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Prague gets rocked by @Mrpenguin30! Welcome to the Harvey world.

D- Randy Marsh D - Jiggly Gumballs @MMFLEX

somewhat a perfect logo for @Matt thunder lol

@Eddie Dams is rocking it in Houston! nice to see. @Nikdandrea34 earning his points in San Diego as well. Also, I gotta say @Tropicalfire with pretty nice stats in couple of games as well.

Resim this trash just disgusting games all around

yeah Conway sucks for the most part. Just wait until Harvey steps in.

Vegas may not be in the best position now, but damn @Domino Draws is getting nice points out there. Congratulations @Miks Sunins on the first 3 points in this season! Here's off to more. I'm also glad that with all of these big names @Eddie Dams is still putting up good offensive stats.

I guess I claimed a wrong goalie from FA. I wish next 4 games ends asap so we can enjoy a masterclass goaltending from Harvey. @RedSus with a 3 point sim! Also DaMoose hangs on at PPG pace.

A push incoming?

Thomas Landry II Timothy Brown both forwards @MMFLEX

It was back in S67 when I made the historic decision for myself. For the first time in my GM tenure I appointed an AGM - @Tate. He had a short, but good AGM tenure there before I hired @Nykonax somewhere S69 and S71 (I didn't even put an announcement for that wtf). I'm sure I could've run a team by myself decently, but hiring an AGM really helped our team to elevate even futher. This especially goes to Nykonax who was a big part of our successful playoff streak run and a S72 championship. Not only he was helping me with his players Kyl Oferson and Elias Dahlberg, he also had a big contribution draft and lineups wise. I think his lineup suggestions helped us a lot in that S72 championship run. Anyways, Nyko has decided to step down from AGM'ing and we would like to thank him for all of these years in Riga uniform and helping us with other off the ice stuffs! We wish him good luck with Kyl Oferson. So that means we will have a new AGM in the town! This members was interested in a management position for a moment and even sent his apps to couple of VHLM team GM's, but couldn't get that position. So I've decided to offer Riga AGM position to him. He is interested to do draft scoutings and interviews, which will be helpful for me as I tend to be lazy in that aspect tbh. Also, the LR activity as well. So we all welcome the new AGM in Riga: @Ledge_and_Dairy! Congratulations! I hope it will be a productive tenure and we will have a blast on working with each other!

Some of Latvians don't like people with the name that consists of Vlad and Imir. @Matt thunder is sharing this opinion with them. Not the best sim, but we will move on. @Eynhallow with the 4 points and @Hoopydog with 3 points in 2 games, that's a nice start!

Nice sim for some of our prospects @TheOGShark with the 5 point sim! What a start. @Domino Draws starting right out the gate with 2 goals in first game. First line gonna do wonders for you my man. @Nikdandrea34 also adds his two goals in game 1. @Mashy starting Miami comeback in the first game with his goal. @Lvhockeybest6 nice debut with 2 assists! Ottawa may not be the good, but hey that gives more chances to do great there. @Tropicalfire nice showing in SD jersey. And Houston is going in, good to see @Eddie Dams contributing to this as well.

rip @rory's GM legacy, drafting a guy who wanted to go up with a high 20th ov pick :pepecry

rip Halifax

Mikko Lahtinen @MMFLEX

imagine sabres were way more rusty than caps in game 1 at least

1,) What will our team’s role going to be in S76 (Euro Conference) ? (e.g. winner, spoiler, etc.) 2.) How can we make our LR more attractive ? (no lavender candles, please!) 3.) Our trainer needs to know what your pre-game rituals are. Please advise. 4.) What, in your opinion, should be addressed in terms of our team’s needs ? 5.) What do you do during your off days...down time ? 6.) Any cultural shocks on Moving to Latvia ? 7.) have you learned how to pronounce “Es spēlēju hokeju Rīgas valdīšanas laikā”. 8.) We signed 4 undrafted free agents. Is this going to be a new trend in this league? 9.) Milk before cereal or other way around? *first 7 questions are made by @Eynhallow*

