them good to elite players to fully join the dance. And also having a better chance of extending Torq too. Anyways, time will tell and it's up to Kaleeb and Spaz what's in the store for their future. Side note 2: looking at these rookies putting numbers. And then we have AK with 8 points. Cmon bruh.... That's it and I'm out.

1. Moscow currently sits at 2-4-2 and we are second last in the EU Conference. What is your level of concern? Do you think we just are in the middle of an early season slump, or do we need to make changes? by looking at the strength of this conference, no concern. 2. How did your VHFL draft turn out? Who was your biggest steal? Idk, it was decent maybe? I hope Sogaard puts up some work cause I took him in round 5. 3. The landscape of the VHL changed a lot this off-season, what team do you think made the best improvements to their line-up? Vancouver looks cool. some minor jump like Malmo too. 4. How have you felt about your player in the first week of sims? Meh. All of them shots and he is still mid. 5. Turn you player into a Pokemon. Name, Type, and one move. AK 5/11, Poison/Grass, Solar Beam 6. Back to school this week - what was your favorite school subject growing up? nothing....uhmmm ok. Sports, Geography and History

no we shouldnt

Tobias Reinhart

Tomas Sogaard forward @Anthique

I joined that discord so I guess I gotta be in ELO - rusty boi who hasnt played in a while

Matty Fire forward @eagle_3450

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1. This off-season feels like it could be a while, what has/will occupied your time: WJC, World Cup, Taking a break, or nothing - just waiting for start of season sims? doin some lil gm job and then waiting for the season, nothing else 2. The VHL Draft is over and it looks like Moscow is looking to continue it's contending trends as we just drafted our next goalie of the future in @Acydburn. What are your thoughts on Moscow trading up to nab a stud goalie prospect. We still ride Papa this year, but with kobe retiring, Acyd's player should be one of the more elite back-up goalies. tbh I'd draft him if Spart didnt make that trade so good on him 3. There's been many trades, team shake-ups, GM changes, VHLM Commish changes, and all-round changes to the league this off-season (only a few days in too). What change or off-season development do you think is the best so far? still waiting for the regression changes 4. Spartan has once again worked his magic and re-tooled the team to be competitive this season. We didn't loose a marquee player like Idaho, but we did unfortunately have to lose le Massif. How do you think the team looks going into next season? EU is weak ass this season so no worries here 5. Are there any games on the upcoming season schedule that you have especially marked on your calendar? Nothing really. just play a game and stuff 6. There's a lot of things coming up in the off season, make sure to watch for Discord "TPE Alerts" as we will notify you of all TPE opportunities. Do you plan on participating in the VHFL? Easy TPE! ye I do some fantasy, maybe this time I'll have a better luck

The VHLE season ended with a bang for the hoodie man. His team Istanbul managed to hoist the grandest prize of them all, the Renaissance cup. He did contribute a lot to his teams success, hence the best defenseman award he received yesterday. This, however soon to be in the past as AK is about to make his VHL debut very soon. There were some questions about his role in Moscow's defensive lineup as Markinson is about to go all in his last season and Power is a solid defenseman on his own. Well...before he was traded to Vancouver. Now the situation is even more interesting, though some could argue it is on #92's favor. Markinson will obviously carry whole Moscow's defensive production, but then they will find themselves with three similar skilled defensemans. Which means AK may get more free space to actually have a decent rookie season, if not better. The forward lineup is pretty fine too so there is definitely a chance the Latvian hoodie lover will benefit from this greatly. Only time will tell though. I do expect him hitting fairly decent numbers for a rookie. Somewhere between 50-60 points, though I won't be that surprised if he can hit more. That obviously would be a welcoming turn of events. As for da Hoodie himself. He had a nice time of celebrating his VHLE season. And it did affect his form a bit as he arrived to Moscow in...an iffy conditions, to say it lightly. The coach and GM, however were rather tolerant on this occasion. I guess they are watching E league too. In fairness AK92 managed to get in his best shape in a quick fashion so nobody had much issue about his looks during the arrival soon after. Also the quick side fact: the hoodie man doesn't like vodka so I imagine he won't be looking drunk too often in Moscow. The fans will for sure admire that mental stregth from his not knowing he just doesn't like this particular alcohol drink. All in all, the Latvian defenceman is cautiously optimistic about the upcoming season. He knows he won't be the first option with the existing Markinson, but he is for sure ready for making an impact and maybe even try to fight for the rookie award. Though he did say in an interview with the local Moscow newspaper that he isn't focusing on awards as of now. Though I feel like this is not exactly true, but this kind of attitude gonna be welcomed among Menace's bosses.

