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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from Victor in S92 Hall of Fame Induction   
    @Victor I am glad to see you are still going strong with this stuff
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    eaglesfan036 reacted to Ptyrell in Town of Salem #29   
    To be fair, they probably thought they were going to kill Ricer.
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    eaglesfan036 reacted to omgitshim in Town of Salem #29   
    Will do
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from Banackock in Town of Salem #29   
    Long story short kill ricer
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from rory in Town of Salem #29   
    For anyone here new to town of salem, this is the jailor meta (best strategy) popular in mafia games. 
     
    Anyone who is a doctor, bodyguard, lookout, escort, or spy should to on rory tonight. Do NOT go on rory if you are crusader
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from Ricer13 in Town of Salem #29   
    I will be transporting myself with ricer tonight so if you want to kill me kill ricer
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    eaglesfan036 reacted to Victor in Most used last names in VHL history   
    Hello and welcome to one of my most unhinged projects yet. I have scoured through the VHL archives to identify every single instance of a repeated last name in history, the sole criterion being that the players made it to the VHL (i.e. VHLM and/or VHLE lifers are excluded). This also means that whilst the list includes all active VHL players as of S92, it doesn't include anyone who is about to come up to the big leagues or has announced their draft eligibility.
     
    268 repeat last names were identified throughout VHL history and then sorted to identify the most common last name in the VHL's storied past. But since the work was done to identify each name, I will make it a countdown from names used twice all the way to the all-time leader at 12. Behold.
     
     
    Names used 2x in VHL history
    188 names have appeared twice in the past and whilst the list is copied in below, I won't dwell on it for too long. This section contains Hall of Famers and completely forgotten journeymen, it has brothers, fathers and sons, and even families separated by multiple generations. Most frequently, it contains completely random and coincidental repeats, separated by as many as 90 seasons. There are two facts of most interest in this category:
     
    Two names have a 100% Hall of Fame success rate – Sterling (father) and Alexander (son) Labatte, as well as the Clegane brothers
    There has twice been a pair of Mario and Luigi in the VHL – the Linguinis and the De Rossis
     

     
    Names used 3x in VHL history
    55 more names added to the list in this category which doesn't really have any fun tidbits to pull out – seems to be a higher proportion of recognisable names than in the first section. What this exercise has been actually helpful in is identifying some duplicates I had in the all-time stats spreadsheet from the 60s. Not sure how those happened but they're gone now.
     
    Perhaps one other thing worth mentioning is that in addition to the two Ryans in the above 2x list, there was also a man simply named Ryan in the VHL at one point. Unfortunately that Ryan counts as someone with a last name so the Ryans do not manage to make the cut for the 3x list.
     

     
    The Top 24
     
    We are now in the top end of the ranking, as at 4 appearances each, the pool dwindles considerably. There are 13 names which show up exactly 4 times:
    The Bakers (Abel, Joseph, Patrick, and Shane)
    The Carters (Alex, Donny, Jared and Jared the 2st (sic))
    The Clarkes (Daniel, Dean, Jon, and Will) – two of whom, Dean and Will, are unrelated but were both of the cup-winning S70 Moscow squad
    The Downeys (Bahr, Jeff (both the S1 and much more successful S68 incarnation) and the original Jeff's brother Ryan)
    The Eagles (two Gregs, Henry, and Tom) – brought to us exclusively by @Greg_Di. Greg Eagleowski sadly doesn't make the cut.
    The Funks (brothers and Builders Dust'n and Raymond and decades later playoff hero Rayz and the less notable Frank Jr)
    The Kings (Kevin, Markus, Roctrion, and Thomas)
    The Komarovs (Evgeni, Pavel, Sergei, and Vladamir) – also the sole work of one man, @Gooningitup
    The Matthews (Anthony, Luke, Mitchell, and Wesley)
    The Millers (Alec, Jackson, MF Percy, and Nicholas)
    The Syndergaards (two Aksels, Thomas, and Tomas)
    The Williams (AJ, Justin, Robinson, and Tyrone)
    and the Youngs (Alex, Christopher, Naomi, and Zachary)
     