Gotta hit 500+ TPE before the season starts so here it is. Season hype! That's first of all. Now, as you can see we're now pulling some stuffs from Seattle textbook. That is signing an undrafted free agents. So far, we've been able to sign 3 youngins and the 4th should be on the way soon. Another interesting fact - we signed a DFA who went undrafted in S75 (Noah Mashford), so he basically was without a VHL team for a season. I'm glad we could net him and hand him more points from training camp etc stuff. Another fact - one of them is a Latvian. We already had my fellow last season, but I had to sell Fischl so he could have more playing time. Now we do have two Latvians - Normunds and Miks Sunish (Sūniņš). Interesting to see how this will go. 9/6/1 roster hype! I guess I could get some backup goalie too so it would look more solid. We shall see. And we shall see what is Klamasteris gonna do in Toronto with his 8 games he will start. I've heard his first one is coming immediately tomorrow against DC. Hype there as well. I had good times with Toronto before as the part of that three peat dynasty, maybe I can get some cup with Sir as well.

here you are

Was good to play with you in Riga. Good luck with your recreate!

Yeah yeah no trivia need to write something for 2 TPE yada yada. The S76 is apporoaching upon us and the Riga Reign team is filled with an excitement. For the first time in my GM tenure I will manage the first gen only team. Actually, has this ever be done in this league? I'm wondering for real. Even more impressive fact is that we're going into the season with the 9/6 setup, not 6/4. Speaking about first gen and stuff, we didn't have a first round pick for S76 draft so @gorlab bust or lick series wasn't as exciting as the S75 edition when I had a whopping 5 first round picks. In that edition he had a 1:4 ratio for my picks there. Ironically the only lick (myself) was traded already to Toronto. Emidas pick as indeed a bust, but the first three pick turned out fantastically for me as all of them are the big part of our foward lineup future. Anyways I'm going to be more excited to read the S77 edition as I will have likely a lotto pick there. Also, according to Gorlab, Riga is an all-bust team . Anyways, this offseason was nice. Got more picks for the S77 and 78 drafts, including a S78 first from Toronto. Also, free thired round picks alongside with Chase Crosby. Imagine if he will come back. This offseason wasn't as big as the last one, but we didn't have to make any big moves. Now let's just wait when our youngins are becoming the stars in this league and enjoy.