Daniel Janser @Anthique

Brian Payne, defence @eagle_3450

Tui Sova defence @Anthique

This past free agency has to be one of the most stacked in recent memory. The perfect combo of teams having cap problems (even with the 2M raise), or them simply going to rebuild...or in case of one particular team, doing absolutely nothing. This all teamed up in one to make this pretty interesting offseason. Now that only one big free agent left and I'm fairly sure he's going to London, it's time to make some conclusions. Frank is about to lead Wolves to another three final losses.... khe khem. back to playoffs! Vancouver appeared as the team who benefited the most from this chaotic offseason. At first, I wasn't sure if there was a chance to make something happen once he asked me about Cheese and Leduc. Then after seeing this FA class I realized it's way easier than it could've been. Trades for these both as well as for Miklavz and Powers rights plus bringing another defenceman in Power[s] made this team look way more different that it was season ago. It was only a matter of time when a big time FA would be enticed enough of Frank's vision. Didn't have to wait for too long either. Spartan did see a potential in this idea so the Vancouver became the next destination for Nico Pearce. Looks like we may have an easy 1 TPE from predicting the Knight award winner this season? Cap dump takers with the first round picks?? Please???? Bana has mastered this tactic a tons of time ago and so far it was one of the reasons why Seattle managed to stay competitive as long as they have now. However, there is a feeling that last series of cap dump trades with NY really put most of GM's off. And now they may be too cautious when trading with the 7 time champ. LA did some favors, but the Bears had to lose the younger player in the process which is certainly not ideal. Moreso, they are still stuck with 4/4 roster which is at 42(!)M cap. I think Bana had a hope that Rayz could come back and try to save Helsinki offseason, but so far this hope is fading away as is the ex Seattle's savior activity. So now who and will anyone try to take some players from them or they will have to run with this roster which honestly screams wildcard at best to me? Stay tuned I guess.... Titanic Oh boiiiiii.....I think this fiasco will end up in VHL history books. This was really one of the most spectacular falloff in the history of the league. And it's not like they didn't have a potential left after the game 7 loss to the eventual champs. But something did happen with the head chef of the Titans. Did Rayz get totally burnt out? Was/is he on some vacation? Here's a hope we will find out once he comes in, but for now this team is in huge shambolics. I figured it out that Spartan or Fong may think about testing FA. But Nano? Dvorak? Neither signing any other FA's? Not even mid lever players....oh wait, most of them were taken already by some hedge idk who that is. Now all that's left from this team is bare bones that consists of Boobery, Florida Man, Nesbitt, and Voss. Plus rookie Burns added into the this mix. Now all we can do is stay tuned and witness the conclusion of this saga. Whole conference is contending?? For the first time in the 16 team VHL history we are witnessing the tank-less conference. Well, I'm not exactly sure about LA as their offense is not loaded at all outside of Miglasķēms so they may look outside in. Other than that, nothing is guaranteed. Even New York decided to join the party by adding couple of nice free agents in Mourning, Le Massif and Poopy P. Seattle doesn't look very strong, but they can still be considered as a contender and other teams didn't change much. The bloodbath will be real in this conference. Also, do you know what that means? NA conference is more entertaining than EU. Title. I honestly don't even remember when NA was that stacked. Sure, there were always championship material teams, but the playoff fight itself wasn't anything crazy unlike the European conterparts. But now things are different. Riga is on the mission for the worst record in the league, Prague is steady on their rebuild, Helsinki....well yeah. Malmo assembled a decent forward roster so they were upped to a mid tier and London's roster does look hella mid to me. Yet these latter two teams are more likely the teams making to the wildcard round. Moscow, Davos and Warsaw can sleep tight. Nothing will distract them from making the playoffs this season. I think this might be the most notable stuff this offseason has given to us so far. There are more news though: - Management change in New York and Malmo. The latter one is an interesting one. Not only Kaleeb took over, he also put Spaz at AGM. Basically whole Istanbul management transfered themselves to Sweden. Also what's up with Riga players taking the Malmo AGM spot? Maybe I should step down and take that job too at some point eh? - Side note: maybe Ruutu's critic of Helsinki wasn't that off. Some prophecy around there. Now I'm scared that he doesn't hit a piece about Riga.... - There was a draft too. We did Henry Tucker Jr. who is about to become a franchise goalie for years and do not doubt me about that. About other team's picks....well they drafted some. Though I have to say some of these picks were hella reaches and I wasn't sure why were they picked that high. Maybe we will know down the line. Alright, this is about it. I'm about to hit 1000 words so you won't see me rambling next week. Thank you very much. That's it and I'm out.

1. Do you like a quick offseason like this one? tbh I'm indifferent about it as of late. became so lazy I'm ok with etiher scenarios 2. What do you think of Riga's first round pick Mr. Henry Tucker Jr. future franchise goalie, calling it now 3. What are your player expectations heading into the season? have a decent rookie season, 50-60 points or something 4. Did your player do anything fun in the offseason? stealing all hoodies from Moscow stores 5. How has your summer been now that theres only a month left? great August, mixed bag on first two months 6. Cake or Pie cake

ye boi

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