    5 names then, fittingly, show up 5 times over the years:
    Davis (David, Finn, Jake, Jasper, and Roque) – almost entirely hauled up the list by @Josh's obsession with the name
    Hamilton (brothers Phil, Jeff, and David (Phil and Jeff making the Hall) and also the lesser-known Drew and Josh)
    Knight (Blake, David, Jordan, Ricky, Steven) – remarkably only once used by either @Phil or David @Knight – the actual Knight brothers choosing to be Hamilton brothers in the VHL instead
    Reinhart (Asher, Jerome, Reylynn, Tobias, and Tyler all being prominent in the 80s)
    Tremblay (Dan, Danny, Pierre-Marc, Steve and the man himself (not really), Simon Tremblay)

     
    Then in joint fifth place...
    6 Hunters (Alyksander, Blade, Braxton, JaKobe, Jeff, and Kurtis)
    6 Jokinens (Alvaro, David, Diego, Erlantz, Fabio, and Fernando) – courtesy of the Finnish fiends @Ahma and @jRuutu
    6 Smiths (Cody, Jacob, Josh, Lucas, Steve, and Trevor) – all extremely forgettable just like the name

     
    In joint third place we have the Wilsons (Aaron, Al, Connor, Dusty, Jesse, Josh, and Wade), 7 completely unrelated and largely irrelevant players, and the Gow brothers (@Fire Tortorella and @eaglesfan036) who have brought 7 Gows (Austin, Bernie, Jeff, Jim, Robert III, Robin, and Shayne) to the VHL before branching off into more creative names.

     
    Jones is the second most popular last name in VHL history with 9 players (Bob, Casey, Dallas, Dan, Davey, Jay, Kered, Mason, and Ty) over the years. Davey Jones as part of the 30s Dynamo and Casey Jones who had a Labatte-winning rookie season in S57 and then was part of the USA's most prolific World Cup years are easily the most successful of the Joneses.

     
    Clear at the top it's the Johnsons though – 12 of them specifically. We've had Bossman, Brent, Gabrial, Gabriel, Kobe, Leroy, Michael, Miles, Phil “The Rock”, Regie, Reid, and Ricky. Yes I was also hoping for a more impressive list but Michael and Phil have definitely elevated the Johnsons' profile in more recent season and Kobe is active in the VHL as we speak. Will anyone catch them? Only time will tell.
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from Subject056 in Who Is Eaglesfan, What Have I Been Up To, And Why Am I Returning?   
    Who Is Eaglesfan?
     
    When I went into the VHL discord to ask for help in creating my player name, a few people I didn't recognize asked the dumbest question in the world, "Who is Eaglefan!?!?" - that's like asking who is Tom Brady or Lebron James. I am the best thing that has happened to the VHL since the fall of @boubabi. But in all seriousness, read this Hall of Fame article to learn more about who I am. I was once arguably the most active member of the league, as I was a back to back GM Continental Cup Champion with the Yukon Rush in the VHLM "Yukon 2 gud", I won a cup as gm of the Calgary Wranglers in S44 with goat goalie Hans Wingate @CowboyinAmerica. I also was a grader, created a lot of how to recruitment articles, put some ads up for us on twitter and youtube, and most importantly VHLM commish and BOG member for many seasons. My peak activity was more elite than Victor's, but he has far outlasted me. I will never be anywhere near that active again, but I will try to get myself invested in the league at least a little bit. 
     
    What Have I Been Up To?
     