Last week, I was covering our S75 season and gave a shoutouts to every Riga draftee. Now let's talk a bit more about players who were a part of Riga last season, but will either start this season in a different team or just going to remain unclaimed. Not including players who retired following last season. LW - Shush Nyko (S71-75) @SDCore Somewhat an end of an era. He was the only player remaining from the championhip winning S72 team. I remember back in the S69 I was contemplating between Spyro and SD and after some discussions with Nyko we decided to choose the latter. He turned into a solid second line forward at his prime, including a 51 point season in S73. He was also a decent at updating. Unfortunately his activity declined between S72 and S73 as he took a commish job in SHL and he's also in PBE I believe. As the result of this, he suffered a harsh decline in S74, but was kept for one last ride in S75. 41 points is actually a fine stat considering that Riga wasn't even a contender team. Anyways, the lotto tournament was the last time when we saw this player in action. I'm very sure that nobody will claim him from the FA pool. Goodbye Shush, you were a nice player for us and you can have that S72 championship. RW - Jeff Odinson (S75-75) @GoldGear88 For his two seasons he was a Vanouver's prospect. When he was already imagining himself in the Wolves jersey it came apprent that this team has no roster space for him at all. Luckily for him, the solution came even before he stepped on the big leagues ice. He was a part of a pretty big deal between Riga and Vancouver and since we were not contending he found himself being as one of prime power forwards for our team. He didn't score lots of points, but he did what he was supposed to do best. 246 hits, 6 or 7 fights. He was somewhat a rookie version of Phil Marleau which is not necessarily bad. The member behind this player was also updating a steady pace and even was popping in our discord at times. It was sad to realize that we simply won't have a roster space for him this season, but it looks like LA is ready to give him an opportunity to continue his career. If this is the case, we wish him very best in the Stars. C - Alek Andreshnikov (S75-75) @PuckPushers Like Odinson, he found himself in a position where he was just not needed for his original team. He was even ready to retire his player (because he couldn't play in VHLM anymore), but I managed to keep him in this league by signing a contract and putting him a 1C position. I'd like to say that he was a good player for us. He spent the most minutes on ice of all VHL players and he repayed us with 59 points. Nice rookie season for a player who perhaps wasn't even supposed to wear any VHL team's uniform at all. He had another similarity with Odinson - we had no roster space for him in this season so we had to let him go. Ironically, DC decided that they need some forward depth and brought him back where he started from. I'm glad I could get him at least two season of the big league action. LW - Michael Hall (S75-75) @Hops Player who was moved around more than former three players combined. At first he was Davos' prospect, but was moved to Moscow in same season as the part of Victor's retooling plan. He was a bit inconsistent at updating so when the time came he found himself unneeded for Moscow. I guess you know what happened next. After signing him for one season I put him at the third line. I thought he was still going to get decent minutes, but STHS decided that 5-6 minutes per game will be enough for him. What a shame. In lotto tourney he was moved into the second line to see what he actually can do. It resulted in 3 goals in 10 games which was...an ok result I guess. Our team was just cruising through the lotto tournament without any ambitions and it seems like it affeted Hall at all. At the end of the season he was let go because...you know the drill. Looks like he will remain as FA although his build has some minor potential (90 scoring). Here's to hope he could find a place in any VHL team. RW - Gino DiGiannantonio (S75-75) @pennypenny At the S72 draft he was considered as the promising draftee. Penny was an active discord user although with some problems with his attitude. Anyways, it was going pretty well for him and Vanouver...until he was banned again and this time it was indefinitely. Pretty much immediately after that his TPE earning pace drastically slowed down and shortly after he went inactive. I assume the his rough mental state made him to leave this league and as of this moment he remains inactive. As for him being part of our team - he was claimed by us from inactive free agency. At that moment we didn't even have full two lines so that claim made sense. And then I brought another forward, another forward, another forward etc. It resulted in Gino not even receiving max minutes despite being one of the highest TPE forwards in our team. Anyways, he did fine with scoring 35 points. As you would imagine already he was let go from our team due to obvious reasons and as of this moment he remains unclaimed. Well, I guess RIP Gino's career. Wondering if Penny will ever considre to come back to VHL. LW - Joe Kelly (S75-75) @emidas I had some big hits in the S75 draft, but also some of them never panned out the way I wanted. Case in point: Joe Kelly. He was picked 12th OV after I realized I missed a chance on Scotty Kaberle. I was hoping that this time Emidas will give VHL a chance and make a good forward. Well, RIP. Shortly after the season started he stopped earning any TPE which worried me a lot. He still had that privelege of an auto-12 so there was still a hope, but by the end of the season I realized that he won't have any chances in Riga as he would just be buried by way more younger S74/75 talents coming up from minors. There was some positives from Kelly as well. His second half of the season was pretty swell and he ended up with 51 points although he started off very meh. I believe he had like 3 points in 20 games or something. Anyways, there was no chance that he would have any roster spot in Riga and I managed to trade him to DC. I believe they were hoping that he would come back and become a decent depth forward, but the news is that Emidas is done with VHL altogether and may retire his player at some point. What a shame. So here it is, 6 players who were a part of Riga Reign last season who never found a place in the first gen filled S76 team. Some of them like Odinson, Andreshnikov and Kelly found new teams to play for and I'm happy to see that. Shush Nyko is just too old and regressed to spend his farewell season anywhere. Whereas Hall and Gino appeared to be the victim of ever growing league. I imagine they would actually be an decent depth piece for a contending team in S50's. But we're in S70's now so it doesn't matter anymore. For reaching 1500 words I need to make more shoutouts so I'll mention players who decided to spend their last career season in our team: D - Andrej Petrovic @Tyler D - Jacob Perry @Liberty_Cabbage LW - Ben McGirr @cartoes I'm glad that Liberty found another spark in him to make a recreate. Perry's last season was really nice and he actually ended up as one of the best VHL defensemans. Sure, it's easier to get stats in a non contender, but how many times we do see some regressed lower TPE players ending up with good numbers? I'm also glad I could provide Prague's second line legend McGirr a roster spot for his last season instead of rotting in FA till his career is over. And it was nice to see Tyler in Riga again. Maybe someday he will recreate again, but for now Riga will remain as his last team. Well, this was the article about ex-Riga players. Congratulations on their careers or good luck in the new team! That's it and I'm out. 11/01 - 17/01 18/01 - 24/01 25/01 - 31/01