    I first joined the VHL with @Fire Tortorella (stupid name by the way) in 2011, in my freshman year of high school. During my high school and early college years I had such an abundance of free time, I was at the point that I would keep refreshing the VHL site at night, scroll over my opposing GMs names and see what threads they were looking at to see what player pages they were looking out to figure out what players my opposing GMs were trying to trade for and then negotiating with the other GM to try to get them first. While I always have had a good strategical mind, effort like that was why I was legitimately a pretty darn good GM. I will never get anywhere close to that active on the VHL again. I have now graduated college and unfortunately work a standard 9-5 job that while I like it fine enough, it's a big time suck. If I had the money I would absolutely retire tomorrow and never be bored a day in my life, as I found out during my recent 6 month stretch of unemployment last year. While I do actually still have a good amount of free time as I have minimal responsibilities (no woman and no family), I choose to prioritize it in other ways than spending hours on VHL. As any friend of family member will tell you I am a huge pickleball fanatic, as I play an average of 4 days a week and do competitive tournaments every few months. I also have been an avid player of the NHL video games for years, participating in a semi competitve Esports league called ITHL with @Fire Tortorella and some other family members that we have played for many years, in addition to playing in the extremely competitive League Gaming (LG), where I finally made my childhood dream of making it to the LGNHL last season. Those 2 hobbies on top of owning the sweetest and cutest dog in the world take up the majority of my time. 
     
    Why Am I Returning?
     
    It's been years since I have actually been active in this league, but I have always stuck around in the discord and even had my welfare player "Free Gorlab" going for a few seasons. The main thing that got me to stick around is a longstanding relationship with some members of the league going on about a decade. People like @Victor who I got to meet in real life in London back in 2017 (how the heck was that 7 years ago already), and @Ahmawho is my weird friend who likes lizards and hates Helsinki, and @Gustav whose town of salem games also kept me lurking around. And many more members who I am not tagging. The main reason I recreated is because Flyersfan told me to and I jokingly told him to venmo me and he actually did and gave me $100 so now I feel like I had to recreate. I also think its fitting I am joining the Ottawa Lynx as that was my original team all the way back in 2011 and outside of the Yukon Rush they are definitely the greatest VHLM franchise out there. 
     
    Some Random VHL Memories
     
    I realize at this point that I only need a few hundred more words to get to 1,000 to make this worth double, so let's take a trip down memory lane:
    Back in the day on the original website, I don't even know how to describe it but let's say you wanted to bold certain text, italicize other text, and enlarge or color other text you had to follow a very specific coding string and do it in a certain order or the whole page would fall apart. Thank goodness the VHL has moved to the 2020s as it never would survive now if people had to deal with that. @Victormight be able to explain what I'm talking about better. The VHL used to not have a discord for many of the early years. We used to all interact via forums and instead of private team locker rooms being on discord they were on forums. There was something nice about that, but I do agree that discord change has been for the better. Still, the kids today will never know what it was like. This is a completely random aside, but I grew up with no cell phone until 7th grade, and no smartphone until late high school. I used to just fill downtime say waiting in elevators just staring into space and thinking. Now if I have to wait in line for 5 seconds I am scrolling a TikTok.  There was a legendary thread created many years ago when @Willby random chance was dining at a restaurant @Jerichowas working at, and recognized his voice as his waiter after listening to many of Jericho's Pajodcasts. He gave us a live play by play of Jericho being a waiter and it was funny.   

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    eaglesfan036 reacted to CowboyinAmerica in Who Is Eaglesfan, What Have I Been Up To, And Why Am I Returning?   
    Hope you do stick around! Partially because we're in the same draft class which is fun, also because the idea of a sim league hitting Season 100 will continue to blow my mind for the next calendar year-plus.
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    eaglesfan036 reacted to Victor in Who Is Eaglesfan, What Have I Been Up To, And Why Am I Returning?   
    I think it was character building. Still basically the only code I know.
     
    That is commitment to recruitment
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    eaglesfan036 reacted to Ahma in Who Is Eaglesfan, What Have I Been Up To, And Why Am I Returning?   
    YES! WELCOME BACK! and now you stick around too!
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from Ahma in (S93) D - Blaze Thunderstrike, TPE: 86   
    Player Information
    Username: eaglesfan036
    Player Name: Blaze Thunderstrike
    Recruited From: Returning
    Age: 19
    Position: D
    Height: 72 in.
    Weight: 195 lbs.
    Birthplace: Sweden

    Player Page
    @VHLM GM
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from jacobcarson877 in Who Is Eaglesfan, What Have I Been Up To, And Why Am I Returning?   
    Who Is Eaglesfan?
     
    When I went into the VHL discord to ask for help in creating my player name, a few people I didn't recognize asked the dumbest question in the world, "Who is Eaglefan!?!?" - that's like asking who is Tom Brady or Lebron James. I am the best thing that has happened to the VHL since the fall of @boubabi. But in all seriousness, read this Hall of Fame article to learn more about who I am. I was once arguably the most active member of the league, as I was a back to back GM Continental Cup Champion with the Yukon Rush in the VHLM "Yukon 2 gud", I won a cup as gm of the Calgary Wranglers in S44 with goat goalie Hans Wingate @CowboyinAmerica. I also was a grader, created a lot of how to recruitment articles, put some ads up for us on twitter and youtube, and most importantly VHLM commish and BOG member for many seasons. My peak activity was more elite than Victor's, but he has far outlasted me. I will never be anywhere near that active again, but I will try to get myself invested in the league at least a little bit. 
     
    What Have I Been Up To?
     
    I first joined the VHL with @Fire Tortorella (stupid name by the way) in 2011, in my freshman year of high school. During my high school and early college years I had such an abundance of free time, I was at the point that I would keep refreshing the VHL site at night, scroll over my opposing GMs names and see what threads they were looking at to see what player pages they were looking out to figure out what players my opposing GMs were trying to trade for and then negotiating with the other GM to try to get them first. While I always have had a good strategical mind, effort like that was why I was legitimately a pretty darn good GM. I will never get anywhere close to that active on the VHL again. I have now graduated college and unfortunately work a standard 9-5 job that while I like it fine enough, it's a big time suck. If I had the money I would absolutely retire tomorrow and never be bored a day in my life, as I found out during my recent 6 month stretch of unemployment last year. While I do actually still have a good amount of free time as I have minimal responsibilities (no woman and no family), I choose to prioritize it in other ways than spending hours on VHL. As any friend of family member will tell you I am a huge pickleball fanatic, as I play an average of 4 days a week and do competitive tournaments every few months. I also have been an avid player of the NHL video games for years, participating in a semi competitve Esports league called ITHL with @Fire Tortorella and some other family members that we have played for many years, in addition to playing in the extremely competitive League Gaming (LG), where I finally made my childhood dream of making it to the LGNHL last season. Those 2 hobbies on top of owning the sweetest and cutest dog in the world take up the majority of my time. 
     
    Why Am I Returning?
     
    It's been years since I have actually been active in this league, but I have always stuck around in the discord and even had my welfare player "Free Gorlab" going for a few seasons. The main thing that got me to stick around is a longstanding relationship with some members of the league going on about a decade. People like @Victor who I got to meet in real life in London back in 2017 (how the heck was that 7 years ago already), and @Ahmawho is my weird friend who likes lizards and hates Helsinki, and @Gustav whose town of salem games also kept me lurking around. And many more members who I am not tagging. The main reason I recreated is because Flyersfan told me to and I jokingly told him to venmo me and he actually did and gave me $100 so now I feel like I had to recreate. I also think its fitting I am joining the Ottawa Lynx as that was my original team all the way back in 2011 and outside of the Yukon Rush they are definitely the greatest VHLM franchise out there. 
     
    Some Random VHL Memories
     
    I realize at this point that I only need a few hundred more words to get to 1,000 to make this worth double, so let's take a trip down memory lane:
    Back in the day on the original website, I don't even know how to describe it but let's say you wanted to bold certain text, italicize other text, and enlarge or color other text you had to follow a very specific coding string and do it in a certain order or the whole page would fall apart. Thank goodness the VHL has moved to the 2020s as it never would survive now if people had to deal with that. @Victormight be able to explain what I'm talking about better. The VHL used to not have a discord for many of the early years. We used to all interact via forums and instead of private team locker rooms being on discord they were on forums. There was something nice about that, but I do agree that discord change has been for the better. Still, the kids today will never know what it was like. This is a completely random aside, but I grew up with no cell phone until 7th grade, and no smartphone until late high school. I used to just fill downtime say waiting in elevators just staring into space and thinking. Now if I have to wait in line for 5 seconds I am scrolling a TikTok.  There was a legendary thread created many years ago when @Willby random chance was dining at a restaurant @Jerichowas working at, and recognized his voice as his waiter after listening to many of Jericho's Pajodcasts. He gave us a live play by play of Jericho being a waiter and it was funny.   

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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from CowboyinAmerica in Who Is Eaglesfan, What Have I Been Up To, And Why Am I Returning?   
    Who Is Eaglesfan?
     
    When I went into the VHL discord to ask for help in creating my player name, a few people I didn't recognize asked the dumbest question in the world, "Who is Eaglefan!?!?" - that's like asking who is Tom Brady or Lebron James. I am the best thing that has happened to the VHL since the fall of @boubabi. But in all seriousness, read this Hall of Fame article to learn more about who I am. I was once arguably the most active member of the league, as I was a back to back GM Continental Cup Champion with the Yukon Rush in the VHLM "Yukon 2 gud", I won a cup as gm of the Calgary Wranglers in S44 with goat goalie Hans Wingate @CowboyinAmerica. I also was a grader, created a lot of how to recruitment articles, put some ads up for us on twitter and youtube, and most importantly VHLM commish and BOG member for many seasons. My peak activity was more elite than Victor's, but he has far outlasted me. I will never be anywhere near that active again, but I will try to get myself invested in the league at least a little bit. 
     
    What Have I Been Up To?
     
    I first joined the VHL with @Fire Tortorella (stupid name by the way) in 2011, in my freshman year of high school. During my high school and early college years I had such an abundance of free time, I was at the point that I would keep refreshing the VHL site at night, scroll over my opposing GMs names and see what threads they were looking at to see what player pages they were looking out to figure out what players my opposing GMs were trying to trade for and then negotiating with the other GM to try to get them first. While I always have had a good strategical mind, effort like that was why I was legitimately a pretty darn good GM. I will never get anywhere close to that active on the VHL again. I have now graduated college and unfortunately work a standard 9-5 job that while I like it fine enough, it's a big time suck. If I had the money I would absolutely retire tomorrow and never be bored a day in my life, as I found out during my recent 6 month stretch of unemployment last year. While I do actually still have a good amount of free time as I have minimal responsibilities (no woman and no family), I choose to prioritize it in other ways than spending hours on VHL. As any friend of family member will tell you I am a huge pickleball fanatic, as I play an average of 4 days a week and do competitive tournaments every few months. I also have been an avid player of the NHL video games for years, participating in a semi competitve Esports league called ITHL with @Fire Tortorella and some other family members that we have played for many years, in addition to playing in the extremely competitive League Gaming (LG), where I finally made my childhood dream of making it to the LGNHL last season. Those 2 hobbies on top of owning the sweetest and cutest dog in the world take up the majority of my time. 
     
    Why Am I Returning?
     
    It's been years since I have actually been active in this league, but I have always stuck around in the discord and even had my welfare player "Free Gorlab" going for a few seasons. The main thing that got me to stick around is a longstanding relationship with some members of the league going on about a decade. People like @Victor who I got to meet in real life in London back in 2017 (how the heck was that 7 years ago already), and @Ahmawho is my weird friend who likes lizards and hates Helsinki, and @Gustav whose town of salem games also kept me lurking around. And many more members who I am not tagging. The main reason I recreated is because Flyersfan told me to and I jokingly told him to venmo me and he actually did and gave me $100 so now I feel like I had to recreate. I also think its fitting I am joining the Ottawa Lynx as that was my original team all the way back in 2011 and outside of the Yukon Rush they are definitely the greatest VHLM franchise out there. 
     
    Some Random VHL Memories
     
    I realize at this point that I only need a few hundred more words to get to 1,000 to make this worth double, so let's take a trip down memory lane:
    Back in the day on the original website, I don't even know how to describe it but let's say you wanted to bold certain text, italicize other text, and enlarge or color other text you had to follow a very specific coding string and do it in a certain order or the whole page would fall apart. Thank goodness the VHL has moved to the 2020s as it never would survive now if people had to deal with that. @Victormight be able to explain what I'm talking about better. The VHL used to not have a discord for many of the early years. We used to all interact via forums and instead of private team locker rooms being on discord they were on forums. There was something nice about that, but I do agree that discord change has been for the better. Still, the kids today will never know what it was like. This is a completely random aside, but I grew up with no cell phone until 7th grade, and no smartphone until late high school. I used to just fill downtime say waiting in elevators just staring into space and thinking. Now if I have to wait in line for 5 seconds I am scrolling a TikTok.  There was a legendary thread created many years ago when @Willby random chance was dining at a restaurant @Jerichowas working at, and recognized his voice as his waiter after listening to many of Jericho's Pajodcasts. He gave us a live play by play of Jericho being a waiter and it was funny.   

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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from Banackock in (S93) D - Blaze Thunderstrike, TPE: 86   
    Player Information
    Username: eaglesfan036
    Player Name: Blaze Thunderstrike
    Recruited From: Returning
    Age: 19
    Position: D
    Height: 72 in.
    Weight: 195 lbs.
    Birthplace: Sweden

    Player Page
    @VHLM GM
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from AJW in (S93) D - Blaze Thunderstrike, TPE: 86   
    Player Information
    Username: eaglesfan036
    Player Name: Blaze Thunderstrike
    Recruited From: Returning
    Age: 19
    Position: D
    Height: 72 in.
    Weight: 195 lbs.
    Birthplace: Sweden

    Player Page
    @VHLM GM
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from STZ in (S93) D - Blaze Thunderstrike, TPE: 86   
    Player Information
    Username: eaglesfan036
    Player Name: Blaze Thunderstrike
    Recruited From: Returning
    Age: 19
    Position: D
    Height: 72 in.
    Weight: 195 lbs.
    Birthplace: Sweden

    Player Page
    @VHLM GM
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from Ahma in Who Is Eaglesfan, What Have I Been Up To, And Why Am I Returning?   
    Who Is Eaglesfan?
     
    When I went into the VHL discord to ask for help in creating my player name, a few people I didn't recognize asked the dumbest question in the world, "Who is Eaglefan!?!?" - that's like asking who is Tom Brady or Lebron James. I am the best thing that has happened to the VHL since the fall of @boubabi. But in all seriousness, read this Hall of Fame article to learn more about who I am. I was once arguably the most active member of the league, as I was a back to back GM Continental Cup Champion with the Yukon Rush in the VHLM "Yukon 2 gud", I won a cup as gm of the Calgary Wranglers in S44 with goat goalie Hans Wingate @CowboyinAmerica. I also was a grader, created a lot of how to recruitment articles, put some ads up for us on twitter and youtube, and most importantly VHLM commish and BOG member for many seasons. My peak activity was more elite than Victor's, but he has far outlasted me. I will never be anywhere near that active again, but I will try to get myself invested in the league at least a little bit. 
     
    What Have I Been Up To?
     
    I first joined the VHL with @Fire Tortorella (stupid name by the way) in 2011, in my freshman year of high school. During my high school and early college years I had such an abundance of free time, I was at the point that I would keep refreshing the VHL site at night, scroll over my opposing GMs names and see what threads they were looking at to see what player pages they were looking out to figure out what players my opposing GMs were trying to trade for and then negotiating with the other GM to try to get them first. While I always have had a good strategical mind, effort like that was why I was legitimately a pretty darn good GM. I will never get anywhere close to that active on the VHL again. I have now graduated college and unfortunately work a standard 9-5 job that while I like it fine enough, it's a big time suck. If I had the money I would absolutely retire tomorrow and never be bored a day in my life, as I found out during my recent 6 month stretch of unemployment last year. While I do actually still have a good amount of free time as I have minimal responsibilities (no woman and no family), I choose to prioritize it in other ways than spending hours on VHL. As any friend of family member will tell you I am a huge pickleball fanatic, as I play an average of 4 days a week and do competitive tournaments every few months. I also have been an avid player of the NHL video games for years, participating in a semi competitve Esports league called ITHL with @Fire Tortorella and some other family members that we have played for many years, in addition to playing in the extremely competitive League Gaming (LG), where I finally made my childhood dream of making it to the LGNHL last season. Those 2 hobbies on top of owning the sweetest and cutest dog in the world take up the majority of my time. 
     
    Why Am I Returning?
     
    It's been years since I have actually been active in this league, but I have always stuck around in the discord and even had my welfare player "Free Gorlab" going for a few seasons. The main thing that got me to stick around is a longstanding relationship with some members of the league going on about a decade. People like @Victor who I got to meet in real life in London back in 2017 (how the heck was that 7 years ago already), and @Ahmawho is my weird friend who likes lizards and hates Helsinki, and @Gustav whose town of salem games also kept me lurking around. And many more members who I am not tagging. The main reason I recreated is because Flyersfan told me to and I jokingly told him to venmo me and he actually did and gave me $100 so now I feel like I had to recreate. I also think its fitting I am joining the Ottawa Lynx as that was my original team all the way back in 2011 and outside of the Yukon Rush they are definitely the greatest VHLM franchise out there. 
     
    Some Random VHL Memories
     
    I realize at this point that I only need a few hundred more words to get to 1,000 to make this worth double, so let's take a trip down memory lane:
    Back in the day on the original website, I don't even know how to describe it but let's say you wanted to bold certain text, italicize other text, and enlarge or color other text you had to follow a very specific coding string and do it in a certain order or the whole page would fall apart. Thank goodness the VHL has moved to the 2020s as it never would survive now if people had to deal with that. @Victormight be able to explain what I'm talking about better. The VHL used to not have a discord for many of the early years. We used to all interact via forums and instead of private team locker rooms being on discord they were on forums. There was something nice about that, but I do agree that discord change has been for the better. Still, the kids today will never know what it was like. This is a completely random aside, but I grew up with no cell phone until 7th grade, and no smartphone until late high school. I used to just fill downtime say waiting in elevators just staring into space and thinking. Now if I have to wait in line for 5 seconds I am scrolling a TikTok.  There was a legendary thread created many years ago when @Willby random chance was dining at a restaurant @Jerichowas working at, and recognized his voice as his waiter after listening to many of Jericho's Pajodcasts. He gave us a live play by play of Jericho being a waiter and it was funny.   

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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from Berocka in (S93) D - Blaze Thunderstrike, TPE: 86   
    Player Information
    Username: eaglesfan036
    Player Name: Blaze Thunderstrike
    Recruited From: Returning
    Age: 19
    Position: D
    Height: 72 in.
    Weight: 195 lbs.
    Birthplace: Sweden

    Player Page
    @VHLM GM
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    eaglesfan036 reacted to Gustav in Who Is Eaglesfan, What Have I Been Up To, And Why Am I Returning?   
    Holy shit what? That's amazing and I don't know how I've never seen it mentioned.
     
    Edit: found it
     
    If you stick around well enough with this player, I'm certainly here for it. Everyone who joined post-Gritty has been missing out.
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from Gustav in Who Is Eaglesfan, What Have I Been Up To, And Why Am I Returning?   
    Who Is Eaglesfan?
     
    When I went into the VHL discord to ask for help in creating my player name, a few people I didn't recognize asked the dumbest question in the world, "Who is Eaglefan!?!?" - that's like asking who is Tom Brady or Lebron James. I am the best thing that has happened to the VHL since the fall of @boubabi. But in all seriousness, read this Hall of Fame article to learn more about who I am. I was once arguably the most active member of the league, as I was a back to back GM Continental Cup Champion with the Yukon Rush in the VHLM "Yukon 2 gud", I won a cup as gm of the Calgary Wranglers in S44 with goat goalie Hans Wingate @CowboyinAmerica. I also was a grader, created a lot of how to recruitment articles, put some ads up for us on twitter and youtube, and most importantly VHLM commish and BOG member for many seasons. My peak activity was more elite than Victor's, but he has far outlasted me. I will never be anywhere near that active again, but I will try to get myself invested in the league at least a little bit. 
     
    What Have I Been Up To?
     
    I first joined the VHL with @Fire Tortorella (stupid name by the way) in 2011, in my freshman year of high school. During my high school and early college years I had such an abundance of free time, I was at the point that I would keep refreshing the VHL site at night, scroll over my opposing GMs names and see what threads they were looking at to see what player pages they were looking out to figure out what players my opposing GMs were trying to trade for and then negotiating with the other GM to try to get them first. While I always have had a good strategical mind, effort like that was why I was legitimately a pretty darn good GM. I will never get anywhere close to that active on the VHL again. I have now graduated college and unfortunately work a standard 9-5 job that while I like it fine enough, it's a big time suck. If I had the money I would absolutely retire tomorrow and never be bored a day in my life, as I found out during my recent 6 month stretch of unemployment last year. While I do actually still have a good amount of free time as I have minimal responsibilities (no woman and no family), I choose to prioritize it in other ways than spending hours on VHL. As any friend of family member will tell you I am a huge pickleball fanatic, as I play an average of 4 days a week and do competitive tournaments every few months. I also have been an avid player of the NHL video games for years, participating in a semi competitve Esports league called ITHL with @Fire Tortorella and some other family members that we have played for many years, in addition to playing in the extremely competitive League Gaming (LG), where I finally made my childhood dream of making it to the LGNHL last season. Those 2 hobbies on top of owning the sweetest and cutest dog in the world take up the majority of my time. 
     
    Why Am I Returning?
     
    It's been years since I have actually been active in this league, but I have always stuck around in the discord and even had my welfare player "Free Gorlab" going for a few seasons. The main thing that got me to stick around is a longstanding relationship with some members of the league going on about a decade. People like @Victor who I got to meet in real life in London back in 2017 (how the heck was that 7 years ago already), and @Ahmawho is my weird friend who likes lizards and hates Helsinki, and @Gustav whose town of salem games also kept me lurking around. And many more members who I am not tagging. The main reason I recreated is because Flyersfan told me to and I jokingly told him to venmo me and he actually did and gave me $100 so now I feel like I had to recreate. I also think its fitting I am joining the Ottawa Lynx as that was my original team all the way back in 2011 and outside of the Yukon Rush they are definitely the greatest VHLM franchise out there. 
     
    Some Random VHL Memories
     
    I realize at this point that I only need a few hundred more words to get to 1,000 to make this worth double, so let's take a trip down memory lane:
    Back in the day on the original website, I don't even know how to describe it but let's say you wanted to bold certain text, italicize other text, and enlarge or color other text you had to follow a very specific coding string and do it in a certain order or the whole page would fall apart. Thank goodness the VHL has moved to the 2020s as it never would survive now if people had to deal with that. @Victormight be able to explain what I'm talking about better. The VHL used to not have a discord for many of the early years. We used to all interact via forums and instead of private team locker rooms being on discord they were on forums. There was something nice about that, but I do agree that discord change has been for the better. Still, the kids today will never know what it was like. This is a completely random aside, but I grew up with no cell phone until 7th grade, and no smartphone until late high school. I used to just fill downtime say waiting in elevators just staring into space and thinking. Now if I have to wait in line for 5 seconds I am scrolling a TikTok.  There was a legendary thread created many years ago when @Willby random chance was dining at a restaurant @Jerichowas working at, and recognized his voice as his waiter after listening to many of Jericho's Pajodcasts. He gave us a live play by play of Jericho being a waiter and it was funny.   

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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from FrostBeard in (S93) D - Blaze Thunderstrike, TPE: 86   
    Player Information
    Username: eaglesfan036
    Player Name: Blaze Thunderstrike
    Recruited From: Returning
    Age: 19
    Position: D
    Height: 72 in.
    Weight: 195 lbs.
    Birthplace: Sweden

    Player Page
    @VHLM GM
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    eaglesfan036 got a reaction from CowboyinAmerica in (S93) D - Blaze Thunderstrike, TPE: 86   
    Player Information
    Username: eaglesfan036
    Player Name: Blaze Thunderstrike
    Recruited From: Returning
    Age: 19
    Position: D
    Height: 72 in.
    Weight: 195 lbs.
    Birthplace: Sweden

    Player Page
    @VHLM GM
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